Comments on: The Competition: Google Readies Android 1.6 Donut

By: Fredphoesh

Fredphoesh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:16 +0000

Hi all

One of the things reviewers often miss WRT a disadvantage of the iPhone, is what for me is THE REASON I will never buy one.

Music! With the iPhone, you have to use quicktime, itunes, a proprietory cable. You cannot drag and drop folders of music to and from your phone.

I detest all of that (and I own two mac computers of my own). I like being able to plug in to a generic USB, on ANY computer anywhere, and just add or remove or copy music to and from the device as much as I want, no interference from a freak controlling Apple. (and they are going to severely restrict jailbreaking now)

This music controlling would make iPhone (or an iPod for that matter) completely unacceptable to me.

Mark UK.

By: buster

buster — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:57:05 +0000

You are a bunch of monkeys. I decided to ditch the iphone and go for android. I couldn't have made a better change. I realized how restrictive the apple BS actually is. Android will do laps around apple all in good time. iphone people are like lemmings. Are all of you really buying new iphone after iphone everytime they decide to hose another customer by releasing a new mobile device? IMO they just keep forgetting things they should have done in the first place. I laugh while all the suckers trade and sell off their 3 month old iphone to purchase the new one that sucks just as much. - Iphone hater

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:05:30 +0000

InsideInfo said:

1.6 Dobut? Oh, ya, baby!!! Iphone 4.0 due on March 2010 will send the competition back on the drawing board. New Iphone 4hd is slated to be released by April earlier than everybody expected. 1ghz processor, 10 mega pixel camera, oled LCD, 1080p Video, 4.2 display, Front and back Cam for tele-conferencing, etc. etc. So have fun. Apple is unbeatable. See ya in April guys....lol stupid fanboy. Keep dreaming

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:53:06 +0000

Haha inside info what a load of bull? All that technology in an iPhone and they couldn't Manage to squeeze a cam in the new touch. Come on. I expect a healthy jump in specs from my current 3gs but that is unimaginable 

By: InsideInfo

InsideInfo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:36:55 +0000

By: Nickel

Nickel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:30:32 +0000

Catalina, appreciate the input, but I don't think that was what Ken meant. Nice to see one fanboy sticking up for another. Solidarity bro!

By: Kick Butt Applications

Kick Butt Applications — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:16:59 +0000

I've commented about it before but Google is too big not to go full power at taking market share from Apple. With a slew of great smartphones out there, you have to wonder about saturation but looks like the Android OS will be out there in many different platforms.

It's going to be quite interesting to watch and look back two years from now and see if any of us was anywhere close to guessing!

Kick Butt

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:24:18 +0000

I'm planning my move away from AT*T, and I've been keeping an eye on Android since really before it was available. I've been pleased to see that major phone manufacturers are now releasing Android-based phones. I'm looking to Android to get a combination of cell phone and OS that doesn't really care what carriers want on their network. (I agree that Google Voice is one reason to be looking around.)

Nokia is also pretty close with the N900, but I have until July 2010 to decide, so I'm going to wait and see.

By: J-Red

J-Red — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:59:34 +0000

Power to android! One day the android market is going to be just as big as the app store for apple. And when that day comes they'll have apple outnumbered in phones 100-2-1 lol apple has a longggggg way to go in terms of other phone devices.

By: Catalin

Catalin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:25:55 +0000

@Nickel The iPhone OS supports multi-touch. In Android multi-touch is disabled for political reasons.

By: Nickel

Nickel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:38:20 +0000

Ken, just curious, what makes the iPhone OS superior to Android? It seems much more customizable with additional features to boot...? What can the iPhone OS do that Android can't? You're not just fanboying are you?

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:44:04 +0000

Android is sneaking into so many different phone platforms that its hard to keep track of them all, and hard to get a feel for the true size.

All this talk of the Hero ignores all of the smaller players, some of which have some very good devices. Motorola release of Android handsets could get them back on track.

There are around 50 companies (manufacturers and carriers) in the Open Handset Alliance (Android mother ship) including 6 handset manufacturing companies.

Its hard to know if there is as much sharing of technology as promised for this open platform. There might be a tendency to revert to secrecy and competition among these companies, none of which (other than Intel) has any real history in Open Source.

But if there is sharing and cooperation, the rate of Android's enhancement and advances should easily out pace the resources that Apple can muster within a couple years. Apple has about a 4 year head start.

Unfortunately, there are also TEN carriers as members, so I suspect a great risk of subversion of the very purpose of the Alliance.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:23:06 +0000

i really think that android is too little too late. anything they do in the next year or two will not even get it up to the level of the current iphone os. Can anyone actually see their marketplace EVER being as robust as Apples is right now? also, the hero i suppose will be a nice phone, but will not compare to the 3gs in terms of specs.

once the iphone is on verizon, it will pretty much be bb, android and ms fighting to be the queen of the shitpile.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:01:26 +0000

In the UK with a Hero and its great. My ipod Touch is great too.

By: iPhone-usah

iPhone-usah — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:11 +0000

I rEally like the hero it seems like a good phone, and I've always been curious about the android OS. I have 3GS and I'm happy with it. I'll just wait until one of my freinds gets the Hero and I'll mess around with it. But for now I'll stick to my good ol faithful iPhone.

By: Joe McG

Joe McG — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:28:03 +0000

@Appleking

I want to see the Hero soooooo bad. Does Sprint have demos at their store yet? The only thing I didn't like about the initial Hero was the chin, and now it's gone! Sprint's Everything Plan is really attractive too. My AT&T plan is $180 with no tethering.

By: E

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:28:49 +0000

Yes, there is something that is compelling... F*ing Google Voice support.

By: Appleking

Appleking — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:40:35 +0000

Andriod sucks in comparison to webos and iphone but the hero makes all the other andriod devices look like shit.

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:53:57 +0000

Hmm this kinda reminds me of something... my iPhone! Competition is great but I see nothing new or superior here at all. It's simply a matter of preference (iPhone vs. Android) really.

By: Appleking

Appleking — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:46:44 +0000

I jus played with the htc hero for sprint, its a great device. Sprint has the 2nd and 3rd best phones on their network. If webos 1.2 improves battery life then I'll switch back to sprint, the true mobile to mobile plan is tempting me.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:57 +0000

Rene did you notice that the HTC Dream dropped to $0 on a 3 year term for Rogers?? Android is not doing well in Canada.

By: zeagus

zeagus — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:33:38 +0000

I was always interested in Android and I'm always happy to see competition for Apple, MS, RIM and Symbian - though, let's be honest, Android is mostly competition for Apple at this point. It took until the 3GS for the iPhone to be a must have that would work for me (to replace phone and iPod in general use) and I hope that they are working hard behind the scenes to make me want to stick with the platform. It is, without a doubt, the most fun I've had with a mobile and Android is definitely nipping at their heels with things like their elegant notification system, expansion of the Market, broader display and form factor support and universal search. When's iPhone OS 3.5 and 4.0, Steve?