Apple vs Droid

Countdown · March 02, 2011, 02:08:33 AM

I'm getting a new phone. The plan is on Verizon no matter what, so what I'm looking at is either an iPhone 4, or a Droid X. Same price.

Go wild with opinions and advice and all sorts of stuffs. I don't know which one to get.

Moss. · March 02, 2011, 02:09:31 AM

When I upgrade and get my new phone from Verizon, I'm going to get a Droid.
But only because I plan on rooting it, and installing custom OS's and aps.

Holkeye · March 02, 2011, 03:29:28 AM

I've had Verizon since I first had a cell, but I'm leaving it now because of the iPhone. Not because the iPhone sucks or whatever, but because since getting the iPhone, Verizon has become more shitty than ever. I know you said you're sticking with Verizon, but I'd seriously consider doing what you can to choose a different provider.

Irock · March 02, 2011, 03:40:44 AM

I don't see how people can't come to this decision on their own. Everyone has their own preferences and needs, and usually the best way to figure out which product is best for you is to do research and actually try them out.

Arrow · March 02, 2011, 04:11:57 AM

And part of that research is public opinion.

Moss. · March 02, 2011, 05:26:14 AM

How exactly has Verizon become "shittier than ever?" I haven't seen/heard/noticed anything.

Arrow · March 02, 2011, 05:29:41 AM

Me either, I'm with them too.

Countdown · March 02, 2011, 05:38:08 AM

Yeah, I have been doing my research, and I've found pros and cons for both. I'm just getting public opinion. Maybe someone here has one of said phones and can give their two cents about if it's worth it or not.

Moss. · March 02, 2011, 05:41:27 AM

Oh, I guess I forgot to mention...

I already have a droid, and already rooted it. It's an older model (the Droid Eris), but I still love it.

Irock · March 02, 2011, 06:31:59 AM

QuoteYeah, I have been doing my research, and I've found pros and cons for both. I'm just getting public opinion. Maybe someone here has one of said phones and can give their two cents about if it's worth it or not.

I prefer the iPhone 4. I'm now going to tell you why, and will only go into stuff that matters to me.

I find the whole experience (the operating system, the applications, etc) to be much more friendly, polished, enjoyable and consistent. I've had to opportunity to use the Droid X, along with a few other phones running Android, and they run choppily/unresponsively when zooming and doing other gestures, the interface leaves something to be desired, and it doesn't even come close to iOS in polish and attention to detail; not even close to my first generation (2007) iPod Touch running iOS 3. I could write paragraphs about this if I had an Android phone right next to me. You're also getting the largest application store there is with iOS, which is much larger than what you'll find on Android. The iPhone 4 also has a vastly superior IPS display which is at a higher resolution and provides more pixels-per-inch. I also hear the iPhone 4 produces superior videos with its rear facing camera. The iPhone 4 also looks beautiful.

I've used iOS devies since 2007, and they've never let me down. I don't really care for HDMI-out ports, SD card slots, toasters and Flash- it's all useless to me on a mobile device. I care about the polish, the attention to detail, how elegantly the device works, the ease of use, the applications and so on and so forth.

Holkeye · March 02, 2011, 08:45:53 AM

Verizon is shittier than ever because on top of all the dead zones and dropped calls that I've had for the past 6 years, and on top of the shitty .brew file system that they used, now that the iPhone is out, they're dropping a lot of the features that they've had since the beginning. The big one for me is that they're no longer doing a new phone discount when you extend your contract, or when two years have gone by. I'm just going to end up getting a windows phone. If you like the iPhone, then there's nothing wrong (aside from the dead zones, but that's relative) with having Verizon. If I was going to stick around, I would definitely get a Droid, because Android phones are much more hacker-friendly than iOS phones. That's not to say that you can't do cool things in iOS, but for what I like to do, I want something that's virtually completely open.

Arrow · March 02, 2011, 09:33:21 AM

Woah, WHAT? No new phone discount? I've been hanging on to this piece of shit because I'm supposed to get one in June- my mom just fucking got an android at the end of last year!

Roph · March 02, 2011, 11:32:11 AM

I'd go with android, since you are free to do pretty much whatever you want with it. Since it supports Micro SDHC cards also, you can put tons of extra storage on it and also use it as your music player.

strike · March 02, 2011, 06:44:24 PM

>don't care about sd slots
>care about usability
irock all you want is a firm tug from jobs

Arrow · March 02, 2011, 07:10:21 PM

Quote from: Strike Reyhi on March 02, 2011, 06:44:24 PM
>don't care about sd slots
>care about usability
irock all you want is a firm tug from jobs

I laughed

strike · March 02, 2011, 07:35:12 PM

also
>make things less useful to the end user
>charge more
>

??
>Apple!

Irock · March 02, 2011, 08:37:47 PM

Quote from: Strike Reyhi on March 02, 2011, 06:44:24 PM
>don't care about sd slots
>care about usability
irock all you want is a firm tug from jobs

I never need to use more than the internal flash memory on the least expensive model. Problem?

Maybe you want an SD card slot in your phone. Maybe you prefer the Droid X for one reason or another. Cool. That's the beauty of capitalism; there are many different phones from many different companies you can choose from. There's no "one size fits all," and one person's set of needs and preferences aren't universal. That's something a lot of you guys don't seem to understand. You seem to think what you prefer is best and that everyone who prefers something else is wrong. That's not true.

Now, this thread isn't for bitching about someone else's thoughts and then throwing around insults. Try to act mature!

Arrow · March 03, 2011, 01:56:13 AM

Actually, you're right, there's not such a thing as one size fits all.

Which is why ports and card slots are great. So you can make things bigger just in case.

ahref · March 06, 2011, 03:01:59 PM

Droid is actually moving faster than iOS imo, So going for that once im rid of this iphone which is like another year

tSwitch · March 29, 2011, 07:14:15 PM

row row fight the apple.

plpmaker · April 12, 2011, 07:19:16 AM

i heard from somewhere that iphones break easier than droids, but iphones have better apps and things

Roph · April 12, 2011, 09:19:02 AM

You know that iphone is a specific line of 4 devices, and that phones running android number in the hundreds, right?

Holkeye · April 12, 2011, 01:22:15 PM

Here in the US, there is a phone called the Droid, Roph. It is an HTC phone. i heard that from somewhere apps and things

Roph · April 12, 2011, 02:35:27 PM

Eh, I just call phones by their actual names. My phone isn't a san francisco, it's a ZTE Blade.

tSwitch · April 12, 2011, 04:37:22 PM

Quote from: Roph on April 12, 2011, 09:19:02 AM
You know that iphone is a specific line of 4 devices, and that phones running android number in the hundreds, right?

That's not really a good thing for developers though :/
It's not such a bad thing with computers and Windows, due to the huge amounts of hardware resources available for them, but on a mobile platform it becomes a serious issue when you can't be sure if an app is going to run on more than just your testbed device.

(NAM is not taking sides, just pointing out something)