The iPhone 4s, Android, and My Mother

Here’s how it went down, my mom get’s an email from Apple, because she signs up for things she owns, and loves newsletters. “The new iPhone 4s is coming. Hmmm, if I upgrade, I can give this one to your sister,” she says, holding her iPhone 4 in her hand.

Prior to this, we were traveling by SUV through the Redwood National Forest all day, and to my surprise, had missed out on the announcement, completely, so I start to look at the phone and see what’s what.

After a few minutes, I ask, “Why do you need the iPhone 4s? Looks to be about the same as the iPhone 4 you’re holding right there in your hand.” This is where it gets tricky, see, my mother does four things with her phone (in order of usage): sends texts, actually talks on it, checks email, plays solitaire. Granted she takes a picture with it every now and then, and even video, but then she says:

Mom, “I want to hook it up to my laptop and use the Internet”.

Well, right-o, mom, “you can do that with a lot of phones other than the iPhone, and why not do it with some style that doesn’t revolve around iTunes.”

Mom, “Oh I hate iTunes.”

“Alright, mom, Samsung Galaxy S2 is for you. Same price, no iTunes, same phone… faster 3G data”.

Sold.

Can’t wait to root it for her.

 

10.5.11 • posted in: Technology

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001953668592 Lewi Hussey

    If ya think about it, alot more thought has gone into the iPhone 4s and all its predecessors so e.g. the rear camera’s maybe the the same but the iphones is brighter, clearer so much more thought goes into each component.
    Whereas in the Galaxy.. everything feels rushed, the overall quality just really isnt upto standard to compare with Apple.
    Opinion based :)

    • http://nrek.co nrek

      Apple pays attention to every last detail of all their products, which is what makes them great, and greatly controlled. They want to grasp their product’s vision so tightly, that they actually debilitate use by walling it up in the Apple Universe. 

      I think they make a great product. I think they wrap it in a pretty marketing campaign. I think they’re good for the Apple user. I also think Samsung is killing it right now and doing an amazing job. Android needs a more unified focus, but they’re doing great right now – and it’s loaded with the technological freedoms I love to tinker with. 

  • Korky Jan

    Report back when your mother uses the Galaxy S2 :) 

  • VerySuave

    Samsung … pffft … They didn’t even bother to at least make their ripped-off copy of the iPhone even look different!  ROFL .. easy to steal someone’s design and “improve” on it after the fact, but come up with your own innovations … ???  Samsung are a stagnant handset company that was floundering in a quagmire of their lack of imagination, vision and innovation.  They can thank Apple for saving their unintuitive asses (by copying them.)

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  • http://nicholasorr.com Nicholas Orr

    Mum and I have SGSII’s mostly because I pay for our GAFYD account. If Apple’s iPhone had native support for all of Google’s products we might be on iOS devices, I like iTunes…
    Oh hold up, in order to put any text into the device you need a keyboard and iOS keyboard is crap compared to swype (rooted SGSII, w/ 3.8.86)/swift x (rooted Tab 10.1).

    Pretty much if you want to do what you want, you get an Android device.
    If you want to do what Apple tells you you can do, you buy an iOS device.

    That is all it comes down to in the end really. The devices are pretty much the same hardware wise. Go Samsung for keeping the device open, they had the option to lock it down (for a short period of time at least)…

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully your mom doesn’t disown you after realizing that Android lags like crazy, has butt ugly UI and lower quality apps.

    • http://nrek.co nrek

      spoken like someone who’s never used an Android device long enough.

      • Anonymous

        I have been using Android phones for the past 2 years, but finally went back to the iPhone 4s on Friday. There are some things that I like about android, such as sd card support and ability to drag and drop stuff, but the user experience is nowhere near the iPhone. There is a reason why Apple outsells every individual android handset by a factor of at least 5 to 1. Android UI is a mess, and most manufacturer skins are even worse and the majority of apps are inferior compared to iOS version.

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