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By Daniel Rosenstein
In the modern smartphone world, two names are king and queen. The iPhone and the Droid are currently battling for greatest share of the smartphone market, and leaving many people uncertain which choice is right for them.
Apple had a few years head-start on the Droid, and it showed. When the Droid was first released, one thing that kept many people with Apple was the enormous marketplace of apps. But thanks to the open-source software and the ingenuity of programmers the world around, Droid now has thousands of apps, as well. The gap has mostly closed on this front.
The two phones have competing OS systems, more than anything. The operating system that runs the iPhone, iOS, was unlike anything else when it debuted. But Android, the Droid phone operating system, was engineered to be just as easy to use and full of features. While there are some key differences in how the operating systems work, they are both very capable, and very user-friendly.
Unlike iOS, which is only run by Apple iPhones, the Android operating system is available on a number of handsets. This will increase the market that is aimed towards phones with the Android OS, and that, in turn, will make the Droid capable of doing more and more things. Because Apple will hold a decreasing percentage of the smartphone market, less items will likely be aimed at their users, as time passes.
The place where the iPhone excels is the same as where Apples usually excel-- in the arena of graphics. Video and pictures coming from the Apple smartphone are better than those taken by the Droid. There is also the ability to video phone, something which is not yet possible on the Droid. But Apple has some tough competition.
There is a larger screen on the Droid, which makes watching video a better experience. It helps that the Droid can play many more formats of multimedia than its competitor, too. And streaming video comes in faster over the built-in wi-fi, something unavailable on the Apple smartphone. The Droid also has expandable storage capacities because of its SD card slot. And it is cheaper.
The bottom line is, it depends on what you want from the phone. If owning an Apple product is important to you, or if you use the features that it excels at often, you might find an iPhone is just the thing for you. But for greater flexibility and a cheaper phone, choosing the Droid is the way to go.
Apple had a few years head-start on the Droid, and it showed. When the Droid was first released, one thing that kept many people with Apple was the enormous marketplace of apps. But thanks to the open-source software and the ingenuity of programmers the world around, Droid now has thousands of apps, as well. The gap has mostly closed on this front.
The two phones have competing OS systems, more than anything. The operating system that runs the iPhone, iOS, was unlike anything else when it debuted. But Android, the Droid phone operating system, was engineered to be just as easy to use and full of features. While there are some key differences in how the operating systems work, they are both very capable, and very user-friendly.
Unlike iOS, which is only run by Apple iPhones, the Android operating system is available on a number of handsets. This will increase the market that is aimed towards phones with the Android OS, and that, in turn, will make the Droid capable of doing more and more things. Because Apple will hold a decreasing percentage of the smartphone market, less items will likely be aimed at their users, as time passes.
The place where the iPhone excels is the same as where Apples usually excel-- in the arena of graphics. Video and pictures coming from the Apple smartphone are better than those taken by the Droid. There is also the ability to video phone, something which is not yet possible on the Droid. But Apple has some tough competition.
There is a larger screen on the Droid, which makes watching video a better experience. It helps that the Droid can play many more formats of multimedia than its competitor, too. And streaming video comes in faster over the built-in wi-fi, something unavailable on the Apple smartphone. The Droid also has expandable storage capacities because of its SD card slot. And it is cheaper.
The bottom line is, it depends on what you want from the phone. If owning an Apple product is important to you, or if you use the features that it excels at often, you might find an iPhone is just the thing for you. But for greater flexibility and a cheaper phone, choosing the Droid is the way to go.
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