droid vs iphone

A Former iPhone Owner Confesses After Switching to Android – iPhone Is The One and Only

Posted in iOS, iPhone, News on 10/04/2011 by Jakob Hultman

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After throwing away his iPhone because of disappointment of AT&T and it’s lack of signal in places where he needed it the most – Rob Bazinet chose to go for the Google Android-based Motorola Droid X. It turned out the be one of his mistakes in life.

I think we can say that Bazinet have seen both sides of the coin, by using iPhone since the first generation up to the 3GS only to go for an Android phone for 10 months. By comparing the two competitors he came to the conclusion:

The Droid X running Android is quite a bit slower than the 3GS. Remember, the 3GS hardware is pretty old. Applications are not nearly as responsive as the iPhone.

The Android applications I used crash quite often. I don’t want to name any but suffice to say, very similar applications with some being from the same company, crash more often than is acceptable.

The aesthetics of the iOS applications are far and above any Android application. I struggle to find an acceptable beauty in any, with the slight exception of the official Twitter application.

Applications on Android have an inconsistent user interface, maybe because of the lack of quality control going into the process of putting something in the app store.

This pretty much sums up what I’m most happy about with the iOS software – it’s fast, reliable, good quality and has a brilliant design.

Further on, Bazinet projects that using the Droid X was a “suffering experience” and that he often hoped to “lose the phone or have it fall to an untimely death” so that he could have an excuse to replace it. Well my friends, the story ends well – Rob Bazinet turned back to the bright side, he bought an iPhone again.

In my humble opinion, he did the right thing by going back to the iPhone which doesn’t only provide a mobile platform, but great hardware with it as well – everything carefully tested to be suited well together. And who wants to use a “Droid” as a phone anyway?

(Via MacPro.se)

  • iphoneuser4

    This article isn't really necessary. As an iPhone user, I understand why some people prefer Android. It's just a matter of taste.

  • Casey

    Coworker of mine took his and his wife's androids back to the store after using them for two days to exchange them for iPhone 4's. They both live happier now. :)

  • pepe

    A matter of taste and a matter of needs. I could say hundreds of things because Android could be better than iPhone and hundreds of things because iphone is better than android.

    There're users and talibans. Which one of them are u?

  • Helen

    My co-worker decided to upgrade to Android X instead of iPhone4 and he loves his Android X! Well, that's because he has never used iPhone so he doesn't know the difference ;) He simply made his decision based on a larger screen and because other members of his family (non iPhone users) had Android X as well. He's already had many issues on the applications, not be able to get alerts, and after 4 months, he is STILL trying to figure out how to use the phone. BIG mistake. If he had chosen iPhone instead, he would have been able to use his phone within hours and enjoyed everything about it by now!! I, myself, have a Blackberry that my company provided but I hardly use that, since I have unlimited plan on my iPhone, I use my iPhone instead! I LOVE iPHONE!!!

  • appleluver

    True, it's a matter of taste, but this was Rob Bazinet's taste and his opinion. AND this IS MacTrast, not "DroidXTrast" so don't take any offense. It's everyone's opinion and that's what these posts are all about.

  • Rob

    I own an iPhone 4 jail broken and a HTC EVO rooted. Words cannot express how much I hate the EVO. The constant need to have to babysit the apps drives me insane. Apps just eat the battery life. I get an annoying error message eveytime I lock the screen but I can never read it because it only stays open for a half a second. When I first got it I loved it, but as the bugs kept getting worse and worse. I found more stuff that drove me crazy. iOS feels more grown up. Android just feels like a cheesy clumped together os. You can download themes for days but they all seem like they were designed in crayon. Not to mention hardware. With an iPhone your holding this solid piece of steel and glass, but the HTC just feels like a toy.

  • Peter

    It's simple to understand. The iPhone is a Porsche and the Droid is a Yugo.

    Sent from my iPad

  • Tasito

    mac is only for ignorant socks, who do not know their noses clean

  • Justin T.

    It's funny, but as I started to read this article, I could have sworn you were writing about me. 10 months in on my Droid X and I'm ready to go back to my iPhone. I think I'll wait until the iPhone 5 , but I'm definitely going back.

  • http://accidentaltechnologist.com Rob Bazinet

    Jakob, thanks for picking this up. I have to say I would not have known what I had missing if I didn't start out with the iPhone then going to Android. The differences in user experience is like night and day, Apple knows about UX and Google has no clue. Now that I am on the iPhone 4, I appreciate the platform all that much more.

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Jakob is the Swedish, blonde, handsome writer at MacTrast. He is based in Southampton, UK, and has been an Apple fanboy ever since his brother introduced him to the third generation iPod in 2003. He owns more Apple products than he can name and is a hardcore Bruins fan. Follow him on Twitter - @Raekob.