With the battery life issue, it all depends on how much you use. I believe any smart phone with heavy usage will only last part of the day. If I know I'm going to have heavy usage, I'll bring my charger along. If I forget, I have a spare in the car.
I do think battery life could be improved, i do find myself jealous of the battery life of blackberries, that said, with the exception of the storm, no blackberry has a screen as big as the iphone or a touchscreen, so i recognize those are going to be things that will contribute to the difference in battery life. I do feel though like i get better power management with my HTC Touch HD vs the iPhone.
There are battery backup options, just kinda sucks they're all external. I mean i get the device being super thin, and the non removeable battery being a part of that....i guess it's a compromise you have to make up your mind to live with.
I do think battery life could be improved, i do find myself jealous of the battery life of blackberries, that said, with the exception of the storm, no blackberry has a screen as big as the iphone or a touchscreen, so i recognize those are going to be things that will contribute to the difference in battery life. I do feel though like i get better power management with my HTC Touch HD vs the iPhone.
There are battery backup options, just kinda sucks they're all external. I mean i get the device being super thin, and the non removeable battery being a part of that....i guess it's a compromise you have to make up your mind to live with.
Yeah, I find myself jealous of my boyfriend's battery life on his Curve. But then I think about how much more I use that big touchscreen during the day. However, when I turn 3G and wifi off and all I do is text, make calls, and send/receive emails, my battery life is phenomenal. So, it comes down to usage. I don't have a problem with plugging my phone in while driving or when I'm working on my laptop.
Yeah, I find myself jealous of my boyfriend's battery life on his Curve. But then I think about how much more I use that big touchscreen during the day. However, when I turn 3G and wifi off and all I do is text, make calls, and send/receive emails, my battery life is phenomenal. So, it comes down to usage. I don't have a problem with plugging my phone in while driving or when I'm working on my laptop.
blackberries have always been very efficient with data usage, but with touch screens and more intensive internet usage, smart phones will be battery hogs. I figure if i can get a full day with an occasional charge in the car I'm doing ok until the technology improves.
Lucky for the iphone, it CAN switch between 2G and 3G on AT&T. Verizon (thus the Droid and Droid Eris) affords no such luxury. Some say it's not technologically possible, but Sprint has done it on the Pre.
Hi, it's Casey from Android Central and for this week of the Smartphone Round Robin, I'm taking a look at the iPhone 3GS. I've spent a significant amount of time with the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone platform in general so I just wanted to ask a few questions regarding your 'feelings' toward certain decisions/ideas/theories etc.
1. Android has widgets, are you guys a little, tiny bit jealous of that type of dynamic home screen experience?
Yuck! Widgets on android are a world of hurt. They usually don't work. Sometimes they do. Sometimes only certain sizes of widgets work, but the application has 3 and you just have to choose them all till one works. Others charge for bigger widgets, some don't. Indeed it's often not even possible to know if an app even has a widget from the android market, until you download it.
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2. Multitasking -- hate living without it? not a problem at all? or will it be like cut & paste, when apple introduces multitasking we can't imagine living without it?
See no point in it. When apps save their state, and others implement push notifications - it's the same experience, but without the negative drawbacks of battery drain and lagging.
I'd like to see Apple go further though. Perhaps some sort of "cron" third party access, and/or a way for an application (via PNS) to know your location. ie... a push notification when your near something of interest, etc...
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3. App Store -- There's a gajillion applications and it definitely is the pace setter for app markets, but how do you guys sift through all the unnecessary apps? what's your favorite app?
LOL. The android market is awful. Truely awful. I mean, most of the "apps" are themes - not apps. It's unorganised, painful to navigate through, unpleasant to look at ... and it's near impossible to find any decent apps (believe it or not iPhone users, searching for the apps name on the android market - doesn't necessarily bring up that app!)
And that's no the mention the quality of apps. The iPhone, well there pushing desktop quality IMO (in some cases better, ie... twitter apps). Androids apps are generally all of very poor "amateur" quality, with no attention given to the user experience (a bit like Linux really ... oh wait...)
IMO only Blackberry have gotten the "appstore" idea right, other than Apple of course.
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4. AT&T -- is the biggest wish for the iPhone is for it to be on a different carrier? Verizon iPhone isn't coming in 2010, right? How many of you would switch away from AT&T?
I'm not in the US. But CDMA has serious, well-know, scalability issues - which is why the whole world has moved away from CDMA - and why Verizon themselves are looking to dump it. Sorry, but you don't sell tens of millions of devices if they all are an utter disaster and don't work. Sure some have problems, but there a vocal minority...
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5. I personally think the iPhone keyboard is great, but how many of you guys still want a physical keyboard?
No interest in a physical keyboard. Tiny little plastic keys, yuck! To be honest, I was apprehensive about that aspect of the iPhone originally, coming from Palm/WinMo devices ... now, I'd never go back.
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