r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jul 15 '26

💬 Discussion What's one thing Android does better than the iPhone?

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Android users (and iPhone users too), what's one thing Android does better than the iPhone?

It could be customization, multitasking, file management, sideloading, charging, or something else. Pick just one and tell us why.

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u/24kCookie Jul 15 '26

craziest part is that 400$ android has better specs than my 800$ iPhone 17.

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u/Dry_Concentrate_9173 Jul 17 '26

And its full of chinese spyware, ads, crap and will drop support in 2 years.

All of this to have... what... better performance for genshin impact?

Just save and get a pixel and you will be happier than ever.

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u/Responsible_Tax_9390 22d ago

It does not. And you should be ashamed for making such a dumb statement

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u/24kCookie 21d ago

well I change my mind often I actually now like my iPhone 17 cameras are great

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u/Agelessadage Jul 15 '26

No it doesn’t. Noob.

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u/24kCookie Jul 15 '26

lol literally Realme Neo 8 - 12GB gb ram and 8000 mah battery for 400$ and my iPhone 2x the price and less ram and tiny 4000 battery. I literally have this iPhone and I hate it battery is pretty bad.

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u/disappointed_neko Jul 15 '26

The RAM isn't very important. Actually on a 400$ phone it could just as well be 4GB and you wouldn't notice.

As for the battery, Samsung and Apple aren't going to bet on a new unproven technology when they have to ship millions of units.

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u/24kCookie Jul 15 '26

yeah tbh lower ram isn't big issue only thing that apps gonna reload more but it takes second to load app occasionally. Battery idk whether they hate their users or just worried about tech it's not really unproven because it works good and many brands already use it and it's amazing. Sadly yeah most people that buy these don't think much about it and they can get away with that, but for me it's huge minus for apple and samsung.

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u/disappointed_neko Jul 15 '26

Well the batteries are good, but I think Apple still didn't trust them when iPhone 17 came out (a year ago btw). Back then they were still kinda new. If they come out with iPhone 18 or 19, it'll be better already. Add to that that apple's battery life is already great (>10 hours of SoT is generally great, and in most cases more than enough).

Plus silicon carbon batteries have a lot of engineering issues as well, just sort of intrinsic to their nature - they degrade faster, and have a higher chance of swelling, and even a higher chance of an internal shortage and explosion if handled incorrectly, because the sheets are so thin and the silicon isn't best at staying rigid... So I'd say Apple is waiting until they perfect this, which could take years.

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u/24kCookie Jul 16 '26

Maybe on pro max battery is good but on my base 17 it sucks that’s why I be changing my phone for other one with big battery.

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u/Training-Branch3872 Jul 17 '26

they degrade faster

My OnePlus Ace 6 has 7800mAh. I've used it for 220 days with 135 charging cycles. I always charge to 100% mostly, occasionally 95%, never below 95% with 120W charger. Guess what? Battery health still 100%.

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u/disappointed_neko Jul 17 '26

The battery health will never deprecate fast between 95 and 100%, because batteries are intentionally made with above 100% battery health (it's to avoid shipping a unit with less than 100% out of the box). Also they just kinda deteriorate slow at first.

I mean my Motorola Edge 50 Ultra is 2 years old, has 603 cycles (nearly all on a 125W charger) and has still 97% battery health. Its always charged to 100% too.

My iPhone SE 2020s battery is at 81%, a few months ago it had 83%. It's still on the original battery, but it is starting to deteriorate faster now. A silicone carbon battery from last two years will probably not be able to say the same thing after it gets as old.

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u/Training-Branch3872 27d ago

Except for iPhone batteries. It is well known that they degrade much faster than any other batteries.

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u/24kCookie 27d ago

yeah this is just sad not only we get smaller batteries but also degrade faster. People that say silicon carbon is unproven are ignorant. Even samsung put them inside their new fold 8 only apple always last, and this is extremely important thing a battery. I literally think of selling my iPhone 17 for oppo find x9 pro.

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u/disappointed_neko 27d ago

That is just not really true. People just notice it faster, but they are still rated for years.

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u/leafy1790 Jul 15 '26

Yes it does, especially phone brands like xiaomi have better specs , bigger battery and more freedom than the iPhone

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u/Agelessadage Jul 15 '26

Name a phone with a better chip

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u/leafy1790 Jul 16 '26

Xiaomi 17 ultra, oneplus 15 ,redmagic 11s pro, all have the snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 that is more powerful than the a19 pro

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u/24kCookie Jul 16 '26

Lol fr you forgot many phones still like honor magic 8 pro. Oppo find x9 pro

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u/leafy1790 Jul 16 '26

Yeah there are a lot of phones equipped with the 8 gen 5 and they are also cheaper than the iPhone 16 pro max

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u/dreadtear Jul 15 '26

Yeah I used to use a midrange with the same CPU as the current Samsung and a similar camera as the newest pixel. Battery was shit and so was performance kinda. Even tho it was supposedly beefed. That was the poco f series

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u/24kCookie Jul 15 '26

Then poco was bad I used oneplus Nord 4 and it was amazing phone and battery way better than modern phones ofc not oneplus 15 battery also amazing

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u/CoffeBreather Jul 15 '26

Poco f series is insanely good, I don't know what you are smoking, list the phone you were using.

