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Chronology of Coverage
Mar. 19, 2015
NCAA Tournament Notebook; Hampton defeats Manhattan, 74-64, in men's NCAA basketball tournament opener, advancing to face undefeated Kentucky; other tournament news noted. MORE
Mar. 18, 2015
College Basketball Men's Roundup; Hampton University defeats Manhattan College, 74-64, in first round of the NCAA basketball tournament; other tournament results noted. MORE
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Dec. 15, 2014
St John's beats Fordham, 74-53, and Rutgers beats Manhattan College, 63-55, in men's college basketball. MORE
Apr. 8, 2014
Manhattan College says men's basketball coach Steve Masiello will be allowed to return after he finishes his bachelor's degree; his employment has been in question since late March, when an agreement to become South Florida's coach broke down when it was discovered that Masiello had never earned an undergraduate degree. MORE
Mar. 30, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports of The Times column focuses on Manhattan men's basketball coach Steve Masiello, who was denied the South Florida coaching job after he was found to have lied about being a college graduate; notes that the major discrepancy on his resume may cost him his job at Manhattan. MORE
Mar. 27, 2014
College Basketball Notebook column; talks break down between Manhattan Coach Steve Masiello and South Florida after South Florida officials discover an inaccuracy on his resume, which lists him as having graduated from University of Kentucky in 2000; Manhattan officials say Masiello has been put on leave while his degree status is reviewed. MORE
Mar. 26, 2014
Steve Masiello, who led Manhattan College to its first NCAA tournament in 10 years, is concluding negotiations to become the coach at South Florida. MORE
Mar. 20, 2014
Juliet Macur Sports of the Times column; Rick Pitino is dismayed to learn that his Louisville team, in its opening game in NCAA tournament, will play Manhattan College under coach Steve Masiello; observes that Masiello, who was his former assistant, knows Pitino's game intimately. MORE
Mar. 18, 2014
Manhattan College's basketball team, appearing in NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade, is the most New York of New York teams, with eight New York City players on its roster. MORE
Mar. 11, 2014
College Basketball Men's Roundup; Manhattan holds off its rival Iona, 71-68, in Springfield, Mass, for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament title and a berth in the NCAA tournament; other scores noted. MORE
May. 13, 2012
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Nov. 15, 2011
Syracuse beats Manhattan, 92-56, in first round of National Invitation Tournament Season Tip-Off; other men's college basketball news noted. MORE
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Hampton Hopes for Divine Intervention Against Kentucky
Reggie Miller said that it would "take almost an act of God" for any team to beat the Wildcats, which led Pirates Coach Edward Joyner Jr. to say he "had Jesus on speed dial."
March 19, 2015, Thursday
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Hampton Earns a Shot at Kentucky
Reginald Johnson scored 15 points and made two critical defensive plays late in the game to lead Hampton to a win over Manhattan in an N.C.A.A. tournament play-in game in Dayton, Ohio.
March 18, 2015, Wednesday
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With Hustle and Grit, Manhattan's RaShawn Stores Inspires by Defying the Odds
Stores, a senior and a team captain, helped lead Manhattan (19-13) to the N.C.A.A. tournament for the second consecutive year and only the eighth time in the history of the program.
March 17, 2015, Tuesday
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Manhattan Defeats Iona to Win M.A.A.C. Title
The Jaspers won their second straight conference championship on the strength of Ashton Pankey's 21 points.
March 10, 2015, Tuesday
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Muslim Scholar, Looking to 'Speak the Truth,' Teaches the Holocaust and Islam
Mehnaz Afridi, the director of the Holocaust and genocide center at Manhattan College, has drawn praise and criticism from both Jews and Muslims.
February 21, 2015, Saturday
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St. John's, Mindful of Its City Standing, Wins at Garden
No. 24 St. John's, which beat Syracuse earlier this month, continued to make its case to be known as New York's team with a 74-53 win over Fordham.
December 15, 2014, Monday
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Late Bloomer Finds Audience for His Art
Jay Moss, 91, has made sculptures in his spare time throughout his life, but an exhibition of his work now on display at Manhattan College is only his second-ever solo show.
December 1, 2014, Monday
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Masiello Will Keep Manhattan Job
Steve Masiello will be allowed to return as the coach of Manhattan, which he led to the N.C.A.A. tournament for the first time in a decade, after he finishes his bachelor's degree.
