I recently swapped my ipod touch/camera phone combo for an Android phone. From my geeky point of view, Android kicks iOS's arse up and down the street, and then teabags it.

Post edited 17:02 – May 29th 2011 by Jurassic Prinny

Apps aside, because they've both got them and iOS has more of them…

The best thing, for me at least, is being able to make the homescreen do what I think is useful instead of what Apple think is useful.

Instead of popping up in the middle of the screen one at a time, notifications appear in the status bar – tapping the status bar brings down a scrollable list of notifications, and you can clear the whole lot with one button.

I'm using GO Launcher EX for the homescreen (other homescreen apps are available, including the stock Android one), I've set it up so swiping down the screen opens the camera, swiping up opens the music player, and swiping the dock brings up the full list of applications (except the ones I've asked it to hide, like the default music and email apps). I don't want everything on the two homescreens that have everything I frequently use.

If I wanted to I could access everything from a hideable dock and have nothing but wallpaper on the main screen, but I don't. I have widgets. Widgets are good.

I've probably spent three or four hours trying different homescreen apps, and getting it exactly the way I want it. With my ipod it was always a case of getting it to 'that'll have to do I suppose', and I had that for two years.

It's just a configurable nerdvana, on top of doing what iOS does.

I'd take a screenshot for you, but it doesn't do that (not without more nerdery than I can be bothererd with).