Who has switched from an iPhone to a Fascinate?

[Snareman]

Just curious of people's opinions. I've heard of lots of people commenting that they like their Fascinate better than their iPhone. I'd love to hear some of the "whys".

 

[gunnermike53]

Just curious of people's opinions. I've heard of lots of people commenting that they like their Fascinate better than their iPhone. I'd love to hear some of the "whys".

ive never had an iPhone. i hate steve jobs. he is an evil elitest. themusic you down load from itunes, thats not yours its steves. you can get the music steve says you can have, you can install the apps steve says you can install, you phone will look exactly how steve wants it to look. if you want to put some of steves music on the iPhone of steves he is letting you pay him large amounts of money to borrow, you have to use the software steve says you have to use. you want a bigger battery? well steve says no.

my fascinate, looks how i want it to look, i dont have to have any special software to put stuff on it. i install what i want on my phone. its a FAR more vercitile device. oh, and have you seen the screen on the fascinate? steve has nothing on that.

 

[Snareman]

ive never had an iPhone. i hate steve jobs. he is an evil elitest. themusic you down load from itunes, thats not yours its steves. you can get the music steve says you can have, you can install the apps steve says you can install, you phone will look exactly how steve wants it to look. if you want to put some of steves music on the iPhone of steves he is letting you pay him large amounts of money to borrow, you have to use the software steve says you have to use. you want a bigger battery? well steve says no.

my fascinate, looks how i want it to look, i dont have to have any special software to put stuff on it. i install what i want on my phone. its a FAR more vercitile device. oh, and have you seen the screen on the fascinate? steve has nothing on that.

Not that you have an opinion.

While I love the screen on my Fascinate and have no complaints, isn't the iPhone screen higher resolution?

 

[gunnermike53]

Not that you have an opinion.

While I love the screen on my Fascinate and have no complaints, isn't the iPhone screen higher resolution?

it may be, doesnt matter, once you get to a certian point the human eye tell the differance. but many things affect the pic quality. contrast ratio, refresh rate, pic construction. the amoled screen is the best of whats available right now.

yes i have an opinion, and everyone is intitled to it.

 

[Yourdogsdead]

I don't get how the music isn't mine. A lot of it has no DRM anymore. Itunes also lets you put in music that didn't originate from the Apple Store. You seem to really hate Apple.

 

[Chris3D]

I had an iPhone 3G before the Fascinate. I loved the iPhone when I first got it 2 and a half years ago. Over those 2 years, though, there were some annoyances having to do with usability - no easy way to quickly turn WiFi or GPS on or off, or dim the screen, or lock the orientation sensor. Everything was burred deep in menus and Apple refuses to allow things like widgets that could address that.

Increasingly, it was becoming clear that it wasn't my phone, but essentially on loan from Apple, and they controlled what I could and couldn't do with it. Ended up jailbreaking it, but things still seemed like a workaround.

So when my contract was up, I thought I'd try an Android. Yea, it's not quite as slick as the iOS, and I still had to root it to get it to do everything I wanted (full file system access, install programs to access my home network, etc), but after doing this, the phone is far, FAR more capable than even my jailbroken iPhone.

I can upgrade or downgrade at will, install different systems. On the iPhone, you could upgrade, but downgrades were always a major hassle, if they were even possible at all.

Android isn't without it's faults, but I'd never leave it to go back to the iOS. It's my phone and I want to do with it as I please. I know I'm on my own and don't expect Verizon to support it when something gets screwed up. That's fine with me, but if I purchase what is essentially a small computer, I take issue with some corporate CEO dictating what I can and can't do with it - after the point of purchase and after the warranty runs out.

 

[Timmedic]

I had both the iphone 3g and iphone 4. I was definitely an iphone fanboy. Love my fascinate but love the Android experience even more. When the Bionic comes out and I have one I might even pretend I was on the Android bandwagon all along My enjoyment with the Android os stems from the fact that I can do things out of the box, with my fascinate, that I had to jailbreak my iphone to even get close to.