I wrote this for my personal blog, thought id share.

It is my opinion that people are scared to call a Spade a Spade! Anytime you hear the question "Which is better, iPhone or Droid?" you always get some pretty good answers, but then its followed with the usual "This is just my opinion, you may feel differently"

Oh yea?? Exactly why would ANYONE feel differently? Aside from specs, lets just look at pure capabilities!

You get the idea ....

I currently own both the iPhone and the Moto Droid (dInc will be mine once the friggin thing is in stock!).

My honest opinion is that the iPhone is amazing at a few things (media player being one of them), and has definitely been the primary factor in raising the bar for user experience. But i think their days are numbered! It is my opinion the only thing keeping the iPhone up on its pedestal is the consumers attraction to apps, since they obviously have way more. But the Droid is catching up fast, and with no limitations or hurdles for developers, it will soon blow past Apple.

Thats my quick review, feel free to debate, or give feedback.

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^ what you both said! Well said!

Yes agreed! Obviously the iPhone is meant to be extremely simple. And it does that flawlessly. I'm not knocking anyone for liking the iPhone ... but don't dare stand in front of my and tell me the iPhone is a better device! If anything, admit the Droid is a better device, but you have no need for such an amazing device haha

EDIT, BTW i didnt mention anything about hacks, and functionality possible with hacks. Im basing my opinion on stock devices.

Great write-up! I liked all of your statements they were all very true. One question. What is Shameless Plug? it is not on the Market.

well i meant the app, launcher pro

U know whats amazing about the Droid or Android....I got the Droid specifically for free turn-by-turn GPS...

Android is so amazing I totally forgot thats why I wanted it in the first place...and I have used a few times in the last few months...

yes the homescreens...at first I didnt think I would need more than 2. Now....I have apps and widgets on just about all 7 homescreens, organized somewhat by type.

Flash and the battery points.....lol I will even be nice and call it even about Flash if debating an iPhone user with claims it slows down browsing and heats up the phone...but the battery thing....that is too funny....

I have the battery charger that charges 2 batteries at the same time: one in the phone and one in the charger. A thing of beauty for trying ROMs and having no juice to install it. Just pop in the spare battery thats always charged up....

Sigh...

Better is always subjective. When it comes to smartphones better only means "better suited". One size will never fit all.

The Droid can have infinitely better capabilities but that doesn't mean that it's better suited for everyone. That's why opinions, perspectives and differing needs/wants matter. It's only the fanboys that blindly argue that one option is always better than the other for everyone out there. It's a tired approach no matter how you try to reason things out or present specs as evidence of superiority.

There are always two sides to these matters: what the device is capable of and what the user needs/wants. Fanboys always overlook the latter. Meaningful discussions, on the other hand, always consider both.

It seems hypocritical to me to lambast others from tagging their comparisons with something indicating that it's just their opinion when you start your own rant with "My honest opinion".

No its not subjective .. in my opinion (hehe i added that as a zing lol)

Some millionaires drive Toyota Corollas. Is it because they are cheap? Sure maybe. But there are some that just buy that car because they dont NEED such an amazing vehicle. The Toyota goes from pointA to pointB ... thats all they need, and they are happy with that. But you wont hear any one of them say their Toyota is "better" than a Mercedes. They just dont need it. But the point of my rant/post is that at least they admit the other car is "Better"!

In comparison, some people dont need to change home screens, or have fast browsing, or a replaceable battery, or navi, or whatever else ... so they go with the simpler version, the iPhone. But then rave that the iPhone is the better device??

Excellent.

Strongest argument people have for what iPhones can do that androids cant is they can use iphone apps. There are some cool apps that are not available for android, such as Plants vs Zombies. BTW if someone makes a port of that, I'll love you forever

Edit video
Ibird app
Beejive app
Buzztime mobile playmaker app

editing video on the phone, sounds potentially cool / useful. But how efficient would that be? Not to mention the frustration of trying to get it do what you want.

