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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Timmerman" data-source="post: 48656" data-attributes="member: 172">Re: Upgrading phone soon. Which direction to go?What are you &quot;upgrading&quot; from?Personally, I&#039;m not a fan of any of the above, although if I had to choose I&#039;d probably go Droid 4 due to the hardware keyboard.&nbsp; Touchscreen keyboards are a pain, even on the bigger screens.&nbsp; See also: <a href="http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/" target="_blank">Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories</a> for the workaround that the phone manufacturers have been using.Android is very tightly integrated with Google services (to the point that you need to sign up for a gmail account to use the marketplace and there is Google shovelware on the phones that can&#039;t be removed).&nbsp; And the UI is still a bit cumbersome (although I haven&#039;t played with ICS).&nbsp; The iPhone uses Apple&#039;s dock connector to charge, which means Yet Another Cable to carry around if you don&#039;t have other Apple devices that use the cable.&nbsp; And there&#039;s the tight vendor lock-in with Apple (why do people need to jailbreak phones?).&nbsp; &lt;/rant&gt;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Timmerman, post: 48656, member: 172"] Re: Upgrading phone soon. Which direction to go? What are you "upgrading" from? Personally, I'm not a fan of any of the above, although if I had to choose I'd probably go Droid 4 due to the hardware keyboard. Touchscreen keyboards are a pain, even on the bigger screens. See also: [url=http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/]Damn You Auto Correct! - Funny iPhone Fails and Autocorrect Horror Stories[/url] for the workaround that the phone manufacturers have been using. Android is very tightly integrated with Google services (to the point that you need to sign up for a gmail account to use the marketplace and there is Google shovelware on the phones that can't be removed). And the UI is still a bit cumbersome (although I haven't played with ICS). The iPhone uses Apple's dock connector to charge, which means Yet Another Cable to carry around if you don't have other Apple devices that use the cable. And there's the tight vendor lock-in with Apple (why do people need to jailbreak phones?). </rant> [/QUOTE]

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