Who’s the Winner: Android Phone or iPhone?
Who’s the Winner: Android Phone or iPhone?
  • Yeon Choul-woong
  • 승인 2010.03.18 11:30
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Android phone

It might not be fair to compare the next generation Android phones (also called Nexus One or Google Phone) to the current generation iPhone, as an Android's operation system is provided by Google.  However, the Android phone and its brand power are gaining ground in the mobile communication market, so it might not be a bad time to compare the Android phone with the iPhone.

Touch Screen

The iPhone's operating system is based on the OSX, which is a cousin of Linux. Android's operating system is based on a customized version of Linux. The user interfaces almost look the same in the way they provide brightly colored icons.

The touch screen capability for the iPhone's keyboard lets you keep typing even though the letters have not shown up on the screen yet. On the other hand Android's keyboard lets you press every character until the character has appeared on the screen then you move on.

Built in Applications

iPhone 3G

For the most part of the built in applications, the Android phone works the same way that the iPhone works. Email, calendars, and other applications work fine and especially Gmail works really well in the Android phone. In contrast, if you want to use other emails, you need to add IMAP or POP3 mail clients. The browser application runs very fast. However, it is still not easy to use the zoom and the pan interface because web pages were not designed for the small screen.

The Android phone provides a camcorder application that the iPhone does not have. In order to play video on your phone, you need to download data from the Android Marketplace and for the iPhone at the iPhone App Store. Voice dialing function is only available in Android phone.

Third Party Applications

Talking about availability of third party applications, iPhone App Store provides more than 50,000 applications and the Android Marketplace provides just a few thousand applications. But I cannot say that the iPhone is better to use than the Android phone because Apple's iPhone has many limitations on applications. The applications available for the Android phone are the applications, which the developers and users have agreed to use.

Camera and GPS

The Camera in the Android phone is a 3.2 Megapixel auto-focusing camera, which is a tremendous improvement compared to iPhone's two Megapixel cameras. However, I'm not so sure who can tell the difference between a picture taken from a 3.2 Megapixel and a picture taken from a two Megapixel just by looking at it. As for the GPS function, the Android phone is not only providing the built in Google Maps application, but it also has less strain on the battery.

Who's the Winner

For third party applications, the winning prize is slightly leaning towards the Android phone. On the easy to use such as touch screen, the winning prize is slightly leaning towards the iPhone. On the hardware capabilities, there is no doubt about the fact that Android phone goes far ahead of any types of phones for now. Nevertheless, I will be receiving a lot of emails if I choose one over the other. Therefore, the winner would be definitely chosen based on your personal taste and remember those useless applications you have downloaded may not be helpful for you to call right at that moment just; keep in mind you still need to call too.


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