Things I Prefer on Android (Compared to iOS)
I’ve been using Samsung’s latest Android phone, the Galaxy S, extensively for a few weeks now. Before it, I had an iPhone 3G for about 2 years. There are already some obvious things I prefer about Android and some other things that I don’t. Here are the big positives…
Notifications
Absolutely top of the list is how Android handles notifications. It is light years ahead of iOS on this front. At any time, you simply drag down from the top status bar to see your notifications “feed” which is populated by items that have been added by apps since you last checked. My e-mails, Remember the Milk to-do list items, calendar events all trickle in nicely in the background. When they arrive they each make a distinct sound and the app’s icon gets added to the status bar so you can see, at a glance, that something new is in there.
There is no single-modal limitations like there are in iOS where if two notifications arrive at the same time, only one is shown! And the alerts don’t take over the screen and demand your attention straight away like they do on iOS.
