wonderboy416
Active Member
ganja, you're right it's all about preference. Mind you, on a display that small, cramming more pixels onto the screen serves almost no purpose
If you look at the Galaxy S screen next to any other display it will blow you away, this much I'm sure of. It's really it's strongest selling feature when compared to the other Android phones. You must have seen engaget's display comparison... at no point in time up until now has any review focussed on pixel density in a device like this, it's a non-factor, so to base a screen comparison on that one factor alone is pretty much insane. There's a lot of really pro Apple sites out there.
As for picard's comment that an extra half inch is nothing to write home about....
half an inch gets you drastically more screen real estate (think in terms of percent, it should be close to maybe 30-35% more?). If you're reading pdf articles, watching movies or surfing the internet it's a HUGE improvement. I've lived with an Iphone, I can't tell you enough how amazing the screen on the Galaxy is. As for issues with the size and lack of expandable memory... yes you can live with the Iphone for sure... BUT it's just downright anti-consumer for Apple NOT to include something that's a standard feature on all but the most basic phones across the entire industry. There's no excuse for not having a micro SD card. They wouldn't be able to sell their higher capacity models (and Ipod touches) for ridiculous amounts of pure profit if they included such a basic feature. Look at the price difference between an 8 and 32gb Ipod touch, then look at the cost of memory... Apple has quite the business model going for them, if you don't buy the 32gb model now you're always going to have to live with the limitations of the 8gb... I have problems giving my hard earned money to such a company.
I really do think the Iphone is a great phone for a lot of people... but I stand behind my previous comment. If you were to put Android 2.2 on an Iphone 4 and then put it on a display rack next to some modern Android phones, no one in their right mind would even consider it unless they were in love with the form factor. If you were to remove the Apple logo I'm sure it wouldn't even sell at all. It's well behind the curve and missing so many basic features that others (ie. Blackberry) have been doing for years... Features that would probably cost Apple a few bucks if they were to include them.
Having played with OS4 (my girlfriend ironically is in love with her Iphone and has upgraded her 3G to the newest OS) I can tell you it's like using a straight jacket compared to Android. Microsoft's OS dominated Apple's in the 90's (and still does to this day) for a reason, this seems like Apple never learned their lesson in terms of having an open, customizable environment. I wish Microsoft and RIM luck, but Android is most likiely going to be the new Windows given the greater emphasis on mobile devices.
If you look at the Galaxy S screen next to any other display it will blow you away, this much I'm sure of. It's really it's strongest selling feature when compared to the other Android phones. You must have seen engaget's display comparison... at no point in time up until now has any review focussed on pixel density in a device like this, it's a non-factor, so to base a screen comparison on that one factor alone is pretty much insane. There's a lot of really pro Apple sites out there.
As for picard's comment that an extra half inch is nothing to write home about....
half an inch gets you drastically more screen real estate (think in terms of percent, it should be close to maybe 30-35% more?). If you're reading pdf articles, watching movies or surfing the internet it's a HUGE improvement. I've lived with an Iphone, I can't tell you enough how amazing the screen on the Galaxy is. As for issues with the size and lack of expandable memory... yes you can live with the Iphone for sure... BUT it's just downright anti-consumer for Apple NOT to include something that's a standard feature on all but the most basic phones across the entire industry. There's no excuse for not having a micro SD card. They wouldn't be able to sell their higher capacity models (and Ipod touches) for ridiculous amounts of pure profit if they included such a basic feature. Look at the price difference between an 8 and 32gb Ipod touch, then look at the cost of memory... Apple has quite the business model going for them, if you don't buy the 32gb model now you're always going to have to live with the limitations of the 8gb... I have problems giving my hard earned money to such a company.
I really do think the Iphone is a great phone for a lot of people... but I stand behind my previous comment. If you were to put Android 2.2 on an Iphone 4 and then put it on a display rack next to some modern Android phones, no one in their right mind would even consider it unless they were in love with the form factor. If you were to remove the Apple logo I'm sure it wouldn't even sell at all. It's well behind the curve and missing so many basic features that others (ie. Blackberry) have been doing for years... Features that would probably cost Apple a few bucks if they were to include them.
Having played with OS4 (my girlfriend ironically is in love with her Iphone and has upgraded her 3G to the newest OS) I can tell you it's like using a straight jacket compared to Android. Microsoft's OS dominated Apple's in the 90's (and still does to this day) for a reason, this seems like Apple never learned their lesson in terms of having an open, customizable environment. I wish Microsoft and RIM luck, but Android is most likiely going to be the new Windows given the greater emphasis on mobile devices.
