iPhone vs. Droid

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TNVolGirl said:
I do tech support and can tell you with great assurance that iPhone's "just work". We help users setup Microsoft Exchange email accounts on their various phones and the iPhone is the ONLY phone that makes adding the account simple and hassle free.

We had to do a mass email to our employees to explain 4 different "obstacles" encountered while trying to add accounts to Droid phones. Not one of these issues occur with iPhones. Even people who don't necessarily like the iPhone will readily admit that they are much easier to setup and use.

Also, don't read that as "any simple minded idiot could use it", as adding a Microsoft Exchange account is a BASIC function that should be easy to accomplish. It is the most popular email client in the US.

I've had an iPhone from the beginning and I believe they are far superior in every facet. I've dealt with friends' Droids and feel like throwing them across the room after 5 minutes. The scrolling isn't as responsive, the user interface is cheap looking and it over-complicates even the simplest task.

Whether or not you like Apple or the iPhone, to say the iPhone didn't revolutionize the phone market is naive.
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That's funny....I was able to set up my works email on my Android device w/out a problem and we use microsoft exchange, and not only that have to go through a billion other checkpoints to get it work....hmmm, something tells me you're full of ****....just like most other iPhone users.
 
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govols/cc said:
The AT&T iPhone 4S is capable of 4G data speeds.
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No. I have the iphone 4s now only because it didn't drop calls where I live in BFE. A true LTE 4G phone will smoke my iphone....no big deal for me though as I like Android and iOS and switch back to my Thunderbolt every few days.
 
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jwp1223 said:
That's funny....I was able to set up my works email on my Android device w/out a problem and we use microsoft exchange, and not only that have to go through a billion other checkpoints to get it work....hmmm, something tells me you're full of ****....just like most other iPhone users.
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Considering every android device is different it's hard to compare your situation to theirs. Hell a friend at work is unable to simply log out of his email on his droid.
 
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jwp1223 said:
No it's not, it's a 3G advice, don't kid yourself.
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Being 3G doesn't seem to bother many people. The AT&T 4S is capable of 14.4Mbs data speeds although I doubt anybody will actually every obtain it. I get 5-6Mbs & that is just fine. From some things I have seen some 4G users don't even get that.
 
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jwp1223 said:
That's funny....I was able to set up my works email on my Android device w/out a problem and we use microsoft exchange, and not only that have to go through a billion other checkpoints to get it work....hmmm, something tells me you're full of ****....just like most other iPhone users.
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Which specific phone do you have? I'm glad your ONE attempt worked. We install on the multiple Droid devices and I can assure you they present multiple issues. As I stated, we had to send out an email with workarounds for Droid users. My employer has about 52,000 employees. I know what I'm talking about.

Bur feel free to resort to name calling. You're like the guy who rode his bike around the block arguing he knows more than Lance Armstrong.
 
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I've had both for an extended period of time. Droid battery live sucks but that's what I use. Gave the iphone to my kid.
 
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Thanks to sdv come tuesday i will be on my third 4s come monday. Just not having any luck with the damn iphone
 
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TNVolGirl said:
Which specific phone do you have? I'm glad your ONE attempt worked. We install on the multiple Droid devices and I can assure you they present multiple issues. As I stated, we had to send out an email with workarounds for Droid users. My employer has about 52,000 employees. I know what I'm talking about.

Bur feel free to resort to name calling. You're like the guy who rode his bike around the block arguing he knows more than Lance Armstrong.
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jwp1223 said:
That's funny....I was able to set up my works email on my Android device w/out a problem and we use microsoft exchange, and not only that have to go through a billion other checkpoints to get it work....hmmm, something tells me you're full of ****....just like most other iPhone users.
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Why do people feel the need to resort to this? Small penises? Beaten as a child?
 
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Just got my 4s yesterday. Some impressions:

I don't make nearly as many typing mistakes as on my droid X; I can simply fly on this thing. It smokes my X in app/scroll speed. No lag at all so far - X lagged more than my old 128mb ram Hp computer. Siri is much more than the voice integration on android. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't really used it.

My gf has a Galaxy SII and it's different - just like the iPhone, there's no lag and it's extremely fast. It is an AT&T only phone, though.

One final comment - I was at the VZ store the other day testing some phones out, and I tested the 4s and the Nexus. I cleared all apps on both, and it was the same old tale - choppy scrolling on the Nexus, slight lag in launching apps, etc. The 4s was fast and crisp - no lag at all.

So negatives so far:

Lack of GVoice integration (the apps for it just plain suck). I'll fix this when pod2g finishes his 4s untethered jailbreak, along with this customization issues.
 
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milohimself said:
My hands are maybe only a bit bigger than average and I have no problem texting one handed with a 4.5 inch Android screen. I do need to charge it every night but I also use the crap out of it, and big screens take a lot more battery. But you don't have to. I just bought my girlfriend a very slightly used second hand Motorola with Android OS on it and bought a new battery to go with, she only has to charge up every couple of days at worst. She's not constantly on the internet/gaming/watching Netflix as I am, though.

As for laggy UI, I only hit issues about once a week, maybe, and for that I've got a quick link to a task manager. One button to shut down all the apps but keep the OS running. My iPhones, by comparison froze up a couple times a month for whatever reason but when that happened I had to give them a full reboot.

That's another thing that irritated me with iPhone: I can remember once with 3GS and once with 4 that they got frozen and I couldn't hard reboot because I couldn't access the battery. I had to wait for the phone to die so I could plug it back in and fire it back up.
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You don't need to access the battery to hard reset an iPhone.
 
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vols_fan_68 said:
Does (or can) Verizon charge for tethering using the PDAnet app?
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but PdaNet is a third-party app, so you'd have to pay them directly a one-time fee, IIRC. You can still access non-secure sites via the PdaNet app for free.
 
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