What does Android offer over iOS?

[PlayStation 2]

I've been wanting to try out an Android device since... hell, since the Galaxy S2 came out.

 

So I wanna hear what are some benefits to it. I've been eyeballing the fact you can root it and use emulators on it, so eh.

 

Please keep your comments civil. I don't want a flame war in here.

[minibois]

customizability, rooting, putting your own apps on it, making your own apps, emulators

[kuzimins]

It doesn't make your phone lag after a few updates by not doing any updates at all.

 

 

 

 

 

/joke/

 

But really, it's now getting better a lot faster than iOS

[Vivilacqua1]

Not having stupid iphones?

 

Also, with this os becoming more popular, more apps and improvements are coming out for it.

[msvelev]

customizability, rooting, putting your own apps on it, making your own apps, emulators

Making your own apps applies to iOS as well. Just saying.

 

You get more customizability and that's pretty much it. Custom ROMs are only good to fix bad stock ROMs IMO. I don't feel the need to put a CM on my LG G4, where I did put one on my 2010 phone, which had some bad stock OS.

IMO right now it's worth getting the iphone 6+ since it has the best battery life of all high end phones.

[Simba]

It's more easier to customize. You can install new lock screens, home screens. 

 

You can download third party apps (which I believe apple is doing but not to the same extent?)

 

Rooting it gives you full access to the phone including No-frills cpu control which is amazing for either boosting your phones performance or battery life depending on what you need.

 

By the way if you are buying one take a look at the G3, best phone I've ever had. (The G4 isn't worth it imho)

[Aytex]

customizability the END!

[Guest Johnny5g]

it is opensource 

[SpaceNugget]

Cheaper options that still make sense. If you can't afford flagship models you can still get a smartphone

[Opeth747]

A better overall experience. 

[Guest]

it is opensource

It is more under the BSD style of things, with most of it being FOSS, but not all of it.

[SuperJeRoT]

You have much MUCH more variety in choosing your device. And you can customize the software, move apps around, put widgets wherever you want, more free apps, and if you are really adventurous you can root and have a lot of custom roms on your device, but since you are new to android I highly sugest not doing that because it voids the warrenty and now devices are alot better than in the early days so you don't really need to root.

[Opeth747]

You have much MUCH more variety in choosing your device. And you can customize the software, move apps around, put widgets wherever you want, more free apps, and if you are really adventurous you can root and have a lot of custom roms on your device, but since you are new to android I highly sugest not doing that because it voids the warrenty and now devices are alot better than in the early days so you don't really need to root.

Yes, but if you run into a problem it's easy to put the stock rom back on/unroot.

[SuperJeRoT]

Yes, but if you run into a problem it's easy to put the stock rom back on/unroot.

Yes ofc, and I'm into rooting and custom roms. Heck I had an HTC HD2 laying around so I can just tinker around with it, sold it to my friend cause he wanted to learn and get into it but failed so I have to fix his phone all the time :lol: And it's amazing that it's still alive and works (kinda) after all those years of messing around with it...

 

With custom roms you gain features and looks but alot of the times after a month or two the phone starts to lag and bug, at least on devices that I had (not wery new ones).

Can't say anything about newer devices though, probably better situation but if you opt for a better and newer phone it will probably have all the features already.

[Opeth747]

Yes ofc, and I'm into rooting and custom roms. Heck I had an HTC HD2 laying around so I can just tinker around with it, sold it to my friend cause he wanted to learn and get into it but failed so I have to fix his phone all the time :lol: And it's amazing that it's still alive and works (kinda) after all those years of messing around with it...

 

With custom roms you gain features and looks but alot of the times after a month or two the phone starts to lag and bug, at least on devices that I had (not wery new ones).

Can't say anything about newer devices though, probably better situation but if you opt for a better and newer phone it will probably have all the features already.

I haven't installed a custom rom since the Nexus 5 came out. Using a Nexus 6 now.

But before the Nexus lineup I had a Galaxy S/SII/and SIII. I rooted all of them and tried many many different roms and I always went back to Cyanogenmod. In my experience the custom rom was better than the stock Samsung one and they did anything but slow down the phone even after time. They were much much faster with the custom rom. The amount of bloatware Samsung and other android phone manufacturers put on their phones is outrageous to say the least. 

I can't stand custom launchers, too. I love stock android. 

[SuperJeRoT]

I haven't installed a custom rom since the Nexus 5 came out. Using a Nexus 6 now.

But before the Nexus lineup I had a Galaxy S/SII/and SIII. I rooted all of them and tried many many different roms and I always went back to Cyanogenmod. In my experience the custom rom was better than the stock Samsung one and they did anything but slow down the phone even after time. They were much much faster with the custom rom. The amount of bloatware Samsung and other android phone manufacturers put on their phones is outrageous to say the least. 

I can't stand custom launchers, too. I love stock android. 

I had an htc Wildfire (shit phone, don't even look it up) did nothing to it, just sold it. After that came the legend of hd2, customised the shit out of it and some roms had bugs, some were awesome, like windows phone worked better than any other os on it.

Then I got Note 1, hated the stock rom and the fact that it was dual core, if it was quad I'd probably have it still. Did alot of custom roms on it and alot of them were based on the stock rom, also did cyanogenmod but what is the point of having a note then... So I soled that and now I have an s3 neo+, quad with 1,5gb (little to late for the party but hey, better than my earlier phones). I didn't root it because the current rom works for me so I can't be bothered really tbh. But if I ever do I will probably put CM on it. No bloatware and just clean looks and it just workes fine, no bugs from stupid little features that are ported from other phones...

 

In the meantime I did some roms on my brothers note 2, he didn't like them because they were buggy, like the phone would just shut down, offline etc. So I went back to stock and he then didn't like that eather because he knew that the phone can do better... So he got galaxy alpha I think, or something from that line.

 

I'm thinking of buying nexus 5, or lg g2, or go a bit older and get htc m7. But since I don't really have any money I will probably stick to my s3

[WindowsVistaUser12]

Opensource

Customization

and more!

[LogicalDrm]

I'm the only one in family with Android (others are using WP8 on phones and iOS on tablets). So far I have several benefits on Android.

- File management

- Connectivity

- Customization

it is opensource

More like based on Opensource. Google hasn't really released source code for Android and controls updates.

[Kiyuubi]

• Optional botnet.

Custom ROMs.

Custom kernels.

Themes.

Icon packs.

Adblocker.

Root.

Open source.