Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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Nice, I feel sorry for iPhone users having to jailbreak their phone just so they can get it looking like a decent phone instead of a toy.
Word.
What's up troll?
I already have my phone jailbroken, it's just, do I want to take to time to set this all up?
you're kidding.
Yea that's the point. Takes so long just so you can change your theme.
Facepalm...
How many themes are there for the Palm Pre? How long does it take to change one?
I never said the Pre allowed that. I have a Blackberry myself, but I am no fanboy. My previous phones were WM and Symbian, all allowing to change themes natively. So what's up with this? Same thing with the Pre. Though of course if I had to get an iPhone or a Pre, i would definitely get a Pre.
I'm no fanboy either, I just don't think you should go calling the iPhone a toy based on what? How it's interface looks?
My 3G is to be honest, my first 'smartphone', but there was a reason I never bothered with BB, WM or Symbian- cost, and what I got for that cost. I'm not dissing the Pre, but I have yet to see any phone that rivals what I get with my 3G now (including the app store and the jailbreak community).
Jailbreaking takes about the same amount of time as updating your firmware including backing up and restoring your settings. even quicker if you don't and start fresh.
changing a theme is as easy as opening Winterboard, putting a check mark next to the theme and then waiting for the re-spring - roughly 35 seconds
A toy based on the limited capabilities/interface. It is meant to attract people like you, first time buyers of higher end phones. I don't consider the iPhone a smartphone due to its limited capabilities. It's got eyecandy (hence the toy part) yet none of the features of 'big daddy' smartphones.
Not really though, logicbomb.de
To actually use this theme here, you need to rearrange all your springboard pages, not to mention add and set up a few apps from cydia.
Plus, I already have my apps put away using Catagories instead. All in all, the time starts to add up if I really wanted to properly use this theme.
And what 'big daddy' features are you speaking of?
backgrounding apps? (push notifications in 3.0 / backgrounding apps via jailbreak)
What else is there that it's missing that isn't:
a) actually already there
b) in 3.0
c) can be added via jailbreaking?
Just because I was a 'first time buyer' doesn't mean I'm stupid. It's not like I didn't consider my other options, it just means that I decided on the iPhone when it was all said and done.
I'd go for the iPhone. It's more widely used and supported, meaning more apps, more of a future. Android has entered the realm and it's still mainly dominated by the iPhone, with more companies wanting to get involved and more and more stuff for it being released. The pre does look really nice and I wouldn't say no to one at all, but if I had to choose I'd go with the iPhone for the above reasons.
As for the jailbreaking, it's not like it's a hard task. I used to have one before I ended up on Blackberry like yourself, and did the jailbreak just for free apps, rather than paying for them in the app store but Winterboard (the theme thing) is easy. Just download your theme and activate in winterboard and you're done. It's actually simpler than going through settings>themes>this>that etc. like with other phone. It's more than just themes with that too. You can change practically any single little thing individually if you choose, or mix themes up. Something I have never come across in Symbian or even WM
KEROLiUKAS: Ignorant dipshits like you are hysterical to me. You call the iPhone a "toy", but you haven't yet been able to say why, exactly. All you keep saying is "limited capabilities". You say you would take the Pre over the iPhone despite the fact that the Pre falls short of the iPhone in a large number of ways - in fact if you read the reviews, the most common theme is that people like the hardware of the Pre better.
And guess what, that comparison is based on the current iPhone, not the 3GS which has at minimum double the processing power, a more powerful graphics chip, more RAM, a better camera, etc. etc. etc. With over 50,000 apps and a serious boost in processing and graphics horsepower, not to mention all the rest of the new hardware and software features of the 3GS/iPhone OS 3.0, the only one with "limited capabilities" is the Pre.
@ Zak.
Ignorant dipshits like you are hysterical to me. You say the Pre has "Limited Capabilities", but you haven't yet been able to say why, exactly.
You are just as ignorant as the original poster, because all you did was list off all the upgrades to the iPhone. You didn't prove how the Pre is limited. Congratulations. You're an idiot.
Just compare the features of the iPhone with those of Nokia's high-end phones and you find yourself with a laundry list of features missing on the iPhone. The only things, admittedly major ones, going for the iPhone are the UI and easy access to 3rd-party apps.
@WickedEast
Oh yeah and the fact that it's also an iPod is definitely not a major feature.
The N97 is a jack of all trades, master of none, and reviews reflect that.