Galaxy S or Iphone

Gordon_Hose

I've not used any more with my S2 than I did with my iPhone.

thegoodman

Beetlemama wrote: »

Just a quick note, new and future S2 users - watch how much data you're using, we came from Blackberries to the S2. On the BB I had an unlimited plan and used about 33mb a month, on my husband's we had 500mb and didn't get close to half of it, BUT the first month with the S2, on a 750mb plan, he burned through 1.2GB of data in 10 days - there's a lot of things on it that sit connected and you have to find 'em and kill 'em, and if you don't have wi-fi at home, it sits on 3G all the time unless you stop it.

You don't need to do that with the Blackberry, it gets the mail in and sits around waiting for you to tell it to do something, you only had to remember to close the internet when you were done with it.

Old users and seasoned users will know this, but new users - mind what you're using until you get use to it.

You are right. The reason with android phones is due to advertisers collecting the personal information, a lot of it, from your android phone.
See the link below
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/05/android-apps-user-data-advertising

The people from the Android religion will say their phone is perfect. Not one android user have said anything negative. It can't be 100% perfect os.

grumbler

thegoodman wrote: »

You are right. The reason with android phones is due to advertisers collecting the personal information, a lot of it, from your android phone.

I thought the main reason was that Blackberries were famous for compressing data and, as a result, using much less data than other smartphones.

I seem to have been wrong .
1.2Gb - 33Mb = 1.17Gb of personal information information in 10 days from one phone does look as a realistic and convincing explanation.

custardy

thegoodman wrote: »

You are right. The reason with android phones is due to advertisers collecting the personal information, a lot of it, from your android phone.
See the link below
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/05/android-apps-user-data-advertising

The people from the Android religion will say their phone is perfect. Not one android user have said anything negative. It can't be 100% perfect os.

seriously. you really need to have a word with yourself

thegoodman

grumbler wrote: »

I thought the main reason was that Blackberries were famous for compressing data and, as a result, using much less data than other smartphones.

I seem to have been wrong .
1.2Gb - 33Mb = 1.17Gb of personal information information in 10 days from one phone does look as a realistic and convincing explanation.

I agree over 1gb sound way too high and the op can stop updates vi mobile Internet. Wifi only or maybe phone is downloading all emails rather than subject line only.

[Deleted User]

thegoodman wrote: »

You are right. The reason with android phones is due to advertisers collecting the personal information, a lot of it, from your android phone.
See the link below
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/05/android-apps-user-data-advertising

The people from the Android religion will say their phone is perfect. Not one android user have said anything negative. It can't be 100% perfect os.

Don't iOS apps have embedded advertising?

thegoodman

anewhope wrote: »

Don't iOS apps have embedded advertising?

Unlike android, advertisers are unable to upload any personal information such as address and telephone numbers

powerful_Rogue

mrochester wrote: »

I just genuinely want an answer to the question because so far I haven't been able to find anything that makes setting up/restoring an Android phone as easy as the iPhone. If there's something that makes it as easy as that (without any hacking/rooting/whatever!), then I'm all ears to finding out what it is!

custardy, any further information as to what this backup/restore function is?

An app called Sprite Backup. Ive used it several times to move my content across to new android phones.

Im sure theres more apps out there which do the same, however this one works for me so its the one ive stuck with.

thegoodman - It also dosent matter which version of Android your moving stuff too, it still works. Ive moved everything from 1.6 to 2.2 with no issues at all.

[Deleted User]

thegoodman wrote: »

Unlike android, advertisers are unable to upload any personal information such as address and telephone numbers

Please read these:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/iphone_photo_slurping_privacy_risk/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/16/mobile_app_privacy_analysis/

You would also be worthwhile reading about the recent situation with Pandora on the iPhone too.

Such incidents are not isolated to a single platform, despite your relentless vendetta against all things Android.

custardy

thegoodman wrote: »

Unlike android, advertisers are unable to upload any personal information such as address and telephone numbers

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/iphone-address-book/

really?