April 8, 2014, Tuesday
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When Accountability Is Only a Word
It's difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile the words of Manhattan Coach Steve Masiello with his actions regarding a major discrepancy on his résumé.
March 30, 2014, Sunday
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Manhattan Coach Is Denied South Florida Job After Résumé Check
Talks ended between Manhattan's Steve Masiello and South Florida after it was revealed the coach had lied about graduating from Kentucky in 2000.
March 27, 2014, Thursday
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Peter Jon White
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Chromatic aberation or tree buds?
June 29, 2005, 12:31:30 PM »
If so, why is there no color fringing along each branch? There are branches at every angle with no color at all, and none of the color we see is along the edge of a branch. Instead all of the color is clumped. And why none along the edge of the windmill? Why is it in clumps, just like tree buds? Are you saying that all of the color we see is CA? Or is some of it CA and some of it tree buds? If none of it is tree buds, why not, since the photo was taken in late March, when all living trees in the northern hemisphere are budding?
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June 29, 2005, 02:34:20 PM »
As I wrote to you in a private email, these are not magenta buds because I say so! Why? Because I was there. There were no buds.
Also, anyone who has ever seen a blossom, or CA, can tell the difference, as several members here have indicated, though obviously this is a challenge for you.
This is CA or a related phenomina. Repeat after me THESE ARE NOT MEGANTA BUDS. THIS IS CA!!
Give it a rest.
Jack Flesher
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June 29, 2005, 08:12:33 PM »
Amazing... Less than 24 hours and the "beyond infinity" post has been topped!
PJ: Last time I looked at a tree with pink buds on the branches the buds were NOT translucent, nor did the branches of same appear as splotches of translucent cyan...
You are grabbing at the wrong limb with this one...
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June 29, 2005, 11:43:57 AM »
In his 2003 review of the Kodak DCS 14N full frame DSLR,
Michael Reichmann claims that this image
*Scroll down the page a little past half way to the image of the windmill and tree and the 100% crop just below.*
displays "absolutely unexpected and appalling CA" (chromatic aberation). But to me it looks like the tree is budding and will in several weeks time have blossoms. The photo was taken in late March, a time when all trees in the northern hemisphere that lose their leaves in the fall show magenta colored buds.
Michael says "I'm stumped. It clearly is caused by a combination of the 14n's sensor and the particular lighting situation found in this particular frame, but I'll be damned if I can explain it. Will all lenses display CA like this with the 14n under certain lighting conditions? Is it only this particular lens or model? Is this problem known by Kodak and will it be fixed in future firmware releases?
Feel free to speculate, but if you find out for sure, please let me know."
Well, I emailed Mr. Reichmann and explained to him that trees in the early spring have buds and that those buds would look exactly like what he's calling CA in this image. But he's adamant that he didn't see buds on that tree. Of course, unless the tree were dead, it would have to have buds on it at that time of year.
Notice that the magenta color is in clumps, just as it would be if we are looking at tree buds. There is no magenta color lining every little branch, as there would be if it's CA. There's no magenta color along the edges of the windmill, as we would expect to see if it were CA. The magenta clumps are there with both bright sky as background and with the windmill as background, exactly as we would expect if the magenta clumps were tree buds, and not at all what we would expect if the magenta clumps were CA.
So my question to all of the faithful is this. Is this tree dead? ;-)
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June 29, 2005, 12:02:28 PM »
That is indeed a perfect example of horrible CA.
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June 29, 2005, 01:12:47 PM »
Because it has its compliment cyan as well as the red. CA usually occurs in two combinations; Red/Cyan and Blue/Yellow.
I think what you are seeing as blossoms is clusters of overlapping CA -- note that you can also see through most of those. To the point there is definitely CA present in the branches. In the tree branches you can see the cyan fringe along with the red fringe which is traditional CA. I enlarged the image by 400% to show it more clearly.
As for not seeing it along all edges, I see it on almost every single branch in the tree -- the windmill is oof so the edge is not shapr enough to generate the CA.
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Peter Jon White
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June 29, 2005, 01:56:38 PM »
I hate to belabor the obvious, but isn't that exactly what we have here? We have specs of magenta. And we have sections of branches with no color fringing along the branches. The branches all show up as one single color, cyan in various shades. But we don't see colors in parallel.
