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[General Questions and Answers] paulkenosha:
I also came from a symbian phone (which I hated). Got a mytouch slide and had so many problems with it I almost went to ios. But gave andriod another chance with the samsung epic and fell in love! Learn new things my phone can do all the time.
[General Questions and Answers] nyirog:
yeah, I like it
[General Questions and Answers] echelonMCRhartgrenade:
Definitely! I'm taking it day by day lol
[General Questions and Answers] trick2:
I love Android far better then apple os.

:D
[General Questions and Answers] d3s3rt_eagle:
Love Android :D far better than iOS, and it has a linux heart ;)
[General Questions and Answers] KeithRVA:
lol I had a G2 and a Nexus S before I went back to my iPhone! I was holding out for a T-Mobile iPhone but that didn't happen obviously. The G2 did take very good pictures...I kept thinking, wow, these look like iPhone quality pics! Bad part about G2 was the speaker sucked bad and no front camera.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
As someone who uses my phone primarily for multimedia android didnt offer me much... WP7 has definitely been the top choice for me. Android just seems slow after using WP7
[General Questions and Answers] DS1495:
I would say my satisfaction would be 9/10. One thing I've noticed is the app/game selection is growing at a very rapid pace. I recall just a month or two ago, there were hardly no good quality android exclusive games, but now we're seeing plenty of them flood the market.

Also, many more companies/websites/TV stations are making apps for android too, whereas they just used to be for iPhones and (sometimes) Blackberry.
[General Questions and Answers] biglacio:
i had an iphone before i had android. i give android a 9/10 and iOS a 5/10.
[General Questions and Answers] Curious!:
nothing will fulfill all of your needs, c'mon! seriously?
[General Questions and Answers] imaninja23:
android is the best :) and it's open source
[General Questions and Answers] Marchief:
coming from symbian (the good old N95 8GB) more than satisfied with android, utterly amazed at all the stuff yuo can do and the extra's on top. Won't stand for any other type of phone anymore, love it.
[General Questions and Answers] poofyhairguy:
I just got my first Android device this weekend (rooted Nook Color) after years of owning iPhones, and for the most part it has been a pleasant surprise. I like the fact I can chose a web browser, as I was constantly fighting with mobile Safari. I also like how much cheaper the Market is compared to Apple's market. The same apps are more expensive on the Apple side!

With that said, until an Android program pops up that can replace Air Video for me I don't see myself getting an Android phone....
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
It needs a decent 2D free satnav program.
[General Questions and Answers] Helleqn:
In every way.. =D It's almost perfect. Just need to get better support from the manufactures.
[General Questions and Answers] InquisitiveG:
Been very happy with Android so far. Came from WM6 on a blackjack, so android was a huge leap forward. Now I like checking out different rom's.
[General Questions and Answers] insistents:
It does everything, but lack a bit on games.
[General Questions and Answers] Kurupt562:
it needs street fighter iv!
[General Questions and Answers] paulkenosha:
Yea I will agree there. I am all about android, but I happened to glance at a friends iPhone store, and there choices of great looking games had me a Tad bit jealous. But I will say androids games are getting better with time.
[General Questions and Answers] Albamatrix:
Yeah it do! Buisness use most.
[General Questions and Answers] Oniyuri:
^ This, but at least samsung seems to be trying for the moment (and all it took was a slight PR disaster).

Sent from my Bionix-V 1.2 powered Vibrant.
[General Questions and Answers] rizzo269:
I was a die hard BB user and never thought I would see the day I moved away from my bberry. I picked up a torch when it was released and had nothing but problems from the start. I went through 6 replacement devices andthen was given the option to go with the Captivate or the Xperia. I chose the cappy due to the specs on paper and have never looked back. I love the customization of the platform, and the community has a great following when it comes to developing software.

