I just got an Android phone after having an iPhone for almost 1.5 years and I like it better.

[LoZoccolo]

The new phone is an HTC Evo; the old iPhones were the 3G and 3Gs (I lost both of them).

[Initech]

1. My contract is up in a couple months and I'm seriously looking at the Evo.

[grace0418]

2. See how you feel about it in a year. Maybe yours will be much better but my

less-than-a-year-old HTC myTouch was AWESOME at first. I really loved it. Now it kinda sucks. Definitely did not stand the test of time, and I don't load up my phone with a bunch of crap like songs and ringtones and tons of photos. I only downloaded apps I really thought I could use and got rid of any that I didn't. It's so sluggish now it takes forever just to get to the dialer so I can make a freaking call. It freezes and quits on a regular basis. I'm very disappointed. I expected battery life to be an issue because I knew that going in, but I did not expect the poor performance so soon.

Well, hopefully your experience will be better than mine. :hi:

[backwoodsbob]

3. my wife works for verizon as a tech in a store

today they released the droid x and she is panicking.

they only got 35 of them and she figures they will run out by noon.

[Mojambo]

4. What do you like better about it? n/t

[LoZoccolo]

5. There are a few reasons.

1. It is a lot more customizable; in Android you can defined what are called "scenes" (or pick from a few pre-made ones) that you can arrange with widgets that serve as your main menu, along with application icons. On the iPhone there's just a big menu with application icons; on the Android I can put a little weather widget on the front page, some widgets that notify me of events inside of applications, etcetera.
2. Android is open-source, which is kind-of an ideological thing for me, but it also means that if there's a bug, some people can just go fix it rather than worrying if fixing it is an admission that it was broken, etcetera.
3. One company does not have veto-power over all the applications the way that Apple does. At least one person has spent six months on an iPhone application and faced approval delays, and there was a tussel over a Google Voice application that would interfere with the Apple and/or AT&T business model:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/03/developer-inves/
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/apple-told-us-in-july-that-voice-app-would-be-rejected-google-says

4. Apple puts out one phone per year, and the only real option is how much memory it has. Everyone has that one phone with those features; Android allows you to select many options from many different companies.
5. And you can select from many different carriers! Sprint seemed to have some really good rates.
6. Android applications do seem more conventional and complicated, but after using both I find that Apple has an insistence on simplicity which I think is limiting.
7. The particular phone that I got (the HTC Evo) just has a lot of good hardware; a huge screen that was bigger than the iPhone, an 8 megapixel camera (compared to 5 megapixels on the iPhone), 4G capability, and a removable battery (the downside is that it takes a lot of battery power so this wasn't as necessary on my old iPhone).