Should I get iphone or Droid?

Droid or iPhone to replace BlackBerry?

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Montana Kev

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Time to replace the Blackberry. I know there has been a lot of discussion about boating apps on smart phones. Wonder if there is an advantage of one phone over the other for navigation/boating.

Welcoming your feedback.

Thanks,
Kevin
 
Probably not, but get the iPhone, it is just so cool! Boating apps are pretty much equivalent, but the iPhone rules, the Droids drool (ducking!).

Montana Kev":3dv0f48g said:
Time to replace the Blackberry. I know there has been a lot of discussion about boating apps on smart phones. Wonder if there is an advantage of one phone over the other for navigation/boating.

Welcoming your feedback.

Thanks,
Kevin
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Both are good options but check into the construction of each. You will find the droid is constructed with less glass.

Which ever you do buy get insurance. I had my droid only six days before leaving it outside either the truck or boat while at a filling station and drove off leaving the darn thing somewhere on the road. Insurance was a one time $6.99

the best

Mike
 
Singles or twins? Permatrim or not?.... :wink:

We both have Droids. They seem to work fine for our needs, but I'm not a tech nerd that needs the latest and greatest, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
I love both but have a Droid. There are many situations/reasons why the iPhone is clearly better - if you already have macs in other aspects of your life integration is much better, the interface is better, an iPhone is easier for technophobes and the fact that Apple tightly controls what can go on an iPhone is good for many who might not be able to diagnose application conflicts or other potential issues that arise from the more open environment of the android operating system.

However, for me, the android was preferable for one reason - I have Verizon and with the right software, I can tether my android phone to a computer for free. Since I have one of the grand fathered in truly unlimited data plans, that's a significant advantage. Were it not for that, I'd have an iPhone.
 
The obvious answer... YES!

If you plan to buy right now, the big question is whether you plan to use the phone to access the internet a lot (on it's own or as a wifi hot spot). The newest Droids are 4G, the newest iPhone is still 3G. For us, that is a big deal because it is our only access to internet for the rest of our devices. So, I have a Droid (and use it as a hot spot), and the Blonde has an iPhone.

Both are good for boat navigation (same apps). The iPhone is just slicker to use and it sounds better as a... phone. The iPhone can be used as an iPod. You can load music and stuff on the Droid, but it isn't as seamless as using iTunes with the iPhone. After 9 months with both, the Droid (in our experience) is better at getting a signal, but only marginally.

All things being equal (and they never are), if the iPhone could access 4G, I would probably make the switch. As it is, we do just fine with a "mixed marriage."

Once you use either, you'll find it pretty darn indispensable.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
One advantage of the i phone is that if you get an app, you will usually get the same app on i pad. The i pad is great for navigation. (I consider either the i phone or droid too small screen for critical navigation.

It would be nice if the i phone was 4 G now--the next version--out soon will mostl likely be 4G. on the other hand, comparing my i phone with a friends 4 G droid, there was not that much difference in speed--subjective observation.
 
I'm also pondering the Android/iPhone/iPad possibilities. I have a question about data synching:

If I have understood this correctly, it seems that the Android phones can only be synched to one's computer via Google/Internet (is this correct?), whereas with the iPhone there is (or was?) the option to synch directly to one's computer (not sure if iCloud exists in parallel or if it may have eliminated this option).

If anyone knows the current answer to this, I would appreciate the info (and perhaps it will make a difference to the original poster as well).
 
Have owned several iPhones before the company switched to Verizon/Droid. Big mistake - can't wait for the two year contract to expire. iPhone hands down. Easier to use, less freeze-ups, better aps system, better sync, opens more attachments, better camera, better music system and better gps system. Droid took us 25 minutes to get the GPS system to give us back road directions the other day, I just never had the number of problems with the iPhone that I do with the Droid, it just worked.

As my son said while trying to get the Droid GPS to work, "There is a reason so many people love the iPhone"
 
Droid took us 25 minutes to get the GPS system to give us back road directions the other day...
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Never...NEVER, had any problem even close to that. The GPS mapping feature has always worked flawlessly. Only issue I've had w/ my Droid X is when using the GPS the battery life is depleted quickly.
 