Could anyone please explain to me how this image isn't 100% consistent with what any living deciduous tree would look like in late March, when this photograph was taken?
Peter Jon White
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June 29, 2005, 03:32:26 PM »
You seem very defensive about this, which only makes me more curious. You said in your private email that you had an image of the tree taken with a different camera that didn't show the CA. When I asked you to email me the image, you didn't reply, which is what prompted me to post this message here and on photo.net. I'm left to wonder whether you don't in fact have the image you claim to have. I'm also left to wonder whether you realize that you made a mistake in your review and are now too embarrased to admit it. There is nothing whatsoever in the image to indicate CA. The image is completely consistent with a living desiduous tree in late March, ready for the buds to blossom. You've made a mistake. You have claimed that a $5,000 camera has some serious but mysterious defect that you readily admit you can't explain. And you won't admit that you've made a simple mistake.
Could you please post the image you claim to have which doesn't show the "CA"?
And if not, could you tell us whether or not the tree was dead? If the tree is dead, then what appears to be blossom buds must be something else. But as things stand, any objective observer who has ever seen a desiduous tree in late winter must conclude that you've made a mistake and are misrepresenting the Kodak camera in your review.
If the tree isn't dead, perhaps you have an explanation for why this tree mysteriously doesn't have any buds on it, and at the same time causes this $5,000 camera to exhibit an otherwise unexplainable "CA" phenomenon.
By the way, have you ever seen a living desiduous tree in March that didn't have magenta buds all over it?
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June 29, 2005, 04:08:11 PM »
I am under no obligation to provide you with anything.
I am not defensive, I'm simply annoyed. I usually go out of my way to accomodate people with legitate requests, but since I've told you that there were no megenta buds, yet you insist on my proving it to be otherwise to satisfy your disbelief, the answer is a simple NO. Move on!
Now, please stop wasting other reader's time or my bandwidth with this nonsense.
Peter Jon White
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June 29, 2005, 05:28:06 PM »
In your review of the camera you wrote, "I'm stumped. It clearly is caused by a combination of the 14n's sensor and the particular lighting situation found in this particular frame, but I'll be damned if I can explain it. Will all lenses display CA like this with the 14n under certain lighting conditions? Is it only this particular lens or model? Is this problem known by Kodak and will it be fixed in future firmware releases?
Feel free to speculate, but if you find out for sure, please let me know."
You now state that there were no magenta buds on the tree. But as everyone who has ever seen a tree in late winter knows, all desiduous trees have buds on them at that time. So your claim that the tree had no buds is specious. In fact, it's laughable. There's no need to speculate about what caused the "CA". It's a perfectly normal phenomenon that happens every winter. All trees of this type do it.
You have used your website to discredit Kodak's camera with misleading information. You have refused to supply corroborating evidence to back up your claim that the Kodak camera is subject to this mysterious chromatic aberation anomoly. I've read several reviews of this camera and so far have found no other reviewer who has discovered your anomoly. You're the only one who can't tell the difference between a tree bud and chromatic aberation. You have no credibility, Mr. Reichmann.
I have looked closely at the 400% image. I would suggest that next March you go outside and look at a tree.
Good Day.
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Peter Jon White
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June 29, 2005, 08:16:17 PM »
Where do you see any translucency? I see none.
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June 29, 2005, 09:47:43 PM »
Topic now closed due to it being a complete waste of time.
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June 29, 2005, 11:52:05 AM »
Nearly sure it's CA.
Looks just like CA with my 18-55mm shooting trees in strong light.
Jonathan Wienke
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June 29, 2005, 01:22:57 PM »
It's definitely CA, as buds would show up as small magenta specks along the tree branches rather than a color fringe along the entire branch. And Michel is probably astute enough to have noticed the buds (if that's what was the true cause of the problem) and accounted for that in his commentary.
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June 29, 2005, 04:09:44 PM »
Peter Jon,
I think it's you who are defensive, and simultaneously offensive.
It's obvious that you haven't looked closely at the 400% crop that Jack posted, or you've been looking at it on a crappy monitor.
There are absolutely clear signs of chromatic aberration, with cyan, blue and magenta casts.
The blue casts do not exhibit the properties you claim:
The branches all show up as one single color, cyan in various shades. But we don't see colors in parallel
Just take a look at the major branch in the lower left corner of Jack's crop.
