iPhone vs. Droid

#576
#576
DrRosenRosen said:
xda-developers.com forums are fairly good when there's not drama happening. This has been the goto site for some good developers for years. Can be fairly technical.

This may work. [APP]SuperOneClick v2.3.3 - Motorola Exploit Added! - xda-developers

You'll basically root it. Download a new ROM. Go into recovery and make a backup. Then, wipe the device data and cache. Install new ROM, and enjoy.

Can be fun to try different ROMS.

Before you start...log into gmail and make sure all your contacts are there. If not, on the phone, go into contacts>menu>export to SD card. If you want to backup apps with data try looking at MyBackup and Titanium backup. If you just want to back up texts you can get SMS Backup by Ritesh on the market to export them to your SD card.
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Ya i rooted my droid X about a year ago. Gingerbread was just not cuttin it for me. I can't remember the site i used to walk me through it but it was fairly straight forward. And i will second the backing up of your contacts. Something i didn't do haha.

Once i got it rooted, installing roms were super easy. Currently I am running the Liberty Rom and love it. Fairly basic but a TON of customizable things on it. And the best part of all is that it got rid of all the annoying lag scroll that everyone dogs android for. No more random reboots and all the apps run smoothly and effortlessly. It also has a feature built in to overclock your CPU if you want the extra power boost.

Overall i'd say rooting is a good way to get you to your next upgrade. Phones are going out of date way to fast in todays world. You will have that O Shi# moment when you think you completely ruined your phone and you have no idea what you got yourself into, but just follow the tutorials on the android forums and you will be golden!
 
#577
#577
I couldn't sleep last night and read all 39 pages of this thread. I'm shocked how many people switched from iPhone to droid. My tiny sample size of droid using friends and acquaintances has been quite the opposite with most complaining about their droid doing all kinds of glitchy and screwy things then switching to iPhone without looking back (except for one guy who will admit he is an apple hater). One friend even got in a spat with AT&T over his bill so he switched to sprint and got a droid. He liked it for about 2 months because of the customization. By the time Sprint got the iPhone he took the first chance he had to switch back.That was roughly a six month span.

I'm on my first smart phone which happens to be an iPhone4s. However I had been using my 2nd gen iPod touch to do everything I needed a smart phone for previously so I was already very familiar with iOS devices. The drawback was I had to carry two devices. I just couldn't justify the data package when I'm in wi-fi hot spots 85% of my day.

When my wife upgraded from a spectacularly chitty BB Tour to an iPhone4s I was finally convinced I needed to do the same. For one thing the camera on the 4s is vastly superior to any other phone I looked it in the store. With an 8 month old baby, two kitties and a dog I wear that thing out (ironically I mostly use the hipstamic app to give it a retro analog look). As a side note I read recently that the iPhone camera is the #2 over all used camera and the #1 smart phone camera used on Flick'r.

Another thing I love about my iPhone is how it "just works" with my iMac. Once I took it out of the box I signed on to my apple account and it instantly pulled all my contacts, calendars, and safari bookmarks from my iMac without me even realizing it until I looked in their respective locations on the phone. Then I set up iCloud on my windows 7 laptop and now they are all in sync.

See I love gadgets and tinkering but I also love hassle free things too and iPhone and apple products in general give me both.

Its obvious that my knowledge of Droid is limited at best so I can't give an honest comparison. What little I have played with them I found them to be kind of cheap feeling and not as responsive as the iOS devices. That could be because I haven't taken/had the opportunity to really sit down and customize one to my needs. Also, as demonstrated in this thread, there are too many Droids with varying degrees of quality out there making the the choice too complicated. With iPhone your choice is basically Siri or no Siri.

Finally I want to point out that anytime a product mentions their competitor in the ad, like many Droid device commercials mention iPhone, that usually means they are on the 2nd tier and trying to point that that can be just as good. How often do you see coke mention pepsi in their ads? Or McDonalds mention Burger King? Or Bud Light mention Miller Lite? Now apply that vice versa (FTR I prefer Miller Lite over Bud Light when I drink a light beer).

Just my 2cents.
 
#579
#579
I do want to ask Droid users how group texting works for them. On iPhone when I text multiple people at the same time it creates a "thread" with just those people in it. When they respond the whole conversation shows up in that thread and everyone receives it. However, unless a Droid using friend responds to the original message their response will only go to one person and shows up in a separate thread.

I know some of this group texting feature is because the majority of my friends and family are on iPhone so it defaults to iMessage. But it seems to work with a friend on still on black berry (*snicker).

Any how just curious.
 
#580
#580
I created a group in Handcent for when my son was born and didn't have that issue
 
#584
#584
No offense but having to use a seperate app for texting is kind of a draw back IMO. I used a free texting app on my iPod touch but when other people received it the # was some 5 digit thing. (Played a really good joke on a buddy with it once but that's a story for another time).

Is it a paid or free app?

When people text you first does it go to that app?
 
#585
#585
I just looked it up. Seems like it has some cool features and some suphlerious ones (do I really need to change the font?). I find it ironic that one of the "selling" points is that you can make it look like the iPhone text bubbles.

