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Android vs iPhone and Windows Phone. 10 Ways android Beats other OS

08/11/2010 by 27 Comments

Android Win over iPhone and Windows Mobile 7No, we don’t say Android is perfect. Even there is no single Mobile Platform which can make a Smartphone user satisfied all the way. Every Mobile Phone Platform or OS has it’s own unique features, users have to compare them and get the One is most perfect to serve their needs. Here we go to talk the most 10 ways  where Google’s Android win over iPhone, Windows Phone and everything else out in market. Let’s dive in and see which makes android better. Judge by CNN fortune magazine.

1. Maps and Navigation:
Google’s Maps is simply the best and the free Navigation makes it perfect. Though Google’s Maps uses more data, still u might prefer it than buying an offline Expensive navigation app for iPhone and other OS. Also, HTC is offering a free version of offline Maps on their phones.

2. Notification Bar:
Android’s Notification bar is a unique features which will notify for Emails, SMSs Facebook notifications, charging, software updates, task managers… and almost usable from any screen without leaving the running application.

3. Widgets:
If you use widgets on an smartphone, you already know the importance of them. Just set up a page with your Google Voice, RSS, Twitter and Facebook streams and organize them any way you want. If you never used widgets, It’s hard to imagine how worse it would be a smartphone without them. Windows mobile 7 has it’s own tiles but still Android is Winner for freedom.

4. Carrier choice:
You’re stuck with AT&T if you have an iPhone or Windows 7 phone in the US, That will change in 2011. But With Google Android there is a wide variety of choice to pick the best carrier in your area for your budget.

5. Hotspot:
Most of the Android handset will allow to tether or create a virtual Hotspot and connect other devices. iPhone does do tethering, but limited. Windows 7 doesn’t create hotspots at all.

6. Screen size:
With Android you can a device between 3.2-inch to 7-inch. With Android, like the HTC Aria, which has a 3.2-inch HVGA screen, or 4.3-inch screens on the Droid X or Sprint EVO. Even 5-inch on Dell tablet or 7-inch on Samsung Galaxy Tab. With iPhone you’re stuck at 3.5 inch. Windows Mobile 7 has various size but the resolution is fixed 400×800.

7. Voice actions:
Windows Phone has speech recognition and iPhone does Voice Control, but nothing is comparable to Google Voice Actions. With Voice Actions on Android you can do just about anything.

8. Fastest browser:
Browsing Internet is one of most task user do on the Smatphone. With full Flash support and fastest cpu on high end Android Phone browsing is just pleasure.

9. Better Buttons:
While iPhone ends up with only home button, Windows Phone does little better with search and back button. Android just perfect with an extra button for Setting Menu.

10. Google Voice
Let users routing calls over Internet and cheap international service by Google Voice save your pocket. While it is available on iOS and Windows Phone as a web service, Google Voice is just better than nothing.

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  • Droider

    Droid is the reason why the iphone, if true, the iphone is now coming to all providers. The Droid phone is the future, and eventually the apps will surpass as well. All providers, all open source, big trouble for apple.

  • tuan

    android is just a great o.s. the freedom associated with it is just beyond the other o.s. iphone met a demand on smart phones and sleek appearance until now. the iphones are just behind the curve

  • Milestoner

    Well said droider. Iphone should start making way for android now.

  • fernando flores

    From iphone to windows mobile now am on tmobile the new g2 phone, i wont go back to neither iphone or windows phones even tho am a tmobile costomer and windows phones work on tmobile theres nothing better than an ANDROID phone…..

  • Joe M

    I ditched iphone 4 because of the Dell Streak. I’m lovin’ droid OS, and especially my 5 inches screen. I would not go back to iphone, itune is a nightmare. If you are a former iphone user you’ll know what I mean.

  • javier

    the iphone can be only used on one computer at time that sucks!!!! if someting fail on the iphone OS yu need a pc an itunes, android phones do it by it self.

  • dusk

    blah, this is just fanboy talk. Why is it better if it has more buttons? less is more. I do love android but i do think thats its not as refined yet as iphone and it could be. But the biggest cons are still the fact that even with a 1 ghz processor it can be sluggish while iphone can make it work with a 400mhz processor. also app quality is superior on iphone. i think all os devices have pro or cons, but to say android beats all is just fanboy talk..

