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:
- I have it and Andrew doesn't.
- Navigating around on a web page is easier with double tapping and intelligent zooming vs G1 + and - buttons.
- Zooming photos is intuitive using multi-touch pinch gestures.
G1 Pros:
- 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.
- 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.
- You can program it in Java on Windows, Linux, or Mac. Want to program iPhone? Get a Mac.


1 Comments:
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.
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