I have now had my Iphone 3gs for 3 weeks and I love it. I thought I would write a comparison with my other smart phone experience. I had a Palm Pre for 10 months and a Droid for just short of 1 month.
First of all in ease of use, the Iphone is king, it is easy for anyone to pickup and use right away, it has a very intuitive layout, its hard ot expalin but the iphone just seems like the way it should be done. The Pre and Droid get easy to use the more you interact with them but the iphone just feels like second nature out of the box.
You cant beat the Iphone as a mp3 palyer and its integration with itunes is a pleasure to use. The same cant be said for the Pre and Droid. Looks wise I don't think anything can touch the Iphone, by far the best looking phone out there, The Pre looks like a kids toy and the Droid is just too square.
There are a few things i miss about my other phones. Notifications, I think both the other phones handle them better, with the Droid edging out Pre by a small amount. Multi-tasking, I never thought i would miss listening to pandora while using my phone for other things but i really do, the Pre handles multi tasking better then droid, i love the card system. Universal inbox, with a lot of different email accounts i loved being able to look at all of them at once, the Pre is the only one of the 3 that had it and I miss it.
I like the openness of android, but the Home screen only impresses for so long and a lot of the need for openness was to install 3rd party apps to replace the subpar ones included on the OS like the messaging app. The default messaging app was horrible.
All and all I am happy with my Iphone purchase and I hope a lot of my issues will be addressed on Thur with OS 4.0. Sorry for such a long post just thought some people may want to hear how someone coming from other smartphones feels about the Iphone.
First of all in ease of use, the Iphone is king, it is easy for anyone to pickup and use right away, it has a very intuitive layout, its hard ot expalin but the iphone just seems like the way it should be done. The Pre and Droid get easy to use the more you interact with them but the iphone just feels like second nature out of the box.
You cant beat the Iphone as a mp3 palyer and its integration with itunes is a pleasure to use. The same cant be said for the Pre and Droid. Looks wise I don't think anything can touch the Iphone, by far the best looking phone out there, The Pre looks like a kids toy and the Droid is just too square.
There are a few things i miss about my other phones. Notifications, I think both the other phones handle them better, with the Droid edging out Pre by a small amount. Multi-tasking, I never thought i would miss listening to pandora while using my phone for other things but i really do, the Pre handles multi tasking better then droid, i love the card system. Universal inbox, with a lot of different email accounts i loved being able to look at all of them at once, the Pre is the only one of the 3 that had it and I miss it.
I like the openness of android, but the Home screen only impresses for so long and a lot of the need for openness was to install 3rd party apps to replace the subpar ones included on the OS like the messaging app. The default messaging app was horrible.
All and all I am happy with my Iphone purchase and I hope a lot of my issues will be addressed on Thur with OS 4.0. Sorry for such a long post just thought some people may want to hear how someone coming from other smartphones feels about the Iphone.