I do agree with some posts in here that the games are a tad weak, but I have seen some improvements. Since I was used to constantly updating my BB software, flashing ROM's has become a regular event with me. It's amazing all of the pieces you can change.
[General Questions and Answers] sarashah:
android rocks and is much better than iOS, atleast in my opinion.
[General Questions and Answers] Hawkester:
Apart from the games yes :D
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Decent MP3 player? Nope.

Netflix? Nope.

Good email client? Nope.

Lag-free interface? Nope.

Intuitive UI? Nope.

Doesn't really do much of anything I want for a phone. It's a fun toy if you want to waste your days tinkering but at the end of the day if I want a phone I'll go WP7.
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
There, corrected for accuracy :D
[General Questions and Answers] deliriousDroid:
Ahaha, I was going to write something to the same extent. Well said

Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
You'd have to have a severe case of fanboyism for that to be true...

Lag free interface? years later and theres still not a single phone that implements a hardware accelerated UI. They're all just laggy. The UI is in no way intuitive, it's just another ripoff, netflix coming soon? Highly unlikely aside from on devices with severe security and overkilled chipsets (e.g. the atrix.) Not a single MP3 player on there compares to zune player though there are some decent Ipod ripoffs. Half of android phones cant even utilize a yahoo email address and that's still I believe the second biggest email provider out there. The lag free UI part was the funniest though. You may think it's lag free in the way that people who've never seen a bugatti think a volvo is a fast car but by comparison to a real lag free UI it's choppy and annoying.
[General Questions and Answers] Mrdaviso:
Fanboy what? The corrected statement is so much more accurate than your op. Its obvious your bias, and not thinking clearly.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Yes, even though some of mine is backed up with facts rather than opinion.

The truth is android does a lot but it does it all at a mediocre level.

WP7 doesn't do everything android does but what it does do it does extremely well.

I want a phone that's going to work.
[General Questions and Answers] Mrdaviso:
Exactly, SOME. Fanboy
[General Questions and Answers] steelewise:
switched from blackberry 8900 and now i wouldnt use one again if you paid me.
[General Questions and Answers] steelewise:
the more i learn the more i love android. once my hdmi out fully works it will be a true iphone killer far as i can tell the only thing i cant do with my evo that a iphone can is play videos in my truck which i kinda can now nut only certain things cant wait for fully open mirroring
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Ok, please do tell me at what point I was wrong? Currently it looks like you're just throwing an insult without reason. There's absolutely no foundation to any argument here except mine and therefor currently though I may not be fully in the right I'm as close as there is.
[General Questions and Answers] Mrdaviso:
Its not meant as an insult, its obvious you started the fanboy deal. I did my time under windows and I will never waste my time on another wm phone. And I'm not running around giving false information. We just want people to be fair which your post was obviously not or you wouldn't have got the responses you did.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
That's the general opinion I know. WM was a waste of time for the most part. It was a pocket PC. This is the same blind reason that most people wont try WP7. It's a new OS built from the ground up but I know windows has it's past plague... No one liked WM except XDA members. None of the information I've provided is false, I was a hardcore android fan for 2 years and actually still own 5 of the best android devices out there. The fact is though its quantity over quality. I prefer quality. Thats what it comes down to. I played with the atrix yesterday and even that isnt near as smooth as my lesser WP7 devices (The HTC ones, I love HTC as a company but they did terrible with WP7.) Androids trying to make the hardware sell the OS. I want my OS to sell the hardware. Android hasnt had a real update since eclair. Everything else is just a glorified pallet swap. :/

Like I said, android is a fun device to play with but when I want something complete I'll go WP7. Everything on it works and works well. For tinkering, I'll go with android. For multimedia, email, texting, and office I'll go WP7.
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
Android fanboy? Me? You must be kidding!

Compared to WM with MS3.5 android has got soooooo far to go, not as far as WP7 does, but unlike WP7, I've no doubt android will get close to being as good as WM with MS3.5.

