Iphone vs Android – Which smartphone is better?

The Iphone is a 3G smart-phone designed and marketed by Apple. The iPhone runs on a iphone OS operating system. It’s operating system  is based on the MAC OS x . The iPhone has many functions such as a camera,portable music player(ipod), internet browsing, texting, visual voicemail and includes wifi service and email service. As well as the key functions, the major hit of this phone is the touch screen feature and the ability to listen to your iphone and receive a call at the same time. The iphone averages to $199 to $299 and is carried by the AT&T service.

The new craze of 2010 is the Android device from Google. Android is actually the operating system of the phone and was later purchased by Google. This phone has web browsing, text messaging, ability to record and watch videos in camcorder mode, upload photos and much more. The biggest perk of the Android is the ability to copy and paste. The average price of the Android is $150 and the carrier is T mobile.

Many of the Android features are similar to the Iphone but with better web mobility. The average Iphone user is more social and the average Android user is more web enable. Studies have shown that the both these of the smart phones are neck and neck with their 3G features which all other smart phones are struggling to keep up with. Iphone users are more likely to spend their time on social networking and blog sites than any other device on the market. Android users are more likely to capture videos, upload photos and share them with others. The Android blows the Iphone out of the water when it comes to sharing pictures,videos and links. Applications for both phones are pretty much average with more than 100,000 applications apiece. Although each phone has easy internet browsing, Android comes on top of having 92% of its users utilizing the web compared to 88% of Iphone users. In that said, the Android smart-phone is better for web surfing then the Iphone.

Keep in mind that both phones have pro and cons, which smart-phone  do you think is better? Could the Android be the next Iphone?

Recently, the Federal Communications Commission let it be known that they want to increase the availability of high-speed internet access throughout the United States. In addition they have made plans to increase the speed of this internet access by over 1000% on average. They argue that the United States lags far behind other developed countries in its availability of broadband access and that improving on it would not only help ensure America’s competitive technological edge, but also in the meantime provide a much-needed source of economic stimulus in the short run.

While the utopian vision of a country intimately connected through miles of high speed internet access cable may seem appealing to the common internet users like you and I, it is proving much less so to the companies that already control internet and pricing speeds. These companies are currently enjoying the benefits associated with owning and operating the virtual entirety of the broadband spectrum in the United States. The F.C.C. has proposed an auction as a means of compensating these companies for their sacrifice in the name of national internet efficiency, but the details of this suggestion have many details to be worked out before a viable solution and agreement is reached by all parties in this matter.

A more pressing issue in my mind however is if the government should be interfering in this manner at all. The development of a single internet provider, while improving service at first, may in the end deter innovation and development in the very field it has meant to stimulate. Secondly, can a government currently touting 1-2 trillion dollar budget deficits and the potential loss of its triple A credit rating, really meaningfully talk of economic stimulus through government spending anymore.

The internet will improve, as most technological elements of society do, on its own terms, without the intervention of government regulation and stimulus. Furthermore it may manage to do is in a more cost effective and innovative way than is being suggested here. In a period of such economic risk, we simply can’t afford this luxury.

In this article, http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100218/bs_nf/71736, entitled AT&T Becomes Last of Big Four Carriers to Offer Android, talks about how AT&T now carries an Android based phone and will come out with two more Android based phones within the first half of the year. AT&T claims that there will be a new smartphone from HTC and Dell’s first smartphone will be released within the first half of this year.

Now the idea of AT&T releasing an Android based phone seems almost pointless because in my opinion, AT&T has the worst service out of the major cell phone carriers and the only reason that they are still doing alright now is because they offer the iphone exclusively. I just don’t see why someone would choose to purchase an Android phone with the AT&T network. I dont’ even see why anyone would decide to go with AT&T as their carrier unless they were doing so specifically to obtain an iphone, so the idea of introducing an Android seems somewhat pointless to me.