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> but the combination of fragmentation and very slow adoption of latest releases by the android Actually, Android is doing not doing worse if not better than i

> but the combination of fragmentation and very slow adoption of latest releases by the android Actually, Android is doing not doing worse if not better than iOS here thanks to over-the-air updates of android. To update your iOS you need to connect it to a PC and sync it with iTunes, too much for many people whereas Android updates automatically over the air which makes updates applied very fast once available, check out the numbers here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/09/11/the-state-of-android-fragmentation-lookin-pretty-good-still-much-better-than-ios-fragmentation/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/09/11/the-state-of-android... > Apples market has little fragmentation and high hardware consistency. >But I digress. Without google imposing some licensing terms, android users are always going to have a poor os upgrade experience, it seems. Again, I couldn't disagree more. Not having to use iTunes and over-the-air updates is such a better experience than updating an iPhone, so much that Android users update their OS sooner than iPhone users. Plus if you look at the stats, most of the big phones got their update 1 to 2 months after the official release of Froyo, so it's not that bad. And if you have a Nexus or a rooted phone, it's instant upgrade.

alttab 16y ago
The upgrade experience is better - but you do that a lot less than making phone calls. I had an iPhone and just switched to Android. After a couple of days Android is annoying me. With my iPhone, after unlocking my phone I hold the home button then click on a name to make a call. On Android, I unlock the device, click Phone, click favorites, click the name, then click call. I went from 2 clicks to 6. Its just not as usable. My fiance got a Palm Pre and despite the lack of "apps" I like the interface way more than Android phones.
- patrickaljord 16y ago
  You can just say 'call bob' and it will make the call.
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- ek 16y ago
  When you first got your iPhone, you probably had no idea that you could hold the home button to get to your favorites. By the same token, there are similar shortcuts on Android which you probably have yet to discover. Holding the search button to voice dial would be one option, like the other poster in this thread said. On HTC devices, there is a favorites widget, so that potentially you could be calling one of your favorites in merely one click. Another thing is that Android's extensibility automatically lends itself to your being able to customize your personal user experience in a vast multitude of different ways. If you really wanted to maintain the "hold the home button and get contacts" behavior of the iPhone, for example, you could replace the stock launcher with a third-party application like ADW.Launcher or Launcher Pro and then modify the home button behavior.

alttab 16y ago

The upgrade experience is better - but you do that a lot less than making phone calls. I had an iPhone and just switched to Android. After a couple of days Android is annoying me. With my iPhone, after unlocking my phone I hold the home button then click on a name to make a call. On Android, I unlock the device, click Phone, click favorites, click the name, then click call. I went from 2 clicks to 6. Its just not as usable. My fiance got a Palm Pre and despite the lack of "apps" I like the interface way more than Android phones.

patrickaljord 16y ago
You can just say 'call bob' and it will make the call.
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ek 16y ago
When you first got your iPhone, you probably had no idea that you could hold the home button to get to your favorites. By the same token, there are similar shortcuts on Android which you probably have yet to discover. Holding the search button to voice dial would be one option, like the other poster in this thread said. On HTC devices, there is a favorites widget, so that potentially you could be calling one of your favorites in merely one click. Another thing is that Android's extensibility automatically lends itself to your being able to customize your personal user experience in a vast multitude of different ways. If you really wanted to maintain the "hold the home button and get contacts" behavior of the iPhone, for example, you could replace the stock launcher with a third-party application like ADW.Launcher or Launcher Pro and then modify the home button behavior.