Social Networking Services: Apps vs. Browser Use Part 2 - Google+
Earlier today, we reviewed the Top 2 in Social Networking Websites: which gives a better user experience, its browser version or its mobile version. Now, we’re reviewing the up-and-coming challenger to Facebook’s social networking domination: Google+.
Google+. It started out as an invite-only service from Google. The social networking service to rival Facebook’s unchallenged dominion. It was poised to do a Facebook: take over the social networking market and reign as the sole social networking service worth signing up for. A good number of social networking aficionados have made the move, but the takeover isn’t complete: instead of making a phenomenon like Facebook – rendering other services like Friendster and MySpace obsolete, Google+ merely coexisted with Facebook instead. Thus, it is highly likely that Google+ users still maintain their Facebook accounts.
If you have huge ROM, get the app. The interface is simple, sleek, and better than the browser version. It’s very fast and setup will be painless. If the Google+ account that you use is the same account you’ve registered on your Android, all it takes is a couple of clicks to start up.
However, one dealbreaker may be the size it takes up on your phone. It takes up at least 14MB of disk space. While you can definitely move this to your SD Card, still, it takes up some space on your phone. We tried seeing how much it took up, despite having been moved to the SD Card by uninstalling it. We started with 21.01MB of space left on our test phone. After uninstalling the Google+ app, we were left with 35.79MB of space. That means that even if we’ve “moved” the app to SD already, it was actually still located in the phone.
If you use Dolphin Browser HD on your Android, better choose that one over Opera Mini. You will have an experience closer to the app, plus, it’s easier to 1+ the posts.
On the Opera Mini, you will be able to choose between the Basic Mobile interface and the Mobile Interface. However, the Mobile Interface will be a distorted rendering of Google+. So stick to the Basic Mobile interface that Google+ will take you to, by default.
As we said, Dolphin Browser is the better choice. But if you have huge ROM space, you might as well get the Android app, as it provides a better experience, even better than the desktop version, in our opinion.
We have one more social networking service on our plate, so stay tuned tomorrow for that update!
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Photo Credits: David Walsh Blog
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