No lag on mine or my friends' and colleagues' android devices. Can't say the same for the HD7 and trophy, how anyone puts up with those long winded animations I don't know, I couldn't without shouting "Come on!" at the phone. Also don't know how anyone can believe they're anything but a con to hide loading times.

Remember you asserted that flicking between screens on an android device with widgets would produce lag, yet many of us tested this and found you were wrong, similarly with WM/MS, and this without a hardware accelerated UI, showing if you have a decent enough UI you don't need hardware acceleration. Yet you're still spouting the opinion that android is laggy.

Netflix and Qualcomm have both confirmed that android devices with Netflix are coming soon. Don't tell me you're now deriding the WP7 motto "facultas adventum mox" :D

Thank goodness there isn't a zune clone on android! It has to be one of the worst mp3 players I've had the displeasure to use. Clunky and disjointed, in album view there's what? 2.5 albums per page? Scrollin' scrollin' scrollin' it's the WP7 way. Hope you don't get RSI in your thumb.

Even the stock HTC players are miles better.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
And look where WM went. Android is only as successful as its hardware because the OS markets itself as a low-end iphone. The only reason it is so insanely succesful is because for morons its's the iphone alternative that encompasses all the major carriers and then theres fanboys who always want the latest and greatest device which shifts and becomes unsupported after about 2 months if that. Android is encountering every issue that WM had every bit of fragmentation every bit of lag in the UI (even if you cant see it someone who's used a decent OS can without fail.) everything just feels so amateur. and half-assed. If the animations bore you (longest of which is just over a second for both the in and out transition then that is purely a matter of opinion. I for one prefer that to skips between home pages and a general slowness to the UI. As for the zune player I love how you accentuated just album view. I for one have used album view perhaps twice on any of my MP3 players. Just like everyone else in the world I go through artists or just shuffle it. The most albums I have by a single artist is 13 by Incubus and it doesn't take more than a single flick to scroll through all of them. Everything about the UI is lightyears ahead of androids run-down iphone ripoff and everything it can do it does much better than android ever will. Afterall with the last 2 updates being essentially glorified pallet swaps it looks like the android team is running out of ideas.
[General Questions and Answers] sturgeon123456:
I love the android os, I love what you can do with it. I find that when I use an android phone my needs expand as the world of android is so customizable (custom roms, 3rd party apps, overclocking) etc.
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
Microsoft never saw the potential of WM, they were caught sleeping (as with so many new things). Now rather than develop it into what it could be, taking advantage of new technologies, they're rehashing the first gen iphone, specifically targetting the iphone/facebook population with a device which is several generations out of date already, still lost in the wilderness with no real idea of it's purpose or direction.

Android is so popular because unlike the iphone/wp7 it's available on a plethora of hardware varieties. I'm not an elitist twonk who thinks that only the well off should have access to smartphones.

If someone is willing to have a low end device because that's all they can afford, then who the hell do you think you are to say they shouldn't be given the oppertunity????

WP7 would run a hell of a lot crappier than android on the same hardware as a low end android/WM device, after all, as you say, it needs hardware accelleration for the UI ;)

As has been pointed out, your claims of lag are not valid, you can say it as much as you like but it it doesn't make it true. WM+MS3.5/Android on the same hardware react better than WP7 on the same hardware, as you don't have to put up with the damn animations (1 second you say? Feels more like 1 minute, perhaps we should dig up Einstein to re-think his theory of general relativity! You don't need to travel at the speed of light to elongate time, just a WP7).

As for Zune, I was about to have dinner so didn't have time to list all it's failings. Lets see, they don't have much opinion of WP7 owners' literacy skills, having to remind you what letter items start with, just incase you can't work out "where have all the flowers gone" starts with a W. They really do have scrolling fetish don't they? Ok, so maybe you want to be able to look up Justin Beiber's bio in an mp3 player, personally I'll just stick with a decent mp3 player and good music, with the album art I've either chosen or taken myself.

