{"id":2421,"date":"2010-04-01T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2421-android-the-new-windows.html"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:03:06","slug":"android-the-new-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2421-android-the-new-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"Android the new Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just reviewed<\/a> the LG GW620 Android phone. I was impressed by its features but disappointed by its usability \u2013 it\u2019s not that bad, but scrolling web pages accurately with touch I found almost impossible \u2013 it\u2019s hard to avoid scrolling too far and missing out a chunk \u2013 and why does LG supply the device with four different email clients?<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s iPhone is much more expensive and compares badly on features, but has the usability and polish that the LG phone lacks.<\/p>\n

OEM Android versus Apple iPhone \u2013 it reminds me of Windows vs Apple on the desktop. <\/p>\n

One is for the mass market, cheap, feature-rich, a bit chaotic, always a few annoyances, but you put up with them because you can still get things done, and it\u2019s an open platform which lets you do what you like.<\/p>\n

The other is premium-cost, single-vendor, less annoying, and you spend more time getting on with what you want to do and less time fighting the machine.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t intend this as a  complete parallel. There are more than two popular operating systems in the SmartPhone market right now \u2013 Symbian, Meego, WebOS, Blackberry; and Microsoft has big hopes for Windows Phone 7. That said, it is hard to see all these platforms thriving long-term.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve just reviewed the LG GW620 Android phone. I was impressed by its features but disappointed by its usability \u2013 it\u2019s not that bad, but scrolling web pages accurately with touch I found almost impossible \u2013 it\u2019s hard to avoid scrolling too far and missing out a chunk \u2013 and why does LG supply the … Continue reading Android the new Windows?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,56,86],"tags":[143,158,205,422,501,576,586,887,986],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-mobile","category-symbian","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-google","tag-iphone","tag-meego","tag-microsoft","tag-symbian","tag-webos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}