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There are two reasons I switched back to my iPhone after three weeks of having fun with the Nexus one: 1) the iphones touch screen. I don't care that much abou
by pilif 16y ago
There are two reasons I switched back to my iPhone after three weeks of having fun with the Nexus one:
1) the iphones touch screen. I don't care that much about the smoothness of the scrolling, but I really care about the ability of the touch screen to accurately track my finger position. While the N1 often is /good enough/, sometimes it fails badly and recognizes taps miles away from my finger. This is really bad when trying to type.
2) this might be an issue of my specific device, but sometimes I have a really bad hissing noise in my headphones. I'm constantly listening to Podcasts and Audiobooks and I can't live with that. HTC has some knowledgebase entry about this one and recommends to periodically shut the device down, remove the battery while holding the power-off button, and then reversing the steps. This, of course, isn't something I'm willing to live with.
So in the end it's build-quality that kills an otherwise superior phone for me. Too bad.
I hope Google rev's the hardware and we get a N2 that fixes these issues. Seing all the trouble with manufacturers not updating the OSes, I'd rather stay with a "Google Experience" phone as that more or less guarantees updates, so no Desire or Droid or whatever for me.
- lenni 16y agoI too think that OEMs and carriers delaying updates will be the biggest threat to Android. It has certainly angered me to the point where I don't recommend HTC anymore and will buy an iPhone next time around.
- mitchellhislop 16y agoOne small point, "Google Experience" refers to the OS installed, not who the device is made by. The Desire and Droid are both Google Experience devices-Those are the only devices that get access to all the Google API's and apps. Also, updates being slow are more often than not the fault of the carrier, not the manufacturer.
- pilif 16y agook. I stand corrected. Still. Phones like the G1 and the N1 seem to have closer ties to Google and seem to be updated more quickly and painlessly, hence my next try with Android is much more likely to be a N2 than any Sense-corrupted HTC thing without update guarantees.
- drivebyacct 16y agoThat's not true. Non-"Google Experience" have plenty of access to all of the Android Google APIs, etc. If they didn't no apps that used Google Maps, Navigation, etc would work. The Google APIs are something that 3rd party apps rely on. Google restricting their availability would literally destroy the Market in one fell swoop. The only thing that changes is whether or not they can print "Google" on the phone.
- mitchellhislop 16y agoNot true. There are 2 different versions of every android release-the "google" version and the non-google version. They have different capability. We just havent seen a major device launch without the google version. As an android dev, you learn not to rely on google api's for things. Much like twitter devs have learned not to trust the platform