Rooting Android phone: pros and cons.

Android cell phones vs iPhone, pros and cons of each?

• I am in a predicament. I am eligible to get a new phone, my service provider is AT&T and I live in California (if that makes a difference in phone variety). I was thinking of getting either an Android cell phone or a iPhone. I know how to operate an iPhone because I've had an iTouch for a few years and my mother recently bought an iPhone. I like Apple products but I believe Apple scams their customers by making newer versions of their products within a short amount of time, when they could have easily taken their time and made a product with all the needed elements and then make a new product in a few years. Aswell as making their products over priced. I know a few friends who own Android cell phones and absolutely love them. I have limited experience with them. I do not currently know how to operate them, but I am a very quick learner. I would appreciate it if you guys would give me details of each product. Pros and cons including: which one has a faster OS and RAM, which one has a longer life span, if they have any minor or serious bugs, what makes one better than the other, differences between Android and Apple applications, which one has better customer service (via calling, or email preferable), which one has more abundant free apps, which one requires fewer purchases to do an ample amount of things (if it has a built in USB port, SD, etc) and which one has better GPS. Also, does Android use google maps like iPhones do? Also I would like to know which of the Android cell phones is the most efficient and durable. One last question, which product (Apple or iPhone) is more easily upgradeable (OS)? Thank you for any constructive answers. Please list sources that will prove that your answer is not only an opinion. Thank you again for you time.

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  get a droid phones,(preferably the galaxy s2, the best android/iphone out right now), and with a app called "double twist" you can sync all your itunes music to your android I prefer android over apple for the reason that its open-source, that means that the majority of the apps are free, and you get more revolutionary and cutting edge apps. And do things are even only barely available on a jail broken iphone The android market already has 250000 apps- closing in on apple 500000; some say it will surpass it before the year is over. Also any popular iphone game or game adaptation can be found in the android market for free. Another great thing about android as that if you dont like something (keyboard, homescreen, etc.) it can easily be swapped without jail-breaking, unlike the iphones one-size-fits-all approach. Other features only on android Turn-by-turn voice GPS (google maps are native to android, so the experience it better) Better and larger screen No need to connect to computer to sync Here is a big one, add a sd card Live wallpaper Better calls widgets 4g More customizable More powerful hardware Flash support, watch ALL the online videos Apple lovers that say that the iphone is made of better quality material? They don’t realize that Samsung, an android phone maker, supply’s the screen, processor and memory for apple devices, so android has the advantage here. The iphone is pretty, but not durable, drop it once- it breaks, all that glass around it? That was honestly a mistake. Android manufactures clearly saw that, and decided to do with something a little more durable. And the iphones “retina display” is a huge scam. By definition a ‘retina display’ is one where the human eye cannot distinguish individual pixels. But this is determined by several factors; most important being the distance between the screen and your eyes. The iphones retina distance is 12in, move any closer than that- say 7in and it’s no longer a “retina screen” because your eyes can now see the pixels, by that same token, if I move my android phone back, to say 16-17in, amazingly, it becomes a retina screen as well! (feel free to google this) Also apple never invents anything, there never “the first”. All they do is steal old technology, give it a fresh coat of paint and mass advertise it as “magical” and “innovating”, thus fooling the mass of the population into believing that apple offers cutting edge technology, that in fact has been around for quite a few years. So instead of innovating, apple actually hinders technology- after 4 years they still have low-power single core phones, while android, an example of technology in overdrive, has rumored that, after their second year, the release of quad core phones that will surpass even some desktop computers in shear processing power. Apple should now feel pretty worried; android has passed it in market share http://www.businessinsider.com/android-iphone-market-share-2011-4 Then apple panics and sues http://www.dailytech.com/Google+ExCEO+Apple+Doesnt+Innovate+They+Sue/article22190.htm The funny thing is that apple can’t sue for being the first touchscreen or tablet, because they weren’t,(Nokia fist touch screen, “archos” first tablet) so instead they sue for much more relevant things like, “the rounded icon corners” and “having a flat screen” or “the square shape of the phone”…….. To top it all, if you’ve seen apples 2011 presentation, they blatantly copied over five "new" features that were previously on android. http://androidandme.com/2011/06/news/five-features-in-ios-5-that-show-how-apple-is-now-playing-catch-up-to-google/ http://www.droid-life.com/2011/06/06/apple-introduces-ios5-with-notifications-ota-updates-and-tabbed-browsing-android-users-giggle-at-their-late-arrival/ 1. Notification bar 2. Twitter integration 3. No need to connect to PC to sync 4. Launch apps from lock screen 5. Tabbed browsing And not only are they copies, but apple didn’t even bother to improve, or change some of them in any way- some even have LESS features than their android counter parts, it’s basically a cheap imitation with the ever-popular iphone skin. According to Steve jobs, these "revolutionary" new technologies that android users had since 2007 will be available on IOS5, and it would not surprise me to see some more android features from 2008 on IOS6.But the truly sad part is that due to apples marketing, in a few months, apple lovers will really think that apple invented those features and call android the copycats…yet again. Though I suppose Google should’ve seen it coming…. “Good artists copy great artist steal”- Steve jobs (apple CEO) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU