I've come to despise Android (I know, I was the biggest fan boy once upon a time). I get my upgrade next week, and I'll be switching to iPhone. I just don't know if I should wait it out for the next one, or just get the 4. Motorola, Samsung, HTC, etc all make crappy hardware using the poorest components. And don't even get my started on how slow and piss-poor their cameras are. Just this past weekend we where hanging out with friends, and the girls wanted to get a picture. So my gf gives me her Droid X to take a picture, and it looked terrible. Everybody looked like aliens, awful color rendition and lots of noise. Then another girl hands me her Verizon iPhone 4, great quality photo, skin tones and white balance were spot on. Both cameras were set to the automatic settings.
Android is a great OS, but it's too buggy. Every phone that comes out is the same old story. Everybody is like "Zomg this new phones is gonna be the bestest ever!!!1" and it turns out to be a buggy turd with terrible battery life, just like the previous one.
Part of the problem is the fragmented software, made to work on a variety of handsets. Even with quad-core monster jiggahertz processors, they still lag. Every new phone that comes out I go to a Verizon store and compare it's UI side-by-side to the iPhone 4, and the iPhone still offers the smoothest UI. Why is that? The GPU. Because it's one phone and one OS, Apple can optimize the GPU to give it a silky smooth interface. Can't say the same for the Android assembly line pumping out new handsets every week. I still love the Android platform and how open it is, but nobody can get it right. No manufacturers care about quality control, or thorough testing before it hits the market. All they care about is getting the phone out to stores so they can work on the next cool design. Why is Apple so behind? Because they test the crap out of their products. So when it hits the shelves, it works.
Android is a great OS, but it's too buggy. Every phone that comes out is the same old story. Everybody is like "Zomg this new phones is gonna be the bestest ever!!!1" and it turns out to be a buggy turd with terrible battery life, just like the previous one.
Part of the problem is the fragmented software, made to work on a variety of handsets. Even with quad-core monster jiggahertz processors, they still lag. Every new phone that comes out I go to a Verizon store and compare it's UI side-by-side to the iPhone 4, and the iPhone still offers the smoothest UI. Why is that? The GPU. Because it's one phone and one OS, Apple can optimize the GPU to give it a silky smooth interface. Can't say the same for the Android assembly line pumping out new handsets every week. I still love the Android platform and how open it is, but nobody can get it right. No manufacturers care about quality control, or thorough testing before it hits the market. All they care about is getting the phone out to stores so they can work on the next cool design. Why is Apple so behind? Because they test the crap out of their products. So when it hits the shelves, it works.
