{"id":379,"date":"2012-01-30T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-02-02T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:59:21","slug":"iphone-4s-review-and-comparing-ios-with-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/iphone-4s-review-and-comparing-ios-with-android\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4s Review and comparing iOS with Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. I switched to the iPhone 4s.<\/p>\n<p>Three years back, I had the Blackberry Storm and last year I switched to Motorola Droid 2 Global (Android) and what a pleasure it was. This year, going to the iPhone 4s it&#8217;s even more pleasurable. I really have to give it to Apple for making it so intuitive, simple and clean (hardware and software aesthetics). Android still feels a little too geeky. So with HP\/Palm and the Web-OS story I think there are only two choices at this point. The iPhone 4s or Samsung\/HTC Android phones (Sorry, I will probably not go with the Motorola for a while now). So here&#8217;s my review and a comparison in general between the iPhone and Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Apps, you pretty much have a similar spread on both. However, I do miss Google Listen (the best Podcast app for Android). Until I find a good workaround, I will live with iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Requirements whether an iPhone or an Android based phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Phone aspect (for making\/receiving calls) must work and be accessible easily and fast<\/li>\n<li>When in the gym or running on the trail, I need my music and be able to skip !!! (Motorola Failed BIG time on this)<\/li>\n<li>Podcast Apps<\/li>\n<li>Text\/E-Mail support<\/li>\n<li>Good Fast Browser<\/li>\n<li>Needs to be a world phone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my opinion, the iPhone wins in all departments (except Podcasts), only because eventually after time Android phones just seem to get slower!<br \/>\nOK &#8211; now here are my observations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you would get an iPhone <\/strong> (4s running iOS 5.0.1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Positives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple, easy and intuitive with beautiful fonts and overall appearance<\/li>\n<li>You want a phone that just works every time and any time and is fast and spiffy<br \/>\n(My Motorola Droid 2 fell short on this &#8211; gradually took too long to get to the phone to make calls etc.)<\/li>\n<li>You have an iPad as well and you&#8217;re part of the Apple ecosystem<\/li>\n<li>You want a smaller phone that you can hold easily in your hand<\/li>\n<li>You want a phone that integrates with your car, with your receiver at home and has a plethora of accessories<\/li>\n<li>You need a World Phone (Note iPhone 4s supports GSM\/CDMA, while the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is only CDMA)<\/li>\n<li>Voice mail is awesome (I would never listen to Voicemail on my Android)<\/li>\n<li>Battery Life &#8211; You can tweak certain things to increase the life (also a negative, because it needs the tweaks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Negatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don&#8217;t drop your phone and you&#8217;re not clumsy with it (The iPhone fared pretty bad on the drop test &#8211; Gorilla Glass &#8211; Yeah Right!)<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t care about Adobe Flash (Note: YouTube, NetFlix etc. run great)<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t care about the Free Google Navigation (Google Maps works just fine)<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t care about Google Listen<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t care about Siri<\/li>\n<li>As a developer, you don&#8217;t mind writing Objective-C and be stuck to a Mac<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t mind not having Chrome to Phone<\/li>\n<li>Battery Life &#8211; You can tweak certain things to increase the life (also a positive because its better than Android, for me)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why you would get an Android Phone<\/strong> (Samsung\/HTC &#8211; I can&#8217;t say great things about Motorola until I forget the pain I went through)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Positives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need 4G LTEL &#8211; Samsung Galaxy Nexus supports this <\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re a podcast enthusiast &#8211; Google Listen is the best<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t stand iTunes<\/li>\n<li>You can see the file system with your USB cable connected and easily transfer music<\/li>\n<li>You want a bigger screen<\/li>\n<li>You love Google and how seamlessly it integrates with Android<\/li>\n<li>As a Java developer, you want the choice of what OS you want to develop code on and developing Apps is relatively easy<\/li>\n<li>Pretty damn sturdy (My Motorola fell several times and didn&#8217;t even get a scratch)<\/li>\n<li>NFC support (which not too many places accept at this point)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Negatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fraction slower navigating the phone (Not the browser or downloads etc. just the OS itself)<\/li>\n<li>Just too geeky and not a very simple user experience (compared to the one button iPhone)<\/li>\n<li>After about a year, the phone just doesn&#8217;t perform like it did when it was new<\/li>\n<li>Battery Life &#8211; Gosh my Motorola Droid 2 would be completely drained before I got in my car at the end of the day<\/li>\n<li>Really easy to build apps that are malicious. You could accidentally download them. There&#8217;s source code out there that teaches you how.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I wouldn&#8217;t disagree with folks who claim that Android 4.0 available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is probably the best out there, but it&#8217;s still a tad bit geeky. However, it&#8217;s not a World Phone which is a requirement for me. Now, Looking back at my Motorola Droid 2 &#8211; I just felt that whenever I really really needed something &#8211; Like Music or GPS &#8211; it needed a hard reset using up 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For simplicity and everyday use, and guaranteed to provide the same level of exceptional usability all year round &#8211; I went the iPhone! It just works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. I switched to the iPhone 4s. Three years back, I had the Blackberry Storm and last year I switched to Motorola Droid 2 Global (Android) and what a pleasure it was. This year, going to the iPhone 4s it&#8217;s even more pleasurable. I really have to give it to Apple for making it so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shivdev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}