One More Reason Why The Android Is Better Than The iPhone (And The Blackberry Too)

22.9.11 The Reporter 2 Comments

The iPhone is possibly the dream phone of every Apple Fangirl and Fanboy out there. It is also the dream phone of many cellular phone enthusiasts, especially smartphone enthusiasts. Geeks and hardcore IT people may be divided over the Blackberry, the iPhone and the Android, but still, the iPhone is still part of that list. 

Maybe it's Steve Jobs' Charisma, or maybe it's the fact that the iPhone is really one piece of beautifully-designed machine. As many an iPhone 4 enthusiast would say, nothing compares to the iPhone's rendering of the capacitative touchscreen.

On the other hand, there is something to hate about the iPhone: it eats your data plan or even prepaid credits like mad.

There are horror stories that abound of how the iPhone eats up load credits or makes postpaid plans balloon like crazy. That's why either you think twice about buying a new iPhone, or read the cautionary tales and don't do what these users did, or do what they did to remedy the problem.

On the other hand, why don't you make your life simpler? How about getting an Android? Sure the OS still has more room to grow and still has to be tightened and improved in a lot of areas, but if there's one thing we can never fault the Android with, it is consuming prepaid load or racking up a postpaid bill thanks to data.

In fact, one of our staff, who uses a Cherry Mobile Nova, oftentimes leaves her 3G settings on when she switches SIM cards, and yet her load balance doesn't get consumed, as long as she gets to turn off her 3G within a minute of turning the Android on. This goes to show that the Android doesn't log you on to your network's data connection unduly, thus letting hundreds to thousands of pesos go to waste.

The same complaint of monetary loss is true of Blackberry units. Unless you configure the settings with your provider, you may, unfortunately, encounter some monetary loss due to data service usage.

If you're like our Cherry Mobile Nova user, who focuses on what's great in a phone and not its bugs, then you'll probably remain a happy Android camp-er. So far, for her, 3G and WiFi use have been painless, even the software upgrade was rather painless, and these data service glitches have never been a problem for her.

This is just one advantage of the Android over the iPhone and the Blackberry as a Smartphone. Let the Smartphone wars rage on!



Note: Rochelle Sy Chua was, is, and remains an Apple enthusiast and believes that the iPhone is still the best Smartphone out there. This discussion was prompted by one of her Facebook contacts' complaints about the iPhone.


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