Ice cream vs the fruit

[elvisgp]

So, now that we've all had this device with Android 4.02 for a while, how do u guys think ICS stacks up to the competition?(mainly the two fruits: Apple's IOS and Microsoft's wp7 mango)
I personally think that android really evolved here. It feels more polished than ever before, and it has a very smooth experience, if not equal to or better than iOS and wp7. Have any of u guys switched over from other platforms to the GN? Please share your experience!
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[p08757]

I cant speak for wp7, but compaired to my iOS devices ICS is on par or better. Great win for Google.

 

[Premium1]

I had an i4s before I had the nexus and IMO IOS5 wasn't really that different from previous IOS versions. I mean they finally got better notifications and Siri where as ICS is like a whole new OS compared to GB. It just feels much more polished and refined than GB. Maybe I don't feel IOS5 is anything special because it is more of an app launcher and was pretty refined from day 1. But google is moving in the right direction with ICS in an attempt to become as smooth and polished as IOS.

 

[majiklantrn]

The iOS is no slouch and neither is Android. I look at iOS being a Smartphone 101 OS. You get experience with Apps, browsing the internet, email, and some other smart phone options. After sometime you want more things from your phone. Android does a great job giving more freedom with the phone. For example, widgets. And if you're geek you look at things like rooting and other customizations.

I always tease my iOS friends because they say their phone can do the same as my Android phone, but they have to jailbreak.

 

[SpaceHippie]

I think it's the most polished version of Android yet. I love it. I do gotta say though. Im starting to sour on the whole homescreen thing. Maybe it's me but i would love for all my apps to be on the the main pages like iOS. Rather than me having to enter the app launcher. Other than that. I prefer this over iOS5.

 

[elvisgp]

I think it's the most polished version of Android yet. I love it. I do gotta say though. Im starting to sour on the whole homescreen thing. Maybe it's me but i would love for all my apps to be on the the main pages like iOS. Rather than me having to enter the app launcher. Other than that. I prefer this over iOS5.

well that's why we have different launchers and roms. Lol.

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[Forgetful]

I think it's the most polished version of Android yet. I love it. I do gotta say though. Im starting to sour on the whole homescreen thing. Maybe it's me but i would love for all my apps to be on the the main pages like iOS. Rather than me having to enter the app launcher. Other than that. I prefer this over iOS5.

Get MIUI then when they release it for the GN.
Have you spent time with IOS dealing with the all apps visable thing? Frankly I find it very annoying to have to scroll through pages looking for one of the 5 or 10 apps I use daily. Android is set up perfectly, access to your most used apps and Widgets quickly and you're one button (OMG the horror) away from everything else.

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[MRW1215]

Well, I can't stand WP7 at all. I tried playing around with one at Best Buy once, and I just hated the UI. I've had an iPod Touch for about three years now, and iOS is nice, but it feels a bit too simplistic, even at iOS5. I got my first Android phone back in April, and I liked how much more customizable it was over iOS. It just didn't quite feel as "polished" as iOS did, if that makes any sense. Now, I feel ICS is very polished.

 

[zulu308]

I have the HTC HD7 running Mango. Made the switch to ICS 4.0.2. Overall, I like ICS more than Mango.

Multitasking in Mango suck major donkey ass. To close an application, say IE, you have to press the god damn back button a billion times, if you visit a lot of websites; whereas, ICS, you just swipe and it is dead.

When accepting a phone call, WP7 will only vibrate once and then continue to ring; whereas, ICS and iphone will ring and vibrate until you pick up; which is great when you are in a loud environment such as a jazz club or lounge or a dance club.

I love how WP7 made use of Bing Vision and I feel this missing feature the most when using ICS. With Bing Vision, I would fire up the Search and have it read qr tags, ms tags, bar codes, cover of a book, grocery products, etc ... for additional information. This is something that iphone and ICS doesn't have.

GPS on WP7 suck ass as it wants to get you in an accident/kill you more than get you to your destination. Instead of continous voice guidances, it give you a damn tone. And to get the next direction, you have to touch the screen, this would mean you have to take your eyes off the road.

WP7 does have a nice feature that is also sorely missed is the Local/Scout feature. It find the latest happenings and events around you. In addition to this is Xbox Live access on the phone, not that I use it a lot but it allow you to quickly add friends and check msg that is stored on XBL; except that it can't playback voice messages stored on XBL .

MSOffice suite on WP7 is nice except that I can't use sharepoint unless I'm within corpnet, which is pretty pointless since I'm at work; therefore, I will have my desktop/laptop w/ me in meetings and such, so what is the point of pulling up sharepoint via the phone? I don't think this is MS problem, the network/system admin would have to allow access to sharepoint portal outside of corpnet.

