Comments on: Android Demo at Google Developer Day London 2008

By: stagger82

stagger82 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:30:21 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that the tiles load slow? There also seemed to be a problem with the browser. Why the cut? Did it auto-rotate? There are no features that are not on the iPhone. I see only few chances for Google to be successful with this. They have to make it a lot cheaper than the iPhone, build a better eco system around it and really work on compatibility. Otherwise the iPhone will still be the premium device.

By: Untouchab1e

Untouchab1e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:23:21 +0000

The Android is an OS, while iPhone is just a phone. Problem is, iPhone has too many restrictions, making it fall to short for very many people, including myself (I have an iPhone 3G right now). The lack of Copy paste, MMS, message forwarding, the ability to send a message to more than one contact, the ability to actually customize the the interface, not to mention being locked into a strictly controlled Apple world. Im more then very ready for Android! Please come soon!

By: asmielia

asmielia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:37:58 +0000

You could get Android, or you could just wait for the next iPhone software release which almost certainly will have copy/paste. MMS support probably won’t come from Apple but there’s an app on the app store which does MMS. You can forward emails (not SMSs), and you can send messages (email and SMS) to multiple contacts. If you want to customize the interface you can jailbreak it and install Summerboard or whatever you want. And what makes you think Android won’t have issues of its own?

By: Untouchab1e

Untouchab1e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:48:50 +0000

iPhone can even hardly be called a smartphone. What the next version may or may not have is rather irrelevant. When instead of implementing true multi tasking, they develop this clumsy system where you rely on a persistant internet connection to wake up certain apps that recieve new notifcations. The iPhone is great at what it does, but there is way to much it doesnt do at all! It just isnt a phone for the advanced user.

By: asmielia

asmielia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:05:22 +0000

No, on the contrary. Clumsy would be allowing anyone to create a random background thread, complete with potential memory leaks, and completely lock up the phone or slow it to a standstill. Apple already has memory leak issues in its own apps which cause performance degredation. We don’t need to introduce more variability into the equation right now. Apple will get to the background notification thread in due time. For the moment, I feel they have the best approach.

By: Untouchab1e

Untouchab1e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:48:42 +0000

Windows Mobile, Symbian, and other Mobile OS’s manage to have multitasking, so what makes you believe it would just screw up the iPhone? Your comment just backs up the statement on how the iPhone is for the simple user who wants a fun, simple phone that does what it does good, nothing more. Without a contract with free data connectivity the iPhone is useless anyways, as its in no way optimized for mobile use (resulting in slow and expensive mobile browsing, etc). Email sucks big time too!

By: asmielia

asmielia — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:54:49 +0000

I wouldn’t be using WinMo and Symbian as examples of working multitasking. Sure it works ok with a few good apps running, but they can both bog down big time. In fact, I’d be using those as examples as to why the iPhone’s approach is better. We’ll see how Android does, I’m anxious to see. Not sure what your point is about the data, the iPhone safari browser is still ahead of everything else out there, over a year after release, over wifi or 3g.

By: dragoshu

dragoshu — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:07:40 +0000

hey! if u think ur iphone is a shitty phone just give it for free to someone who really wants one. me for example! its a good way to make ur point.

By: Untouchab1e

Untouchab1e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:33:59 +0000

Iphone Safari serves up great looking websites, but it doesnt reduce the size of the website before it loads onto the phone, as Opera Mini does. This means much larger portions of data gets transferred, meaning longer loading times, and much higher data transfer costs. Multitasking comes at a price as you say, but you forget about the option to close any running app to free up availble RAM. The iPhone 3G often takes quite a while to load up SMS’s and safari and other apps too.

By: Untouchab1e

Untouchab1e — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:05:47 +0000

Or I could just sell it, making my new HTC Touch Pro come in without my wallet taking a hit