I'm going to reccomend it to the only two droid users I know so they can join our group texts more fluidly.

One more question though, when some else starts a group does it show up as a group for you?
 
#586
#586
burntorangeVOLffle said:
No offense but having to use a seperate app for texting is kind of a draw back IMO. I used a free texting app on my iPod touch but when other people received it the # was some 5 digit thing. (Played a really good joke on a buddy with it once but that's a story for another time).

Is it a paid or free app?

When people text you first does it go to that app?
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You just set it as your default messaging app and it works fine. It's a free app

Not sure on the group thing as I haven't really used it
 
#587
#587
burntorangeVOLffle said:
No offense but having to use a seperate app for texting is kind of a draw back IMO.
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It's not separate, just a different app. I believe this is possible on iOS as well.

SMS/MMS all go one central database. Handcent, for example, is a text client that is customizable and has a pop up window option. goSMS is another good one. ChompSMS was king a few years ago on Blackberries.

Install the program and tell your other message app to quit looking for new messages and you're done.

I like the way Handcent handles pop-ups. goSMS is probably the same. Get a message and the screen lights up with the message and a quick reply box. No unlocking to reply.

I also like theming it a bit and changing the background and colors. You can also set different ringtones/alerts for contacts.
 
#588
#588
There are other messaging apps other than stock with iPhone. If you're jailbroke there's Bite SMS & it's better in some ways than stock but you can use them both together hand in hand.
 
#589
#589
I've seen the 3rd part apps in the app store but I have no problem with iPhones stock messenger app. I don't keep a lock code on my phone so hitting the slider is not an inconvenience to me. Although it would be nice to name/label the groups.

I really don't have a desire to jailbreak either. I don't feel the need to customize my icons and such. Other than that there is nothing I have encountered that my phone doesn't perform the way I need it too.
 
#590
#590
burntorangeVOLffle said:
I've seen the 3rd part apps in the app store but I have no problem with iPhones stock messenger app. I don't keep a lock code on my phone so hitting the slider is not an inconvenience to me. Although it would be nice to name/label the groups.

I really don't have a desire to jailbreak either. I don't feel the need to customize my icons and such. Other than that there is nothing I have encountered that my phone doesn't perform the way I need it too.
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There's a lot to jailbreaking other than customizing insignificant stuff. Bite SMS allows to do a quick reply from the lock screen without swiping or unlocking the screen. There's folder apps that allow for folders to hold hundreds of apps & folders within folders. Apps to place a lock on each app. 3G unrestrictor that tricks your phone into thinking its on wifi & makes videos crisp & clear & more. Siri Toggles allows Siri to open apps & disable/enable wifi & Bluetooth. SMsettings allows a lot of those things in the swipe down notifications. There's a ton of other useful stuff as well the customization.
 
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#591
#591
Data plans. Help.

Are you paying for usage of data on their network?
Or just on the phone period?

If i connect to a wi-fi signal would I still be using up my data allowance?
 
#592
#592
joeydupree said:
Data plans. Help.

Are you paying for usage of data on their network?
Or just on the phone period?

If i connect to a wi-fi signal would I still be using up my data allowance?
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Wifi is unlimited. Network data usage is all that counts toward your plan.
 
#594
#594
Intersting tidbit from MacRumors.com

"More than fifty commercials aired during the Super Bowl this past Sunday, including one from Samsung that again poked fun at Apple's customers.

Apple didn't run any ads during the Super Bowl, at least not officially -- a fact that puzzled some commentators. But, as investment guru Jim Cramer points out, Apple did have an advertisement of sorts air during the Super Bowl.

After the game was over, Colts hall of famer Raymond Berry carrier the Vince Lombardi Trophy along a long line of New York Giants players. Players took turns touching or kissing the trophy, all the while taking photos and videos of the event. By far the most common device used to record the moment was the iPhone -- an event seen by millions.



Jim Cramer:
And I said to myself, there it is, not some pet dangling a bag of chips or some headlights killing vampires or King Elton getting trapdoored. Nope, there was an ad worthy of Steve Jobs and the company he built.

Of course, it wasn't an ad. It was just a collection of the most cool, most idolized competitors in the world whipping out their favorite device, which they had on the field, ready for action.

[...]

In the end, it didn't matter. To me, the endorsement of Apple by real athletes who were not paid, especially when contrasted with the gift of the GM Corvette that Eli Manning didn't even seem to care about -- "Eli, the keys, the keys, don't forget the keys!" -- said it all.

A 30-second spot during the game cost advertisers $3.5 million. For 1 minute and 20 seconds, Giants players used their iPhones to capture a once-in-a-lifetime moment that tens of millions watched on television. Cramer believes that this, more than any anything else, was the best advertisement of the Super Bowl.
 
#600
#600
jwp1223 said:
The Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy SII blow the iPhone out of the water. Do some research.
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It all depends on what you like. The Nexus is nice I played with one last week. Having owned both phones they both have pluses and minuses. I prefer the Android OS,but the iphone is solid.

Though I prefer Android they really need to polish the OS and stop putting out a phone every other day.They also make promises to bring (for example) ice cream sandwich to a phone,then they take forever to do it.
 
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