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June 29, 2005, 09:46:40 PM »
I am putting an end to this thread. It's a complete waste of everyone's time. You're clearly a person who is unable to accept other people's words, or the reality of the situation.
By the way, the 14n was a dreadful camera. No appologies for that. If you believe otherwise, or are defensive about the issue, that's your look out.
Topic closed. If you reopen another one on the same subject you'll be barred from the forum.
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The upward trend for HEAD World Cup Rebel Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden continued as she took her third podium of the season with second place in the second Cortina downhill. Tina Maze took her first victory of the season and Tina Weirather was third with Maria Hoefl-Riesch in fourth.
"I am for sure really happy to be on the podium," Kaufmann-Abderhalden said after the race. "I skied well in the top section. The middle part wasn't that good but I managed to build up some good speed for the last section. Yesterday I made two big mistakes and was just hoping for a mistake free run today. I'm glad it happened."
Having dominated the training and won the first of the two races, much was expected for Maria Hoefl-Riesch yet she admitted that she had made "too many mistakes."
Anna Fenninger was tied in fifth place and said afterwards: "I made a mess of the first left turn and could not carry speed below, from then the run was quite good,"
Julia Mancuso matched her best result of the season with seventh, even leading at one stage. "I feel really comfortable on my skis and with my equipment now, and it's all about having that perfect run top to bottom," said Mancuso. "This week has been a perfect preparation for the Olympics. Today I felt I really executed my plan to the finish line, just made a wrong line decision at the bottom, and also just need to adapt a little more to changing snow conditions. I'm excited to combine what I learned the last three days in tomorrow's race, and then heading into the Olympics, there is always lots of excitement and I have always fed off that."
Cortina has had something for everyone this year and the second of the two races ran from the top in glorious sunshine. The way that Kaufmann-Abderhalden forced her way back into contention epitomises the way that HEAD push things to the limit.
Maria Hoefl-Riesch remains in the lead of the Overall and Downhill World Cups. In the Downhill Globe she leads from Weirather with Kaufmann-Abderhalden in third and Fenninger in fourth. In the Overall, the lead is 148 points over Weirather with Fenninger in third.
1. Tina Maze (SLO)
2. Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden (SUI) HEAD
3. Tina Weirather (LIE)
4. Marie Hoefl-Riesch (GER) HEAD
5. Anna Fenninger (AUT) HEAD
7. Julia Mancuso (USA) HEAD
14. Lizz Goergl (AUT) HEAD
15. Kajsa Kling (SWE) HEAD


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Try plugging an Android phone into your PC and mounting it as a storage device. You'll have access to all the files and folders, just as you do when you browse through your WIndows computer's C drive. So, if you want to copy a raft of MP3s or PowerPoint presentations to your Android handset, you can just drag and drop them.
Say you record a memo with Droid Record and want to grab its output files. You can navigate down to its folder and move, copy or share them directly from there. If you run a file browser on the phone itself, you can also dive into the file system from there.
So what happens when you plug the iPhone 5 into your PC? You get access the digital camera (DCIM) folder only so all you can do is drag and drop pictures. Yes, you can iTunes to transfer media files back and forth, but you still can't go directly into file system because Apple just doesn't trust you enough to let you see the folders on the iPhone 5 that you bought from them. Whose phone is it anyway?
Yup, because all of us are walking around really wishing we could see the filesystem on our phone. You keep writing for the 1% stuck in 2002…
Yeah… I'm done with this coverage. One week you love Apple. The next time I log in your feed has 3 anti-apple articles on the front out of 5. Make up your minds.
As far as Android and Google go they creep me out. Because of them I know with absolute certainty that every time I log in anywhere, I'm being stalked. They're worse than any Ex I've ever had. They've taken getting to know me way way way too far. I'm done with them and all their services. I honestly hope they get their butts handed to them in everything from now on. Their entire business model is just incredibly sleezy. If you think they're better, that's great. I think that no matter how much better their hardware, and at the rate the OEM's iterate they eventually do hit something good every 20th try and the numbers are sexier, or their claims to openness seem at first glance, they're always going to be that person at the party that is just WAY too interested in me to ever be comfortable using their product.
Maybe that's the whole tech market. That's something I need to assess. We've made personally identifying people ridiculously easy, and for what ads for toasters? Meh. Done, Done, Done. Here's a revelation for you: It's all worthless junk in two years anyway. Less really, as soon as the shiny new smell is gone you're just going to lust after something else. I know I always did. I sincerely hope this was my wake up call.
