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SII does not have pentile Ah - my mistake. The screen is bigger and much brighter than the iPhone's, which is more useful to me than 300+ppi I don't watch mo
by CountSessine 15y ago
SII does not have pentile
Ah - my mistake.
The screen is bigger and much brighter than the iPhone's, which is more useful to me than 300+ppi
I don't watch movies on my iPhone, I mostly read text and surf the web - and type on the retina display looks much better than on the S2s that I've used.
(which was only done for technical reasons anyway
If by that you mean that type looks much better than at 800x480, then yes, this was done for technical reasons.
The phone is snappy no matter what you do
We have a different definition of snappy.
it's quite amazing to see 10+ app updates download and install in parallel, and complete in 30 seconds
I agree. And IOS 5 does this too.
I agree for people without any tech expertise iPhone is still the best choice.
Your condescension is misplaced. I have 20 years of programming experience and am currently employed as an embedded systems engineer. I want a smartphone that just works, and my 4S fits the bill.
Android in a carrier flavor, in my experience, is dreadful. Android on a nexus device works well enough - its just not as good as iOS. It's not that Gingerbread is bad - its just that IOS 4 is better, and IOS 5 widens that gap. I have no experience with ICS and neither do you, so we'll see whether this changes. It sounds as though perhaps Android has finally caught up - indeed, that's the whole point of this article.
And while I've never installed a custom ROM on an android device, I've concluded that with all the glitchiness, poor battery life, and instability that my friends customized android phones suffer, this doesn't constitute a working smartphone.
But if you really want an android device, more power to you. But when you say that an iPhone is still better for someone without any tech expertise, I certainly hope you're not implying that Android is necessarily better for anyone with tech expertise, because you'd be quite wrong.