Google Android Personal Thoughts

You were right all along. Apple’s event turned out great. Now, instead of talking about a phone Google launched, people are talking about a cramped huge iPhone look-a-like.

Guess I’m going to stick with Apple. The iPhone never fails. Next year I’m hoping for a whiteboard size iPhone that I can hang on my wall and not play flash with it.

But hey, an iPhone is an iPhone, right? It’s the pinnacle of human evolution. Why experiment with other stuff in order to make progress? Halt the machines, we’ve reached as far as we could as humans..

Seriously. Get laid.

Quite a scathing review.. I have used the ipod touch and my aging android G1, and I just simply can not bring myself to jump on to the iPhone gravy train.. Why?
1) The UI for android is open and entirely customizable, not restricted to squares?!

2) The browser on the Android, and the pdf reading has text wrapping.. I read forums, and I cant be arsed to swipe left and right, turn my phone sideways to view a line of text.

3) Multi touch is now now there.. phew..

4) the pace of Android development is moving fast..

5) The MAC lost out to the PC for the same reasons…

The only great thing about the iphone are the apps, can not argue with you on this one.. hopefully, now 3d rendering, faster processors, more ram will help things along there…

it all boils down to the user and consumer … it depends on ones needs, lifestyle and statement .. iphone might be for you and all you need it might not cause you cant live without multi tasking .. so dont argue, the iphone or nexus one might be the best for you but it does not mean its also the best for the other. its hard not to compared both cause of their almost same price, so if you really have budget and still cant decide (dont know why maybe its a disorder) then close your eyes and point .. both have strengths and weaknesses take out the weakness you cant live with and pick the one that fits your bill . stop ranting that android but meh that iphone is wow , thats your experience cause your used to using and owning an iphone, i cant blame you for looking on nexus one to be iphone like looking for stuff that the iphone does, they are two different things for different taste of people , just imagine blue and red, some people love blue some red some both its just like that, if nexus doesnt work for you it works for 1 other million users around the world same with the iphone . its a good os maybe not great yet but there are years still ahead sooner it might have the iphone fanboys wanted to have youll never know ..

What is an app that’s better on Android than on the iPhone? Name just one? I’ll do you better. I’ll name 3

GTalk
Maps
Google Voice

Where’s my 3 hats?

im sorry man, but your ignorance is by far the saddest thing i’ve ever seen. have you ever actually picked up and used an Android device, oh and i mean the most recent versions. My Droid is by far the best piece of technology i’ve ever laid my hands on. Oh yeah, i rooted it, and i don’t see Google coming after me because of it. You probably realized apple is coming after and stopping people who jailbreak phones. The only people who are heartless are the people who work for mac, and you “boy genius”. Frankly, the Android operating system was the best thing to come along to the Smart Phone market since the blackberry. It showed the world what a open operating system and a good UI looks like. I have endless customization, and i feel like the Droid is just a reflection of my self. The most you can put of yourself into your Iphone is the skin and the lock screen background. How about you just try and do some research before you start blabbing your mouth.

hmm i think this phone is quite amazing after i watched how it’s made wow its really cool to have this phone

i’m looking for a ozi like software on iphone, but i didn’t find such one. but i found one on gphone, oruxmaps, http://oruxmaps.x10hosting.com/index_en.html

could you please suggest one ozi like software on iphone?

wow… what a bunch of half wit children. Would it kill you idiot kids to stay on topic and let opinions be what they are! You people have a lot of growing up to do.

“I have issues with Android and Google’s approach to it”

You may have issues, but it looks like no one else has, Android kicking butt. It was a good run iPhone.

A sad case of “Apple Brainwashing”…
Seriously, any reasonable man knows that Android is far in advance of iPhone OS. On HTC devices like the Desire, the user experience is much better than on an iPhone. Even hardcroe Apple fans admitted this… so what’s the point of your Android Bashing?

this is all true, but google has unlimited resources and devolopment is moving fast on android, while on the iphone os devolopment is moving at a snails pace.

