我喜欢Droid在遵循方向时更好地实现Google地图。从一个交叉点到下一个连接点的iPhone页面,所以我失去了我与整个旅程相关的内容。手掌上的机器人沿着路径移动地图,因此您可以更好地处理下一个连接点。
赢家:The Droid. The built-in navigation app sets it apart in a big way.
Deathmatch:用户界面许多用户讨厌触摸键盘在iPhone中开创,这是黑莓仍然流行的一个原因。机器人试图让您拥有两种方式,使用滑出物理键盘和类似iPhone触摸键盘。
机器人的触摸键盘非常像iPhone。它缺乏iPhone的多语言支持,但它可以让您根据您的建议单词进行选择(iPhone仅允许您决定是否接受其唯一建议)。一旦你得到触摸敲击,两者都很清楚易于挖掘。称之为绘图。
But the Droid's keyboard is awful. The keys hardly move, and they're flat and hard to distinguish from each other, so it's difficult to carry off the two-thumb touch-typing that a BlackBerry Bold or Palm Pre user would expect. It's hard to type accurately on it; I wish the Droid's sugegsted-spelling feature worked when I as typing on the physical keyboard, not just when tapping on the touch keyboard. I can type quickly on the BlackBerry Bold's keyboard, but I barely inched along on the Droid's physical keyboard. And the rocker-style trackball that works with the physical keyboard is equally awkward. Basically, the Droid's keyboard is a waste of hardware, and as you'll likely not use it, it simply drags down the phone, adding unnecessary thickness and weight.
iPhone的屏幕小于Droid, but it's sharper and consistently holds its brightness level. I like the idea of the Droid's larger screen, but it tends to flicker if you leave its autobrightness setting on. Also, the Droid's lack of gesture support, due to the absence of a multitouch screen, limits your ability to maneuver through apps and information.
Overall, the iPhone's UI is cleaner and more intuitive, as examples throughout this review have noted.
The voice quality of the Droid's phone is better than the iPhone's -- and in my home town of San Francisco, the reach of Verizon's 3G network is much more extensive than that of notoriously stingy AT&T, so I expect speedy data access to be more available to Droid users. The two devices rapidly eat through battery life, each lasting less than a workday on a single charge if used for regular data access and a few phone calls. You can carry a spare battery for the Droid but not the iPhone, though most people will instead keep a USB cable handy to charge the devices from their computers (both use proprietary cables).
赢家:The iPhone. The Droid's poor keyboard and lack of multitouch screen are inexcusable, and the fact that Motorola could think those were acceptable design choices reminds me why Motorola has been a nonentity in smartphones for the last decade. The fault is not just Motorola's, though; Google's OS also delivers an uneven UI. The Droid's Android OS suffers from an ailment common to most OSes: lack of user-oriented elegance. The Android UI is not terrible, but it clearly has not received the care and attention it deserves. It doesn't have to be this way; theHTC Droid Eris' Sense UI extensions显示Android设备可以在UI质量方面与iPhone竞争。
Deathmatch:安全和管理当我听说Droid最终支持交换服务器时,我很兴奋。但正如所指出的那样,它不支持Exchange ActiveSync安全策略,因此Droid将其自身作为许多组织作为智能手机选项移除。相比之下,iPhone支持一套体面的ActiveSync策略,因此可以满足许多公司的合规性要求。
The Droid's lack of concern over security extends beyond Exchange. It does not support on-device encryption, unlike the iPhone 3G S, and its palette of security features is quite limited: You can require a touch pattern as a sort of visual password to use the Droid upon startup or after a timeout (a nice feature), but there are no capabilities for, say, requiring complex passwords, disabling the device after several failed access attempts, or wiping the device remotely. The iPhone supports several such security methods, though you need to使用iPhone配置实用程序设置大部分内容,您需要交换连接或MobileMe帐户来启用远程擦拭。
The Droid supports two additional security features worth noting. One, you can set it so applications use security credentials, such as those supplied on an SD card. Two, you can set up VPN access using several VPN protocols. The iPhone also supports security credentials and VPNs, but because the iPhone does not support removable media, credentials must be installed via e-mail, URLs, or the iPhone Configuration Utility.
在可管理性方面,机器人也缺少iPhone。iPhone通过iPhone配置实用程序具有有限的管理功能 - 这不适用于空中,无法执行策略部署 - 但这比完全缺乏Droid的管理能力更好。(请注意,越来越多的移动管理提供商是有前途的iPhone和Android支持,但这意味着获得额外的服务器产品。)
赢家:The iPhone. Although it doesn't match the BlackBerry's security and manageability, it is far ahead of the Droid. Small and medium-size business can consider the iPhone seriously; the Droid is essentially an option only for businesses that don't have security or management practices in place.
机器人赢的地方Droid仅在两个方面击败了iPhone:由于其内置的旋转导航应用程序和手机语音质量,因此位置支持。它确实有一些小型创新,苹果和其他人可能会考虑采用。例如,它的手势模式“密码”是一种有趣的方法,可以阻止某些设备盗贼,其大屏幕是较小的展示趋势的欢迎折扣,这对我们中间人读取的较难的展示。
Droid也吃晚饭ports multiple simultaneous apps, but it provides no real way to take advantage of that fact, other than the ability to switch among them. The Pre is a better model for taking advantage of multitasking than the Droid.
iPhone赢的地方毫无疑问,iPhone是商业和消费者用户的更好的设备。其业务能力更强大,而且更适合企业安全需求。它的丰富应用程序是无与伦比的,它充分利用网络的能力要强大,而且比机器人更容易使用。
The overall winner is ...这里没有惊讶。iPhone明显地超越了机器人。毕竟关于“机器人”的炒作和它如何匹配甚至击败iPhone,它已经变得更像是黑莓风暴,这是一个有趣的想法,被愚蠢的设计选择蹒跚的人。风暴Wannabe有太多的竞争对手来生存。
机器人不是一个严重的竞争者。如果您想要Android设备,请考虑HTC Droid Erisinstead. Although not business-capable (it has the same limitations there as the Droid), it has a much more iPhone-like UI.
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