I also love the WP7 intergration into facebook and twitter. The part I dont' like is that it pull down every god damn contact in fb & twitter and inject it into my phone when I only want their updates. Also, whenever I add a new friend on Live Messenger, it create a contact for that person in my address book and if I delete that address book, it delete the contact in Live Messenger, which I loath. Just because I add them to Live Messenger, doesn't mean I want a contact created automatically.

 

[elvisgp]

Well, I can't stand WP7 at all. I tried playing around with one at Best Buy once, and I just hated the UI. I've had an iPod Touch for about three years now, and iOS is nice, but it feels a bit too simplistic, even at iOS5. I got my first Android phone back in April, and I liked how much more customizable it was over iOS. It just didn't quite feel as "polished" as iOS did, if that makes any sense. Now, I feel ICS is very polished.

I've played with the trophy at the Verizon the store, and wp7 is very smooth, like ICS, but it is also very boring. Live tiles just flip and turn. Lol. That's it. No customization at all.

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[elvisgp]

I love how WP7 made use of Bing Vision and I feel this missing feature the most when using ICS. With Bing Vision, I would fire up the Search and have it read qr tags, ms tags, bar codes, cover of a book, grocery products, etc ... for additional information. This is something that iphone and ICS doesn't have.

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Actually Microsoft copied Google with Bing vision. I believe that Google came out with Google goggles first. U can download Google goggles in the market


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[MRW1215]

I've played with the trophy at the Verizon the store, and wp7 is very smooth, like ICS, but it is also very boring. Live tiles just flip and turn. Lol. That's it. No customization at all.

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Yeah, I can't really speak about the "smoothness" of WP7, I just strongly dislike their whole "Metro UI". Looks too... I dunno what word I'm looking for... maybe "gaudy"?

 

[zulu308]

Actually Microsoft copied Google with Bing vision. I believe that Google came out with Google goggles first. U can download Google goggles in the market


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I'll look for that app tonight.

 

[cckgz4]

I prefer mango over them all. Once wp7 gets more apps, I might switch back

 

[Channan]

I would have gotten the iPhone 4S if it had 4G. I'm glad it didn't because I wouldn't have waited for the Galaxy Nexus. iOS was getting pretty boring to me but it mostly did what I needed it to do. It's nice to change things up every now and then but I think I'll be sticking with Android for a while now.

 

[milominderbinde]

For ICS versus iOS 5 see the Apple User's Guide to Android. The iPhone 4S is missing:
1. 4G
2. Any size other than Extra Small
3. Notification LED
4. microSD
5. Removable Battery
6. HD Video Chat (still VGA, WiFi)
7. LED Display
8. DLNA
9. Facebook Sync
10. Flash
11. NFC
12. Haptic feedback (vibrate on key-touch)
13. Full Gmail (Priority Inbox, etc.)
14. DRM-Free Music like Google & Amazon
15. Toggles
16. Widgets
17. Amazon Appstore free paid app of the day
18. Other app stores like GetJar with dozens of free paid apps
19. Goggles, Voice, etc. and Notification bar apps like the Weather Channel
20. Full Notification control: how often to repeat, vibrate, LED, etc.
21. 15-Minute free trial on apps
22. Theming
23. Visual Voicemail with Contact Photos
24. True hands-free Voice Coomands
25. Turn-by-turn navigation
26. Live Wallpaper
27. Swype
28. Real predictive keyboards like SwiftKey
29. Bluetooth Mouse/keyboard
30. See the actual files from your phone to delete, rename, move just like on a PC

 

[Channan]

Technically no ICS phone has microSD either since the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus are the only phones with ICS ATM.

6. Only FaceTime is Wi-Fi only. Android doesn't have FaceTime, so any video chat apps you use on Android (Skype, Tango, etc.) work on 3G on an iPhone as well.

13. App for that.

14. iTunes music have been DRM-free for a while now.

19. More apps for that. Google Voice isn't as integrated like it is in Android, but you can still use it on iOS.

25. Even more apps for that. The good ones are paid but you didn't say free turn-by-turn.

29. iOS actually does have support for BT keyboards. It's had support for that since 3.2.

Everything else I agree with.

 

[elvisgp]

Are there any other people that have switched from wp7 to Android or web os is to android? Please share your experience! Considering that ICS looks very similar to web os, I'm interested to see how web os users are taking the transition.

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[ManBearPig618]

iOS is just so boring. Doesn't even compare to ICS, let alone GB.

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[majiklantrn]

iOS is just so boring. Doesn't even compare to ICS, let alone GB.

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Damn the closed platform! It's a Trap!