Convince an Android fan, to use a WP7 more

[sega4life]

What your about to read is my opinion on my phones

I own allot of Android phones and 1 WP7:

To me, Android = Linux as WP7 = Windows.

Every Android phone I get, I am constantly reading on rumors on whether or not my phone is going to get the next update, from 1.5, 2.0,2.1,Ginger, ICS, etc.  It's like a crappy waiting game, a hit or miss, are you going to get the latest and greatest update? or are you going to have to buy a new phone 5 months later in order to get it?

I have yet to own a Android phone that had great battery life, Android phones = take your charger with you.

Apps (most of the time) don't feel solid, they always seem buggy.  Littered with ads, push notifications, even paid apps have a way of sending you an ad, and I bought  98% of the apps I have on my phone.  After 2.2 they said you do not need a task killer or even Watchdog, because once you close it Android stops it, - BS, tell that to the crap apps that you need but still stay functioning after they are closed (Eating my CPU not memory) like BloatWare that likes to auto sart.  It's to easy for sneaky apps to be on the market and installed, a Google does a nice sweep once a year, but tats not enough, to much open source is not a good thing, make it harder to get a license to upload apps to market.

Android OS is buggy, take the battery info, the apps you use don't get % correctly because "Display" takes up the percentage.  So if your playing Draw Something, it shows up as only 3% of battery used, you played the game for 10min and you went from 80% charged to 65% charged, but the battery places it under Display.  It's a known bug from Android 1.5 that is one of many that has yet to be fixed.

I was like other people, can wait for the next update to bring new features, but they were features that were short lived, and the update caused more problems, like my HTC Thunderbolt and the New Radio update that has caused connection issues with battery drain for months.  Update to Google Market was a joke, not the Play Part with the stupid Play Name, but the update not to long ago that really changed everything, look at 'MY APPS' and then look a the complete mess... EVERY SINGLE APP YOU HAVE EVER DOWNLOADED is now on one list, no way to change it, you have to scroll to find your purchased apps, with no-way to filter anything out and the BEST PART: NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, that's right, want to find say Dead Space? well it's not after Cat Soundboard, it's somewhere in between ZdBox and Amazon App Store. 

Then you have to deal with motoblur, HTC Sense, Samsung TouchW, I mean WTF.. thats why it takes so long for updates like ICS, shit- HTC had no idea about ICS the day google announced it.  Ya they have ROMS, but lets be real here.  First you have to find a ROM for your phone, then you have to see what problem it has, NONE of them work 100% there will always be bugs, then you have to find the best radio, then you have to reinstall your backup, then you look and there is a new version. Pain in the ass, but still a cool feature.

 

I have one WP7 and although it's not used as a phone because I don't have it connected, it still does EVERYTHING without the phone.

Everything is on one screen, It's simple, apps feel solid and legit, yet to get a push ad notification, XBL is very cool, Zune Market, battery life is solid because the OS knows how to stop an app after it's not in use, MS does wave updates to get an update on to as many phones as possible, I want the Nokia 900.  Windows Phone 7 has the best F'EN keyboard on ANY phone I have ever used hands down!  I'm actually running an android WP7 app that's very close to mimicking it.

I like the customization of Android, but sometimes to much user control- open source is not always the best way to go, and not just for the user, but for the people that make apps/roms for your phone, you know, that phone that your about to make an online purchase with, and you just installed an app/rom that you gave every permission to do so.

 

With all that said, I love Android, I wouldn't keep buying phone after Android phone & tablet if I didn't but as soon as Verizon gets a WP7 I want I'm changing because to me, I feel it's more of a solid OS, it does what I need it to do with ease and great battery life.