Zune is clunky and like much of WP7 gives the impression of being long winded when doing anything.

No, not everyone uses artist or shuffle. Many use their own playlists with a specific running order, others play all albums in a row, others all songs in a row. Shows how little you understand or know people's habbits.

Likewise you appear to be unaware that android has many mp3 players, so if you don't like one, you can pick another. I don't like Zune, what alternatives are there?
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Microsoft attempted to recognize the potential of Windows Mobile and kicked that dead horse way too long even causing the HD2 to run on an inferior OS. So instead because like every company ever because they like making money they came up with a UI that focuses on two of the biggest pop phenomenons of our generation with the first intuitive UI in years. Yes, that totally sounds like poor business practice.

Yes, if it didn't have hardware acceleration it, like android, would require that I tap the icon... tap it again... oh wait it finally popped up from the first time. Windows Phone 7 is quick to respond whereas android isnt regardless of what rom or whatever you're running. If you can't see that you're in denial. People can have a smartphone if they want. ATT and T-mobile have both offered their WP7 devices for free already with a 2 year contract.You still cant get an iphone 3gs for free. But you get what you pay for with android really. You get a cheap device and it will run like a cheap device. You get an expensive device and though it will seem like a drastic increase from the cheap device but by comparison to WP7 it will still seem slow.

You keep saying my claims arent true and yet everyone who has transitioned over has spoken of nothing moreso than the speed and responsiveness increase.

It's quite obvious.. again, if you can't see it it's android inspired blindness.

Yes, I dont like the default. So I get a bunch of skinned versions of the default or an ipod clone... Yeah, I'll take individuality. I do love that you call people illiterate because we use a device which you can search by artist or quick scroll through and see a letter and stop... I mean in all honesty the arguments generally sound like those of every fanboy. Absolutely no backing (whereas I can pull videos proving the lag in a heartbeat, discussions, etc.) though they are much better worded. They're based entirely on your opinions. No facts whatsoever. Androidds biggest complaint is lag (and the complete failure to update, and the fact that your phones obsolete about a month after it hits shelves but I'm going to focus on the lag.) Yet you don't seem to want to own up to a factual statement. Self-delusion is unhealthy.
[General Questions and Answers] Digital1325:
Android is fulfilling my need, but the manufacturers aren't.
[General Questions and Answers] fritolays:
Yup great piece of software.
[General Questions and Answers] isaac970:
Nice lol
[General Questions and Answers] leadingthenet:
Yes, android has everything that you can ask from a phone operating system.
[General Questions and Answers] HUHUHUgo:
Thanks to the custom roms, definitely!
[General Questions and Answers] bexwhitt:
apart from the lack of proper m4b support with chapters and the like its got all I need
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
HD7 has the inferior OS, HD2 has the superior WM6.5.

There is no reason why they couldn't have developed WM to integrate with pop phenomenons, thus keeping the superiority of the OS whilst also taking advantage of new technologies.

Again with the incorrect information. I tap an icon and the app starts, in both WM and Android, neither needs hardware acceleration to do this, they just work, quickly and smoothly.

Many of us have used WP7, WM and Android, and we know you're talking out your posterior. WP7 was the most frustrating of the lot for me, you start an app, and you wait and wait while it shows you an animation. Bare bones android was less frustrating, and android with sense is getting closer to the usability of WMMS.

Heck even my father in law's LG android phone is as smooth as the HD7.

Funny, in some of the W7 threads you've posted in people have said they've gone back to their old phones and complained about the animations. I specifically remember one asking if the animations could be turned off as they were taking too long. WP7 blindness perhaps? You made the choice and now you feel you have to convince everyone (and perhaps yourself) that you didn't make a mistake, we get it.

And when are you going to understand? I do not like android! I tollerate it because HTC have made its usability more like WMMS but it is still not as good as WMMS. I have no doubt that one day it will get close to being that good, just as I have no doubt WP7 never will.

