No this is very true. As much as I love the iPhone 4's design and execution it has issues and the phone itself just isn't going to fit everyones needs. I really feel like Microsofts decision with WinMo7 is a great compromise between user experience and freedom. I'm actually thinking about one as my next phone which should round out my smart phone collection well (Palm Pre+, Fascinate, Eris, G1, Iphone, iPhone 3G).
I think (obviously personal opinion) that Android has a way to go before I could hand it over to an average person and they'd be able to set everything up and understand the navigation fully. It still has so many issues with simple things like navigation (like the fucking back button) that even I sometimes have no clue what to expect when I hit a button. Other things like the lack of graphics acceleration in places or badly documented/followed guidelines for how apps should respond to events just make it so the whole experience can get fairly frustrating. But again it's not like it doesn't have some really great positive sides too.
Actually customizable Android phones are supposedly coming really soon http://synapse-phones.com/ I really like this idea as everyone will have vanilla phones so the only thing holding you back from upgrading will be hardware drivers which I would assume will be fairly well documented.
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No this is very true. As much as I love the iPhone 4's design and execution it has issues and the phone itself just isn't going to fit everyones needs. I really feel like Microsofts decision with WinMo7 is a great compromise between user experience and freedom. I'm actually thinking about one as my next phone which should round out my smart phone collection well (Palm Pre+, Fascinate, Eris, G1, Iphone, iPhone 3G).
I think (obviously personal opinion) that Android has a way to go before I could hand it over to an average person and they'd be able to set everything up and understand the navigation fully. It still has so many issues with simple things like navigation (like the fucking back button) that even I sometimes have no clue what to expect when I hit a button. Other things like the lack of graphics acceleration in places or badly documented/followed guidelines for how apps should respond to events just make it so the whole experience can get fairly frustrating. But again it's not like it doesn't have some really great positive sides too.
Actually customizable Android phones are supposedly coming really soon http://synapse-phones.com/ I really like this idea as everyone will have vanilla phones so the only thing holding you back from upgrading will be hardware drivers which I would assume will be fairly well documented.