I’ll be honest with you- Android fanboys are far worse. it’s just that they can’t stay out in the sun too long…
Android for me.
As far as phones go, I am not not disappointed.
As far as media playing goes, I am thrilled. (In that I can drop any audio or video file on it as a USB Mass Storage Device and it just works instead of having everything filtered through ITunes, which is approximately like having my scrotum affixed to the floor with concrete nails.)
Already mentioned, seemingly trivial point which bears repeating: I bought five 6" micro-USB cables for $10, which assure me of being able to charge my (or my wife’s) phone any-damn-where I please, without carting a silly-ass propietary cable around. Oh, and they also stand in as cables for media players, mp3 players, our Kobo e-readers, and portable HDDs.
My Motorola Atrix’ screen and processor blow the latest iPhone out of the water. (My wife’s Samsung Galaxy is about the same, as near as I can make out.)
Google integration (Googletalk, Gmail, Google Docs) makes life easy-peasy.
I can set an SMS notification that isn’t the locked-in “Hey, I’ve received a text on my iPhone” sound. (Currently, the 24-verse phone sound.)
I can use it like I *own *it.
720p HDMI out of the box, baby.
I can feel smugly superior to poor schmucks who I perceive to feel smugly superior for owning Apple products. 
I noticed a difference. 4G (for me) is much faster. I buy spare batteries for my phones, and that is another plus for Android. They are cheap (less than $15) and easy to switch out - nice if I’m out and about with no way to plug my phone in.
I love the looks of the newest iPhone, I have had 4 iPods and my main computer is an iMac, but I can’t get behind the iPhone until it has 4G and a replaceable battery.
I doubt you’ll see a replaceable battery (or SD card, or USB ) on an iPhone at any time in the foreseeable future. They got around the European requirement for the USB plug standard by selling a cheap dongle to convert the dock to miniusb.
Apple’s answer to non-expandable storage is iCloud, and their answer to no having an HDMI plug is AirPlay. (which is pretty nifty…any iOS device in range of an appleTV can stream it’s media to it, no cable/drm/registration necessary)
With very little exception, both platforms have feature parity.
Ditto with my Atrix, and my husband’s HTC Inspire. I had an iPhone 3G, and as the 4 was released, my 3G started moving slower and slower - it just couldn’t keep up with the OS upgrades.
I love my Atrix, although it’s been giving me a few issues lately - I think I’ve just got to upgrade the SD card size, though - I’m at 16, and it’s almost full, so I need to look into a 32 GB. I keep a shitload of music and audiobooks on my phone, so that’s essentially what fills it up. I really should start using my old 4GB iPod Nano for music.
As far as the Android vs. iPhone system, there’s no competition for me. I have so much more freedom with the Atrix than I ever did with my iPhone. I hacked my Atrix before AT&T allowed 3rd party app installation, and it opened up a ton of options. Once the upgrade occurred, I un-rooted it, and I can do anything I want, for the most part. It syncs my work email, calendar, and contacts perfectly, I have more free apps, and any app that I do pay for with my Google account, I’ve been able to download to my Samsung Galaxy tablet without paying again. Granted, tablet apps are a little sparse right now, but in the week that I’ve had mine, it seems like more and more are released every day.
I will admit, I have fun playing with my friends’ iPhone 4S and Siri - mainly to ask questions like “Siri, how much does a hooker in Thailand usually charge?”, but like Larry Mudd, with Google voice recognition, navigation (which I get free on my Atrix - anything comparable on iPhone seemed to cost over $70 - my navigation system is just like a Garmin, except she doesn’t yell at me as much when I make a wrong turn). I doubt I’ll ever go back to an iPhone - I like the freedom of my Android stuff.
ETA: I also love being able to create my own ringtones and SMS sounds. As silly as it sounds, that was one of my main frustrations with the iPhone - I wanted my OWN damn text message notification sound, and I didn’t want to pay $.99 for a ringtone. With free software on my Android, I can create my own (right now, my ringtone for general calls is a Christmas medley, and my ringtone is Willow from Buffy saying “You’re supposed to be a meek little girly-girl like the rest of us.”). I change them at my whim, based on my attitude that day or week, and I don’t have to pay for a new one every time - I take it from songs I already have.
But please note, not all Android phones have SD card slots. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a notable example.
HERETIC! Burn him! All android is awesome and does all things! 
That’s an unfathomable design decision, to my mind.
I have an iPad. Typing this message on my new Android phone. For my money I think both operating systems are great. I sync my google calendar with this phone, and the default calendar app on my iPad. The difference for me is that, at this exact point in time, the Android phones (for the most part) boast superior hardware to the iPhone. Despite having a bigger screen, faster processor, 4g speeds +, this Samsung galaxy phone was cheaper than its iPhone rival. More so, considering I could add a 16GB sd card for less than the hundred dollars or so that would set me back on am iPhone. That having been said, if this exact same phone ran ios instead of Android, I’d be no more or less happy!