I can and do so many more things on my Razr Maxx than you can do on an i phone [4 g , flash, adobe,multitask], Its just a far better choice for me . Battery life used to be the issue ,but no more .Camera used to suck , bt no more. The Razr Maxx has a huge battery and a very good camera.
+ Im not a slave to Apple products !
Marc
 
Verizon in our area is phasing out unlimited data plans including those who have previous unlimited plans and going to tiered data plans
 
Droids for us (razor and charge) but we are both techno-pros and don't mind a little fiddling now and then to have the most options. 4G speeds will be more noticeable in tethering situations or with download/upload activities than general app use or browsing. But you couldn't sell me 3G anything these days.
 
I develop for both iOS and Android - DragQueen was the first simple app released. There's a major one coming. So I have both Android phones and tabs and iPhones/iPads.

There are a lot of equivalent things about the different platforms. There is sort of no question that the iPad platform blows away the Android tab platform though. For that reason, I think things tip toward iOS. I honestly think that an iPad is the single best thing you can do to improve your cruising on a boat today - between weather, information access, navigation assistance, entertainment, email, and a thousand other reasons, the iPad is running away with uses on a boat. If you're going to have an iPad, it's much better to also have an iPhone.

For other boating related apps, I think there again, iOS wins. There are some equivalent navigation apps. Navionics is probably the best example. But even there, the Android app is a few generations behind the iOS one. There is no Transas/C-Map/Garmin/Navimatics/etc navigation versions on Android. In fact, on Android, there are very few boating navigation apps. There are about 20 on iOS (maybe more).

In general, there are much fewer apps and fewer choices for Android. I'm in a pretty good position to know why too.

If you look at my own DragQueen stats, 6,000 people have downloaded it on iOS. Today about 300 people have downloaded it on Android. I've talked to other developer friends with apps on both platforms. The ones on Android just don't make money (or get downloaded - mine are free). The ones on the Apple App Store make money. This happens across the board. So if you were a developer looking to create a killer application, which platform would you develop for first (or only)? Why don't Android users buy/download apps?

The major app I'm writing works on both platforms (and Windows and Macintosh native). For me, I want everyone to be able to use it even if Android users account for only 10% of the downloads. But until more people actually use Android apps and download/pay for loads of them, developers aren't going to be spending their time on it.
 
I-phone your hostage to apple. Droid your free with open software. Dont care to be hostage to apple. Droids are very well made. Droids you can buy replacement batteries. Droids have a great market place with good amount of boating apps.

Just went through which type to buy. As you can tell Droid won!
 
ALLRIGHTY NOW !!!!!

This thread is almost a year old. This thread is one of the reasons I choose a Motorola Razor Max --- Android smart phone.

The following is a post I just put onto another thread.

"I checked your profile and it didn't say what kind of phone you have

So I was wondering if it was a dumdroid. I don't have an I-phone yet either, but we will. I have absolutely had it with my Motorola Razzor Max(imum stupid) phone. Every time they do a (forced) update it screws up everything I have learned for the last 2 months and makes my phone (or me) a complete idiot. Last update took 1700 photos in 12 albums and scrambled them into one bucket, messed up my text messaging, alarm clock, the weather apps that I liked, and have cost me about 6 hours at the phone (Verizon) store again.

We need to make some adjustments. I-phone here we come. Razor, how do you like swimming"
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This is a result of months of frustration with Android Updates. Initially, it took some time to figure the new "smart" phone out, and about the time I was getting comfortable with it SOMEONE SOMEWHERE decided it would be a good time to do an update. I was 2 hours late to work that morning. The update came at 11:03PM and sounded like a text message so, after being asleep for a couple of hours, I just clicked "yes" and have regretted that since. Again, a month or so ago, another update and this was the straw that broke the camels back.

My smart phone may be smarter than I am, but if it is unusable for what I want it, except of course to make phone calls, which the new update has made even more exasperating by adding about 3 more button pushes to answer a call, increased the battery use but not the practical functionality for a general user and generally decreased the usefulness aand teh life of the phone.

Enough rant. Sorry. Pat --- I should have taken your advise much more seriously, way long back..

Curious to know how others are dealing with the Android updates.

Harvey,
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