[Windows Phone 7 General] JVH3:
iPhone Advantages

1. The 4 column grid lets you see more applications at once. The pages of apps to launch also makes it so it is easy to find the applications that you have.

2. Applications are very mature on this platform. Some include additional features or details not in the Windows Phone version.

3. There are more applications available. They are normally cheaper as well.

4. The physical switch to turn off the sound.

5. Battery life. With WiFi on and in use all day on my iPhone, I still have 75% charge. My Quantum has had WiFi and BlueTooth turned off and only has 50% power left. This may be a gen 1 vs gen 2 issue for Widows Phone 7 devices, but it is all I can compare. Maybe some new Titan users can comment.

6. iPhone allows any type of background process. This means that any app, such as Glympse can update send your location while in the background. It also means that features in some apps will not be present in the Windows Phone 7 version that do this, because Windows Phone does not allow this. See Post #142 for details.

Items 7 to 16 were identified by Vetvito here: Post #34

7. "Cut" - both have copy and paste.

8. Games: In game voice chat - able to trade game items with other players

9. browser has a forward button and find on page function (confirmed to not be in Win Phone 7)

10. Integration with all apple products including apple tv

11. Video MMS - iPhone can send and receive. Windows Phone 7 can receive them and play them, but it can not send them.

12. notification bar with widgets and unified notification access from the lock screen

13. Basic photo editting is built in.

14. iTunes Match - 14, 15, and 16 described here: Post #40

15. emoji icons

16. Safari Reader - removes distractions, such as ads and makes it mpore like a pdf.

17. Massive amounts of hardware made specifically for iPhones which ensures full compatiblity.

18. Compass is perfect on the iPhone. Often times, it is incorrect on my LG Quantum. Maybe someone can comment on a Gen 2 Windows Phone 7 or a different model to see if it is better.

19. Landscape support when playing music.

20. Siri - It has similarities to Tell Me, but there are some things Siri does better, just like there are some things Tell Me does better. I am putting this as an advatage for both. I will use a post to outline some differences.

21. Music - shake to shuffle - takes you to a different song if you don't want to listen to what is playing. (can't use back arrow to go back to the song though)

22. Better backup and restore system. (backs up more than just purchased apps and everything can be in iTunes or the iCloud by user choice).

23. On January 1st there will be no YouTube player for Mango that supports HD video.

24. Ability to enable and disable location services on a per-app basis in settings.

25. Setting up caldav and subscribed calendars in iOS is a snap, where that capability doesn't exist on WP7. CalDav link for those that don't know what this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV

26. Able to view Comcast video on demand through the xfinity.tv app. Although with a Blast Extra subscription many shows available on your laptop will not play through the app. More Details: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20830665&postcount=111

27. Able to Stream Dish Network video with an app from the DVR if the DVR receiver is new enough. Ability to use DirectTV Nomad app with $150 additional hardware to get direcTV videos onto the DirecTV DVR

28. Safari on the iPhone 4S renders some mobile sites with slightly incorrect HTML or CSS better for the user where some mobile sites are not usable in the mobile version by Windows Phone 7.

29. Ability to take screen captures, which is very useful when asking for help or illustrating steps.

30. Ability to group programs into folders

31. iMessage - this allows iPhone users to text message iPhone users without counting as text messages. This spans carriers. There are many free messaging programs available to all platforms, so this is not a huge advantage. Windows Phone 7 delivers free messaging through Facebook integration so long as the users are friends on Facebook. Pick your evil here. To text for free using the built in solutions, with the iPhone friends all have to support Apple or on Windows Phone friends all need to be friends on Facebook.

32. Outlook Syncronization through USB. This is not possible with Windows Phone. Windows Phone requires over the air syncronization, such as with an Exchange Server or gmail or Windows Live. Many don't consider this to be a huge issue, since there are plenty of free over the air solutions and the growing trend is to not tie devices to a PC. (the cloud is the future). But if you feel strongly that you need to tether to Outlook, Windows Phone will not do that.

33. iCloud syncronization with other devices - With Apple products, iCloud will automatically sync apps, music, video to all devices registered with the Apple Id.

34. Better pixel density and resolution.

35. FaceTime is built in - (Video Messaging for iPhone to iPhone or other Apple product such as an iPad). Advantage is not great since Skype and Tango are free and available on all major platforms. FaceTime is only available for Apple products.

36. PhotoStream - streams pictures from the phone over WiFi to your computer. Full resolution is preserved. With Windows Phone - Sky Drive, it syncs over the air and does not require WiFi, but it adjusts the pixel resolution (I need to verify whether this is configurable).

37. Ability to open links from a page in a new tab without navigating switching to the tab. (considering dedicating a post to browser advantages and disadvantages) Safari for iPhone vs IE for Mango

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