It ain't over till it's over: iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3

[canadiandesigirl]

Re: It ain’t over till it’s over: iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy S3

@aahmed

Love this thread. My problem is not with the device, for me the comparison is of the OS. The iPhone hardware is truly beautiful and just feels great in your hand. The iPhone 5 screen size is perfect while the Galaxy SIII screen is way too big. These huge screen sizes are getting out of control.

My problem is with ios. The Android OS is FAR superior. Here are my likes and dislikes about the two OSs:

• The iOS mapping application sucks, they should never have gotten rid of google maps, that was a dumb move.
• Even with its rubbish mapping software, iOS is only NOW getting turn by turn navigation, Android has had it for years.
• Until iOS 6, you couldn’t add an attachment to an email from within the email compose screen, I mean that’s BASIC EMAIL functionality. Android has a very good out of the box Email client.
• iOS STILL doesn’t do any widgets. Android has proven that widgets with live data icons and shortcuts to tasks and functions are VERY useful, data and functions readily available.
• With iOS, to toggle off/on wireless or bluetooth or airplane mode, you have to go through multiple screens, all Android devices have widgets to do this very easy and very common task.
• Syncing music/pictures/videos with an iOS device is a pain because you HAVE to go through iTunes. With my Android device, I plug it into my laptop and it shows up as an external drive, drag/drop, done.
• Apple makes everything HARDER in the name of trying to make things easy. Apple wants you to do everything they way THEY think you should do things, they don’t want you to have your OWN way of doing things so if you don’t conform to their methods, things don’t work.
• The one pro for iOS is that when a new update comes out, all devices get them at the same time, even older iPhone 3GS devices work well with the latest iOS6. With Android, BECAUSE of so many manufacturers, each update has to be vetted by the manufacturer and the carrier so not all devices get the software updates at the same cadence, which is really frustrating.
• iPhones use a proprietary charging/data cable which is typical Apple mentality, everything has to be proprietary and non-standard. All Android devices use micro USB, so if I forget my charger, I can borrow my friend’s charger who has a different make/model phone. Oh and I can use the same cable to transfer data.

THere are probably more.

Agree with all the points good and bad. (see I’m not biased )