Right now I have an iPhone 1st gen and while it was a really good device at the begining, right now is really buggy and to be honest the lack of multitasking between applications or a decent notification system makes it an awesome phone with iPod capabilities, but not a computer. Not to mention the crappy apps you can get from the App Store.
In the other hand Android looks good, more like a computer than the iPhone. It reminds me the blackberry I used to have, connected to Gtalk and Twitter and a few other applications at the same time. I know the media capabilities that the Blackberry Pearl and the Android offer is not as good as the iPhone but they have real multitasking.
For me it really kills the experience when you can't have two applications open, or even 2 browser tabs.
Anyway, what I really like about Android devices is that they will be more open. Anyone will be able to develop applications, it supports microSDHC cards that will give up to 32GB on a card soon, it comes with a keyboard (sorry but my fat fingers suck with touch screens), it will be on many phones models. It's only a matter of time until we can start seeing useful applications on Android mobiles. At least we already have a
Twitter application.
I like to think that the iPhone will be an awesome iPod that supports applications and games, and the Android will be an awesome mobile OS with good multimedia capabilities. Maybe my mom will be more happy with my iPhone since it's easier to use but I prefer to be able to do much more on a mobile device.
While we wait for an announcement on when it's coming to Canada I will show a few facts from the T-Mobile G1 that maybe not everybody knows.
- T-Mobile G1 will be SIM locked
- but the Android platform is open (hello unlockers!)
- It doesn't have a 3.5mm stereo jack (damn you HTC!) but Google said it will come with an adapter.
- It support microSDHC
- It comes with 192 MB DDR SDRAM and 256 MB Flash
- It comes with a 1GB SD card.
- The device syncs contact over the air. (I hope it can sync files over Wifi or bluetooth)
- It comes with a compass (for Google Street View)
- It has push GMail
- It has Gtalk
- It comes with a dedicated YouTube Player
- It doesn't have a video player
- The browser is Webkit (like the iPhone) but its a little choppy.
- You can buy DRM free MP3 on Amazon on the go.
- It has copy/paste in some areas.
- It has an Android Market where do you don't have to be approved to sell applications.
- Android was not made by Google, it was a start-up bought by Google.
- It support many audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MIDI, REAL AUDIO, OGG.
- VIdeo formats: H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP
- The camera is 3.2 Megapixel
The Android market looks like the App Store but I'm pretty sure here we will find more free useful applications.
Google already annouced the winners of the
Android Developer Challenge and I can see some very good applications. In fact Opera Mini is already working for Android (we are not forced to use the bult-in one).
I like the idea of being a completely open platform where if you don't like the default mail application you can get new one. And developers will be making applications since they are not afraid of being rejected for making an application that does the same than a built-in one.
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While we wait for an announcement on when it's coming to Canada I will show a few facts from the T-Mobile G1 that maybe not everybody knows.
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