The single worst thing about the iPhone is how terribly it integrates Google Voice. Apple denied the actual Google Voice app developed by Google (the one that works so well on Android,) because of some stupid reasons a while ago. There was a lot of drama, if I recall correctly, but it pretty much boiled down to the people at Apple being corporate snob douche bags. Google designed a pretty decent web-based app for the iPhone, but it's not quite the same. There are no push notifications, and the mail app for iPhone also sucks, so I never know when I get texts. (see more about email delay in a later post)
On Android gmail notifications are pretty much instant, and Google voice notifications come pretty quickly too, so I see my texts within 1-3 seconds of receiving them. Much better than the 15 minutes it can take on iPhone.
So far,
Android - 1; iPhone - 0
Edit: I've just learned of a Cydia app for Google Voice (for iPhone.) My iPhone is running 4.02, however, and cannot be jailbroken yet. After I jailbreak it, I'll get the Cydia Google Voice app and post another entry.
yeah, i was just thinking about the cydia app. really, you gotta do a jailbroken iPhone comparison to the android, cause even though some will argue that for comparison's sake iPhone should only be compared as intended by apple, the jailbroken community has become so large and thriving that to not include it is to deny a huge part of the iPhone.
ReplyDeletefor example, a lot of people will say that multitasking just came to the iPhone. officially, it just came, but the jailbreak community had multitasking for quite some time now. they manage to fill in the voids (albeit not as polished) that apple chooses to ignore until apple is willing to provide it.