..and what the heck are these:
Ibird app
Beejive app
Buzztime mobile playmaker app
??​

This is well written and is the reason why the Iphone will not die and also because of marketing. Let's face it, there is a mainstream audience and then there are the hardcores (most people on these boards). Hardcores want to do everything possible on their phones. Mainstreamers want it to work and be able to do some cool things. Hardcores get blown away by a widget on the screen that gives them weather constantly, mainstreamers get blown away by a magic 8ball app. The Droid was built for hardcores, but can cater to mainstreamers as their continued rise in marketshare has shown, but bottomline is those mainstreamers really will never know that their Droid (or other Android phone) is better then any Iphone.

A co-worker of my wife's whom I never met asked her about getting a new phone and I advised her to tell her to wait till July/August for the Droid X and Droid 2. What did she do? go buy a Droid Eris. I am talking last week. When I found that out, I was screaming and I don't even know the person. But again, this person is a mainstream person and will never do a lot of the things we do with our phones. Besides calling people, looking up facebook and some simple apps a lot of people just don't do much more.

I hate Apple, but I give them credit for going out to the mainstreamers. The sold 600,000 in pre orders for the Iphone 4. Let's face it, Iphone is going nowhere. Just like Bose radio is going nowhere. These are brands that are marketed well and marketed to mainstream people that want something good, but do not want to put the time or energy into really knowing if it is the best or finding its limitations.

The best thing we can hope for is the Iphone to stay away from Verizon till at least 2012 and hopefully Android by then will have a strong enough following.

Great post. I know 3 people who have the Iphone right now and after playing with my Droid they all want my phone instead. One of them actually cancelled their pre-order for the Iphone 4G. A funny story, last night we were at our sons baseball game as weather was moving in, I was using an app called "Rainy Days" and getting radar updates constantly, he couldn't even get signol. And no, we were not out in the sticks, we were about a mile off a main road. I had full bars and he had none. I teased him and told him a lot of good that 4G is going to do you if you have no signol. Just another reason...... Droid!

Iphone has a basic video editing app that allows you to crop starting and ending points and I think adjust a couple of things. Pretty nice. I like to take video and then share it with family, but it would be very nice to just clip a 10 second section out of a video to share right away.

Ibird is a nice bird identification app
Beejive is a instant messaging app that incorporates many different IM clients. There are some options for this on Android, but not as nice.

Buzztime allows you to use your iphone or ipod touch as a playmaker device to play the trivia and poker games and such you might find in a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.

And I would not trade my Droid for an Iphone if you paid me. (well, depends on the offer)

True, the there is no Universal Panacea for cell phones.

And somehow I feel that the only true "iPhone Killer" will be either Apple or AT&T. I mean, it'll be something they'll do for it to fall out of favor.

I have a question about iPhone apps. Does the iPhone have a Market so you can get an app OTA, or just via iTunes?

You can access the app store OTA.

A well-done rigid OS like Apple can appeal to a lot of people for simplicity and function, but there's really nothing to stop Android from doing something similar as stock.

Android is just going to get better and better. A lot of people seem to be underestimating the breadth and depth of Google's ventures.

Apple primarily makes pretty boxes. They really can't compete with Google's suite of products which seems to be growing by the day (just wait until they roll out Gizmo seamlessly integrated with Google Voice).

VZW has the pipes and Google has the products. It's really an awesome combination. And the funny thing is, neither is truly tied to the commodity in this chain - the cell phone! Increased competition in cells only benefits BOTH VZW and Google.

Droid is a lot like learning to use a new computer, although it it's a pretty quick learning curve if you don't get fancy. But for any moderately tech literate person, the Droid should be the clear choice.

Widgets are awesome! They give you Blackberry-like e-mail functionality. And for quickly monitoring news and multiple other things, widgets are a superior utility. 30 seconds here, 30 seconds there can really add-up to make your day more productive (because it's not just about email).

I do understand the appeal though. First off, there is no arguing it, Apple has amazing marketing. They have done a great job of making sure their stuff is 'cool'. The ipod is a great example. Once people started using the ipod, they thought well since ipods are cool, maybe macs are too. Same followed with iphone. I dont really understand why people this windows is so non user friendly, I have had so many more problems using a mac. W/e, as I said, there is a very big 'cool factor' with iphones