Comments on: My First Impressions of Android

By: Anatoly Spektor

Anatoly Spektor — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:19:44 +0000

The only question that arises after reading this post – if you own an iPad and touch why not an iPhone which is times better than Android? (I used both Android and iPhone) 🙂 But thanx for the great overview anyways

By: David S. (@seemsartless)

David S. (@seemsartless) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:52:17 +0000

I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy S II for a few weeks now, and have had exactly the same experience with it, and Android. Loving it, happy with the Google integration, etc…

And thanks for the great tip about filtering only those contacts with phone numbers!

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:42:04 +0000

In reply to Paul.

“internal storage space (to install apps w/o rooting)”

Actually, you can move the installations to your SD card via any number of available apps. I use ‘App 2 SD’ and all the apps I have on my Nexus One have successfully been moved there.

By: Marius B.

Marius B. — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:46 +0000

«I’ve set my phone so that it only shows me contacts for which a phone number has been stored.»

Proof that there are so many fine perks within Android, and that even after months of use you never know when you get a nice surprise: my 1200+ contacts left room for only 165 to breathe more relaxed…

By: Skyler

Skyler — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:47:10 +0000

In reply to Andrew Champ. Agreed. My parents and brother all have LG Optimus 1's. They have a few complaints now and again but every complaint they have tends to be a hardware issue. (to slow, battery dieing, touch screen fidgety. It's a resistance touch screen).

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:38:10 +0000

Picking up a good model of android phone can give you a great experience, like yours.

Picking up a bad one can be a bad experience, though. Sounds obvious, but that’s where the diversity of opinions on it come from. And people are always louder when complaining than when offering congratulations.

This is unlike apple’s offering, where there is only one phone to pick up, and if your opinion on it differs from the masses’, then it will be disregarded.

Android being open to modification, it has a lot more places to find trouble, and can be a little harder to troubleshoot (especially when talking about device-specific problems), so apple does win by default there.

I however humbly regard myself as being able to find out about and solve problems I come across myself, rather than whinging at the first tic I find. And I love android’s openness and the moddability it allows.

By: anthony

anthony — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:52:51 +0000

Pretty, pretty, preeettty good!

By: jay

jay — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:25:28 +0000

Not to tread hear but wind and koodo are the only networks in canada that doesnt have an iphone so limited avaiablity is wrong to state but on the other hand one less iphone user is a good thing.

Also, Curb is a pretty pretty pretty good show.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:39:30 +0000

Just saying that I believe the iPhone does a lot of the Google integration if you modify settings. I know the contacts can be changed and synced along with calendars and mail.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:07:39 +0000

Great curb reference