Apple iPhone 3G [S] vs. HTC/Google Nexus One

Its funny how people defend their iPhones to such an incredible length. I phones cost well over $600 more per year for the service plan than with that of the nexus one.

Nexus one is 2x as fast, better camera, blah blah blah, overall a better phone from spec standpoints.

The only thing the iphone has (which makes it, well, an iphone) is the app store. However, given the number of android phones out there (with so much more coming out this year), it will only be a matter of time before the android app store crushes that of apples. Apples is so limited, while androids has no restrictions.

Give it time and we will see the true winner. No product that is released INSTANTLY 'kills' another product already in the market. It always takes time, so just be patient. The iPhone will always be a great product, but its 'dominance' of the market has already peaked.

However, this is not a diss on the iphone. The product is old, so of course it is bound to be passed up. Not to mention how apple is refocusing their resources on other products (netbook/touch tablet computer being announced 1/27/10, etc). Apple is THE BEST at one thing in the phone market, and probably always will be: extracting all the profits from its products. However, this will lead to their 'decline' at the top of the market, because with phones that run OS's like droid, where the users can customize it to no end and make apps where not every sale gets cut with apple. Apple realizes that they can just keep the phone the way it is with minimal updates/changes and still make a rediculous amount of profit off of the users (huge service charges from AT&T, which apple gets a cut of because of the 'exclusive iphone service', as well as the millions of apps being bought).

But I do want to say that it is rater annoying how people take it as some sort of personal insult to them when people state the facts about how the iphone is an inferior device to that of new phones coming out. If the iphone makes you happy, then who cares? Stick with it. If not, then get something else, which is what more and more people are realizing each day.

Its like in the 90s when PC's were first being distributed main-stream. Gateway would come out with a $2,500 computer that boasted a 266mhz chip, then the next week a dell would come out with a 300mhz chip, and so on. People would argue 'OH MY GATEWAY IS SO MUCH BETTER OMG', when in reality, the facts/specs speak for itself.
 
It all comes down to preference. I don't need to toggle WiFi and a million other things on my Lock/home screen. Even on my other phones I would keep my home screen as toggle free as possible. I only want to see my choice of info on my home screen. It only takes me a second to turn on/off any setting on the iPhone.
 
The Google Nexus One is the first HTC I've heard that has a unique battery size. Every other HTC Android phone has batteries that has direct equivalents to their WinMo line. For example, the HTC Magic uses the same batteries as the CDMA (not GSM) HTC Touch Diamond. The Droid Eris for example has almost a direct fit equivalent with the HTC Snap or Touch Pro 2, except the batteries on the other two are 1500mah not 1300mah, and are slightly thicker. Can fit on the Eris but causes the seam to bulge slightly when the cover is placed. I use that and enjoy the extra oomph from the 1500mah.
 
Thank you! Although it is kind of entertaining watching some of these fanboys defend the iPhone as if somebody just talked bad about their mom. I love the iPhone myself, BUT there are alot of things it can't do. Even when jailbroken, it doesn't multitask near as good as even a Blackberry, and Blackberry multitasking isn't all that itself. I love the responses people are throwing out. Widgets aren't essential. Multitasking isn't essential. A decent notifications system like Android or webOS have aren't essential. These are the same jokers who were making the statements that MMS and copy/paste weren't essential months ago. Sure, none of these things are essential, if you want a phone that will just do the basics (talk, email, play media, browse).

However, I wish this junk would stop. It really has crapped up HoFo with all the "my phone is better than yours" whining. The iPhone guys seem to be the worst. I'm a long time iPhone user, but I'm not blind enough to think it is perfect. Some of us want more than what the iPhone offers. That's why it's great that there are so many choices out there. If you're happy with your phone, then fine but that doesn't mean other phones are not as good or "wannabe's". One man's trash is another man's treasure. Or something like that.
 
I do. When I leave my house it would be nice to press ONE button and not have to jailbreak my iPhone to get such luxury's. SBSettings is really annoying some of the time.. super tacky with stock skins, etc. If I couldn't jailbreak my iPhone, I quite simply wouldn't have it. Even if Apple sold officially unlocked ones here in the US, a non-JB'd iPhone is *seriously* not worth the time.
 
Yes I agree 100%. There are people that go to the extreme, but forums are meant for discussion and it's annoying when someone uses labels like "Fan boy" just because they disagree or have good opinions and/or facts to say about the iPhone.




Specs are only as good as the final product. Meaning OS, Design, Hardware Quality, etc. For example: I would choose a Windows 7 PC with 512GB ram and a P3 processor over a Quad Core 3Ghz PC with 3GB ram running on Windows ME.

This is why so many anti apple trolls get frustrated when their specs argument falls on deaf ears.
 
Your dead wrong. Explain how I can listen to pandora in the background while using Twitterific foreground and still be connected remotely to my laptop via Logmein(laptop still showing as connected) in the background.
And that's just a small example.





Why :befuddled




And how hard is it to hold any icon for less than a second and move it or delete it?

And no matter what OS your using Mobile or Desktop, if you screen is full of icons there will be a displacement other icons when you move it. What makes Android any differ?
 
You don't have to download an App. You have to go to settings to setup sync. Some people might like the fact that everything you can do on an iPhone isn't tied to a Google account. Forgot about Picasa. I do use it, iPhone doesn't sync with Picasa without an app, Android also uses a plugin to make it work so........ I will admit Google services are great on Android, makes sense, but that alone is only an advantage if you use all of their services.
 
There are some devices that do individual things better, but few offer the package that you get with the iPhone. I personally consider webOS to be probably the best mobile OS until iPhone gets a major update, but it currently runs on hardware I don't really like.

As far as GMail on Android is concerned it actually sucks, reviews and my actual experience can confirm that. The GMail client often cannot render HTML email properly and it looks like a jumbled mess. I will admit that native support for labeling and starring is good, but I'd rather have to deal with folder and actual have the ability to zoom and view emails they way they were intended.
 
Those are not CPU intensive applications, referring to Pandora.




Not at all. But its confusing to see all of them wiggling with the black X marking.



The drag and drop movement of Android happens to imitate the same drag and drop movement on Windows and Mac OS on the desktop.

In other words, drag and drop to any free space on the screen with only the selected icon allowed to move and every icon completely stationary. Without immediate rearrangement or realignment, which iPhone OS does. Simply said, the drag and drop metaphor on Android is exactly like those on desktop PCs.
 
As soon as Android gets their heads out of their butts and allow apps to be stored on the memory card instead of limiting them to internal memory, I will buy. Dev's cant expand on apps until the increased memory comes. Thats my only beef with Android. I want the Nexus One for ATT.
 
that's why you have 5 home screens. you can put the settings on one screen that is hidden. All I have on my home screen is a few apps and the news/weather widget. You are right though, it all comes down to preference :buddies:
 
Then what is, so I can test it out now. ;)






Very confusing indeed, especially when all the icons designs are different and have differ names under it. :hehehe:




Ok now I understand. Yes the iPhone is set as rows and columns for placement of apps.
 
If google wanted large sales on the first weekend they easily could have sold the f*ck out of it. Bottom line its Apple that needs a tv ad every 30 seconds to remind their users they are elitists. Google sold 20K with virtually no advertising eg tv-radio etc.
 
Oh please gimme a freaking break with the we are fan boys crap. Everytime you guys get told that the iPhone CAN do something the same way, you come back with "but this" and then when you get proved wrong again you come back with "but that".


BTW .... Just because Google apps come with android by default doesn't make it any more integrated than any other mobile platform.
 
I ordered the Nexus One for AT&T. I am ditching my iPhone. I am tired of the same interface for three straight years. I've had all three iPhones. Its time for something new in my life. I'm going to kick it with the new kid on the block (Android!). The Nexus One screen is so sexy in person.
 
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