Posted on 06/19/2010 9:37:50 PM PDT by Feline_AIDS
Hey Freepers,
I've decided to enter the world of smart phones. There are two options at this point: iPhone 4 or the HTC Incredible.
I'd like your opinion if you've got some experience with either of these phones. I played with the Incredible today and was very impressed. I've known iPhone users who swear by their devices.
Right now I'm leaning toward the HTC Incredible. #1- Verizon does have good coverage. I'm looking for a phone, after all. #2- Incredible seems to move very fast. #3- Incredible has voice to text. #4-Can't think of anything that the new iPhone will do that the HTC won't, except a front facing camera, but I really don't care about that. I use a phone camera to snap pictures of funny/weird/cool things, and #5 the HTC has an 8 megapixel camera.
In phones, and any other cameras, do not let megapixel counts fool you.
The quality of the sensors matters just as much as, or more than, the number of pixels. Smaller sensors without the latest tech do very poorly in everything but bright daylight conditions, and introduce a lot of noise in the shadows. Larger and/or newer sensors gather more light, and thus do better in low-light and shadows.
It’s a personal choice of course, but I’d prefer the lower megapixel high-quality image from an iPhone to a camera that just gives you higher-resolution noise, like the Incredible.
I love the free Mobile Hotspot feature on my Palm Pre.
The iPhone 4 will have the Hotspot feature but you have to pay an extra $20/mo to use it and that $20 does not buy you any extra bandwidth. In addition you will not be able to use the old $30/month unlimited data plan. You will have to take the $25/mo, 2 gig/mo plan.
You can no longer get the $30/mo unlimited data plan. You will be stuck with a $25/mo, 2 gig limit plan. Verizon still offers the $30/mo unlimited data plan.
It's a value judgment. Apple requires app approval, meaning you will rarely get constantly crashing apps as I have gotten on my Android phone, and the apps must meet Apple's privacy policy. Android is more of a free-for-all, nobody proactively checking the quality of the apps, or what they do in relation to your privacy. But you do get more choice.
AT&T’s service depends on where you are. I travel extensively and live in a suburban area— no problem, great service actually. Good people to work with, too.
So poll people you know who live and work in your region. If AT&T is okay for them too, then that seals the deal: iPhone4. No question.
The trouble with Android is what automobile aficionados call “fit and finish.” Inattention to detail and abysmal battery life pretty much sum it up. See http://tinyurl.com/36b8bmn for example (warning: strong language).
I-Phone
There is no difference between talking on a headset and talking to the person next to you. It's probably more distracting to be talking to someone next to you.
If you can't talk and drive you shouldn't drive. But needing your hands to talk on a cell phone is a different story. I would not do that.
And did you even read your citation? Here's the juicy parts:
A pair of researchers has amassed nearly 8,000 iPhones and Android smartphones...They decided against Apple's iPhone AppStore as a way to distribute their app because apps undergo fairly rigorous vetting there...
The Android's official app marketplace was a bit too restrictive, as well...
The researchers used other online app stores that catered to jailbroken iPhones and other smartphones.
So anything that infected Android also infected the iPhone, meaning the FUD spread earlier - about how Android had viruses and iPhones didn't - has been confirmed as FUD by your own link.
Apparently the Jobs Reality Distortion Field extends through iPhones and infects a few FReepers as well...
There are THREE factors to consider:
First it IS a cell phone, so coverage is the first issue.
ATT is spotty in non metropolitan areas. You live in a city greater than 250,000, NO PROBLEMS. You live in the sticks or miles away from an interstate highway, you could have issues. Verizon and Sprint are much better in rural areas, due to their use of CDMA and local carrier agreements.
FEATURES: The App store from Apple has 10 to 100 times the offerings of the other smart phones, and nearly double the screen dots per inch for viewing. You can’t hardly see the screen of a droid outside. The iPhone has 3 times or more of the battery life over the other smart phones. The iPhone has only 5megs for pics and the others have 8. But the iphone has 32 GB of storage, you have to BUY an additional SD card for the other phones. These have been known to pop loss or be lost too.
