iPhone 3GS, finally used one yesterday.

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Yesterday I had a phone fight with my uncle who brought his iPhone 3GS (32GB) round, I was mighty impressed with how smooth and fast the OS is, how instant it is - now I know Android 1.6 is very fast with Cyanogen's modded roms and BFS updates but the 3GS was something else altogether.

Every time I said "But my phone has this! does yours?" he would go about showing the 3GS had it too ¬_¬

In the end I won on these things:
1: Multitasking
2: A fairly open source OS with excellent dev community and a wider App Market
3: Multiple home screens
4: Homescreen walllpapers (surprised Apple don't have this!)
5: He paid £550 for his sim free, I paid £50 for the Android, also sim free :p
6: Utility apps for rooted Androids (very big plus point IMO)

I do wish some of the cooler iPhone apps make it to Android too though, like Google Earth. There was also one app where he showed me you can watch near DVD quality movies over the air from an online service via 3G or Wifi, he loaded up a movie which started playing within seconds and it was as crisp and clear as a digital broadcast.

So I wonder, will Eclair or Flann have the speedyness of iPhone's OS or will we have to wait for beefier Android hardware perhaps?

I'm thinking the latter...
 
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The iphone is fast because it does 1 thing at a time and the OS is written specifically for the hardware so they can get the best from it.

1 hardware base, 1 os.

Its a phone at the end of the day, how many people REALLY watch tv shows or film on their phone..?
 
I watch TV on my iPhone too. :p

The reason that the iPhone 3GS seems so fast is that it uses the very latest ARM CPU design. The only other smartphones on the market using it at the moment are the Palm Pre and Samsung i8910 HD.

All of the Android phones so far are based on the last generation ARM CPU design. It's the same architecture as the Nokia 5800 and N97 and not really able to cope with high resolution screens. That's why they seem slow in comparison.

Yeah, and I agree. I really wish the iPhone had multitasking. And a decent camera.
 
I won't be moving away from Android ever but I do wish some of the swiftness to go to Android but I guess it's as you say, the Android hardware at present on handsets needs to set up a generation and then it will be be all kinds of win leaving iPhone in the dust :p
 
mrk said:
Yesterday I had a phone fight with my uncle who brought his iPhone 3GS (32GB) round, I was mighty impressed with how smooth and fast the OS is, how instant it is - now I know Android 1.6 is very fast with Cyanogen's modded roms and BFS updates but the 3GS was something else altogether.

Every time I said "But my phone has this! does yours?" he would go about showing the 3GS had it too ¬_¬

In the end I won on these things:
1: Multitasking
2: A fairly open source OS with excellent dev community and a wider App Market
3: Multiple home screens
4: Homescreen walllpapers (surprised Apple don't have this!)
5: He paid £550 for his sim free, I paid £50 for the Android, also sim free :p
6: Utility apps for rooted Androids (very big plus point IMO)

I do wish some of the cooler iPhone apps make it to Android too though, like Google Earth. There was also one app where he showed me you can watch near DVD quality movies over the air from an online service via 3G or Wifi, he loaded up a movie which started playing within seconds and it was as crisp and clear as a digital broadcast.

So I wonder, will Eclair or Flann have the speedyness of iPhone's OS or will we have to wait for beefier Android hardware perhaps?

I'm thinking the latter...
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Where did you pick up yours for £50 SIM free if you don't mind me asking :)
 
All Vodafone Magics are sim free aren't they (tested with different sim cards), some have the Vodafone logo at the front, some don't - Vodafone rep said it's complete chance if you get one that doesn't have Vodafone branding on the front and you can't choose one or the other :)

It can multitask with itunes running in the BG but nothing major beyond that. In Android you can minimise as many apps as you want and simply go back to them later. The video payer also remembers last stopped position to resume from etc.
 
mrk said:
Yesterday I had a phone fight with my uncle who brought his iPhone 3GS (32GB) round, I was mighty impressed with how smooth and fast the OS is, how instant it is - now I know Android 1.6 is very fast with Cyanogen's modded roms and BFS updates but the 3GS was something else altogether.
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but 1.6 isn't out, only the SDK i thought
 
Various roms are out using the full 1.6 core making use of the new stuff and performance. It's not out public but it is out for those who have rooted their phones.

This is why Android > * :p
 
GeX said:
ok, didn't know that. My Hero runs the modaco v2.0 rom - i know the 2.2 is out, but hadnt really looked at it.
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I got my HTC Hero and iPhone 3GS last week and I couldn't get rid of the Hero quick enough (infact, I sent it back on Friday).
Yes, android is much better than WinMo but when I received my iPhone, the iPhone was much much faster in every-way, more pleasant to use and has the better applications. With the ROM update on the Hero the iPhone was still faster and fluid.

Ignoring the phone's OS for now, the iPhone is the better phone overall. It has a better camera (even though it's only 3MP) and it can do stuff a phone should do ie. make/receive calls and texts. Do a quick search on the HTC Hero not sending/receiving texts and calls. If it can't perform as a phone, what's the point keeping it.

Even without jailbreaking the iPhone, it is far more superior than the Hero. I will be jailbreaking the iPhone soon but lets leave that for another day/forum.

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Right now the only reason I would choose the Hero over the iPhone was if money was an issue.
If you look at my posts in the Apple forum, I'm by no means an Apple fanboy but when I see something good, I'm not afraid to admit to it.
 
An issue I'd find tedious with the iPhone though is the charging cable, it's not standard USB like on HTC (and Blackberry) phones so you have to carry a cable around with you if you want to charge on the go.

I asked my uncle how long his battery lasts and he said with his type of usage (similar to mine I guess) he gets a few hours!!! By comparison I get a full day and that was with heavy usage!

I guess the 3GS's beefier hardware needs more power but the lack of standardised charging would be a deal breaker I guess.

HTC's Leo looks very interesting though even though it's WinMo!
 
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