smartphone recommendations

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:
A good comparison for people who owned cars during the 1990s is the Honda Accord versus a BMW. The BMW might be a better car on paper. But it's also a huge hassle to keep running at top performance. The Honda is not as flashy, but it always starts, always runs, and gets you there on time.

I have to quibble with this. The iPhone is more like a Lexus or Infiniti and Android is more like the Volkswagon Group's Jetta platform which is also used in the Beetle, Golf, Audi TT, Audit A3, a couple of SEATs, and a few Skodas. All of those cars are the same underneath, but are not compatible with each other. All currently shipping iPhone models run the same iOS version and all share the same interface. Android devices run any number of OS versions, only something like 1% of which are the latest version, and most come with a carrier-supplied interface.

[Anonymous]

Yes but with the ability to root your android device, it really doesn't matter what it comes with. You can load whatever OS you want - or your hardware can handle anyway- while your rooting it.

I guess it all comes down to how much you like to customize your phone: if you want to basically open the box and (minus playing around in the app store) be set, get an iphone. If you are the sort of geek who likes to fully optimize every tech thing that comes in your life, you want an android.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I agree with PP. Rooting permits so much, versus the various restrictions with the Apple product.