    • rhys

      ok android may not be as refined but remember that its at os version 2.2.1, iphone is at 4.2 beta….just saying, iphone functionality at 2.2.1 was absolutely terrible!!! then 3.0 was soooo buggy even after a terrible delay…apple is loosing the race that they once led, yes they changed the cell phone, but after the 3g and the g1 came out, the first android phone, apple knew they were in trouble so they half ass slapped together the 3gs, then again when the n1 and other 1ghz androids came out apple slapped together another phone that apparently changed everything again yeah it changed the way you hold your phone, android will dominate and apple will start stop making phones within the next 5 years because they will see record lows in sales and profits, one manufacture with one os on one carrier….clever mr jobs

    • No_Nickname90

      I like the way you think. This is true fanboy. But they didn’t say that the OS beats all. They just said 10 ways that it’s better. You just stated a few ways that it’s not.

  • No_Nickname90

    Hopefully, Apple is plotting something big, I mean, the iPhone 4 is nothing more than a jailbroken iPhone 3GS with a front facing camera. LoL!! I think that the iPhone OS will come to other carriers. Meaning wii may see a brother or sister to the iPhone. Like the Apple Slide (full qwerty), or the Apple Surge (large screen).

    I can say this. I’m glad the Nokia N8 took a long time to come out. I’m a camera person and I was waiting on that, but it kept getting pushed back, so I said why not just try the Nexus 1, leaving the LG Expo(horrible UI, just horrible. Stylus needs to die!!). Guess what OS I had when the Nokia N8 came out? LoL!!

    By the way, so nobody don’t go looking for them, those were made up names. Though Surge sounds like a cool name for a phone.

    Samsung Surge
    HTC Surge
    Droid Surge (No!!)
    LG Surge (Fits it the best, though I will never by another LG after using the LG Expo)

    • No_Nickname90

      I’m sorry. Jobs would want to stay with the trend. It’ll be the Apple iSlide (full qwerty) and the Apple iWatch (big screen) LoL!!

  • JB buddy

    I’ve had about 3 android phones and now I’ve had an iphone and NEVER will I go back to android. After 3 years, still the phone has Forcecloses, Apps sometimes don’t work for your model phone, my vibrant with its 1ghz processor is a laggy phone and the market is laughable.

    Even with Google’s open sourceness (which its closing down on. Example, g2) its still not even close to the iPhone. Google fails to older model phones like the G1 and old My Touch users with recent updates keeping them at 1.6 or 2.0, forcing them to root their phones. To add on, a phone that isn’t even being sold any more, the nexus one, is going to get the 2.3 update before anyone else. Plus, the nexus which was just a great phone period and way better than all phones was done off based on google selling it for almost 700.

    The iPhone 3G and 2G iPhone’s still have updates from iOS. Also, how much battery must this OS take from my phone? The Evo and Samsung vibrant can’t even last a whole day, unless you have to basically keep everything off and dim your light to complete darkness. The driod as well. Only phone I thought was just great besides the nexus was the HTC hero.

    More buttons are pointless and don’t make the phone better. A back button, search and so on don’t help anyone much. On avg, most people only use the home button on android phones and clearly android is killing iOS since they push out a phone, once a week.

    Your not stuck to just AT&T. You have choices to more carriers, because my girl is using her T-Mobile phone on AT&T for better coverage. Basicially anything comparable to the MHZ of the carrier, means the phone works. Maps on android is basically you being watched by google, as they read your info and collect data from you without you knowing all the time. Web Browsing depends on service carrier, voice control is on every phone. Apple has google voice in the app store, and widgets kill your battery in 2 mins.

    Saying all that, I think iOS in beta is more polished than android. Battery life is awesome, apps are done way better, compared to the 100 puzzle games or iphone imports the android market has, and speed on my phone is great whether its from T-Mobile or AT&T or rogers or someone else, which I can say I hate with much passion.

    My iphone is jailbroken as well, so anything android has I could have as well and even better, they already imported android onto the iphone using iboot. Waiting for rooting and Roms to give me that choice

    • Mofo

      @JB buddy … hehe.. talkin about your superior iPhone, explain me how you’d change the battery smartass…heh

    • Droider

      At&t will not pick up at my house (I live in a decent size city). The service was poor and they let me walk from my contract w/o any fees because of the signal my phone didn’t receive :)

      “More buttons are pointless and don’t make the phone better. A back button, search and so on don’t help anyone much. On avg, most people only use the home button on android phones and clearly android is killing iOS since they push out a phone, once a week.”

      Says the guy who traded in his car for a new pair of walking sneakers. Yea, who the hell needs a car when you can walk and get exercise! Plus you do not have to pay for gas anymore, so really, who needs a car!!!

      LOL, the buttons are a MUST, and without them, I would throw my phone through the wall. I died for the week prior to the 2.2 update, when the droidx had no physical hangup button. Thankfully an upgrade fixed that. Pretending 1 button is better, laughable. Maybe one day, the iPhone users can have someone create a jailbreak button set, that you can add to your phones, and have more than one physical button! lol, to hear iphone users complain about rooting or open source, when their phones are virtually mini piggybanks until jailbroke.