My parting thought is this. Every cell phone contract I've ever had was like an abusive relationship. I've left every one of them for something shiny and new, only to be abused all over again in new and fascinating ways (yes I'm clearly a masochist). At this point I don't think a new phone is going to fix any of that whatever I choose.
It is so refreshing to see an article that truthfully exposes all the shortcomings of the iPhone, but sadly most iPhone users will never hear or understand these differences.
You, the author of this story know full well that Apple could have jumped into the fray of LARGE screen smartphones. THEY DON'T WANT TO MAKE A LARGE SCREEN PHONE!! Apple wants to remain in the one hand realm of phones- not shrunken tablets. Apple didn't use LTE early because they had to wait for one of their major partners AT&T to actually support it- which you, if you(the Author) researched a little bit would know. The NFC chip was not included because not enough retailers have adopted the technology. Most Americans don't find CC's terribly cumbersome to use. Apple users don't find it difficult to slide and tap that difficult to get to the weather. It's a matter of choice. Apple and Pc people have been going at it for years. The Apple phone's are solid and built well, with better materials. Most Android handsets are poorly built with cheap plastic materials. The software updates on Android are slow to come. When you purchase an Android phone and have say a particular OS it takes the manufacturer for ever to issue a new software update- a chief complaint from Android user(like I used to be) Apple OS is designed for Apple users- it makes sense to its computer users others need not apply. Its funny how few articles there are about how the Apple phone compares to Android phones.. Because Apple phones and their fans don't have an inferiority complex. A convert back to a better made phone and better computers that cost more because they don't require as may fixes. With far better customer service- look it up.
these are the dumbest things i have heard of! everyone is just jealous because the iphone owns everything else, Droids may have this other stuff for longer but apple does it better i was just with my friend the other day and he has droid and he saw me watching the keynote and the panorama thing came up and he said dude droids have had that for a long time and i said alright let me see it then and he did it and it was the worst picture i have ever seen! you guys can say whatever you want but apple just does everything better!
seems like the iT media is owned by corporations too. how much did Samsung and Google pay u to write this article? How can an article about iPhone vs Android be so partial to one of the phones? it's ridiculous….
If Android is so much better than why doesn't it show in the market value? Why does the iPhone continue to outsell with the introduction of every new phone. Apple's focus is the customer and the competitor's focus is Apple.
Wow!!! You Fan Boys are amazing. He didn't say "the IPhone sucks" . He said it has these shortcomings, no product is perfect. "That's so 2002, to want to look at your files". What? Are you telling me there is never a need to look at the files on your phone? "One week you love Apple, the next week you hate it". It's a magazine, not your girlfriend /wife.
It comes down to this…a for instance if you will.
I sold my 4s two weeks ago because I wanted to get the most I could for it. In the meantime I bought myself an iphone 2g to hold me over till my 5 arrives in the mail on the 21st. Something I could use and then sell for the same amount I paid for it. I almost bought myself an android phone, you know just to see what the other side was like… But I thought to myself, any android phone made five years ago is junk (no, there is no arguing that). Sure the 2g doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the 4s had but its still better I'm certain, at least for these three weeks than holding a five year old piece of samsung dog poo to the side of my face as it decinegrates in my hands till the last thing I see is that dumb android icon laughing at me till the screen goes black and the remnants sink into the ground to feed a newly sprouting "apple" tree. And don't get me started on windows phones, if its anything like my mother in-laws computer, you can keep it.
1. Surprise, surprise. Apple offers two screen sizes, or just one on the current model if you wish. If you want bigger, buy a droid. The specs sheet is not a secret. But this is a dumb point, there is no smaller version of the Galaxy S 3. So you are saying?
2. NFC cannot substitute your wallet yet, especially not outside North America. Or did you just like the Galaxy S 3 commercial when people send photos through the glass? Flashy, but is it really useful? When NFC becomes a viable credit card alternative, I am sure that iPhone x will have the chip onboard.
3. True, but I personally do not care about HTC and other widgets. They all do the same, I am not fascinated by different clock designs. But if you are in love with it…
4. I could easily find a proprietary cable in the office, I think faster than a USB cable. iPhone is widespread, admit it. There connectors are de facto standards.
