An[Droid] vs iPhone

[clickboo]

Now that the Android 2.1 Update was release for the Droid I can finally post my thoughts about the pros and cons of the Droid vs the iPhone (my previous phone).

Comments

[clickboo]

It will fall out of fashion someday, but I would not say "soon". You're good for at least a year or two. :)

[gerg]

There's no gapless playback on the iPhone either, technically, because the MP3 format doesn't natively support it. iTunes hacks it by looking for empty frames at the end of a file then telling the player to ignore those frames when reading the file. (That's "Determining Gapless Playback Information" if you ever add a bunch of files at once.)

Android doesn't do this because there's no syncing program. It will play Ogg files gaplessly, though (or, you can install bTunes, which in addition to being a carbon copy of the iPhone's music interface, does the pretend gapless for MP3s)

[clickboo]

I realize that *technically* MP3 can't be gapless but the iPhone does it VERY good so that I can't tell with my own ears.

I've tried encoding my tracks to Ogg but I can still hear a slight pause with the stock music player.

I will try bTunes, thanks for the heads up on that.

[clickboo]

I tried getting bTunes to play both WAV and MP3 files "gapless"... didn't work. Returned the app. I should mention that is ANOTHER good thing about Android. You can delete the app and get a refund within 24 hours.

[gerg]

Strange! Maybe it was a Nexus 1/Cyanogen feature and not a bTunes feature then. I converted my mobile files to Ogg, so I can't readily test on my new phone.

[andrewhime]

Seems like Palm and Android are pretty much on a par, then. Except in the OS updates department.

[clickboo]

I have not used Palm WebOS much but it does seem to handle multitasking even a bit better. Android is continually being updated and if you don't mind hacking your phone, you can have a new OS on your phone every day. :)

[andrewhime]

From all I've read about OS fragmentation on Android, that's not true.

[proemial]

Been using the Nexus One since March. I love it. I don't really use a lot of its functionality (music playing, for instance).

[clickboo]

Glad to hear you're loving your N1!