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JerseyGirl22 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:12:55 -0000

The iphone is better end of story, period.

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Mike — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:34:51 -0000

Its really nice comparison.

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carlyg99 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:30:56 -0000

I say get with the 21st century and get a BB. Droid, iPhone - whatever - BB is the best.

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hifimann — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:48:11 -0000

I have decided to go with the Verizon Droid by Motorola due to a few practical reasons (both phones are awesome in there own rights) Number one reason - Verizon in my area outperforms AT&T in coverage and in customer service. Number two - I can get a warranty on the Droid and cannot get one on the iPhone through at&t ( I do not want to spend $700 if I drop my phone and I am rough on phones). Number three - I work in the home automation field and I can develop my own apps with Droid. I have had conversations with people from the iPhone religion and they are fanatics, but I'm pretty sure there no passages in your Apple bible that you can use to convert me based on these three facts.

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shekharpatel — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:15:18 -0000

I am looking from the COST point of view.
We use 8 macs between 4 of us (work & home) from powerbooks to latest the iMac 27 and number of ipods (3 shuffles, 5 nanos, 4 touches). Adore mac interface and barely tolerate.
BUT, we e are a 4 Droid Family! with unlimited usage (voice, text & data). Verizon charges are $180/mo !
If AT&T matches (and pays for switching) we would jump the fence in a heartbeat :-)

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skmc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:13:31 -0000

One thing I think worth mentioning is, the Droid also has a flash, whereas the iPhone doesn't. :)

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labshire — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:36:39 -0000

Ok, quick question! I have an iphone and am looking at the Droid. As I have read here, there are many that really muktitask. The only "multitasking" that I feel I do and "need" is when one of my friends calls for some info that I have to pull from the web. With the iphone i can just put them on the speaker phone and keep talking while i look for what they need. I mean I do use a lot of other apps, but I don't feel that I "multitask" a whole lot. I don't dislike my iphone, but I'm not in love with it either but the AT&T service in my area has deteriated greatly from me being able to talk from my iphone anywhere in my home to now sometimes having to go outside to keep the call from dropping and sometimes that doesn't work. I was on my roof putting Christmas decorations up and it dropped a call from there, UGH! (and there is a tower not far from here, so no excuses)! AT&T said I needed to do a "network settings" reset every week or so to keep my phone from dropping all the calls. Now you tell me this after almost 3 years, Please. As you can tell I'm not very happy with AT&T.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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mindfire_photo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:16:30 -0000

Sorry but that's no more likely than the Zune overtaking the ipod, phones aren't all about being the most functional, its also about being easy to use, and unfortunately above all its about being cool, and right now, whats cool in technology is determined by Steve Jobs.

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mindfire_photo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:13:06 -0000

Of all the carriers to not leave for an iphone, T-Mobile seams the most ridiculous. Their network is tiny and is horribly managed, like for instance the whole 3g network crashing for a few hours a couple of months ago or ,haha, deleting all the sidekick data, oops.

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mindfire_photo — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:09:40 -0000

As a loyal iphone user I can tell you exactly why we don't need to to multitask, because Steve Jobs says so, just like we didn't needs 3rd party apps the first year, and just like we don't want to watch bluray on our macs. When The Steve deems it necessary we will all embrace it then, but until that time, we will adamantly deny wanting it.

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seo 2.0 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:45:15 -0000

iPhone with 93K+ apps would have to be the better pic. Droid also seems more targeted towards teens. I can run several different types of stock trading platforms on the iPhone.
http://www.searchenginepart...

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matg123 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:58:45 -0000

Some* of this information reported isn't* 100% accurate. Sorry guys, got excited!

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matg123 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:57:00 -0000

So of this information reported is 100% accurate. I have a 32 GB iPhone and it only costs me roughly $99 a month. Also with the iPhone, you can "multitask" which I guess is too broad of a term to be defined by one definition.

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droiddoes — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:30:00 -0000

One of the great things about multi-tasking is not just listening to music while typing out an email, multi-tasking makes the phone more intelligent and more powerful. For example, I have an application where I setup a bunch of rules based upon location and/or time without me having to do anything. For example, when I'm at work, my phone automatically switches to vibrate mode, shuts off wi-fi, and does other things to conserve the battery. When I arrive home, it automatically turns on wi-fi, bluetooth, disables my lock feature, etc... without me having to do anything.

