Is it just me or does the Evo 4G look inferior to the Iphone 4?

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Using the shit out of any smartphone is going to drain the battery. Shit, on my ipod touch, if I played a game on the metro to and from work and maybe during a bathroom break, my battery was half done. If it were a phone, I'd have to charge it every day, just like my Evo.

It's splitting hairs, nothing more. The iphone is sexier, definitely, but either device will make you happy. Android still has some OS advantages that make me like it better. For one, having a Yelp link to a restaurant in my inbox, clicking it, Yelp App picking it up and opening it, and then launching the Google Maps Navi app from Yelp is something you're not going to do in the iPhone OS - unless that's changed in 4.

It's a slick experience compared to opening the email, copying the link or name, going to Yelp, pasting it, getting the address, copy, paste into maps, and even then you don't have turn by turn navigation unless you paid for a 3rd party app.

That is where the "sandboxed" design of iOS misses out. Apps don't really talk to each other. It's not seamless. It's just my opinion, but I've been a pretty loyal buyer of Apple products, and my wife is even more so. But we've never gotten by with just her iPhone on a weekend getaway, whereas we didn't need my laptop at all with my Evo this time.

Did running turn by turn navi eat some battery? Sure did, but I didn't need (or have) a car charger. The battery still got me through the rest of the day, too, with push email on and some light camera usage.

Apple can market the shit out of anything and make people think they've invented something new and magical. I give them a lot of credit for bringing the smartphone to the masses and really having a great, non-techie UI that works. Android is bringing capabilities that aren't found elsewhere, though.

Just FYI, my friend with a 3GS and I (Milestone/Droid) went on a road trip. I charged both days. He didn't charge. He had 15% on day 2 at 9pm. I had 10% at 9pm. But I only unplugged that morning of. We both did surfing, although I surfed a lot more, but not a huge amount or anything. Bottom line is these phones eat battery like mad.

Android may have a nice 1500mAh in their hardware, but in terms of software eating battery like mad, Android does that just fine. 1500 mAh is a HUGE amount, and as someone with an N-series who complained that 1000 mAh could only do 2 days with push e-mail, 1500 mAh should easily do 3 days on S60. But on Android? Apps keep running nonstop with no way to kill them, and it'll last you a day only.

The iPhone you can blame for its closed system and all these limitations, but Apple REALLY does squeeze a good amount of battery life out.

My complaint with the new iPhone is that 9mm is quite thin. The N1 is already thin at 11mm. Do we really need to go thinner? I wouldn't mind a 11mm iPhone if it had more battery life. Plus that's still thinner than the 12.5mm iPhone 3GS... I don't get why Apple has to strive for the absolute smallest form factor. Sometimes it just gets hard to hold, like the current iPod nano. It's nice and all, but you only need to go so thin for portability before you start losing out on features (in the case of the previous designs the RF antenna quality was sacrified as with battery life).

Anyway, about your point of playing games on an iPod and seeing your battery plummet, this is why I gave away my 3GS after 3 days. I gamed a LOT on my iPod. Too much even. I'd pull it out at work on the toilet and waste 20 minutes there and forget I was there to take a dump (TMI). Seriously. That stuff is too fun. I didn't want my phone dying 3 times a day cuz I love games. I guess with Android the games suck so bad I don't even want to play....