12 Jan, 2010
iPhone Retains Edge Over Droid, Nexus One So Far
Posted by: Craigo In: Cool Links|General|Smartphone|Tech
The Android operating system, and its two newest devices, the Motorola Droid and Nexus One, have put the first true challenge to the iPhone since its inception. As an iPhone owner, my eyebrows were raised at these open-source devices that were jam packed with missing iPhone features.
At the end of the day when I played with the Android phones, though, something just didn’t seem as good. At first it was hard to put my finger on it, then I realized that’s exactly what it was….putting my finger on it.
Today, a product development firm tested the touchscreen capabilities of all these devices and found the iPhone interface to still be the most responsive and superior of them all. Jump to the link to read the methodology, but it’s a very simple test of trying to draw a series of straight lines on the phone.
In other news, the launch of Nexus One has been a major headache for users, who flooded the Google forums with problems related to phone software/3G connection, and found themselves receiving pretty poor service.
Google’s Nexus One (on T-Mobile) support forums have been flooded with anecdotes about the phone’s poor 3G connectivity, so one user decided to follow up with some reasonably scientific tests. The conclusion? The Nexus One is kind of terrible at basic cellphonery! – Read the full article at Gizmodo
