Smartphone Controversy
The twenty-first century marks a huge spark in the new age of technology. Cell phones drastically developed from mobile radio telephones to smartphones in a matter of forty years. The strenuous battle of smartphones depicts a large commotion amongst new technology. The top selling platforms in the smartphone business, Android phones and Apple iPhones, each contain genuine features that distinguish them from one another, making it difficult to come to a consensus for its users to purchase.
The display of Androids and iPhones dazzles its clients with size and resolution. Depending on which platform of the Android used, they can give the largest size of display. The Androids vary in screen size, some ranging larger than 4.3 inches (Consumers 32). Not only do the sizes range from phone to phone, but the resolutions fluctuate as well. The Android system exhibits a wide range of customization options (Consumers 32). Phone makers modify the interface for each phone, carriers download certain apps for their company, and users customize the interface with widgets and other tools for their own satisfaction (Consumers 32). Unlike the Android, Apple brings a universal display for all iPhones of its specific generation. With the latest iPhone 5 displaying a four inch screen size, its size questions the classification of either a small or large device (Apple). The quality of the display is like no other phone. Containing 326 pixels per inch with a vivid 1136-by-640 resolution, the Retina display sharpens every picture captured by the human eye (Apple). The interface of the iPhone differs from the interface of an Android. Although the users apps might be organized differently, the iPhone’s fixed interface provides a clean, pre-organized structure that is the same on every phone (Consumers 32). With each device’s stunning display features, it is tough to decide which provides a clearer picture. Zernan Garcia, a lab technician from Sprint, indicates, “The iPhone provides a better display for games, apps, and videos because it is a media device; however, a high end Android can battle evenly with its huge display for a business and media attire.” The visual interface of either device provides high quality user experience; however, today’s users also demand additional levels of functionality such as voice assistance options.
Androids and iPhones each offer unique voice assistance options. Garcia notifies that Androids value the Google Now voice assistance. He explains that this option operates with Google and presents relatively simple searches. Garcia adds that Google Now is compatible with Google Maps, so it can direct its user to a location if desired. Depending on the type of phone, an Android can also obtain separate voice assistance options, such as S-Voice with Samsung. Androids’ Google Now universally searches, launches apps, and sends messages through voice commands, giving it an outstanding voice perk (Consumers 33). The iPhones encounter Androids’ Google Now with Siri. Siri, the voice assistance of iPhones 4S and 5, performs outstanding tasks, such as answering questions, solving math problems, directing locations, making phone calls, and texting voice commands (Consumers 33). Siri qualifies to talk to its user like a normal conversation if they put their name into the customization option. Similar to Google Now, Siri universally searches and finds locations if asked. Both platforms’ pre-installed voice assistance options assist users equally, even though Android provides market depth in purchasing additional voice assistance options (Garcia). Generally, applications are purchased through application stores on each device.
Androids and iPhones possess their own app stores. Androids app store, better known as Google Play, features an option that the iPhones will always lack. Garcia declares that any person can create an app for Google Play, whether it is malicious or not. Even though this can fault the phone in performance, it is still a key feature in the amount of apps. To purchase an app under Android, the user needs to set up individual plans with the provider of the app (Consumers 33). This can be dangerous because of the fact that not everyone who manufactures an app is trustworthy and secure, making some purchases unsafe. As of February 2012, Google Play held less apps than Apple’s App Store’s apps, and they cost two and a half times more as well (Moscaritolo). Recently, Garcia expresses that Google Play and App Store offer an equivalent number of apps because people can create an app under Google Play. If the apps in each app store were tested for most secured creation, App Store would win because of their abundant amount of apps, games, music, videos, and other forms of entertainment (Consumers 33). Unlike the insecurity of Google Play, App Store provides a safer option to purchase apps. App Store requires an iTunes account, and every app is made and tested with Apple to ensure security (Consumers 33). The consistency of applications on either platform can argue that is analytical of the operating systems’ developmental structure.
