own both iPhone and Android?

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soporific sarabande

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Thought I'd start a thread for people that have BOTH phones. I'm having a heck of a time understanding the Eris. Went to our local Borders, and not one book on droids. Buddy of mine is in the same boat but at least he's a techie, bigtime, and loves his Incredible. I still prefer the iPhone. (the simplicity of operation and looks) This is typical of what frustrates me with the droid.After getting the (forcing it) 2.1 upgrade I was chomping at the bit for integrated voice navigation.....I can find no documentation online on how to use it or it's features. In any event,,,,,I could not figure out how to turn it OFF, stopped by the Verizon store and the told me about App Killer?
why isn't there a simple way on the phone to exit an app? and why on earth isn't app killer included in the phone? Turns out I had like 20 apps running, some for WEEKS! the other thing that bothers me is voice recognition, only seems to work half the time. I'm guessing as the OS is so new it will evolve and get better over time?
Granted, I think the iphone is better, but both the iphone and droid blow all the other smartphones out of the water.
I like both phones, I myself just prefer one over the other.
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Dan
 
I was on the same boat before the G1 came out, you know what you have? It`s called withdrawal symptoms, it happens because you got sooo used to the iPhones OS. Give it some time and you`ll appreciate Android more, just dont expect everything.
 
I am agree with you. These are withdrawal symptoms. People are used to with iPhone. BTW my one friend is used to with windows mobile 6.5. He always says android and other phone sucks. He will never come to know what is power of android until he use it for sometimes.
 
don't mean to sound like a bigot, but this is exactly what iPhone was going for. get the people who have no capacity or desire to learn how to use something that requires more than the PAINFULLY obvious. the navigation is easy to figure out.. i don't understand what's so off about it.. doesn't the iPhone use Google Maps as well? i mean seriously... you find a spot you want to go to and press the little blue arrow that probably means "navigate me to this destination".. and voila! i used to have an iPhone and it bored me to death after 6 months. Android is a beast and you'll realize that one day when or if you ever get another Android phone.
 
I agree that documentation of certain Android options is somewhat limited. However, I always learn best by playing around with a device rather than just reading about it. I'm sure you can find user created reviews on youtube etc showing exactly how things works. Find a few of those and follow along and it will soon become second nature to you.

As far as apps are concerned the way Android and the Iphone handles open apps are way different. There is nothing wrong with having 20+ apps running on Android at one time as long as there is enough RAM to handle it. And if there isn't, Android will close the least important ones to free up the needed memory. There's typically no need to run a task killer app.

Most apps, when no longer in the foreground, get put into inactive memory. This means that while they take up RAM, they are not actively running or using processor/battery power. When you open them again they should reappear in the same state you left them. Some apps do use CPU/battery while in the background to send/receive data. Usually you can set the frequency this occurs.

If you're worried about thing running for weeks at a time you can either use a task killer or restart your phone more often. I find it's good to do that on a regular basis anyway. Sometimes when you kill an app it doesn't quite release all the RAM it's using and the only way to get it back is to restart. I have my phone set up to restart automatically every night.
 
To add to what aaronb532 said about having lots of apps running... Use a PC or Mac as an analogy. Would you rather it was like an iPhone and can only run one app at once. So you want to check your email so you have to close your browser, then you want to write something in Word so you have to close our email client. Then you want to check your email again so you have to save your document, close Word, load your email client again... and so on. It would utterly suck. Of course, what you want to do is just click on the task on the task bar to switch between them, and it's great that everything in the app is left exactly as you had it. You want your email to be checking in the background and you want to leave your browser downloading that file while you get on with writing your document. This is exactly how Android works.

Android will automatically kill off apps that have been idle and unused for a long time when it needs to (i.e. when it's running low on memory). Otherwise, it'll keep them loaded so they start quickly and appear in the state you left them. This is ideal for phones where most users usually want short quick interaction with various apps.

If the Home button doesn't "exit" the app, you can also try hitting the back button lots. If it really bugs you, you can use a task killer like you mentioned, but bear in mind many apps automatically restart when they're killed (so you'll be wasting your time), and any apps that don't will take longer to load when you start them next time.
 
I have been having an iPhone 3G for the past year and I'm so tired of it's closed OS. I jailbroke it and that helped, but it's still very limited. I just got the HTC Droid Incredible and so far love it. I'm still learning the Android OS, but am really liking it's abilities so far. I don't care if iPhone 4 comes with a built in microwave oven or laser canon, I'm done with Apple and AT&T.
 
I don't know... a laser canon sounds kinda cool. Especially if there's an app for it. Personally I'm a fan of the phased plasma rifle, in a 40 watt range. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJRLoGYtkEM
 
I had an iPhone and have been using android since inception and must say that the iPhone cannot compare to Android and by the end of the year there will be several ANDROID phones that will crush the new iPhone 4 in every way.

Oh yeah and with At&t makes it even worst (who needs a smartphone with data being crippled
 
When I saw the list of features on Wikipedia that the iPhone OS 4 was adding over version 3, I realised just how desperately Apple were trying to catch up to Android 2.1.

The iPhone hardware isn't bad by anybody's standards, but it has its flaws and always will (like no user-replaceable batteries). No hardware is perfect though. It's just the firmware and Apple policies are so restrictive that they're just strangling themselves. IMHO, Android 1.6 was a good rival to iPhone OS 3. Android 2.0 overtook iPhone OS 3, and iPhone OS 4 half way catches up. Android 2.1 and 2.2 are racing ahead.
 
Welcome aboard.
I'm another former iPhone user who now has a Nexus. The android UI certainly does take some adjustment time to get used to how it does things over the way the iPhone handles it, but once you do, you'll see the flexibility, power and customization it has over the iPhone.
 
Agreed on this part. Sometimes people blindly follows the thing about iPhone without comparing it with android phones. I saw this kind of problem here in india.
 
Up until Android 2.0, I think that those iPhone users who looked at Android (1.5, 1.6) were turned off because of it's issues and haven't looked since 2.1 was released. The latest incarnations of Android have surely surpassed the iPhone OS and continues to pull ahead IMO.
 
Agreed, and while the new iphone (due out for pre-order tomorrow) looks nice hardware, the OS has not really received too much updates.

Folders and a hamstrung version of multitasking. The funny thing is that Jobs complained that multitasking will eat up your battery, yet on my Nexus, I have full multitasking and the battery life is as good as the iPhone.

I'm looking forward to the official release of 2.2, whenever that might be. I was hoping it would be out by now :/
 
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