You can create ringtones on the iPhone for free. They have an option to pay for them, but it is easy to create your own.
No longer are you limited to just one tone for text messages with the iPhone. I don’t think you can choose any sound, but there is more than one option, at least. Which isn’t as good as Android, but it’s better than it was before.
Google services like email, contacts and calendar can be easily synched through your iPhone. I’ve used that since I got my phone, and love that I am able to update my contacts with my phone and have them instantly updated (and vice versa.)
There are free turn by turn GPS apps for the iPhone. I haven’t used them much, because I don’t really like GPS apps on the phone. (Android or iPhone.) I much prefer a standalone device for it. The only thing I like about checking directions on the phone is finding out whether or not there are traffic delays.
I think both OSes can be fine. Just play with the phones you like and find out which one you are more comfortable with before buying. I have an iPhone and I love it. I doubt I would switch, because nothing Android offers is better enough to make me switch. But, I can see why people love their Android phones.
If there is something about either OS you don’t like you can always jailbreak. (With iOS people don’t like how the app store is locked down. With Android people don’t like the changes to Android the carrier insisted upon.)
One caveat. Before buying an Android phone read plenty of reviews. With the iPhone you know what you are getting. But, with Android phones running the gamut in price and quality you have to make sure you are getting a good model, and not the model the phone store is trying to get rid of.
Currently the 4S, but it worked fine on my 3G. Here’s a link:
And if you don’t like that, just go to calendar.google.com and create a home screen link/app directly.
This is my biggest gripe with Android. You have the Nexus Prime, which is the new hot shizz…you have the Galaxy S II which is the old hot shizz…
And several dozen other models with no clue how they stand up. Droid? Droid Razr? Atrix?
I mean good God, look at this list:
Is there any space for the 5th most popular phone to make any money? What makes it the 5th most popular phone? What about the 12th?
The boys got our hand-me down 3gs’s for Christmas. Mom felt left out, and so she got an iPod Touch (HALF price on craigslist, the day after Xmas)
Two takeaways:
-an iPod touch with wifi access is a FREE PHONE.
-Android (well either of them, actually) have to compete with a growing population of two year old, slightly scratched, perfectly useful OFF CONTRACT Cellphones.
I could very well see my next ‘phone’ being my old iPhone 4s as a computer/media/game thing, and a cricket Burnerphone…and just doing without internet when I’m not near wifi.
Choice is a bad thing?
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Google integration (Googletalk, Gmail, Google Docs) makes life easy-peasy.
I can set an SMS notification that isn’t the locked-in “Hey, I’ve received a text on my iPhone” sound. (Currently, the 24-verse phone sound.)
720p HDMI out of the box, baby.
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I can use all those Google applications on my iPhone, though docs is extremely clumsy.
I can also set a number of sound notifications for text messages, there are about 20 options.
Not sure why I’d want to connect a phone to anything with HDMI, but I can push any audio or video to my Apple TV in 720p, all without a wire.
Actually you can set text notifications on the iPhone to be anything you want. Currently I have a couple of movie sound files set to a few specific contacts, and a snippet of music for the default. (Yes, I’m that guy.) Ditto for ringtones.
Too much choice…yes.
Oh cool - how long has ut been so?
It’s very handy for “monitors of opportunity.”
I have a subfolder on my home media player that syncs to my phone as stuff that I may want to watch outside of the house sometimes. (ie; too nerdy or weird to watch with my wife, or just generally outside of her sphere of interest.) Stuff like this I often watch during my commute, but it’s nice to be able to use my phone as a media player with virtually any TV that happens to be around. My workplace allows us to use the projector in the boardroom for entertainment during breaks (full cable package, yay) and sometimes I’ll just plug my phone in and watch an episode of Torchwood or QI, 'cuz I can.
It’s also handy when you’re visiting folks - either for “wanna watch a movie?” or for showing photos and movies taken with the phone. (It has a pretty slick interface, too.)
MAYBE. It could only be so for me at home. I can’t use the Wifi at work and I can’t count on open Wifi anywhere.
what, you think all those 3GSs and iPhone 4s are just being tossed in the trash?
the things people will do to mold their lives around one company’s products.
I would characterize it more like: “the things people will do to reduce a $1100 a year phone bill to $350.” if I HAVE an increasing number of paid for devices, and the only loss in value is pervasive always-on Internet access, but it drops my monthly bill from $85 a month to $30…you do the math.
Ditto this. I researched this question on and off until a couple months ago (when I bought an iPhone 4S, which I love). I often heard the sentiment that, while both phones can do pretty much the same sorts of things, the Android requires a lot of playing around to get things to work, stop things from draining the battery, and just generally being right.
A very bright fellow I work with said it best - Androids may make for a fun hobby, but if you want your hobbies to be about something other than making your phone work right, get an iPhone.
I have an iMac at home, and an iPad now too. They all talk to each other in a very nice and streamlined way. That can be a plus, too. I see the iWhatever products as being pretty much like ordinary computing products, except that they usually work right.