Tag Archive: Apple

Dec 30

IPHONE VS. ANDROID–PART III: Stores and Accounts

Both phones essentially require you to have an account in order to properly operate the devices. In this post, I compare the iTunes account and store to the Google account and market. I’ve managed to successfully buy an app from each store, and it is a fairly different experience.   iPhone: This is where I …

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Dec 26

iPhone Vs. Android–PART II: Cameras

Camera   Both: Both cameras on both phones suffer from similar problems. They are cheap and crappy No screen-side camera for video calling They are both sluggish They both suck and have fucked-up colours and blurring in anything other than perfect lighting conditions Neither of them have a flash and they both REALLY FUCKING NEED …

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Dec 19

iPhone Vs Android–Part I: UI

**NOTE: This is by no means exhaustive. Much more has been written on this, but I’m obviously writing about those aspects of the UI that are important to me. I’m also mixing in performance issues as well. And a titch of hardware. So fucking sue me. (It should be noted as well that the UIs …

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Dec 18

iPhone vs Android–PRELUDE

PRELUDE So, as some of you know, I inherited my wife’s old iPhone 3G when she recently took the free softbank upgrade to a 4s or whatever the hell the new one’s called. My own phone is an old HTC Magic that DoCoMo resolutely refused to give me some kind of upgrade deal on recently …

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