Is this the time to buy a new Android phone or not? BGR has a post out today claiming it's the worst time to buy an Android phone. BGR believes some game changing phones are just around the corner and now is not the time to get stuck in a 2-year contract on your phone.
I would take this a step further. It's always been the worst time to buy an Android phone, in a way. There are so many Android phones there that it’s impossible to know which one to buy. Just when you think you bought the best one, another one with better specs comes out two weeks later.
Then there are the versions of Android to keep up with. Do you have Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich? Can you upgrade? Will it change anything? How come my wife's phone has Gingerbread but I don't?
Each manufacturer has skinned Android with their own taste. Do you want Motorola’s Blur, or HTC’s Sense UI? What about Samsung’s new Android UI? Which one do you want?
Android adoption has grown at a rapid pace, largely due to Google’s backing of the open source OS. The market is flooded with phones running Android that consumers have no way to know which phone is a good fit for them. Are the new crop of game changing phones that BGR refers to really going to stop the fragmentation of Android? No. Android is a good mobile OS, but it’s so frustrating to try to keep up.
Android apps don’t get the same scrutiny that other platform’s apps get. Apple, Microsoft, and RIM all screen their apps. Is their process perfect? No. But the chances of getting malware are reduced on other platforms, at least in theory.
I have a couple of Android phones, but am I going to buy another one? Not yet. I’m going to wait around for the new iPhone to see what that offers. I’m also waiting to see what the Nokia Lumia 900 will offer. I’ll continue to use Android on my existing phones and cross my fingers that Google will somehow get a handle on many versions of Android that are out there. How can they accomplish this when they don’t actually own Android? I don’t know, but perhaps it involves using the leverage they have with their Android Market, now Google Play.
I would take this a step further. It's always been the worst time to buy an Android phone, in a way. There are so many Android phones there that it’s impossible to know which one to buy. Just when you think you bought the best one, another one with better specs comes out two weeks later.
Then there are the versions of Android to keep up with. Do you have Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich? Can you upgrade? Will it change anything? How come my wife's phone has Gingerbread but I don't?
Each manufacturer has skinned Android with their own taste. Do you want Motorola’s Blur, or HTC’s Sense UI? What about Samsung’s new Android UI? Which one do you want?
Android adoption has grown at a rapid pace, largely due to Google’s backing of the open source OS. The market is flooded with phones running Android that consumers have no way to know which phone is a good fit for them. Are the new crop of game changing phones that BGR refers to really going to stop the fragmentation of Android? No. Android is a good mobile OS, but it’s so frustrating to try to keep up.
Android apps don’t get the same scrutiny that other platform’s apps get. Apple, Microsoft, and RIM all screen their apps. Is their process perfect? No. But the chances of getting malware are reduced on other platforms, at least in theory.
I have a couple of Android phones, but am I going to buy another one? Not yet. I’m going to wait around for the new iPhone to see what that offers. I’m also waiting to see what the Nokia Lumia 900 will offer. I’ll continue to use Android on my existing phones and cross my fingers that Google will somehow get a handle on many versions of Android that are out there. How can they accomplish this when they don’t actually own Android? I don’t know, but perhaps it involves using the leverage they have with their Android Market, now Google Play.