Wednesday, December 17, 2008

iPhone 3G vs Google G1 phone (Round 1)

My coworker (call him Andrew to preserve his anonymity) just purchased an unlocked G1, and I just purchased an iPhone 3G.

iPhone Pros:
  1. I have it and Andrew doesn't.
  2. Navigating around on a web page is easier with double tapping and intelligent zooming vs G1 + and - buttons.
  3. Zooming photos is intuitive using multi-touch pinch gestures.

G1 Pros:
  1. G1 lets you choose an arbitrary swipe pattern to unlock your phone. iPhone does a standard left-to-right swipe to unlock the phone. Updated: iPhone does allow you to set an unlock code, but it's a second step. G1 usability win.
  2. Barcode scanner. G1 has a 3 megapixel camera, iPhone only 2 megapixels. Updated: iPhone does have some barcode scanning apps in the app store, but they all have horrible reviews. I've seen the G1 barcode scanner shopping thing work successfully.
  3. You can program it in Java on Windows, Linux, or Mac. Want to program iPhone? Get a Mac.

1 Comments:

At 10:39 AM , Blogger Eric Burke said...

Yeah, the iPhone wins hands down when it comes to multitouch. The G1 hardware does support multitouch, hopefully we'll see it in a future Android SDK.

 

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home