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Apple and Android smartphones are cluttered, which is just one reason I like Windows Phone 7 better than Apple and Android phones.
One of the great strengths of Android is how much you can do to change up the interface (including changing it to mimic WinPhone7 or iOS). Sites like Lifehacker often spotlight particularly clever/innovative/attractive Android layouts, and there is some honest-to-God artistry there.
The Windows Phone 7 interface is striking, sure, but it's also a little too bold for my tastes...I try to have at least some open space on my Android's home screens (which have a great landscape photo I took as the background). And iOS is just old.
The Windows Phone 7 interface is striking, sure, but it's also a little too bold for my tastes...I try to have at least some open space on my Android's home screens (which have a great landscape photo I took as the background). And iOS is just old.
jeb.hoge it was great compression and explanation and its right that android has an ability to have lots of application in it as compression to other windows mobiles in India.
For me, there's just too much that an iPhone CAN'T or WON'T do that just makes it a non-starter for me. By the time I get to asking usability questions, the iPhone is long gone from consideration.
Owning both with generally the same apps or similar apps I have to say I find more and more that Android is more usable.
Especially with iOS5.x, the constraints on what/where/when/how aligning you more and more toward the iCloud is severely limiting app functionality. So they may look similar, they may function similar, but the under the hood and options are not equal.
Good example: on my iPad I used to create / change / display work docs using iWorks with Dropbox and Skydrive as my "cloud". iOS5 came along and while some functionality remains, the flexibility has been removed and steered toward the iCloud. On my Transformer, using Polaris or QOPro (QO is also on my iPad) I still have full flexibility.
Controlled vs. Options
I'll take options any day.
Especially with iOS5.x, the constraints on what/where/when/how aligning you more and more toward the iCloud is severely limiting app functionality. So they may look similar, they may function similar, but the under the hood and options are not equal.
Good example: on my iPad I used to create / change / display work docs using iWorks with Dropbox and Skydrive as my "cloud". iOS5 came along and while some functionality remains, the flexibility has been removed and steered toward the iCloud. On my Transformer, using Polaris or QOPro (QO is also on my iPad) I still have full flexibility.
Controlled vs. Options
I'll take options any day.
Interesting topic. The topic was well-handled in the article and you guys have fleshed out more issues relevant to the experience.
iOS is designed for the older 4:3 aspect ratio, as a result some design feels more natural in this space especially if a toolbar is in use. On the other hand, for video especially but other media forms as well, 16:9 is the perspective of choice. I honestly think this plays more into people's opinion about the apps they use than they realize.
In my personal opinion, it is BlackBerry that is more user friendly, with a lot more options at hand than any of the two platforms.
I'm sure my statement will raise a lot of comments (negatives, may I predict), but I have used and worked with all three platforms, but it is BlackBerry that (in the end) comes to me most natural.
(before getting BlackBerry in my hand, I was a loyal Nokia user. and no, I'm not Canadian...
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I'm sure my statement will raise a lot of comments (negatives, may I predict), but I have used and worked with all three platforms, but it is BlackBerry that (in the end) comes to me most natural.
(before getting BlackBerry in my hand, I was a loyal Nokia user. and no, I'm not Canadian...
) 
I don't agree, mainly as I'm a happy android user (I tried apple devices and have owned a few but really hate the deep menus), but I know plenty of frustrated blackberry users where I work, some of whom have bought Android devices for their personal phones instead.
But I must say for me iOS is by far the most intuitive of the two. I can normally locate information and settings within seconds, whereas on my Android it's always a question of "where did they put that thing?" Sometimes I never can locate a setting which I had changed at one point.
Even when killing time at Best Buys a few days ago, playing with all the many, many tablets they have there, the iPad was far easier for me to maneuver around on than were the Android tablets. Even the cumbersome Windows tablets seemed easier to operate than Android. It just doesn't make sense why forums are filled with folks who feel like defending the Google OS.
Even when killing time at Best Buys a few days ago, playing with all the many, many tablets they have there, the iPad was far easier for me to maneuver around on than were the Android tablets. Even the cumbersome Windows tablets seemed easier to operate than Android. It just doesn't make sense why forums are filled with folks who feel like defending the Google OS.
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