i believe iphone also will hang if u install a lot of stuff especially if u jailbreak it some more. so far my android phone got hang but usually is because i do some silly stuff during development of my apps causing it to hang. but so far NEVEr encounter it hanging during phone calls, sms, etc.

With the outstanding lineup of phones available and coming out soon that will be running Android, it isn't a mystery why Android's popularity is skyrocketing.
It's funny to be witnessing history repeat itself. Apple's closed system will once again render them as a niche while the open Android system will take over the main stream.
Apple got a bit of a head start in the market so it will take a while longer, but it is inevitable.

What make u think HTC, SE motorola want to use iOS???? they got use WM6.5 or the coming WM7 or symbian or android itself with their self made custom user interface. There is lots of choice even it is using android itself due to open platform.
"these brands didn't hv any choice."???????? What I see is Apple don't have any choice in term of choosing OS.
"spend lots of money"???? do u even know who spend the most money in advertising?

LOL.. so what u are saying is that to make a good user interface, companies must hire apple's staff???? So any android user here agree that android interface not good??

Windows don't have competitors??? Do u even know that during the 1980s, mackintosh was cheaper than it competitor IBM(do u even know that IBM was the OS market leader)???? Windows was not that hot only that time
PLEASE La... read history how yr beloved company lets windows become monopoly la..especially steve job...
and the current situation is just look like during that time. As now Google offer a more open platform while apple offer a closed platform.

btw, SE just announced few weeks ago that they are planning to be largest android phone manufacturer.. PLEASE LA... read news before u come out with those funny funny comment.
btw, for yr info again, SE is collaborating with android team(google) to bring PSP to android platform in the Gingerbread.
and btw, all along, HTC always come out with android and winmo phones all along since 2008 since android came.. They are not stupid enough to drop android just because of winmo.

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Added on September 6, 2010, 11:46 amand btw, those manufacturer use Android because they see there is a potential market for android phone, NOT BECAUSE they don't have choice.
google didn't USE A GUN point at HTC/samsung/motorola to force them use Android.

I ask you la.. if android is so inferior to iOS, even if "these brands poured their best specs fones, spend a lot of advertising money to promote", for sure all the handphone users in this world all using iphone already.. how come android market share still can skyrocket????????

It's like telling ppl, htc/sony/motorola are selling sh*ts rebranded/covered up in different forms, and yet users still buy these bags of sh*ts till the market share for android skyrocket??

What you say just don't make sense..

Yeah, it is so inferior that my 3.5 years old kid know how to unlock my htc magic ( stock interface, not sense ) and play game on it

hehe.. this rather funny.. sounds like you're steve jobs' gaypartner.. haha just kidding..
i curious again.. if the manufacturer like sony/nokia doesnt hav choice other than android platform?
they got their own os developed.. like on N900 and Aino.. but still they focused on android.. *sign*
do they throw away all the research/efford on their own OS just because they dont hav choice to take android?
as a normal business man ppl..they would see only benefit for future.. and they saw they can get more thru android rather than keep developing current OS..

Er, okay.

Please tell me what is 'inferior' in terms of UI experience.
And show me proof of 'inferior' battery life.

Show some objectivity in your argument.

Let me start off,
I don't like iOS because of it's lack of homescreen widgets, I don't get my information provided to me at one glance.
In iOS i need to open up apps to view them, which is annoying. This reduces my productivity, especially when I need a quick glance at my schedule.

Widgets also allow me to have quick access to settings, turning on/off connections etc. iOS i always need to enter settings and toggle them there.

I like it that in android I can get true multitasking, in that in whatever app i am in, by pressing the home button I can have access to another app and return to the first one which is running in the background. This is especially useful when I need to search the net to find something and get back to the word document I was looking through.

For battery life, my battery life exceeds iphone's easily. With same usage habits.

Oh wait I forgot, I can buy spare batteries for android devices if I need to, unfortunately I can't change batteries if the iphone went out of juice,which happens more often than not.