The newest iPhone is out; but the Android OS continues to deploy on better and better hardware; and both operating systems roll out exciting new features and innovations with each release. What really makes a phone better in comparison to others is the applications they feature. Applications in a way make the phone what it exactly is.
Apple has a commanding lead over all other smart phone platforms but Google’s Android is not too far with Android getting better and better. So which of these deserves your hard-earned cash?
Although there is no clear win-win for either of the two, both of them have areas where they are superior over the other. Here is the list of a few important applications giving a glance of which one is better.
| Iphone | Android | Winner | |
| 1) Games | The iPhone has a huge
lead here, and most game developers appear to be hanging back from committing to Android for the time being. |
While there are lots
of casual games for Android, there’s nowhere near the momentum of iPhone, with marquee titles like “Sims,” “Mass Effect” and “Plants vs. Zombies” already being downloaded by the masses |
Iphone |
| 2) Social
Networking |
Reviewers have taken
the iPhone to task for not being a very friendly socia l networking platform. You can’t really browse your feeds in a comfortable way without diving deep into the apps |
All of the new Android
phones have Facebook and Twitter widgets that let you browse your people quickly without making you launch any apps. |
Android |
| 3) Music,
photos and movies |
When it comes to basic
media playback, the iPhone is what Steve Jobs called his “best iPod yet.” once the media is on the iPhone , it’s easy to access and manage. DoubleTwist, sort of an iTunes “lite” that runs on Macs and PCs and syncs music to most phones, helps organize movies and photos too. Meanwhile, the DoubleTwist app for the phone itself acts like the iPod app on iPhones. (Both the computer program and the phone app are free.) |
For Android users,
media help for the moment has to come via third-party software. |
Iphone |
| 4) Streaming music | iPhone has popular music
apps like Pandora, Slacker, Rhapsody, Mog, and even utilities like SoundHound and Shazam, but they’re all available on Android too. |
All the popular iPhone
music apps — Pandora, Slacker, Rhapsody, Mog, and even utilities like SoundHound and Shazam are all available on Android too. The difference is, most of them get widgets in Android. You open your phone and flip through tunes, play two or three songs at the same time from the same screen in some freaky mashup performance piece, all without dipping into an app. You can’t do that on an iPhone |
Android |
| 5) Travel | This one was a near tie —
it’s impressive how many iPhone staples like FlightTrack, Kayak and TripAdvisor have made it to Android. iPhone’s push notifications are particularly suited to flight updates. |
The widgets on an
Android would not be able to provide such a huge advantage as the iphone does. |
iPhone |
| 6) E-books | When it comes to e-book apps, both platforms have
Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook (at right) and Kobo, which is supported by Borders. |
Tie | |
| 7) Applications
for Kids |
There are some phenomenal
books and educational games being developed for iPhone. |
On the iPlatform, kids
‘ apps are very high quality — and in the Android Market they’re almost totally nonexistent. |
iPhone |
| 8) Comparison
of Google and Apple’s application |
The apps Apple releases
are either too redundant or too self-serving or too expensive. |
One of Android’s not
-so-secret weapons is Google, a powerhouse software innovator that has yet to charge a dime for an app on any platform. Of late all the android phones come with a full turn-by-turn navigation app. The Android Market has Google Sky Map, Google Translate, Google Earth and Google Goggles (a visual search engine) |
Android |
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