Jul
27
2010
An iPhone 4 user’s experience with the Android 2.1 powered Samsung Captivate on AT&T
I’ll preface this by saying before this review, I’ve hardly laid hands on an Android device, let alone considered throwing my iPhone [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, Android 2.1, captivate, comparison, Device Comparisons, Editorial, galaxy s, Google, ios, iOS4, iPhone, iphone vs android, Reviews, samsung
Jul
23
2010
I’ve written several times that the “openness” argument made against Apple’s iPhone in general, and by Google against Apple in particular is overblown and often disingenuous. Sure, other smartphones might theoretically be more open at [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, cake like lies, Editorial, Google, google vs apple, ipad, iPhone, iphone vs android, openness
Jul
19
2010
HTC’s Eric Lin has responded in statistical fashion to Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference where Steve Jobs showed off a Droid Eris losing singnal when death-gripped:
“Approximately .016% of customers [have complained]. We have [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, droid eris, droid incredible, hold different, htc, iPhone, iphone 4, iphone 4 press conference, iphone vs android, News, nexus one
Jul
16
2010
As part of Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference today, CEO Steve Jobs took the opportunity to bring out a BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eric, and Samsung Omnia 2 and highlight each of those devices [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, BlackBerry, hold different, iPhone, iphone 4, iphone 4 press conference, News, windows phone
Jul
14
2010
Phil from Android Central — whom I adore down to his robotic little socks — just loves to torture me by sending over links to stuff like Android-based iPad knock-offs that get a hands-on courtesy [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, android vs ipad, iclone, ipad, News
Jul
9
2010
A bit of a roundup this afternoon as the cell phone inventor Martin Cooper, personal computer inventor Steve Wozniak, and advertising revolutionary Larry Page all give their opinions on iPhone vs. Android.
Martin Cooper went on [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, Google, iPhone, iphone vs android, larry page, marty cooper, News, woz
Jul
5
2010
Apple iPhone 4 vs Android Evo 4G as expressed by potty-mouthed, poorly animated, digitally voiced, anthropomorphic stuffed animals? Ohecksyeah.
If you’re enjoying the 4th of July holiday in the US, or have a way to keep [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, evo 4g, Humor, iPhone, iphone 4, iphone vs android, Video
Jul
2
2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview that they’re not in competition with Apple, even while taking a little shot at the company on whose board of directors he sat during the iPhone’s [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, apple vs google, Eric Schmidt, Google, iphone vs android, News
Jun
29
2010
It seems Google has slipped in some improvement for Google Docs document viewing via iPhone and iPad (and Android). For quite a while, the only documents that really played nice (at least for me), [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, App Store Apps, Apps, excel, google docs, iPhone, mobile, spreadsheets, support, Web Apps
Jun
23
2010
How does Apple’s iPhone 4 compare to Motorola’s Droid X and HTC’s Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Nexus One?
Even as iPhone 4 goes out for delivery, and reservists start lining up at Apple Stores, Motorola, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, apple vs google, droid, droid x, ios 4, iPhone, iphone 4, iphone vs android, iphone vs droid x, motorola, News
Jun
21
2010
How to make the switch from Android to iPhone 4
iPhone 4 with its 960×640 retina display, easy-peasy FaceTime video calling, high quality 5 megapixel, back-illuminated camera that shoots 720p 30fps video, and the silky smoothness [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, android vs iphone, Google, ios 4, iPhone, iphone 4, switching, Tips and How-To
Jun
17
2010
Verizon has a teaser up for their new, big DROID X which is claiming a 4.3″, 720p display (which is usually 1280×720) — a significant challenge to the iPhone 4’s 3.5″ 960×640, LED IPS Retina [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, droid, droid x, iphone vs android, iphone vs. droid, News, verizon
Jun
7
2010
We’ve once again taken our good buddy Phil Nickinson’s Android Central tech spec sheet featuring the Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, and Nexus One, and added in Apple’s just-announced iPhone 4 and we gotta tell ya [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 4th gen iphone, android, apple vs google, iphone 4, iphone vs android, News, tech specs
Jun
3
2010
Phil Nickinson over at Android Central has just posted a full review of the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, which he’s billing as the baddest Android on the planet. Big screen, front facing video call camera, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 4th gen iphone, android, evo 4g, froyo, iPhone, iphone vs android, News, sprint, sprint evo 4g, The competition
May
23
2010
Android 2.2 Froyo updates started going live yesterday for the unsubsidized, unlocked, once-upon-a-time sold directly by Google Nexus One, and it seems to include not only tethering but mobile hotspot (think MiFi, or mobile Wi-Fi [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, android vs iphone, AT&T, froyo, google vs apple, hot spot, News, nexus one, tethering, The competition
May
21
2010
Longtime iPhone app Bump will now not only let you knock contacts between iPhones, but share with Android friends as well.
Our good buddy Phil Nickinson, General Grievous of the Android Central army, got some video [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, App Store Apps, Apps, bump, contact sharing, iPhone, iphone apps, News
May
6
2010
An Android-based tablet was captured on video running Flash — or should we say trying to run Flash — before it crashes:
“Here’s a quick and dirty hands-on video review of the Android [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, crash, flash, ipad, iphone vs android, News, tablet, The competition
Apr
28
2010
Apple has sued HTC for patent infringement with Android almost certainly being the target, now it turns out Microsoft believes Android also infringes on their patents and HTC has just paid up.
That means the free-as-in-Google [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, apple vs htc, Google, htc, iPhone, iphone vs windows phone, Microsoft, News, patents
Apr
22
2010
Android running on iPhone — is there anything the elite iPhone jailbreak hackers can’t do? Still slow to (dual-)boot and awkward given the iPhone’s lack of physical buttons, but it’s there in all it’s gory [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, android on iphone, iPhone, jailbreak, Jailbreak Apps, News
Apr
21
2010
Yes, it’s completely useless and quasi pornographic to compare prototype and rumored specs for unannounced, unfinished devices like the iPhone HD (iPhone 4G) with specs from real, announced, and shipping or shipped devices like the [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 4th gen iphone, android, apple vs google, droid incredible, evo 4g, iPhone, iphone hd, iphone vs android, News, nexus, spec showdown one