      I owned an iphone, but because of service, dropped calls, and limitations (no jail break), I joined the droid gang, and have seen the light.

      Droid is the future, iOS will either have to open market and jump to each provider or sink. The amount of apps being created for the droid will eventually pass iphone in it’s current state, and that isn’t an opinion.

  • Droider

    iSlide and iTheater.

    iPod fanboys will come out of the woodworks proclaiming the 4’4″ (but it will actually be 4’3 1/2″) screen as a gift from the gods, while erasing every blog or reply they ever made online about how their tiny iscreen is exactly the way they love their iphones and THE ONLY WAY they’d have it.

    Btw, iTheater would sell, just off the name theater alone. The world is trendy and who wouldn’t want a pocket theater.

  • Cryptix

    The 2.2 os has already surpassed what iphone or any other phone can do. Full flash support for embedded web pages. Yes I’m using a flashed 2.2 vibrant. My apps never hang up, no clue what that one dude was doin to his. As far as android “catching” up to ios, forget it lol it’s already past that point. A rooted device can be tweeked very stabily to reach the processors full potential and to use the phone as a small pc. As far as att vs. tmobile… Check out your coverage, 4g, and regular data maps. Tmobile is directly behind verizon on the coverage war, not att. If service sucks in your area or don’t like android OR don’t know how to properly use your android…sorry for ya..but seriously get your facts straight. And yes, with the release of froyo 2.2, the android is superior to iphone. Not by opinion but by fact and specification.

  • JB Buddy

    @mofo

    Actually, I take out 2 screws, slide the back cover and than just pull out the battery and replace it. Replacing a battery on an iphone 4 is the most easiest thing. Better than having to rip out my back cover. I think I can say however, I don’t need to replace my battery since it actually can last past 2 hrs lol. Not like when I had my vibrant or g1 and needed to always carry a charger or extra battery. It takes 5 to 6 hrs for android phones to completely charge. My iphone takes 2 on max.

    Also @ Cryptix

    2.2 is still light years behind because what jail breaking had done for a iphone 2G like 2 years ago, the android 2.2 OS is just getting to do now. Jail breaking iphone 4 and looking at android is always a funny thing to laugh at. I would think android would step there game up on stuff, but I guess not. Flash is stupid and pointless as well, and flash on android is just like skyfire browser. It’s not on every page. It’s never on everything I go on. I used 2.2 on the nexus one and it got some content flash wise but not all. I have flash on my phone and it’s pointless.

    Plus, I don’t know what drugs your on, but T-Mobile sucks. They coverage is crap. I laugh how they have the balls to remake the my touch 3 times and make it 4G but they 3G is fucking spotty like swiss cheese. It’s fast, but getting it is impossible. I’m on a bus, and I’m always thrown back to EDGE from 3G when trying to use it that I just give up on it. I live in NYC and 4G will never be seen until the end of next year. AT&T sucks too but It’s damn well not worst than T-Mobile. T-Mobile gives you so much mins and free shit to fix they crappy service. Next to more funny how they were in endless talks to get the iphone contract but since Apple told them no, they throw shots at them. First company to release an android phone too. Shameful

    Sorry for the double post … comp sucks

    • rhys

      lol this kid would rather take two screws out and slide the back panel off his phone(voiding the warrenty) than pry off a snap on back cover to reveal the battery….talk about iBrainwash from Mr iDouchebag Steve Jobs LOL what a joke of a fan boy

  • JB Buddy

    @ rhys

    Your such a tool. I own an iphone 4 as well and removing the battery does not void the warranty. When you open the iphone, they is a void sticker when you open it and start unscrewing parts. That sticker is around the screen part. If that sticker is still in place, then you don’t void the warranty.

    It’s on apples site as well. Don’t be such a android fag. Plus he is right, I don’t need to replace my battery either, unless I see it not holding charge which is within 2 years time. Right about the time I’m off the contract if I don’t renew. A battery is made to stay in a phone. Android fags always complain about the battery being sealed because when they phones freeze, they have to pry open that top and remove it.

    HTC HD 2, Driod, MY touch, all samsung line phones.

    You getting an iphone and have no option for that might get you scared, so I understand the alarm. Than again, Iphone’s don’t freeze unless you fucked up on something when you jailbroke and installed something from cydia incorrectly. Clearly, I know my info on android and the iphone. If I was a tool, I wouldn’t use both OS’s but I prefer iOS since it’s well more polished. Android like the other dude mention, is a fucking buggy as hell. I also read how many risk your phone has. 86 holds in that OS and can be hacked easy as fuck. You guys suck steve jobs dicks off so much when he doesn’t even make the phone nor design. He just runs the stupid company. guess Android has you under the TOOLS of us department.

