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If you're technically-inclined, it's fairly simple to root almost any Verizon android phone, which allows you to get rid of the Verizon bloatware, and gives you far more control over your OS (there's a pretty large Android hacker community that has made a lot of different versions of both the kernel (better optimized for speed, battery life, etc.) and the GUI). This gives you a lot of flexibility with almost any android phone. My general thoughts: If you're not going to play with it/don't want to customize as much and get into what's going on behind the scenes with the phone, iOS is easier to pick up and use, has more apps, and is a little more polished. The iPhone is justifiably popular. If you're going to go a little deeper and get into messing with the OS and really customizing your phone, Android gives you a lot more flexibility. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35, Jeremy Malczyk <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:25:47 -0400, David Guertin > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >"Android also has the advantage of being an operating system that is > >much more open than the iPhone�s iOS, which means that developers have > >more freedom to make the kinds of apps they want." > > > >That has both pros and cons, depending on what you're looking for, but > >the hacker geek in me likes the open-source roots of Android (it's > >Linux-based), and bristles at the proprietary secrecy of Apple and > >Microsoft. > > That's the Kool-Aid I've been drinking too. The walled garden of Apple is > like > paying full price to ski at an Okemo with a no woods and closed boundary > policy. > > Back to the original post, Skip: if you are considering an Android, I would > recommend you choose one of the "Nexus" phones that Google puts out once a > year (there is a new one coming out tomorrow, likely on Verizon).. These > are > phones that run a version of Android without third-party alterations on top > of it > (aka "bloatware"). They are the phones that Google's developers use and > test > code on, so they see the most frequent software updates and are generally > the fastest and most stable option out there. All other Android phones have > to > wait for the manufactures and carriers to regurgitate updates from Google > to > their users, and that has proven to be a slow process(if it happens at > all). > > >Of course, the one app that I really need for work, a VPN client for > >Juniper switches, doesn't exist because Google won't release the > >necessary code, so in that respect Google isn't much better than Apple > >(or Microsoft). > > Now we're really off topic, but I had the same issue. I don't think you'll > have to > wait long, Juniper knows there is a demand for it. > > --Jerm > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. > > To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html