Reasons Why an Android Phone is Better Than an i. PhoneRecently Updated This article was just recently updated with new information on September 2. Phone 8 and i. Phone X. Want to skip the intro Scroll down to see my 1. Android phone is better than an i. Phone Recently, there have been releasesannouncements of the i. Phone 8, i. Phone 8 Plus, i. Phone X, Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8S8, Google Pixel, LG G6, HTC 1. Each release of a phone is like a single Mentos being dropped into a 2 liter of Coke a new explosion of debate that overwhelms the social network about who has the best phone. Android No, i. OS Galaxy S8 No, i. Recently there have been releases of many phones including the iPhone X Galaxy S8 including others. Heres why an Android phone is better than an iPhone. Phone X The debate goes on and on. Are Android phones or i. Phones better Read on to find out why an Android phone is better than an i. Phone. Before I get into the nitty gritty, I want to say this. I am not an Apple hater, and never have been. I currently own an Android phone a Galaxy S7 Edge, I have a Windows based desktop at both work and home, I own a Macbook Pro, a Windows laptop, and I have an i. Pad Pro at work. I prefer to coexist when it comes to all the operating systems and devices out there, and I use what fits my needs as everyone should. So, before any i. Fans come in here looking to heckle this article, please dont. I love my Macbook Pro and the i. Pad I use at work. I just believe that an Android phone is better than an i. Phone, and Ill state my reasons why. Okay, thats done. Now, the reason why I am writing this article is because of some of the articles I have seen shared around the social media sites. For example, an article titled 5 reasons i. Y-sRlBLwgiO0W-snFraFb1PgwM8Ni_jYeJiQnC-8j-s_TwM1GPF4SY0K8lDCsP--sz4=h900' alt='Android Apps Games 10 July 2011 Issue' title='Android Apps Games 10 July 2011 Issue' />Phone still beats Android on The Daily Dot. How To Edit Software Registry File on this page. Perhaps youve read it already because it was shared over 2. I first wrote this article. Android Apps Games 10 July 2011 Movies' title='Android Apps Games 10 July 2011 Movies' />I personally believe the 5 reasons listed in the article as to why the i. Phone still beats Android are pathetic at best, and dont focus on hardware at all which is, well, extremely important considering your entire phone IS hardware without taking into account what software is running on the phone. The articles 5 reasons focus on consistency, the Apple App Store, malware in the marketplace, crapware, and home base. You can read more details about each reason in the article. All the reasons are software based or have to deal with items pertaining to how Apple does things. Not convincing at all. Now, my turn to tell you 1. Android phone is better than an i. Phone 1. Choices, choices, and more choices. When you choose an Android phone, you have what seems like an endless amount of choices for phones. Do you want a phone that does everything phones normally do along with taking extremely good pictures Buy a phone whose main focus is the camera. Do you want a rugged phone that could withstand being dropped many times Do you want a phone that has a 4. K resolution screen rather than a 7. Do you want a phone with a smaller or bigger form factorAndroid phones cover all this plus so much more. Thats the beauty of Android phones you can get the one that fits you. With an i. Phone, well, its just an i. Phone. Whatever it has in it is what you get. Sure you might get 2 or 3 options for a smaller or bigger phone that have slightly different hardware but thats it. The camera, screen, internal hardware, etc. For example, you cant buy an i. Android Apps Games 10 July 2011 CrochetPhone that has a high megapixel camera like Android users can with the Sony Xperia Z5. Customization. My favorite part about Android phones customization. If you enjoy being able to customize your phone, then Android is absolutely the way to go. Dont like the standard keyboard that Android comes with Easy Just download a third party keyboard app that replaces the stock one. Dont like the entire launcher that runs your phoneDownload a new launcher. Want to make your phone have a layout exactly like a Windows phone Yep, you can do that, too. Where has this been with i. OS Well, Apple likes to keep things simple and user friendly which is fine. Why then, with the release of each i. OS version, does Apple copy many things that Android has had for a long time nowIf you want a phone with all the latest features from 2 years ago, buy an i. Phone. Predictive text on your messages, a health app, third party keyboards, Swype texting, cloud storage for all your photos, widgets, and more. Android thanks to Google had all of these features long before Apple released them with new i. OS versions. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Its safe to say that the majority of the latest and greatest software features can be found with Android and Apple is always behind. Android wins. 3. Hardware. I believe that the hardware category really solidifies the debate between Android and Apple. People can argue all day about what software operating system is better for this reason or that, but you cant argue better and faster hardware for a cheaper price. Applications apps, which extend the functionality of devices, are written using the Android software development kit SDK and, often, the Java programming. For simplicitys sake, I am only going to focus on two phones for this category the Apple i. Phone X and the Samsung Galaxy S8 since they are the current flagship phones for both Apple and Samsung. Keep in mind the i. Phone X was released in November of 2. Galaxy S8 was released in April of 2. Phone X is 7 months newer. In the table below, you will see both phones listed along with their hardware specs Apple i. Phone XSamsung Galaxy S8Operating systemi. OS 1. 1Android 8. OreoProcessor. Apple A1. Bionic Chip. Octa core 2. GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8. RAM3 GB4 GBScreen size. Screen resolution. Pixel density. 45. Screen type. OLEDAMOLEDRear camera, video. K HD video. 12 megapixels f1. K HD video. Front facing camera. Memory card slot. NAMicro. SDNFCYes. Yes. Size. 14. 3. Weight. 6. 1. 4 oz 1. Battery capacity. Unknown. 3,5. 00 m. Ah. Removable battery. No. No. Water resistant. Yes, IP 6. 7Yes, IP 6. Wireless Charging. Yes. Yes. 3. 5mm Jack AuxNo. Yes. As you can see from the spec comparison, the Galaxy S8 is superior to the i. Phone X despite being 7 months older than the i. Phone X. The Galaxy S8 boasts some impressive specs, and not to mention how good it looks. The Galaxy S8 is bigger than the i. Phone X dimension wise, has a 6. Phone X, and still weighs less than the i. Phone X. With specs such as an octa core processor, more RAM, more battery capacity as far as we know, a higher PPI, the phone being more water resistant, and the fact it has both a fingerprint sensor and facial recognition, it should be a no brainer that the Galaxy S8 is the clear winner when it comes to hardware. In fact, check out my phone comparisons from previous years Apple i. Phone 6 vs Samsung Galaxy S5 vs LG G3 vs HTC One M8 spec comparison Youll see that the i. Phone 6 doesnt win a single category other than the DimensionsWeight category with being 1 mm thinner and 0. Galaxy S5. You can also check out my latest phone spec comparison that I wrote in September of 2. Apple i. Phone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S6 vs LG G4 vs HTC One M94. The Google Play Store. The Google Play Store is fantastic. It is well laid out, extremely user friendly, and offers about any type of app that you can think of. Their latest layout change to a very nice UI when you click on an app in the Play Store that you can see with the right most Instagram picture above is beautiful. Its easy to read, they show the users what they want to see, and its visually appealing. I have used both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store quite a bit. Apple just recently updated their App Store with i.