I gave up AT&T and the iphone for HTC Incredible and was somewhat disappointed with the browser. Besides the fact it takes screenshots of your history, it is very clunky and requires more ‘clicks’ to navigate than Safari.
On Safari, with one touch of the page I can go back to the top of the page. Can’t figure out how to do that with whatever its called on the droid. Safari navigation is ready and waiting at the bottom of the screen, have to use the menu softkey to get to them on the droid whatever its called web browser. Too many things to list here about other apps. I have decided the only thing I will use the droid for is making my own apps, phone calls, and holding down paper in the passenger seat while the windows are down.

I have noticed many comments in the android market include the phrase ‘Force Close’. I have not had much problem with forcing an app to close, but I have had multiple audio files play at the same time when I only wanted one. And my podcasts stop playing when I close the music app, and start from the beginning when I reopen them. Kinda pain in the arse compared to ipod on the iphone. I like the ability to play .ogg files from the file browser app but once I close the player, the audio quits and when I reopen it I have to fast forward to the point I left off. The more I use it the more pissed I become. I like open platforms but there is an element of functionality and elegance that exists only in corporate environments. I’m kinda disappointed with all the hype and getting a clunky UI tied to a back end tracking system. Why the hell does everything need City ID when I communicate? Google is all about data and tracking. I would consider rooting my droid but why? Fuck it all. I’m just going to end my use of cell phones all together. Fuck the following:
Google
Facebook
My Space
Twitter
SpaceBook
Face Space
TwitSpace
SpaceFace
GooFace
NetFriend
yadda……….

Why does the Music app need access to the following services?
SMS
contact data
phone state and identity
system tools
And it can’t even play my podcasts while I browse the web?
The Music Widget requires these permissions:
browser history, bookmarks, calendar data, contact data, write Browser’s history and bookmarks, write calendar data, and write contact data
directly call phone numbers, send SMS messages
edit SMS or MMS, read SMS or MMS, send/receive SMS or MMS
location GPS
Google mail
phone state
modify phone state
change network connectivity, change Wi-Fi state, change WiMAX state, modify global system settings, and write Access Point Name settings
WTF? I just want to play a fucking mp3 or ogg file!
Bend over folks, Google is calling!

WTF?!? The FM radio on the htc incredible requires access to the following:
SMS or MMS
internet
write contact data
sotrage:modify/delete SD card contents
read phone state and identity

Just to listen to the fucking FM radio. This came with the phone.

I downloaded a simple note pad app that requires access to:
browser history and bookmarks, read/write bookmarks and calendar data
Under Services that Cost you money: directly call phone numbers, send SMS
edit SMS or MMS send/receive SMS
location GPS
Network communication
Google mail
and a shit pile of system tools.

Just for a note pad. I’m getting real action with Google!

you just suck

beware of this fact

To ‘Boy Genius’… I don’t agree – I have an LG GW620 and I love it to bits. I’ve downloaded several aplications and games from the android market, and every one has worked fine. I’ve never had an issue with the phone, and I think the Android OS is an excellent step forward. And please, don’t start me on the iphone, it’s a joke.
I think you just personally don’t like the Android system, you’re not looking at it from the publics perspective. There are HUNDREDS of apps to personalize your phone, and the market automatically filters the results to only show the apps that will work on your phone. Plus, there are heaps of free ones, which means that even people who don’t have much money can play around with their phone. Stop complaining – It’s a great system and I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Android 2.2, the Fro-yo =]

Good luck with your imagined superiority…

Bex

In no way can the Android UI be considered “a good UI”. Perhaps passable. “Good” implies thoughtful and intuitive and ideally responsive to the user.

