Is the iPhone Better Than Android?

[DharmaDog]

I haven't used an Android phone in over a year. The last time was when the Sprint Evo 4G came out. I was sort of indifferent to it. Didn't see that it was measurably better or worse than the iPhone 4 I had just purchased. My colleague that purchased the Evo and let me use it for most of the day kept pointing out the kickstand on the back and the fact that it could be used as a hotspot. Couldn't care less about the kickstand, and the hotspot was something I'd use maybe less than 10% of the time. But that's mostly hardware or carrier issues, and not a real differentiator of the phone's OS. For him, however, the hotspot was a big deal because he travelled a lot and would lead projects a client site's where his consultant coworkers would be unable to get on the client's network for sometime until the consultants' network account were set up.

Last week my family took a road trip to visit my in-laws. While in town I was pressed into "computer guy" duty for my wife's grandparents - setting up Skype with a webcam, buying/installing memory, setting up new email accounts and transferring old email, etc. All in Vista...blech!

Well it came time to get his recently purchased Android phone (not sure which one) configured for the new email account - I can't believe how unintuitive that OS is. I couldn't quickly figure out how to set up the new email account alongside the existing one within ONE app. I only spent maybe 10 minutes trying to figure it out, but I didn't have more time to invest. In the end I got it working, but he now has TWO icons for email on his home screen - one for each account. I know that's going to cause him problems.