[TriLUG] Android Phone vs iPhone vs other smartphones

[Carl Crider]

Wow! I sent my reply from last night's hockey game, then turned my phone
off. These are great answers. Thanks to "kwoodie" for starting the topic.
Refer to the "Best Group" for accolades.

TriLUG are awesome.

"My phone is the last thing I want to dork with." <--- This is one of my
concerns. Let's face it, I have hacked the BB to pieces over the last 2
years, and it does everything I need it to do. It lacks some of the "I
wants", but is still a great phone. I feel like I did just before getting
the Zaurus SL-5500 way-back-when. I ran countless images and apps on that
thing, but was constantly working on it, and bringing it back to life from
unstable flashes.

I guess it will come down to a test drive.





On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 23:53 +0000, kwoodie at gmail.com wrote:
> > Ok so I am thinking about switching from my blackberry curve to a Android
> based phone or an iPhone.
>
> >  Which is the best in the eyes of TriLUG?
>
> I've had my iPhone for a year now and absolutely adore it...
>
> except for the actual phone quality which is pretty bad.  There are two
> issues:
>
> 1) Echoing on a regular basis - people call me and can hear themselves
> in a significant, non-ignorable manner.  We often call back to see if it
> will go away and sometimes it just disappears.  Happens iphone to iphone
> and iphone to non-iPhone.
>
> 2) Dropped calls.  My brother in Maryland can drive a particular section
> of I-95 and his iPhone will drop our call every time.  On a regular
> basis I lose calls for unknown reasons.  Before my beloved iPhone I
> never understood the advertising from others about "no dropped calls."
> because in the NC area on Sprint I never had those problems.  Now I just
> accept it.
>
> The iPhone is really about the apps and the overall environment in which
> those apps are available.. The consistency of the user interface and how
> individual apps form a well designed overall experience is the big WIN.
>
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