I’m glad that people like their Droid phones– personally I’m not a fan, but it seems like a pretty good device. However, the real issue with Android is– and will continue to be– the lack of thought and care put into it, on a very basic level. Yes, it is customizable– but as an experience it is sorely lacking, in MANY different ways that are not all about “pretty graphics” or the ability to put on your own shitty UI skin. It just really isn’t “fun” the way the iPhone and Pre are. It isn’t simple. It doesn’t work all the time. It isn’t consistent across devices. Its marketplace is a JOKE. Its interface doesn’t have that “direct” or “fluid” feel the way the iPhone or Pre does. It feels like a phone from 2001 that has new features. But every day, my iPhone feels like something from the future.

… And most importantly? Developers are just not building great apps: they’re making apps that have the same clinical feel as the rest of Android. And that translates to a worse experience for the majority of customers who aren’t impressed by the tech specs or nerdy details… the people who can SEE what they’re missing out on.

I agree with BG 100%– the Android experience is SO divorced from

I don’t know what this man was smoking when he wrote this RIDICULOUS post. It’s like he just up and LOST it.

I mean this man honestly LIED in this post. If you had to “one-line” comments you made, you lied. Because you stated things and it turns out you didn’t even bother to look it up. I get the feeling at the time you hadn’t sat down and wholeheartedly used the Nexus One.

The iPhone browser is perfect? Really.. the Android browser on the Nexus One at the time wasn’t up to snuff? Really?

Throughout this entire post you attack Android on all it’s so called weaknesses (many valid) but you lose credibility with me because you dismiss its strengths. Take Multitasking for example. You briefly mentioned it then simply dismissed it because in 6 months you would supposedly have it. Were you talking about the “now” or about the future? You essentially compared Android to a future product that wasn’t even out at the time (nice one Marty McFly).

Lack of meaningful Apps.. How’s FREE navigation on the iPhone? How’s that for meaningful? It’s easy to look at the App catalogue and dis Android at that time (it’s understandable). But it was ignorant to do so without mentioning the potential that was evidently present. I mean come on the Nexus one was pretty much the first TRUE high end’ish Android Device (developer interest was still in it’s infancy @ the time compared to now, how could BGR not be aware of that). The Nexus one had JUST came out and yet here you are talking about the SNES apps (which by the way SPANK almost all the DUMB ASS games you got on iOS). If you are going to talk about fragmentation then you should mention the fact that iOS doesn’t have to deal with as many form factors (also are you aware that incompatible apps simply won’t show up on your Market app).

You mention human behavior and devices remembering their settings. Let me know how easy it is to go from one iPhone to another? Will your contacts simply sync as soon as you log in? Does iOS allow you to write contacts to the sim? will the OS remember your apps and automatically begin downloading all the apps you previously had on the other iPhone? Will it remember your Wi-Fi networks and their passwords and settings?

Lastly, you mentioned Android not being worth the effort in the foreseeable future. You must be one short sighted technology journalist. You couldn’t see a year out? Hell you are so short sighted you missed what was happening right in front of you. The release of the Nexus One was the beginning of what’s known throughout the tech blogs as “Google leap frogs Apple” (look it up on Gizmodo and Engadget). Not in the sense that Apple was behind Google at that time but feature wise Google matched them on many and was catching up in a few others (basically Android was reaching parity with iOS). I can’t believe you were so short sighted. Any person familiar with the Tech industry could have told you “well Apple is conservative and Google is updating Android at an accelerated pace it is possible that Android could surpass iOS in many factors”. Case and point? Gingerbread and Honeycomb.

I disagree on some levels…any product can be reviewed on it’s own merits, without comparison to others. I would like to have seen both, frankly. Being notated as 2nd or 3rd best with products can be damaging, when in facts the differences may be a measure of nanoseconds, for example. and reviewing smartphones is even worse because they swing alot on perceptions and feel, which is very subjective.

hahahahha

The fucking mouth on you.

LMFAO!!!! SO FUNNY hahaha dayumm that was just hilarious !!!

Lol. True.

It’s not that funny. In fact, it’s a pretty pedestrian effort.

