If you enjoy customization and flexibility and want a more powerful device, choose an Android phone. If you want it to "just work" and are okay with less powerful hardware and less flexible software, then go with the iPhone.

I am sitting in a BA first lounge at LHR. I have connected a BB, an iPhone and an old HTC TyTN successfully to the WiFi. The only thing that wont connect is my relatively new Android phone. The is the first out of the US trip I have taken it on. The version I bought basically wouldnt do exchange mail. I had to by a $20 program for mail. It is okay with that but I think the free iPhone mail is better. Browsers are about the same. Programs, or apps, on the iPhone are almost universally better than on Android. I have given up on some. From what I can tell I cant even back the thing up without rooting it which is frankly absolutely nuts.

I would say that unless your goal is to get a phone that you can reload the OS and so forth, iPhone is far and away better than Android. THe exception to that would be if you are in a Googlecentric world. It probably integrates a bit better there.


At least I have a good slug of JW Blue to console me.

FWIW, I've never had any issues with Exchange or connectivity with a standard Droid X, and I'd strongly disagree with your statement regarding the apps on the phone, but that could be chalked up to what we're using specifically. I liked my iPhone 3G until the battery quit holding charge, at which point the phone was a paperweight. I have yet to be unhappy with the X (with about 15 months of use).

Realistically, one of the biggest benefits to me in initially going to an android phone was the navigation. It was horrific on the old iPhones, and has been absolutely fantastic on the X (free turn-by-turn, with audio, as opposed to what was basically a print-out from google maps on the iPhone).

Wife and son have IPhone, I have always had a BB. Went to Android for 2 main reasons.

Most important was multitasking, you can only run one thing on the iphone at a time. With the droid you can be on speakerphone, surf the net, use an app, etc.

2nd was the GPS, I now leave my garmin at home.

After reading all of the messages and continued research, I think I am going with the Droid and my wife is going to go with the iPhone.

Doesn't AT&T extensively advertise the ability to talk and surf at the same time on the iPhone? I know you can't do that on Verizon's CDMA, but I was certain you could on AT&T's GSM.

Yes, you can. It is a CDMA issue, not an iPhone issue.

Been using the Droid X for about a year now and works flawlessly. The only downside for me is that I have to take a different unlocked phone with me when I travel outside the US (I'm on Verizon). Hopefully Verizon will come out with a GSM version of the Droid X, or something similar, at some point

By the way, the Swype feature is great once you get used to it. Much faster than trying to type ^

I think he's referring to the simultaneous use of multiple apps.

Credenza you can do the same multitasking with the iPhone too.

Having your emails synchronized and downloaded while surfing the net, listening to some music and then switch to a video game while everything else keep going on in the background, etc etc...

And the GPS on the iPhone 4 is pretty good..

Good that you brought up GPS - free Google Navigator with the spoken turn-by-turn directions is a definite advantage of the Android platform over the iPhone.

There's a free spoken turn by turn directions navigator app for the iPhone too. It's called Waze.

Is Google Maps on the iPhone the same as Google maps on Android (other than spoken turn-by-turn)? Can you download maps and use offline?

You can't download maps with the google maps app, but you can do it with other apps..

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I'm pretty new to Android. I looked at my schedule on my phone this morning and I knew it was missing one appointment. Looking more carefully it was a complete mess. The schedule on the Touchdown app was fine but the phone seems to display the native one which is awful. This varies from phone model to phone model but this one is pretty awful with Exchange. I sort of wish I had taken it back. But I liked the smaller form factor. Again it would be great if you used google for mail and calendar, but we use Exchange.

As far as apps, I mainly use them for tasks, Skype, Sirius, Kindle and Travel tools. And of couse, office. I find the iPhone apps to have a lot more options for these with better programs.

I may switch back to my BB when traveling. Im not convinced the Android is worth the extra data footprint required to roam internationally.