IOS (iphone) users views on Android?

so if i were to flog my 3gs for something stupid like £275, what would be the best android phone to get, that just works without having to fiddle with it, i did jaibreak mine once, but didn't have a clue what you were meant to do after that, so put it back to standard. The main reasons i got the iphone were cos at the time it was the only phone that had proper internet on it instead of that windows mobile internet crap thing lol, and to use it as a music player, thta's why i got the 16 gig version, and of course cos it looks good, especially when i'm using it

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by bluefishman

so if i were to flog my 3gs for something stupid like £275, what would be the best android phone to get...

I like my Desire HD, lots of people rate the original Desire and Galaxy from Samsung

Depends what features you're looking for...

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by bluefishman

so if i were to flog my 3gs for something stupid like £275, what would be the best android phone to get, that just works without having to fiddle with it, i did jaibreak mine once, but didn't have a clue what you were meant to do after that, so put it back to standard. The main reasons i got the iphone were cos at the time it was the only phone that had proper internet on it instead of that windows mobile internet crap thing lol, and to use it as a music player, thta's why i got the 16 gig version, and of course cos it looks good, especially when i'm using it

Don't if its doing what you need it to then you got no need to swap, the things you have to fiddle are things that android peeps say the iphone cant do eg, tethering , emulators , customisation/ live wallpaper .
If none of that bothers you then stick with your phone.

[hindle8907]

quick question for you android users, can you control android phones with vnc running on a pc ?

yeah, will probably keep it till the next big thing comes out tbh, any other mobile would see my monthly payment at least double, so would have to be twice as good as the 3gs, might have to wait a while

And another recent Android convert here. Having used Windows Mobile 6.x for over 3 years now, I made the move to Android a few weeks ago.

Thoughts so far? It's brilliant, and you can pretty much pay as much as you want to use it. Right now you can spend £100 for a decent phone or £500 for top of the range hardware, and unless you're going to run heavy games on it, you'll be just fine. I got the portuguese equivalent to the Orange San Francisco, and for the price (a little over £100) I have 480x800 screen, GPS (with AGPS), digital compass, accelerometer, proximity sensor, 512 MB of ram, and can use SD cards up to 32 GB. The only thing where you can see it's not a top phone is the CPU (600 MHz), but to be honest, unless I'm running games, I couldn't care much less, especially at this price point.

Sure, the iPhone 4 is prettier (I honestly think it's the best looking phone on the market right now), but I'm not willing to pay over £500 for one or be tied to an expensive monthly contract just to have on in my pocket. I also hate the iTunes dependency for file transfer. I do use iTunes as library organiser but out of option and as a reminiscence of my MacOS days, not because I have to. I just love the fact that I can get up to any computer with my phone, plug it in (with a non-proprietary, standard micro USB cable, btw) and just transfer files without any configuration or software installation whatsoever.

And btw, if Apple were so sure of their market position and superiority, there might not be rumours of a mini iPhone running around right now... Apple were good once. Then they were brilliant. And then they started relying on design and ease of use / idiot proof features to get people to buy their stuff...

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

And btw, if Apple were so sure of their market position and superiority, there might not be rumours of a mini iPhone running around right now... Apple were good once. Then they were brilliant. And then they started relying on design and ease of use / idiot proof features to get people to buy their stuff...

Perhaps they'll also release a large version of the iphone, without any phone features, for a vastly inflated price...

Oh...

[hindle8907]

that iphone nano is a rumour that's already been flattened days ago.

[hindle8907]

shouldn't you be on a KTM site somewhere

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

Perhaps they'll also release a large version of the iphone, without any phone features, for a vastly inflated price...

Oh...

At least apple actually made the os a little different and have manny native tablet apps, lol android just stuck the core phone os on a tablet with pis$ all native content.

[the_lone_wolf]

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