OK, so back at the end of August I was looking for my next phone upgrade and planning on going with the iPhone 5. Why? Simply put, I was tired of Verizon being several months behind the curve with Android updates.
Flash forward to today.
After spending the last 2 months on a cross-country road trip with my old Motorola Droid X (to pass the time until the iPhone 5 "arrived") and with my wife's brand new iPhone 4S, I can say one thing with 100% certainty...
The iPhone is not for me.
There are just too many things that bug me about the iPhone. Granted most of the things I had issue with are based on "personal preference" but, given that this will be my phone for the next 18-20 months, I want something I actually like.
First, the Maps app (in iOS 5.1.1) sucks. We're not even talking about the iOS 6 Maps app either (which, from what I've read, sucks even more). The "old" one does not update your route in real time. It does not go to the next leg of your route after you've obviously made the "correct" turn; you have to manually advance it. There is no voice guidance; you have to read everything. Talk about a nightmare and driving hazard rolled up in one app. No thanks!
Second, there are no widgets on the iPhone. Oh my gosh, how I love my Android widgets. Even the crappy MotoBlur widgets from my old Droid X (running Gingerbread) were insanely better than having no widgets.
Last, lack of a real voice control for the phone itself. I've used Siri quite a bit and it works for simple internet queries. But for doing anything else on your phone... it's all but worthless. Android has great voice control, right out of the box. Grab the free Assistant app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speaktoit.assistant) and it can do even more; from starting navigation, to searching for news and images, to looking up weather or sports, to sending out email or TXT messages or reading your incoming email of TXT messages to you. Pretty dang cool.
So, today I went back to the phone I left behind, my new Samsung Galaxy Nexus with 4G LTE. All the power and glory that is Android... and none of the shortcomings (IMHO) that is Apple.
