Seven reasons Android 2.2 Froyo beats the iPhone

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The just-announced Android 2.2 (code-named Froyo) looks like a winner, with plenty of capabilities that put it well beyond the iPhone. Here are seven ways in which Android 2.2 is superior to the iPhone.

Tethering

Want to use your phone as a broadband modem for your computer? With Android 2.2 you can do it. With the iPhone you can't. In fact, even with Android 2.1 you can tether with an add-in, as I point out in Don't wait for Android 2.2 Froyo; you can data tether now.

It turns your phone into a WiFi hotspot

With Android 2.2, you'll be able to turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot, giving WiFi access to devices --- no USB cables required. You can't do that on an iPhone. To drive the point home, when Google did its Froyo presentation, it showed Android providing WiFi access to a WiFi iPad. Point --- Google.

It plays Flash

Android 2.2 will run Flash. As you've doubtless heard several hundred times by now, the iPhone won't run Flash, and Steve Jobs has vowed it never will. That means Android offers access to far more content than does the iPhone.

It has open apps

Want to download an app? On the iPhone you can only download apps that Apple wants to let you download. Apple has censored many apps, even banning Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, until extreme embarassment made Apple change its mind. On Android you can download any app you want, either through the Android Market, or from the Web.

It multi-tasks

Want to run multiple apps simultaneously on an Android phone? Sure. Go crazy. Want to do it on an iPhone? Sorry, you can't do it.

It has better browsers

Android's built-in browser is excellent, but if you don't like it, you can always use another one, such as Opera, and eventually Firefox, among others. On the iPhone, you've got only Safari and Opera.

It gives more carrier choice

Want an iPhone? Then you'll have to go with the much-maligned AT&T, which at times seems like communicating via tin cans and string. Want an Android phone? You've got a choice of multiple carriers.

Given all that, why would anyone buy an iPhone rather than an Android phone? I don't know; it beats me.

[Gutts]

I'm getting the HTC EVO 4g next week when it comes out.   

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The just-announced Android 2.2 (code-named Froyo) looks like a winner, with plenty of capabilities that put it well beyond the iPhone. Here are seven ways in which Android 2.2 is superior to the iPhone.

Tethering

Want to use your phone as a broadband modem for your computer? With Android 2.2 you can do it. With the iPhone you can't. In fact, even with Android 2.1 you can tether with an add-in, as I point out in Don't wait for Android 2.2 Froyo; you can data tether now.

It turns your phone into a WiFi hotspot

With Android 2.2, you'll be able to turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot, giving WiFi access to devices --- no USB cables required. You can't do that on an iPhone. To drive the point home, when Google did its Froyo presentation, it showed Android providing WiFi access to a WiFi iPad. Point --- Google.

It plays Flash

Android 2.2 will run Flash. As you've doubtless heard several hundred times by now, the iPhone won't run Flash, and Steve Jobs has vowed it never will. That means Android offers access to far more content than does the iPhone.

It has open apps

Want to download an app? On the iPhone you can only download apps that Apple wants to let you download. Apple has censored many apps, even banning Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, until extreme embarassment made Apple change its mind. On Android you can download any app you want, either through the Android Market, or from the Web.

It multi-tasks

Want to run multiple apps simultaneously on an Android phone? Sure. Go crazy. Want to do it on an iPhone? Sorry, you can't do it.

It has better browsers

Android's built-in browser is excellent, but if you don't like it, you can always use another one, such as Opera, and eventually Firefox, among others. On the iPhone, you've got only Safari and Opera.

It gives more carrier choice

Want an iPhone? Then you'll have to go with the much-maligned AT&T, which at times seems like communicating via tin cans and string. Want an Android phone? You've got a choice of multiple carriers.

Given all that, why would anyone buy an iPhone rather than an Android phone? I don't know; it beats me. 

Android is a good OS. takes the good things out of Windows and Apple puts them to good use but other than that Android hasn't done much. Android is just easy to use. The Evo 4G and the HTC Droid Incredible finally are some good hardware for Android OS. a lot of the Android Apps are ripoffs of iPhone apps. then again thats a thing in the Android community. they're just not pushing hard enough for being open source. well makes sense tho since Android is based off Linux and we know how much them Linux users brag.



tether

 well the Evo 4G is gonna charge $30 a month to allow ur Evo 4G to be used as a wifi router. the HD2 on windows mobile can do that for free. oh and i do it for free too on my iPhone 3GS

tethering and doing a speedtest

Flash

flash for mobiles suck. too buggy and slow. tried to watch nba.com on the droid incredible and it took froever to load. there's a work around on the iPhone. its ok but at least the videos play.


downloading

well i download where and whenever. my iPhone is pretty much like my laptop. download apps, movies, music, or whatever i like and move them around any way i like.

 and iphones aren't limited to 512 or less of on-board storage for apps. good thing 2.2 fixed that for Android by allowing non rooters to install to memory card.  Droid Incredible users with  8 gb of onboard memory don't have much to worry. i

mulititask

been able to mulitiask since the first iPhone. just was harder since it only had 128 mb of ram. with the iPhone 3GS having 256 mb of ram and no need for a task killer mulititasking is easy

new iphone is most likely gonna have 512 mb.


iphone apps in general are bigger than android apps. for example if a android phone had 512 mb of onboard memory only about half of that was for installing apps. so thats around the 200 mb mark. Street Fighter 4 for the iPhone is 200 mb. Chaos Rings a game made by Square Enix is even bigger.

browser

safari is decent. too bad they sucked the life out of Opera. i use Opera on my computers. skyfire has a lot going for it. hopefully it delivers on the iPhone. but yea they can talk about choice as much as they want but the safari browser still stands tall. safari aint perfect but does it's job. other browsers have high strengths and low weaknesses. they lack hard in areas but are strong in their strengths.


and if people wanna say i have all this because i'm jailbroken.... . well then that says a lot about Android and their open source.