These two smartphones contain extremely unique operating systems. The Android operating system runs on an open network, meaning that third-party applications are background processed (Sharma 1967). This could horrify the speed of the phone because certain apps can slow down the system. On the Android, the user can effortlessly view notifications by using a pull-down screen slide (Sharma 1967). When an Android receives a push notification from a text, call, or update, the phone can easily access the notification with the ease of a slide. Garcia points out that the Android does not frequently update their system, and even when they do update it, they are subject to make errors on it because of poor testing. He also adds that certain Androids use specified updates; one Android might not be compatible with an update that another phone uses. Apple singularly presents a completely opposite operating system than Android’s operating system. Every Apple iPhone uses iOS and requires the same update on each device (Consumers 33). The iOS differs from the Android operating system in networking. The iOS runs on a closed, proprietary system, which denotes that only Apple can access the system (Sharma 1967). The closed network enables secure activity on the phone, without worrying about acquiring a virus from outside applications. Garcia quotes, “Apple updates their operating system frequently, unlike Android, to guarantee up to date information for contentment of its users. Both platforms’ operating systems are like cars. The iPhones are the manual transmissions of cars, and the Androids are the automatic transmission of cars. There are so many automatics now, and they are all different in many aspects; however, manual transmissions all use a stick shift to switch gears.” The automatic and manual transmission analogy can be used to not only relate to operating systems, but they can be used to describe how each platform interfaces with computer systems.
Both platforms are available for use on the computer. Androids present a micro USB port and a micro SD card that can plug into a computer. Androids are easy to convert files from computer to phone because the user just needs to drop files into a folder on the phone, which makes it compatible with iTunes and other software (Garcia). Although Androids make it easy for file transfers, iPhones directly connect to iTunes, and iTunes recognizes the phone when its USB port plugs into a computer. The iPhone lacks a micro SD card slot, so it cannot back up memory with a memory card; however, iCloud serves as storage for memory, which backs up all information from every Apple device on the iTunes account onto a computer as soon as something downloads (Consumers 33). Today’s users demand a high level of proficiency when porting information from computers to phones through texting and calling.
Both platforms are unique when it comes to texting and calling. “Android gives a variety of ways to text, such as keyboards, swype touch pads, traditional keys, or swift keys,” Garcia denotes. Because of this, a user simply finds their comfort zone when it comes to purchasing a phone for texting. Depending on the make of the Android, calling can be slow or fast. The high end Androids have 4G compatibility, making lightning fast calls, but the low end Androids might barely reach 3G, making tortoise slow calls (Consumers 32). Apple iPhones include a unique texting option that Android does not have. The iMessaging, a texting method that only iPhones can use, sends messages instantly, places SMS, MMS, and iMessages all in the same category, and works over your existing data plan with Apple and not as a normal SMS or MMS data plan (Trautschold 10). Apple iPhones make calling quick and simple. Contacts can hold favorites with stars, and calls can process hands free with Siri (Consumers 33). Texting and calling are high use features on both platforms and lower the available bandwidth, which limits the battery life.
The battery life of each is very distinct. Android phones have different devices; therefore, they have different battery lives. Garcia declares, “The high end products can last up to a day without charging, but the low end product can last for maybe a few hours. The iPhones all have the same battery and can last up to a day.” Over the last five years, Androids and iPhones evolved to provide its users with tremendous battery life to support features with cameras and video cameras.
The cameras on each phone are very exclusive. “Androids can have a bad quality or an amazing quality camera. The cameras and video cameras can react slow or fast, depending on which phone the user owns. The resolution and features of the cameras depend on the Android phone as well,” Garcia specifies. The iPhone has lightning fast picture capturing with amazing quality. The iPhones have Panorama features, and the newest iPhone has 1080p video taking (Apple). The Android phones and iPhones are built with higher technological cameras with every new phone, creating a conflict with which camera is better.
The battle of the smartphones will never reside. Competition in the smartphone industry will continue for years. Apple and Android carriers will invent abstract features and qualities of their phone that will make it even harder for a customer to buy. The discrete love and hate relationship of these products seems it will always exist; they both love their products publicized and conflicted upon with another amazing product, but they hate their products downgraded upon one another. Apple iPhones and Android phones lie in the beginning of a long war of smartphones.
Works Cited
"Apple - IPhone 5 - Features." Apple - IPhone 5 -. Apple, 2012. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
“Android vs. IPhone.” Rev. of Smartphones. Consumer Reports. 77.1 (20a12): 32-33.
Consumerreports.org. Consumers Union, Jan. 2012. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Garcia, Zernan. Personal interview. 18 Dec. 2012.
Moscaritolo, Angela. “Android Apps 2.5 Times Pricier That IPhone Apps.” PC Magazine
Feb. 2012: n. pag. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Sharma, Kavita. “Android in Opposition to IPhone.” International Journal on Complete Science
Engineering 3.5 (2011): 1965-969. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Trautschold, Marin, Rene Ritchie, and Gary Mazo. IPhone 4S Made Simple. New York:
APress, 2012. Print.
Yoon, Hyeon-Ju. “A Study on the Performance of Android Platform.” International Journal on
Computer Science and Engineering 4.4 (2012): 532-37. Academic Search Complete.
Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
The twenty-first century marks a huge spark in the new age of technology. Cell phones drastically developed from mobile radio telephones to smartphones in a matter of forty years. The strenuous battle of smartphones depicts a large commotion amongst new technology. The top selling platforms in the smartphone business, Android phones and Apple iPhones, each contain genuine features that distinguish them from one another, making it difficult to come to a consensus for its users to purchase.
The display of Androids and iPhones dazzles its clients with size and resolution. Depending on which platform of the Android used, they can give the largest size of display. The Androids vary in screen size, some ranging larger than 4.3 inches (Consumers 32). Not only do the sizes range from phone to phone, but the resolutions fluctuate as well. The Android system exhibits a wide range of customization options (Consumers 32). Phone makers modify the interface for each phone, carriers download certain apps for their company, and users customize the interface with widgets and other tools for their own satisfaction (Consumers 32). Unlike the Android, Apple brings a universal display for all iPhones of its specific generation. With the latest iPhone 5 displaying a four inch screen size, its size questions the classification of either a small or large device (Apple). The quality of the display is like no other phone. Containing 326 pixels per inch with a vivid 1136-by-640 resolution, the Retina display sharpens every picture captured by the human eye (Apple). The interface of the iPhone differs from the interface of an Android. Although the users apps might be organized differently, the iPhone’s fixed interface provides a clean, pre-organized structure that is the same on every phone (Consumers 32). With each device’s stunning display features, it is tough to decide which provides a clearer picture. Zernan Garcia, a lab technician from Sprint, indicates, “The iPhone provides a better display for games, apps, and videos because it is a media device; however, a high end Android can battle evenly with its huge display for a business and media attire.” The visual interface of either device provides high quality user experience; however, today’s users also demand additional levels of functionality such as voice assistance options.
Androids and iPhones each offer unique voice assistance options. Garcia notifies that Androids value the Google Now voice assistance. He explains that this option operates with Google and presents relatively simple searches. Garcia adds that Google Now is compatible with Google Maps, so it can direct its user to a location if desired. Depending on the type of phone, an Android can also obtain separate voice assistance options, such as S-Voice with Samsung. Androids’ Google Now universally searches, launches apps, and sends messages through voice commands, giving it an outstanding voice perk (Consumers 33). The iPhones encounter Androids’ Google Now with Siri. Siri, the voice assistance of iPhones 4S and 5, performs outstanding tasks, such as answering questions, solving math problems, directing locations, making phone calls, and texting voice commands (Consumers 33). Siri qualifies to talk to its user like a normal conversation if they put their name into the customization option. Similar to Google Now, Siri universally searches and finds locations if asked. Both platforms’ pre-installed voice assistance options assist users equally, even though Android provides market depth in purchasing additional voice assistance options (Garcia). Generally, applications are purchased through application stores on each device.
Androids and iPhones possess their own app stores. Androids app store, better known as Google Play, features an option that the iPhones will always lack. Garcia declares that any person can create an app for Google Play, whether it is malicious or not. Even though this can fault the phone in performance, it is still a key feature in the amount of apps. To purchase an app under Android, the user needs to set up individual plans with the provider of the app (Consumers 33). This can be dangerous because of the fact that not everyone who manufactures an app is trustworthy and secure, making some purchases unsafe. As of February 2012, Google Play held less apps than Apple’s App Store’s apps, and they cost two and a half times more as well (Moscaritolo). Recently, Garcia expresses that Google Play and App Store offer an equivalent number of apps because people can create an app under Google Play. If the apps in each app store were tested for most secured creation, App Store would win because of their abundant amount of apps, games, music, videos, and other forms of entertainment (Consumers 33). Unlike the insecurity of Google Play, App Store provides a safer option to purchase apps. App Store requires an iTunes account, and every app is made and tested with Apple to ensure security (Consumers 33). The consistency of applications on either platform can argue that is analytical of the operating systems’ developmental structure.
