HTC Android phones vs the iPhone

  
     
  By: IRMGARD DOERSAM  
 

The successful launch of the iPhone in 2007 has seen a flurry of imitators emerge, keen to grab a slice of the emerging smartphone market. The most successful of these imitators has been Google, with its own Android smartphone operating system, as used on phones made by various manufacturers such as Motorola and HTC.

There are, of course, other types of smartphone available with a touch screen, such as those that run on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms, but both of these systems have fairly severe drawbacks, such as a lack of available software, and poor implementation of basic features.

Currently, Android is still lagging behind the iPhone in terms of features and the amount of software that is available for it. However, the fact that Android phones are now outselling the iPhone means that developers are looking increasingly keen to hop aboard the Android bandwagon.

At the moment, there are a lot more cheap and free apps available for the Android platform, but the iPhone still has the edge in terms of higher quality, more expensive apps. For example, you can get Segas Football Manager for the iPhone, whereas you can only currently get the markedly inferior Real Football Manager for the Android.

Another area in which the iPhone has a crucial advantage is in the web browsing stakes. While the Android browser is reasonably good, it is a bit more sluggish than the Mobile Safari browser that comes with the iPhone. However, you cannot view Flash content on an iPhone, whereas you can on some of the newer Android phones.

If you want to listen to music or download videos for the iPhone, you have to use iTunes. While this does give you access to the biggest content and music store in the world, all of that content is copy protected, which means that you cannot synchronise it with another device, or play it with any software other than iTunes.

There are lots of different media players available for the Android platform, and while none of them are quite as polished as iTunes, they are an awful lot more flexible. You can download content from virtually anywhere, and it is a lot easier to move files between devices, due to the lack of built in copy protection.

If you enjoy using any of the free Google services, such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Gmail, Google Tasks, or Goggles, then you will find that it is a lot easier to do so on an Android phone. You can still use them on an iPhone, but they do not work quite as well, and take a lot longer to set up.
  
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