When I'm out running, I have my GPS app on tracking all my stats. If a call comes in, I'm listening to music, etc... it continues to plot away with no interruption. I was an iPhone fan. I'm a designer and HUGE Apple fan. I never understand the benefits of multi-tasking until I had it and was using it. The fact that AT&T sucks in NYC and drops calls on the iPhone left and right and the multi-tasking issue was enough to sway me away. I love Apple, but if their product is not as good as a competiting product, why would I spend the $ on it.

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nanook — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:30:14 -0000

Er... The iPhone, technically does "multitask". By fundamental definition, all multitasking means is the ability of a processor to, by appearance, run two tasks at the same time. Hence the iPhone's ability to run its iPod app, its Safari app, its mail notification app, its AIM app (which has the ability to alert users of a new IM when they're not actually in the app), and its phone app.

Besides, why would you want a silly plastic phone? My iPhone, apparently, is made of a ceramic plastic with Yttrium and Zirconium.

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xymantec — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:01:31 -0000

You both are retarded end users, you obviously love your "simple" iphone which means your both huge noobs! multitasking is the future whether you want to accept it or want to play the stupid and ignorant card... since multitasking is beyond the scope of you narrow comprehension ill let you choose.

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JR — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:11:22 -0000

If your answer to this is that you need to jailbreak it then compare a iPhone jailbreak with a rooted Droid.... oh yeah; then it becomes a slaughter of the iPhone. Hell a rooted G1 with mem hacks kicks the crap out of an iPhone.

Keep iPhones comparing where they do well.... SIMPLICITY. The shiny case and the pretty icons that are easy to push. That is what iPhone wins on.

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Whett Phartz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:20:55 -0000

Your husband needs to learn how to use his phone. I've done that EXACT same thing successfully many times.

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NikFlorida — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:42:42 -0000

it's really very simple. If you're going to upgrade your phone, upgrade to a smartphone. I have the TMobile MyTouch, and I'm perfectly happy (I didn't get an iPhone not because of the phone, which I like, but the service provider-- I absolutely wouldn't leave T-Mobile for ATT)... if you already have a smartphone, keep it for the time being. What isn't shown in the chart is that my MyTouch has 16GB of memory, the MyTouch's battery not only is rated at twice the standby time as the iPhone (which is 4 hours, not 5) and only costs $50 to replace, not $100. Oh, and you can take the back off the MyTouch without voiding the warranty. Any smartphone will do. The iPhone is probably the best of them, but ATT is probably as bad a cell service provider as there is, and you have to have them, because with an iPhone, you definitely want a warranty. They're great phones, but they're not very *clearing throat* durable.

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NoSocialism.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:30:39 -0000

Tmobile offers a plan to where you can have 2 phones on unlimited talk time for $89.00, then it costs about $30.00 per line to add unlimited Data & Text messaging. So if you have a spouse, your costs ends up being closer to $75.00 a month each, or $1788.00 over 24 months, almost $2000.00 in savings per line!

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simon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:34:26 -0000

Thing is, you can pull off a very similar scenario with the iPhone.

- Say you've got your iPod feature running.
- An email pops up from a friend asking you to go to dinner...
- You check this week's schedule on your calendar...
- You launch one of over a dozen apps to find a restaurant to book...
- You launch Yelp to see their reviews...
- You pick one and Yelp launches the Google Maps app directly to give directions...
- You go back to the original email and reply back with time and directions...
- All the while your music is playing in the background.

See, the reason you can do this on the iPhone is a good number of apps (though not all, unfortunately) will resume from their last state when you restart them. Email definitely works that way, as does your calendar, and Safari. I'm pretty sure Yelp does, but I'm not 100%.

You don't need multitasking to do that, and in fact, since the iPhone's processor is on par with (or better than) most smartphones that do multitask, the simple fact that it closes apps makes it run far smoother. Seriously, go back and watch that video you linked. See how many times the screen is simply unresponsive to his touch. I've never had that problem with my 3GS.

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simon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:27:55 -0000

I guess I haven't had the need to listen to Pandora while writing an email, since I can listen to my own collection, which is a bunch of stuff I already know I like, while clicking out said correspondence. I mean, since the iPod feature of the iPhone will run just fine in the background while doing other things...

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Joel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:26:47 -0000

The droid is about to smash the iphone

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Jessica Gardner — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:28:04 -0000

I particularly used the multi tasking feature last Wednesday when I went to Bible study. I wanted to record the Bible study teacher while, reading the scriptures that the teacher instructed us to go to. With my Motorola Droid, I was able to record the lecture using a recording app and read the Bible using You Version Bible app. It was cool because My husband has a BlackBerry Storm and he couldn't do both at once. It was either record or read the Bible. It was kind of funny :)

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terry — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:10:13 -0000

yea kick ass