Ten reasons why you should still avoid Android

1. The back of the case is still plastic, so it's going to get scratched to buggery and the battery cover will keep falling off.

2. Hardware designed to meet a features checklist with no regard to usability.

3. The camera will have a tiny sensor with a huge megapixel count, which will yield awful noisy images.

4. You can't upgrade the OS to the latest version because the carrier doesn't let you. You have to buy a whole new phone and get locked in to another lengthy contract, probably getting a lower 'unlimited' data cap in the process.

5. New Android devices will be out practically every week, rendering your Android device out of date, forcing you to sell it at a loss in order to upgrade to the latest and greatest and get locked in to another lengthy contract, probably getting a lower 'unlimited' data cap in the process.

6. Locked in to Google for map data, which means directions will probably tell you to walk across a busy road and probably die. Add the cost of good health insurance to that mobile contract.

7. Voice-to-text that you'll have to correct manually, which will take more time, so you won't bother after a while. Even if it does work, which it won't, which I can say with complete certainty, even though I've never used it on a phone, you won't use it becasue it'll make you look like a dick in public*

8. Doesn't have a gyroscope, so gaming is impossible. It'll still be impossible when a gyroscope is introduced, because it didn't have one to start with, and no games will support it. Ever.

9. Due to uncontrolled multi-tasking, your battery will only last for 30 minutes, and you'll have to use a clunky task manager to take control, but the battery will be dead by the time you notice anyway.

10. See the web grind to a halt with all that Flash crap.


Yes. That was mostly bullshit. Want Android ? Get an Android device. Want an iPhone ? Get an iPhone. Happy with your crappy PAYG 4 year old mobile and can't justify the contracts on any smartphone ? Stick with that phone. Honestly, it's fine.

* If you use a BT headset, you don't seem to mind looking like a dick in public, so this may not apply to you, except it will, because voice recognition doesn't work. I know this for certain because I bought some in 2000, for a desktop, and it was shit. It didn't work then, and itll never work. That's crazy Star Trek tech. Science *Fiction*.