    What a unknowledgeable fan boy

    • bhenkz

      Just ignore this guy and keep using your own phone like i do…. peace

  • Androidlac

    This iPhone guy is hilarious flash is no big deal? Since when?

    • JB buddy

      First, I don’t know where that second comment came from, that was a bit much, since I’m the only one who uses JB buddy as a name lol

      @ Androidlac

      I don’t see flash as a big deal because they is a lot of other ways to watch what you need without flash, and to me, it kills your CPU and eats up tons of memory. Memory runs up battery life since the cpu needs to work harder and so on. Either way, skyfire does this for both OS’s so no biggie, although dolphin HD is the best on Android and blows safari’s crap out the water. I don’t use it for nothing on my phone.

      @ bhenkz.

      Your right. You don’t have to listen to me. It’s just me stating my opinion and if you love android, then be happy. Android does have a lot to offer, but I just feel that it could be 99 times better since it is the future, and it does a lot already. I use android like I mentioned, and maybe one day I might go back completely, but I just wish for a more polished OS.

      Like you mention, if your happy then keep it.

      • MJ

        I am not hater of Android as i have used both iOS and Android and this is my opinion:

        Google android launches:
        1. Cupcake (1.5) – April 2009
        2. Donut (1.6) – Sept 2009
        3. Eclair (2.1) – Oct 2009
        4. Froyo (2.2) – May 2010
        5. Gingerbread (2.3/3.0) – To be announced anytime in Dec 2010
        6. Honeycomb (?) – Set for Early 2011
        7. Icecream (?) – For Mid 2011

        Apple iOS launches:
        1. iOS 1.0 – June 2007
        2. iOS 2.0 – July 2008
        3. iOS 3.0 – June 2009
        4. iOS 4.0 – June 2010
        5. iOS 5.0 – June 2011
        following the pattern

        As you can see there are 5 major releases from Google within a span of 1 & half year and there is no fix pattern to this whereas you can easily make out when Apple will launch its next major OS.

        Half of the phones when Cupcake launched don’t even support froyo (forget about gingerbread) and they are looking for custom ROMS over the net and pleaing open source developers to do something to survive on thier phones. . For example Samsung Galaxy, Spica, HTC Hero, even Google’s first phone G1. Google simply put their hands off from this and want people to upgrade to expensive handsets Froyo launched way back in May 2010 and till date some of the phone manufacturers dont have Froyo on their handsets when Gingerbread is going to be announced anytime (may be 06 Dec).

        Google is tieing up with every single possible mobile phone manufacturer. Even the cheap Android handsets starting with range of $120-150 launching with Android 2.1 (where newbies simply dont know these handsets cannot be upgradable and are dead bcos of low end processors).

        Recently iPhones one of the most popular game Angry Bird (made by Ravio) has arrived on Android platform. But most of the devices running lower Mhz or with 600Mhz processors find it laggy when played. Recent one is LG Optimus One, people are saying some rounds with heavy graphics are choppy. Another point Ravio has made since Android paltform has different sizes like 2.8″ 3.0″ 3.5″ 4.0″ 4.3″ and different sizes QVGA WVGA WQVGA HVGA its very hard to make so many version of same game and make them running smoothly with different Mhz and RAMs so Ravio decided to made a lite version of Angry Birds for these devices.

        Also Google right now making 70% of its content games, apps for free and only 30% is paid and reverse is the case with iPhone. So developers want to foucs where the revenue is more. I think taking this scenario it looks like Apple will always be ahead of Android in future.

  • Wally Walker

    Loving My HTC HD2 with CoreDroid V1.6 with sense, even though theres better phones out there i’m not buying another phone ever, i just love my the Hd2 because is open to any OS windows 7, Android and MeeGO, if you are undecided which OS to get i recomend android over Iphone OS all the way.

  • Mitch

    More than half of these can be done on iPhone.

    If you jailbreak it lol.

    There is one thing that android can do that iPhone could never dream of doing.
    LAGGING

  • Raul Leso

    If you want the above mentioned features on an infinite times superior OS, buy an iPhone & jailbreak it or just wait for the iOS 5 update. It’s funny to see Android a very minuscule copycat of the iPhone, being even compared on the same platform. An android OS measures up to around 100 mb where as the iOS size is around 1GB, dude size does matter when it comes to the flexibility & functionality of an OS. The new gen android gadgets like the Samsung galaxy x2 etc with all these high end hardware specs, makes me wonder why “would anyone buy a Ferrari, remove it’s engine & then fit it with a Hundai engine…..”

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