IN WHICH WAY ANDROID IS BETTER THAN IOS

WHY ANDROID IS BETTER THAN IOS/IPHONE

Many People who have iPhone’s will try to point out the “great features” of the iOS, however they don’t know what they are missing out on. There are many things about the iOS, that are just plain irritating, and I will point them out.

1. The Back Button – The iPhone lacks a back button, a feature which pretty much all Android phones have to begin with. For example, if you’re reading an email and you click on a link, it opens up Safari, and to get back to your email, you have to press the home button, and click on the mail app again. (This was somewhat fixed with iOS 4.0 multitasking but the functionality of Android is still better.)

2. Default Apps – So far, it is impossible to set default apps for certain actions on the iPhone. However, on Android, this is a piece of cake. If you want to set Opera or Dolphin as the default web browser, you can do so easily but on iPhone, you have to open the app up manually, since Safari cannot be changed as the default web browser.

3. Notification System – The Android slide-down notification bar is amazing, however, the iPhone notification system is horrendous.

4. Widgets – Android Widgets are absolutely amazing. The iPhone lacks Widgets altogether. Android widgets can be placed on the home screen(s), and can provide you with quick news updates, live scorecards for sport, messages, email, and much, much, more.

5. Memory – Apple is too restrictive on what their customers can do and what they can’t. For example, the iPhone doesn’t have a slot for micro-SD cards. If you want more memory on an iPhone, you’ll have to pay an outrageous sum of money for an iPhone with a higher capacity of memory.(There is a significant price difference between the 16GB and 32GB iPhones.) Pretty much all Android Phones, on the other hand, have a compartment to put a micro-SD card into, and with the release of Android 2.2(Froyo), many apps can be saved onto the SD card, saving you a lot of valuable phone memory.

6. Integration – On Android, if you want, your Facebook contacts can be integrated into your phonebook. This a feature which the iPhone lacks.

7. Syncing – Personally, I hated having to repeatedly sync my iPhone with iTunes. With Android, plug your phone into the computer, and it’s just drag and drop, which believe me, is much quicker and convenient than syncing. So, your Android phone can even replace your USB. The iPhone can’t even be started for the first time without iTunes!

8. Android Market – The Android Market doesn’t send you back to the home screen every time you want to download/update an app. I have found this to be very irritating on the App Store.

9. Flash – Many Android phones have Adobe Flash support, while the iPhone only has html5 support. Without flash, many videos on the Internet cannot be viewed, making Youtube, Facebook Video, And TwitVid, some of the only video sites supported by the iPhone.

10. Developers – Apple charges people who want to develop applications for the App Store $100/year, while Google only charges Android developers $5, so once again Android prevails.

11. Email – The email system on the iPhone is horrible. You have to manually check for email, unlike on Android, on which you are notified of an email as soon as it arrives. Also, if you have already viewed/read an email on your computer (eg. on Hotmail), it will appear as unread on your iPhone. This is a big disadvantage for people who use email a lot.

12. Angry Birds is Free – Yep! On Android, all three versions of Angry Birds are free, unlike on iOS where they are $1 each.