Day 3

Day 3. Still mostly the same.

I can't type on this damn thing though. And I'm used to the iPhone, so I know how touch screen typing can be, but I think this is worse. Maybe it's that multitouch bug they talked about, maybe it's just the keyboard layout is slightly different, but I'm not doing too hot.

Thankfully though the Android OS has 2 things going for it over the iPhone with the keyboard:

• It learns from you. Now, some of you may say the iPhone does this too. No, it doesn't. It says it does, but it never does. It never knows that, despite how many times I hit the stupid x, I really do want to say hell and not he'll. It doesn't ever seem to remember other words too. I've never once been surprised by a word that was already in there
• It has choices. This is a theme with Android, and it shows with the word selection. Start fat fingering letters and you don't get a single word like in iPhone, you get many. Like 2, 4, even 10 I think I counted one time. Like I said in the first point, when you change it from what it was going with, it REMEMBERS. I shouldn't be astounded by this, since my blackberry from 2005 did this, but I am since the iPhone has dumbed me down a few pegs.

The problem I have is what makes me optimistic about Android and pessimistic about Apple. When I ran into something on the iPhone that I didn't like, I had the thought "I don't like this, but I know Apple will never change it, and I know I won't have a choice." With Android, however, I can say "I don't like this, but Google will probably change it. Or if they don't, some other developer will, and I can just install that instead."

Different way of looking at things, different company beliefs, a different experience. I don't like thinking that just because I'm not some 85 year old Grandma who is perfectly fine with the iPhone, no one's ever going to look out for me.

Ok, a realist moment: My battery blows today. My iPhone was never spectacular in my building at work either (slow ass 3G, reception struggles), my first few days had it dying by 2pm, so so far this doesn't seem much different.