"How do you like your phone?" and other random questions
Okay, so there aren't really any other random questions. For a while now I've been thinking about making the jump to a smart phone, and having polled my Facebook friends and my lab students, I thought I might as well ask on LJ as well. So...what phone do you have, how do you like it, and why? [FYI: I'm on Verizon.]
To give a bit more context, I will note that I've heard from both Android people and iPhone people, many of whom were happy to tell me all about the flaws of the type of phone they don't have. My best interpretation of the consensus was that the android OS seems to be better than the iPhone OS (I actually had someone who is a die-hard Mac user tell me that), but that the most popular/"best" current android phones (at least the ones for Verizon) have even poorer than normal (for a smart phone) battery life. The Thunderbolt is out now, but before it was released it seemed that the most popular android phone was the Droid Incredible, and I've heard from people that even killing all the battery eating apps they still often couldn't even get through a whole day with one battery charge. I don't know about the Thunderbolt's battery life, but a) it's expensive, and b) it's too big (from my POV), so I'm not really considering it at this point. While my computers are PCs, my MP3 players are iPods, and I have a Touch so I should be comfortable with an iPhone, and most people with iPhones who responded to me reported better battery life than the people with Droid Incredibles. Other options include one of the smaller, not as fancy android phones or a "feature" phone instead of a smart phone.
So...tell me about your phone, LJ peeps.
To give a bit more context, I will note that I've heard from both Android people and iPhone people, many of whom were happy to tell me all about the flaws of the type of phone they don't have. My best interpretation of the consensus was that the android OS seems to be better than the iPhone OS (I actually had someone who is a die-hard Mac user tell me that), but that the most popular/"best" current android phones (at least the ones for Verizon) have even poorer than normal (for a smart phone) battery life. The Thunderbolt is out now, but before it was released it seemed that the most popular android phone was the Droid Incredible, and I've heard from people that even killing all the battery eating apps they still often couldn't even get through a whole day with one battery charge. I don't know about the Thunderbolt's battery life, but a) it's expensive, and b) it's too big (from my POV), so I'm not really considering it at this point. While my computers are PCs, my MP3 players are iPods, and I have a Touch so I should be comfortable with an iPhone, and most people with iPhones who responded to me reported better battery life than the people with Droid Incredibles. Other options include one of the smaller, not as fancy android phones or a "feature" phone instead of a smart phone.
So...tell me about your phone, LJ peeps.