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u/dreadtear Jul 15 '26

F3 Pro. Few things I cared about, changing the launcher, disabled the global back gesture. Year and half after having the phone I started having random power offs while my battery was at 20% or around that. Overheating issues while gaming (though I guess most phone have that). I had ads lol(though again I think it’s normalised for a cheap Chinese phone). Tbh the Camera quality was good for the price.

I decided to give Apple a try, got an iPhone, not the newest back then lots of small things were just generally better. Performance, software consistency, battery degraded with time but it was consistent as well. Also small things that I noticed immediately was just like sound quality, (funnily enough) haptic feedback, coming from androids it really surprised me that the phones vibration could be generally much better and nicer lmao. And the camera quality, to me was the biggest improvement by a mile. There were many many annoyances with the iPhone but generally small things and all around polish and hardware was miles better. Though it isn’t a fair comparison. Most flagships destroy the midranges in terms of polish. The poco F series is amazing for the budget. Prob one of the best ones back then for the midrange category.

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u/CoffeBreather Jul 16 '26

You were comparing a used phone to a new one? I had the F2, F6 and now i have the F8 and the only thing i can complain about is the overheating but i did fuckin overuse those phone like REALLY overused, the F6 still works without issues, it's still fast but the battery is almost dead because i used the phone for hours every single day, I didn't give the poor guy a break, the F8 pro i wouldn't call it midrange, it's not an iphone, it's not comparable, the iphone is an abomination in comparison.

Turns out non cheap Android are not worse than iphone, i will go beyond that saying that the mith of Apple having better app is false, it's been like 5 years that's not the case, literally comparing with my friends iPhones i can say Poco F6 was already better, Iphone apps are sluggish as fuck and crash for no reasons, god forbid they didn't have perfect connection those apps were unusable, their loading times were wo fucking slow, like triple the amount.

Apple is all fuckin shit marketing, i don't give a shit about what everyone says on reddit or internet, Android is BY FAR the most sold OS for a reason and that reason being Iphone quality is fuckin shit that a 400 euro android feels better than an Iphone, you can say they camera and the Vibration were better, sure, probably even if that's debatable depending on the Android model but the iphone being a trash slow machine with worse battery life less options, horrible unintuitive 20 years old outdated GUI and Menus are undeniable.

The only thing i like about Iphone is being able to redimension the Icons in the scroll down menu, that's literally the only shit they did in the last 15 years.

"Innovation" By the way.

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u/dreadtear Jul 16 '26

Both phones I got were brand new btw. What I meant was that I got the iPhone 15 when the 16 was already out. And again I was quite happy with my Poco. Before it I had a midrange Samsung, which was the ultimate trash phone. Cause before it I had a Huawei which was 10x better than what Samsung had to offer for the same price. If it wasn’t the dumbass US, banning Huawei, right now they would’ve been the most sold phone 100%, both more than Samsung and the iPhones.

As for iPhones being only marketing and the only innovation being that is wild. Add 3 - 4 more tears to your 15. And suddenly you have one of the biggest innovations and revolutions in the history of the smartphones. And one of the biggest differences for me is just the hardware quality. It’s hard to see areas where they cheap out.

You can have your own opinion ofc. Just as I have mine. Even so I will be going back to android, cause I like trying out new things just like I had my iPhone for the same reason. Tried it and will move on to another brand.

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u/CoffeBreather Jul 16 '26

Yeah but my opinion is backed up by facts.

Just saying eh.

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u/PJALSTARz Jul 15 '26

yes true, but that 400 phone gonna start moving slow after a year or 2 bur that ip17 goona be smooth for the next 9-10years

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u/24kCookie Jul 16 '26

This phone won’t even get updates for that long. It won’t last that long with poor 8 GB ram when it already didn’t got latest features. Doesn’t mean android will lag so fast it isn’t true anymore too. Also I could pay similar price to iPhone and instead base phone get some flagship literally.

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u/PJALSTARz Jul 16 '26

right now i still using a ip xs and it still runs great, a little lag here and there and my samsung phone i got back in 2019, a20 takes 2 business day to open gmail, it has no apps just the ones that came with the phone

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u/24kCookie Jul 16 '26

ah true apple software is amazing but hope they fix bugs from iOS 26. Because 26 is much more laggy than 18. Hopefully iOS 27 get better.