LASTLY: iPhone is the #1 selling smart phone in the world by marketshare and it in its 4th year now. And there are ZERO Viruses able to infect it. Droid and others require anti virus apps and are well known to hackers as a gold mine for identity theft and all your personal data you keep on them.
I had the very first 6700 Smart Phone by Sprint. The first sliding keyboard, data, etc. HATED it. Cursed it night and day for 2 years, cause it had all sorts of the usual PC problems.
Then iPhone came out and being a Mac user, I jumped on it, paid Sprint 300 to cancel my contract and jumped on to the very first iPhone for $699.
The iPhone has been without issue. Flawless. Does almost everything I used to use my laptop to do while in law school and now on the road for work.
NO ONE REGRETS GETTING AN iPHONE.
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I read your link.
Symantec says: “This is more of a prank than a true malware.”
Also this post is from early 2008 !! Hello? So your big news is that 2 years ago someone wrote a prank install that people had to download from someplace OTHER than apple.com and then install it themselves?
That is NOT the hundreds of self installing true viruses which HACK and DESTROY other OS phones every day.
That was it. The one shot you had? A 2 year old prank that any user could also just Uninstall?
You ever tried to just Uninstall a real virus?
Swordmaker is wrong tho... yours is not a Lie... it is a GD EVIL KNOWING LIE.
He was far to kind to you, and you keep pulling these same attention seeking stunts on Apple thread after apple thread.
GET A LIFE !!
“Did you read my link? This isn’t a jailbroken phone, and yes, it’s malware. My statement was correct. Unlike yours, which is wrong (the link proves it so).”
If you are dumb enough to troll the internet looking for
system updates from non-Apple sources, you probably deserve what you get.
Evo has wifi hotspot for $30/month, but it is 4g, and speeds are between 3mpbs and 10, tending towards the lower end. There is also a tethering program in the marketplace that provides free wired tethering. That works with just about any android phone. I didn't know that iPhone4 will have hotspot capabilities, that definitely is a plus. For me, I would never be on ATT just to have iPhone, but if they had it on Sprint or Verizon, I would definitely have to decide between it and an Evo or Pre. I don't like closed systems, though, and now that android has about 50,000 apps, the biggest advantage iPhone had is not so much an advantage.
If it’s going to be used as an Exchange client, get the HTC.
Proof please. Or is this more of your inane rantings?
Swordmaker is wrong tho... yours is not a Lie... it is a GD EVIL KNOWING LIE.
Proof of the "hundreds of self installing true viruses which HACK and DESTROY other OS phones every day" or you can retract your own GD EVIL KNOWING LIE.
Seriously, get a life... Or at least a little lithium!
I agree. Yet it does happen; just like with other phones. Yet somehow Rachel would have us believe that the iPhone will never have a problem, and that other phones are being infected by the millions with those hundreds of rogue viruses out there...
Just looking for a little balance, but perhaps that's too much to expect from Apple zealots.
Yes, I read the link.
NO, it is NOT a VIRUS.
Malware is a generic term for bad software. And YES, there IS bad software written by bad people which CAN be forced onto a Mac or iPhone. But, then you can also just accidentally DELETE your files too. Nothing prevents idiocy.
So, what you are doing is pushing the LIE that such human errors in self installing a bad and unofficial app is the same as a self executing user unaware VIRUS form of Malware.
The iPhone and Mac OSX has NO SUCH VULNERABILITY. The way the code is written makes it IMPOSSIBLE to occur.
The Droid and others, however, ARE VULNERABLE to unknowing self executing malicious attacks.
THIS is the difference. This is the REALITY.
So, while you are not technically lying when you say “ah, ha, in 2008 someone did write a bad code to run on iphone”. you are the LOWEST OF LOWEST OF EVIL LIARS to imply by your 2 year old citation, that iPhone is in ANY WAY, or at ANY TIME, vulnerable to a REAL self executing form of malicious code.
And worse, worse than just the debased nature of your lies, is that you are not doing it just on some random Mac Thread, you are doing it to intentionally mislead someone who has asked for advice.
That is not a forgivable action.
iPhone has been running MS Exchange client services since March of 2008. Are you saying there is some issue?
Whoaaa, Nellie.
I think you are posting to the wrong FRiend...
ampu
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