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I do not follow the iphone cause I do not own one, I am too broke to afford one.  Either way, most of the appz/games currently that are on the droid are nockoff of the iphone because iphone developers are coming to the droid, thus porting their software/games to the droid, nothing wrong with that; it's just saying that the droid is going to be a good competitor.  Most of apple's iphone application/games could be found on the pc, games console and web; so it is just another port; iphone appz/games did not just pop up overnight; give the droid some time to play catchup with the developers.  The newest droid os does support application and game installation on the removable memory card; so the onboard memory is not an issue anymore when it comes to larger games; it is just a matter of times before the developers takes advantage of this. 

most of the droid user's that I know have rooted(aka jailbroken) their droid also, so they are not going to complain about your iphone having tether and all. 

The one thing that I would like to know for iphone user is that do you get any navigation application for free?  For droid users, we get the google navigation application, it's free to use and the map are updated frequently so no more paying our carrier or purchasing one to use the service.

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A lot of developers have moved on to Android but many more stay on iPhone. Developers have gone on saying they prefer games for iPhone over PSP or DS cuz it's easier to work on. And the stuff that I said are iPhone knockoffs are just iPhone knockoffs. Same app made for android by a different company. There are those that develope apps for all OS and those of course aren't knockoffs.

Of course those of us who are jailbroken and rooted benefit more but we still are in the small percentage. 9% of iPhone owners are jailbroken and it's smaller for Android owners. And the risk of bricking ur Android phone is higher compared to 0% iPhone owners.

Gps apps
jailbroken u get free gps


and App Store


both have their goods and bad. Pretty much they represent the mobile versions of Apple and Linux. iPhone Released in 07 and Android in 08. So Android taking their sweet time.

[six]

Having owned both...

ATT has better services than Verizon only when you're the city.  If you're travel a lot....say to the nearby indian casinos, Verizon is best.  Mapquest for the iphone will crap out when you get to the outer limits of ATT's service.

iPhone OS is better than Andriod, but you can do more with Andriod.  Paid apps on the iphone are usually free or cost half as much on Andriod.  Andriod with free google services blows iphone away.  Google map/navigation is the sh!ts with its constant updates, AI learning capabilities and realtime streetview navigation.

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I use tomtom for my GPS. Already have maps preloaded so no worries. For me AT&T has been better and yea it depends on where u live. Down in flordia Verizon craps out as well in Wisconsin even here in the Twin Cities. I buy apps here and there especially the apps that release updates but besides that I pirate my apps  

The only advantage Android has is th statusbar. But then u can install android os on a iPhone

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I'm getting the HTC EVO 4g next week when it comes out.   

Was going to pre-order one until I found out that you will have to pay an extra $10 a month on top of your current monthly charge for the 4g. Decided to not go with it.

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Yea that's the bad thing. My friend got it and he said he loses 4G 5 miles from his house in Georgia. But then again that's Sprint.

Even tho I'm with AT&T I didn't join them until 09. Stuck with A iPhone T-Mobile cuz I was paying $6 for EDGE (twice the speed of dial-up) and didn't believe in paying for 3G when my 1.5 Mbps DSL was better. But with the iPhone iPhone 3GS and AT&T having the best 3G (7.2 Mbps and upgradig to 14.4 Mbps) it was finally worth it. Version and Sprint max out at 3.2 for 3G but real world speeds are lower. I get 2-3 Mbps on AT&T and I'm grandfathered in on their true unlimited data plan. T-Mobile is working on 21 Mbps but have a 10 gb cap but they only slowdown ur speeds. Sprint's 4G in selective cities currently averages 5 Mbps. In comparison in Philly where T-Mobile has it's first 21 Mbps 3G and Sprint's 4G t-Mobile is faring better.


And back to Froyo.... I can't wait to try it on my iPhone  

[Toua]

i should get into writing programs/apps for android when i have time.. i don't know the language, but shouldn't be too hard.

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Android is an operating system based on Linux with a Java programming interface. It provides tools, e.g. a compiler, debugger and a device emulator as well as its own Java Virtual machine (Dalvik Virtual Machine - DVM). Dalvik uses special bytecode. Therefore you cannot run standard Java bytecode on Android but you have to use the Android compiler to create Android specific byte-code. Android supports 2-D and 3-D graphics using the OpenGL libraries and supports data storage in a SQLLite database. For development Google provides the Android Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse to develop Android applications.