darkhunter139
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You dont want to install all 3 of those apps they conflict with eachother. Do you need the phone unlocked? If not just install cydia.
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I had a Touch Pro until about a month ago, all the windows mobile browsers are asstastically slow and/or don't render accurately. A fast/accurate browser with youtube support is worth way more than a slow and/or innaccurate broswer with youtube and hulu support imho.
Oh, and I have a 3GS but I've never touched/used a 2G or 3G.
You dont want to install all 3 of those apps they conflict with eachother. Do you need the phone unlocked? If not just install cydia.
Here's the thing, you can't debate and win when it's all based on opinion. That's why I tried to keep it simple with "can it or can't it do something." Opera works just fine for me. Or sometimes I use IE when I want to do logmein. Or I use skyfire when I want to watch flash video sites.
Well, see I don't call it opinion. Gozmodo says that Safari on the 3G is twice as fast as Opera on the TP and Safari on the 3GS is three times as fast as on the 3G. Six times slower is slow /shrug. And Skyfire looks like ass on an 800x480 screen, that's fact too, so it doesn't factor in to any of the new phones.
edit, nope it's worse than that since the article is from last year that means the 3G has os v2 and it's eight times slower than the 3GS with os v3. So twice as slow x eight times as slow = opera on a TP is sixteen times slower than safari on a 3GS.
You know what would make sense, how about someone with a TP2, Diamond 2 or whatever just benchmark the browser so the world will finally know?
http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action
http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html
http://nontroppo.org/timer/csstest.html
http://nontroppo.org/timer/tabletest.html
http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/
I mean surely one of those benchmarks will work.
3GS numbers
peacekeeper - 318
sunspider - 15484.6ms
v8 - everything completed but Splay, so no final score
csstest - 105ms
tabletest - 781ms
celtikane - 30
So basically you have simple needs therefore it makes sense that an iphone works for you being a less capable device. And it's funny that you label the TP2 as a brick, as if it were a lot huger than the iphone. It's not.
http://www.phonegg.com/compare/25/HTC-Touch-Pro2-vs-Apple-iPhone-3GS-16GB.html (size at bottom, though you should know this having had one)
I'm all for liking your phone and personal preference, but let's keep some perspective here. The iphone can do far less than other phones. Being really good at a few things does not make for a great smartphone. If people keep going back to it, then those people are content being able to do less exchanging ability for asthetics.
No, see clearly your scores will be better because you're running a more capable device and I'm running one that's only suited for simple needs. It took my phone 15.5 seconds to run spider, so I'd think you could spare the 10ish seconds you'd need to prove you're right.
So basically you have simple needs therefore it makes sense that an iphone works for you being a less capable device. And it's funny that you label the TP2 as a brick, as if it were a lot huger than the iphone. It's not.
http://www.phonegg.com/compare/25/HTC-Touch-Pro2-vs-Apple-iPhone-3GS-16GB.html (size at bottom, though you should know this having had one)
I'm all for liking your phone and personal preference, but let's keep some perspective here. The iphone can do far less than other phones. Being really good at a few things does not make for a great smartphone. If people keep going back to it, then those people are content being able to do less exchanging ability for asthetics.
Your HTC and WinMo 6.5 doesn't do that much more than an iPhone, and things it can do don't matter to the majority of non power users since business and commercial uses are few and far between for the majority of users.
The last two posts hit the nail right on the head. Unfortunately, Pueblo or someone else will just contradict one point with a random fact or feature of his phone just to start the circle of arguments all over again... What a waste.
No actually my point has been refuting the OP stating the iphone is the best.
You can't as that is preference. Kinda like how JD powers has a car of the year award in every damn category known to mankind. What is best for you in a smartphone isn't going to be the best for someone else.
Actually you can when it's a general sweeping statement. When it's phrased as "best for me" then that's a different story.
Blackberry > ALL as a communications device.
For apps, games, videos.. I have a PC.
Actually, if you have real work to do, WinMo blows away the iPhone. And for the most part WebOS and Blackberry blow away WinMo.
There's a reason WinMo and BB absolutely dominate the corporate world. Does WinMo suck? Absolutely it does. But it's incredibly functional and flexible.
Go read that Engadget article for someone attempting to use an iPhone to "actually get shit done."
semantics semantics semantics. Now you're just arguing for the sake of it. I should go join general mayhem.
The fact of the matter is that you don't know much about the iPhone it seems. I mean you did think it was the same exact size as the TP2 It really seems like all your arguments are based off what you can parrot about it. I'm not saying the iPhone is greatest phone ever, but it works, is reliable, easy to use, has a plethora of functions that it serves, none of which the BB could. maybe it is just verizon's coverage in the area or the amount to which they neutered their phones but at this moment I can easily say that of the 5 or so smartphones I've been around the iPhone is easily one of the best if not the best.
I realize that 5 smartphones do not make me an expert by any means. However after reading the plethora of remarks on this forum and how many people "hate" the iPhone yet return to time after time while vocally waiting for the next iPhone killer to arrive tells me that many people also agree that it is one of the better phones for them.
Gizmodo disagrees
ehh, the iphone is a 07-08 year device, the appstore is flooded with multiple apps that do the same thing now, its really hard to find good apps. when people ask if they should get an iphone or xxxx phone, people say get the iphone because of the appstore. I don't think thats a valid reason anymore, android market is mature and has plenty of apps.. *quality over quantity*. UI and app stores are what the iphone had going for it. I believe android has caught up and both platforms are equal these days. I don't think anyone can say one is better than the other, its a debatable topic and thats a fact, that wasn't the case last year though, there wasn't anything close to an iphone.
I've been an iphone user for almost two years, and I have my first android device on the way, the iphone doesn't meet my expectations anymore.
Lets also not forget about droid app market which has more than what I need.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10623197/1/motorola-droid-met-with-sleepy-reception.html?puc=_tscrss
Lackluster launch for the droid. Looks like just another wanna-be iphone that fizzles out at the end of the day.
Are there any decent games in the Droid marketplace?