Is the Iphone really that much better?

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I have not owned a cell phone in years.

Is the Iphone really that much better than a good Android phone?

"Better" is a rather subjective term. My suggestion is you go out and try a few phones and find one you like. Even different Android phones are very much different from one another - so it's not just a choice in platform you have to deal with.

I'd say, Android phones are many, but iOS phones there is just one. If you compared an iPhone to your average Android phone, the first would come ahead, but if you compare it to a high-end one they would be more at the same level.

As sliqua said, the device is important. I have personal experience with my father's iPhone, and I must tell it ran much more smoothly than any Android I've seen, but I haven't seen one of those new Samsung Androids that seem to be comparable with the iPhone in both capabilities... and price. If you like tinkering with your device, an Android gives more freedom, although you can always jailbreak an Apple product. There are also more apps for iOS, but the Android Market is strong and growing, and it may continue to do so in years to come.

Device is somewhat important, but the framerate issue that plagued pre-2012 Android devices is supposedly resolved. For me that was a dealbreaker.

Android is still heavily Java, which means some toll on performance, just not as obvious as earlier.

iOS 6 is screwing up all sorts of things, including replacing the already s**t maps app with a worse one and not making enough improvements to actually compete with Android. I believe this puts Android ahead for at least the remainder of 2012 and 2013.

Having used both iPhones and high end android devices running the newest Jellybean update with its performance optimizations, I think iPhone comes out on top by a modest degree. It has the best performance by far, and for the most part is far more intuitive to control. For that reason alone it makes it the better platform for me to use.

However, android does have some benefits, including that it is far more open a platform and more versatile. For the most part this is negated via jail breaking, a process that allows applications outside of apples store of applications to run. Also, it is worth pointing out that neither platform is very open to the extent of a desktop OS anyway. That title may go to Windows 8 Deluxe when it releases.

High end android can edge out iPhone in terms of hardware though, with changeable batteries and support for external storage such as SD cards.

I would think the iPhone has better compatability with peripherals made for the phone itself. Some examples might be bluetooth keyboards, gamepads and so on. There are so many different Android devices that a lot of times it's hit or miss with peripheral compatability. I wouldn't mind owning an iOS device but for now I'll stick to Android.

At least with the Android OS you don't have to root or "jailbreak" the device to run third party software. Maybe it has changed but I recall trying to set up an iTunes account a couple years ago and it REQUIRED a debit or credit card number just to download anything from the app store! Now the device I had was only an iPod but still it was the iOS. If you obtain an Android phone or device all you really need to download apps from the Android market is a Gmail address, NO CREDIT/DEBIT CARD REQUIRED.

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