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Thursday, November 19, 2009

iPhone vs. Droid

So I did a little comparison between the two phones to see if the commercials and hype are accurate.

So far here is what I found: (this information could obviously vary or be flawed. Its a culmination of info I got from reviews and talking to people using both. The rest is based on whats on the carriers web sites with regard to their phones)

Both the iPhone and the Droid hold 16GB
Both have about the same talk time and standby time. Droid has like a tiny bit more talk time, iPhone has a tiny bit more standby. I'll call that equal as well.
Both have a camera, but the Droid is 2Megapixels more. However, while you can do video recording with the droid, you cannot do video editing, which you CAN do on the iPhone. Outside of picture quality, this is kinda equal too.
Both have wifi, gps, turn by turn, digital compass.
Both support voice commands.
Both support a wide range of video and audio formats, however hands down the iPhone not only supports them all, it supports the most current versions, while Droid is a version or two behind on the ones it does support.
iPhone has the iStore. Droid has? Well.. a cool name I guess.
Number of Apps for iPhone. almost 100,000. Droid has about 10,000.
Multitasking? Still I've not been able to tell wtf this means or what it is for on a phone. The iPhone does not support it, and the Droid does. Great, so in other words you can watch a video and listen to music at the same time. Cause everyone wants to do that... right.
Price? SAME, with or without contract.
Unlimited usage plans. Price is the same.
Average usage plans. Price is the same.
Both the unlimited and average plan total costs are identical.

So far the only thing I see the droid has that the iPhone does not is Multitasking. Ok, no one has really explained what benefit this is on a cell phone. Unless it means I can listen to Motley Crue and talk to someone on the phone at the same time. But wait, why would I do that?

The only other thing I can see that is advantageous is the network. ATT just flat out SUCKS!!! Droid works on Verizon which they claim is the shit. It sucked when I had it. It was so bad, I would say it was worse than ATT, which is not saying much. Hell it was worse that sprint. I've had EVERY network and EVERY cell phone known to man kind. The most durable was my Nokia. The most reliable were my Motorola IC60 series flips. The most powerful was my moto bag phone. The crappiest were Ericksen. The best network was probably Cell One. Then Nextel before Sprint took them over. I've had US Cellular and Singular (which is really ATT)..

I'd really lick to know what this "multitasking" stuff is all about? One a computer, laptop or a desktop multitasking comes in handy when you have a large screen or multiple screens and multiple apps running. On the phone, I can really only every operate one app at a time anyway, so what difference does it make? Anyway, anything Droid has, you can bet the iPhone will likely already have trumped with a software update or new phone.

It's gonna be a hard sell to get people in the smartphone market to move away from the iPhone given all the things that have drawn them and kept them there are just not there with the Droid. The apps, iTunes, iStore, and of course those of us that use our phones as laptops would be hard pressed to leave.

Outside of the network perhaps being better, the total cost of ownership looks to be the same. Seems to me if Motorola wants to make a dent here, they are gonna have to use price to win people over. Maybe that's just me?

Thoughts?

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