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Actually the Micro USB was designed to be more durable than the Mini USB... up to 10,000 connect / disconnect cycles. Plus the wear parts in the Micro USB are in the cable rather than the device. Much cheaper to replace the cable.
Having just moved from the iPhone experience of 3 years to an android experience. YES, YES, and YES! The android is the true fully featured phone. With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Now, even though I have the power to tether, I don't. Because its so much easier and fun on my Milestone! The annoyances that plague this guy, well, doesn't really affect me, apart from the di…
Web surfing is very similar among similarly-specced phones across all of the major OSes (it's mostly the same browser, after all).
> "Wifi Tethering. I don’t need to tether often, but when I do, I do. I rooted my phone quickly, just so I could use one of the many apps in the Marketplace to tether my laptop via Wifi. Worked flawlessly, no extra charge." That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering…
Also, I'm not sure how the no cloud push in 2.1 can be a reason for switching from Android to iPhone. Does the iPhone have a cloud push feature equivalent to the one Android 2.2 cloud push feature? I'm assuming that's the "no cloud push" feature he's talking about, since many Android apps have push messaging for email, IM's, etc. (I've had push Exchange mail since at least Android 2.1, IM's have always been push-instant, etc.)
" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. " Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
Don't know if this is specific to the Droid X. My Nexus One doesn't need rebooting ever. The last time I can remember rebooting it was when I forgot to charge it overnight and it died.
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I have an iPhone and I think I know what the GP is saying (although I haven't tried Android). I have a 3G which is basically unusable for the web because it's so slow , and I haven't even put iOS 4 on it. Apart from that, however, Safari basically just has no features. The form filling is so broken that, when I type half my email address in and it offers to fill it out, I tap on it to dismiss it and it fills the box…
I think an Android phone with similar specs will have the same speed (eg G1 or Magic), but modern iPhones & Android phones are much faster.
" Every couple of days, you do need to reboot the phone. " Love how this was tossed out there as an afterthought. Huge, obnoxious deal-breaker. I love losing state every 2 days! /sarcasm
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With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Can you elaborate?
I have an iPhone and I think I know what the GP is saying (although I haven't tried Android). I have a 3G which is basically unusable for the web because it's so slow , and I haven't even put iOS 4 on it. Apart from that, however, Safari basically just has no features. The form filling is so broken that, when I type half my email address in and it offers to fill it out, I tap on it to dismiss it and it fills the box…
Whereby I couldn't really tell the difference. I have an 3GS and it was fast with iOS3 and it is as fast in iOS4.
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I think an Android phone with similar specs will have the same speed (eg G1 or Magic), but modern iPhones & Android phones are much faster.
I had an HTC Magic for a year and found the web browsing to be great. Never used an iPhone to compare though. I loved that I could open multiple Windows, which I pretty much did every browsing session. I have an HTC desire now and its awesome. Really, really awesome.
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Tethering is also built into Froyo, which I've been happily using since May. Also, "no cellular data while you're in a call" is a CDMA vs GSM issue, not an Android/iOS/Blackberry issue.
Unfortunately, the Droid X does not have Froyo yet, nor is the bootloader decrypted yet, so there's no way to get 2.2 on it as of right now. Hopefully it gets it soon, since the Droid 2 announced today does have it.
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With the iPhone, I felt the need to tether because surfing the web is so clunky. Can you elaborate?
I have an iPhone and I think I know what the GP is saying (although I haven't tried Android). I have a 3G which is basically unusable for the web because it's so slow , and I haven't even put iOS 4 on it. Apart from that, however, Safari basically just has no features. The form filling is so broken that, when I type half my email address in and it offers to fill it out, I tap on it to dismiss it and it fills the box…