@ LaToya,
Come on, seriously? You don’t have to go that far, just pick up the phone and call your Dad. The two of you can talk about that first night in your room when your mom was finally asleep.

You need help. And a banhammer.

All about the big boob.

Wow, first I got one guy following me around and accusing me of molesting children, now I’m an abused child. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS, MONKEYS.

I think you’re on the wrong Usenet group.

Hey look retarded LaToya is back… Speak WASPy English bitch..

Gook, please stop letting your son suck your cock. It’s creepy and we’d rather you not share that information.

You are a dumbass for writing this awful stuff

It makes me cry every time he tells that story. I already called the FBI, but they told me to shut up and they’re mean.

You need your mouth washed out with bleach………….geez why don’t you stop talking like a teenager!!!!

Ok, im cracking up over that one… well done

And a 3G/EDGE/GPRS chip, and a camera, and a microphone, and a compass, and a longer lasting battery, and more compatible apps, and free OS upgrades.

Just the “always connected” Internet is worth having the iPhone, IMO, since I get great 3G coverage with AT&T where I live.

Classy.. LaToya. Get out of the Ghetto much?

You wrote something positive about the iphone so I downranked you… sorry man, but that’s how it goes on here

I don’t remember one name of any commenter on BGR…except yours. Maybe that’s your goal; just to get noticed because you don’t in real life. Or maybe you like to criticize other people for doing exactly the same things you do. There’s a word for that. Hypocrite. You obsess over Android and your damn iPod touch, but make fun of other people for liking their iPhones/Droids/BlackBerrys a little too much, all while throwing in so many swear words it’s hard to understand your point.

The only reason BG hasn’t banned you is because you make half the comments on his articles, because there’s no way in hell he hasn’t noticed you yet.

I know. I accept that. And I upranked your comment because it’s true.

All I read was shit fucking shit fuckers bitch. Can we get the non-ghetto, PG version?

Can you people feel the love…tonight? =)

Keep believing that… Nokia is dead in the water

OMFG Latoya, you freakin stupid-ass, ignorant POS. I swear you are one of the most annoying bitches i have ever seen on the internet. None of your comments make any sense at all. Use your freakin brain for once, besides those 2 BIS outages, have there been any other? how about before that? Use your fuckin brain. Or go to school and learn if you can afford it.

Well thanks for that really detailed argument. Really added to the debate.

You keep buying cheap. I will keep buying Macbook’s.

You are right when you say “they can’t compare to many computers running Windows 7″

Thank fuck for that is all I can say.

Nokia is the king of all mobile phones. Its not well selling in US cuz its not available on contract, but that does not mean that Nokia does not sell. Theyve been making phones long before iShit was in the crApple’s womb.

I need to get to know Latoya a lil better…lol.
She sounds like fun.
Besides all that wishin cats would get it in raw with Luke…lol
Get back at a brah

Nice, a masters degree. I should have known that by your handle and use of language. I must be getting old, It is impossible for me to obviously tell who the educated are anymore. It was so much easier in my day.

That masters degree hard at work, thank you for your encouraging words sweetie.

Funny, you posted that at 10:19.

LOL! I think Jobs already did.

W LaToya,

Thank you, again your education is backed up by your comments.

Who hates you? You are on the internet, no one even knows who you are. We just know you are some fat smelly bald guy living with his mom.
It is really neat that you worry about people liking or disliking you.

I can’t believe the write of this article displayed such emotion over a….. PHONE.

LaToya, after looking at your comments on this site, I can see that you are clearly a troll. Contrary to what you may think, you seem uneducated when using foul language.

@ Lady,

And yet the “writer” of this article got you to display such emotion over a “PERSONAL THOUGHTS” piece.

ha ha, she said “blogosphere.”

And how would *you* know? Damn, another party I completely blacked out on!

Jarrett personal thoughts about anything is emotional…feelings about a phone…not so much

hahah,fright

why i can’t do hahaha