VERY helpful, Rachel, thanks! Also thanks to Buddah! I know just enough about these things to be dangerous lol
I was leaning towards iPhone due to my tendency towards “name” brands for electronics and being ATT customer already. Plus, I’ve been pretty happy with my iPod.
Before you make up your mind, try to get some hands on time with the phones.
Comparing iPhone 4 LCD and the new Samsung sAMOLED screens, I like the look of the sAMOLED screen better.
By next spring the 1 ghz A4 chip in the iPhone will be one of the slower CPUs.
I don’t doubt the iPhone 4 is engineered like a brick but it feels like one in my hand. There are more comfortable phones to use.
Nobody is screening the code in all iPhone apps. Apple has to remove apps from the market because they are doing things that Apple did not know about when they added it to the market. Google also removes suspicious apps. Thousands of viruses on Android is hyperbole. There is a web site that advertises that they can take over your iPhone, all you have to do is go their website and they will take over your phone adding software that allows you to bypass Apple restrictions. The question is how many websites are using the same hack? At this point I would not consider either phone secure.
Developers have more freedom to add function to a google phone than an iPhone.
And the selling points for me were I did not have to go back to AT&T and Android has free voice navigation. I would consider an iPhone if it weren’t tied to AT&t and had free voice nav.
I’m try not to be tied to my phones but if you have multiple lines to deal with, Google voice is pretty cool. You get a number that will ring to any or all phones you have. It will also transcribe voicemail and forward it to you as a text message. Not a selling point for me but my wife likes that feature.
If you have a provider you like, I would go down to their store and handle the various phones they have available, there are many very good ones out there.