Heck if the iphone 5 was as good as WMMS I'd buy it, because it would be a good phone, I'd buy anything which had the features, stability and smoothness of WMMS, I'm not brand loyal. Android gets close, having some abilities which are superior to WMMS, WP7 has one such ability but it implements it in an inferior way to how Android does it.

I'm not the one who thought that users need a big letter to show what the songs/albums/etc start with, that was someone at MS who had a low opinion of you WP7 owners.

On my android and WM players, I just bring up the keyboard and tap in the letter(s) - (because we can be more specific than just picking the first letter if we want to) of the song/album/etc that I want and I'm taken there. Even WP7 has the first letter selection ability, ok it gives you a big screen with nice easy to read letters, but do you really need those letters in the song/album/etc list? Surely you can tell "Where have all the flowers gone" starts with a W?

So that would be no to an alternative mp3 player on WP7 then?

I see you got your definition of individuality from watching the life of Brian.

I can show you a load of youtube vids showing no lag in Android. Several of us tested your assertion regarding scrolling back and forth between screens full of widgets and reported back that there was no lag and you're still talking out your backside.

Time and time again others have proven your comments are incorrect.

I can do it right now; sliding left, no lag, left right left right, still no lag, left, left, right, no lag, press home button, no lag. Where is this lag that you speak of? Oh that's right, my phone doesn't have any lag.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
This argument has lost it's point. We are essentially throwing the same arguments back and forth now and there's absolutely no purpose to it. We're obviously not changing eachother's opinions and to be quite frank it seems both of us are making asses of ourselves in this thread. I will never find android to be a viable system again after using WP7 and you're not going to be fond of WP7 because it differentiated from WinMo. (which I also loved because at that point in time the issues it had and still has were more than reasonable. The same can't be said for android in my opinion.) Android is right for a lot of people, anyone who wants to tinker as could be done on WM should totally switch to Android. I still have a couple android devices laying around to play with if I ever get in the mood. After WP7 though I've liked that I didn't have to mod the **** out of my phone to make it perfectly functional. It's a welcome change. So yeah, for fun, definitely android but at the end of the day when I want something that just works, I'll take WP7 any day.
[General Questions and Answers] swoop534:
android is pretty cool, and the android robot is even cooler
[General Questions and Answers] paulkenosha:
wow guess this thread turned into a android vs wm7 debate huh?
[General Questions and Answers] [Z][E][U][S]:
I used HTC Desire for like ...5 months, then by series of some events i sold it and bought Iphone 4, and sadly... i like it more than Desire. Jailbreaked, installed tons of things wich i needed and it works just as i want. Only thing wich i kinda miss from android is notification bar and maybe widgets. All tho i got used on those "lacks".
[General Questions and Answers] ImHerMan:
It does many things except cook and clean for me haha
[General Questions and Answers] mycoolm3:
ditto haha
[General Questions and Answers] saurabh88:
only in sd not nand
[General Questions and Answers] GreenPAOwr:
i had an iphone, now i'm using an android phone. android is soooo much better. i like the level of customization and the ability to make the phone look unique.
[General Questions and Answers] dirtbaghh:
can't really say yes right now... just got my first smartphone and its android ... but i'm learning and loving it !!
[General Questions and Answers] theebest:
I love desk
[General Questions and Answers] mbbauk:
Why do you think Nokia and Microsoft are panicking and merging together guess hat acouple of years ans android rules. Well my opinion android is going to be a the os tabs and fones. For a long time.
[General Questions and Answers] Godric8:
Android Forever...!!! the best and linux based...
[General Questions and Answers] Phut:
I'm in the same boat here.

One thing though that I've found is a double edge sword is its heavy reliance on the internet, I could do without the bandwidth waste and lag caused by internet pre-fetching that a lot of the software does in an attempt to be 'smart'.