These two smartphones contain extremely unique operating systems. The Android operating system runs on an open network, meaning that third-party applications are background processed (Sharma 1967). This could horrify the speed of the phone because certain apps can slow down the system. On the Android, the user can effortlessly view notifications by using a pull-down screen slide (Sharma 1967). When an Android receives a push notification from a text, call, or update, the phone can easily access the notification with the ease of a slide. Garcia points out that the Android does not frequently update their system, and even when they do update it, they are subject to make errors on it because of poor testing. He also adds that certain Androids use specified updates; one Android might not be compatible with an update that another phone uses. Apple singularly presents a completely opposite operating system than Android’s operating system. Every Apple iPhone uses iOS and requires the same update on each device (Consumers 33). The iOS differs from the Android operating system in networking. The iOS runs on a closed, proprietary system, which denotes that only Apple can access the system (Sharma 1967). The closed network enables secure activity on the phone, without worrying about acquiring a virus from outside applications. Garcia quotes, “Apple updates their operating system frequently, unlike Android, to guarantee up to date information for contentment of its users. Both platforms’ operating systems are like cars. The iPhones are the manual transmissions of cars, and the Androids are the automatic transmission of cars. There are so many automatics now, and they are all different in many aspects; however, manual transmissions all use a stick shift to switch gears.” The automatic and manual transmission analogy can be used to not only relate to operating systems, but they can be used to describe how each platform interfaces with computer systems.
Both platforms are available for use on the computer. Androids present a micro USB port and a micro SD card that can plug into a computer. Androids are easy to convert files from computer to phone because the user just needs to drop files into a folder on the phone, which makes it compatible with iTunes and other software (Garcia). Although Androids make it easy for file transfers, iPhones directly connect to iTunes, and iTunes recognizes the phone when its USB port plugs into a computer. The iPhone lacks a micro SD card slot, so it cannot back up memory with a memory card; however, iCloud serves as storage for memory, which backs up all information from every Apple device on the iTunes account onto a computer as soon as something downloads (Consumers 33). Today’s users demand a high level of proficiency when porting information from computers to phones through texting and calling.
Both platforms are unique when it comes to texting and calling. “Android gives a variety of ways to text, such as keyboards, swype touch pads, traditional keys, or swift keys,” Garcia denotes. Because of this, a user simply finds their comfort zone when it comes to purchasing a phone for texting. Depending on the make of the Android, calling can be slow or fast. The high end Androids have 4G compatibility, making lightning fast calls, but the low end Androids might barely reach 3G, making tortoise slow calls (Consumers 32). Apple iPhones include a unique texting option that Android does not have. The iMessaging, a texting method that only iPhones can use, sends messages instantly, places SMS, MMS, and iMessages all in the same category, and works over your existing data plan with Apple and not as a normal SMS or MMS data plan (Trautschold 10). Apple iPhones make calling quick and simple. Contacts can hold favorites with stars, and calls can process hands free with Siri (Consumers 33). Texting and calling are high use features on both platforms and lower the available bandwidth, which limits the battery life.
The battery life of each is very distinct. Android phones have different devices; therefore, they have different battery lives. Garcia declares, “The high end products can last up to a day without charging, but the low end product can last for maybe a few hours. The iPhones all have the same battery and can last up to a day.” Over the last five years, Androids and iPhones evolved to provide its users with tremendous battery life to support features with cameras and video cameras.
The cameras on each phone are very exclusive. “Androids can have a bad quality or an amazing quality camera. The cameras and video cameras can react slow or fast, depending on which phone the user owns. The resolution and features of the cameras depend on the Android phone as well,” Garcia specifies. The iPhone has lightning fast picture capturing with amazing quality. The iPhones have Panorama features, and the newest iPhone has 1080p video taking (Apple). The Android phones and iPhones are built with higher technological cameras with every new phone, creating a conflict with which camera is better.
The battle of the smartphones will never reside. Competition in the smartphone industry will continue for years. Apple and Android carriers will invent abstract features and qualities of their phone that will make it even harder for a customer to buy. The discrete love and hate relationship of these products seems it will always exist; they both love their products publicized and conflicted upon with another amazing product, but they hate their products downgraded upon one another. Apple iPhones and Android phones lie in the beginning of a long war of smartphones.
Works Cited
"Apple - IPhone 5 - Features." Apple - IPhone 5 -. Apple, 2012. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
“Android vs. IPhone.” Rev. of Smartphones. Consumer Reports. 77.1 (20a12): 32-33.
Consumerreports.org. Consumers Union, Jan. 2012. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Garcia, Zernan. Personal interview. 18 Dec. 2012.
Moscaritolo, Angela. “Android Apps 2.5 Times Pricier That IPhone Apps.” PC Magazine
Feb. 2012: n. pag. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Sharma, Kavita. “Android in Opposition to IPhone.” International Journal on Complete Science
Engineering 3.5 (2011): 1965-969. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Dec. 2012.
Trautschold, Marin, Rene Ritchie, and Gary Mazo. IPhone 4S Made Simple. New York:
APress, 2012. Print.
Yoon, Hyeon-Ju. “A Study on the Performance of Android Platform.” International Journal on
Computer Science and Engineering 4.4 (2012): 532-37. Academic Search Complete.
Web. 19 Dec. 2012.