5. So they can steal anything you type.
6. This is actually true.
7. So social, huh?
8. See Kevin's point.
9. Really? I mean, REALLY? This is how android beats iPhone 5?
10. Pen. How many devices? 2-3?
I am also sorry to see that a tech journalist confuses android and iPhone. One is a platform and the other is a phone. Would you compare a Prius to all BMWs? By the way I am not talking in favor of iPhone, but this article is just dumb. I have an HTC, peace.
Frank, "fan boy"-ing is not a valid argument. The problem is that this article makes 10 points just for the sake of having a round number. 3 are valid: attachments, widgets and the file system. While attachments are really a strong point, the other 2 are arguable. Even the file system, for example my mum would be startled to even see DCIM when she plugs in a phone, while power users can dig into iPhone after a JB. Furthermore, it is not android that beats iPhone, but those 5-6 android flagships out there, at least in terms of raw specs, not Samsung Galaxy XYZ 123 running Gingerbread. This article generalizes too much.
So I have iPhone 4. Also Galaxy Note, Lumia 800, Xpressmusic 5800, 808 Pureview, Galaxy S. The best of the bunch? 808 hands down. You see, this is matter of PREFERENCE. Sure Apple is a bad company, no one can deny that. But iPhones are good phones. For some.
So lets brake down what you have said
1. Irrelevant, I like 808, 5800 and iPhone 4's screen size. I have tablet for stuff like videos.
2. I don't even know what to do with it on 808. So irrelevant again.
3. They are cool on the Note. So I'll give you that one.
4. OK, annoyance. But not a big deal.
5. Only bad thing about Apple's keyboard is that it doesn't have easy way of correcting mistakes. Which every mobile keyboard shares.
6. Ummm… I can attach my Powerpoints via Keynote, Words with Pages. Maybe you should try it?
7. So how is that important on a phone?
8. This. iTunes is THE WORST program in existence.
9. lolwut?
10. Don't see the point in Note. Tablets are the only use for styluses
So there you have it. Also OP, just a little thing… you are comparing AN OPERATING SYSTEM to a MOBILE PHONE. Jeesus, when did people come this stupid?
Swype is one of the biggest bonuses for Android. I can type out an email or text in half the time of clicking on the individual virtual keys with less mistakes than my mother in law can do on her iphone. I've had my galaxy with swype for 2 months, she's had her Iphone for 2 years.
The other points are mainly valid. no email attachments, glad I didn't get an iphone for work, I'd be fired by now. USB cables, go stick your adapter where the sun don't shine. I have other micro usb devices and each one came with a cable to use for it. I keep a cable in the car, in my desk and a few at home.
customer icons and widgets, definite plus for Android. I like being able to put what I want on the screen and not what some brain dead dev thinks I should have.
The PEN argument is pushing it somewhat. I like the preciseness of a pen, but the one I'd have to buy for my Galaxy is the same one an iphone user would have to get so no points there. if they were standard Android fare, then maybe.
Overall, one of the biggest things is the file systems and removable media. I can't count the number of times I've had to use my phone as a storage device to get a Cisco IOS (the real IOS) file to some new or ailing network device, or give a user a VPN install/config that was too big to go through email.
I realize the market Apple has, people who want to use tech but don't know much about it. Whereas Android is for the techies, people who want to dig deep into their devices, get root access and see what the device is really doing with all that information we're feeding it. Neither group is going away.
Ed S: a few minor things… 1) your mother in law? That's a valid speed comparison? lol 2) iPhones are perfectly capable of email attachments. Maybe not in the most productive of ways at times, but for the most part, they are fine. It's really just HOW you do it that the author is talking about 3) as far as transferring files… again, there are ways to do that with an iPhone, but it's not its strong point. 4) you are incorrect about iPhone users necessarily being people who want to use tech but don't know much about it. I work in an IT department. I'm very comfortable with tech. I just don't care to use my phone in the ways that some people use theirs nor do I want to spend that much time working with my phone. I organize my technical life differently so that I don't have to. Nothing wrong with your phone being the hub of some of the types of things you're talking about, but it certainly isn't a necessity. If you've got a connected laptop that travels with you, your phone can just be a friendly phone. No need to make it do some of those other things. You can just turn it on and go about your phone related business. Even techy people have different needs / desires from their phones. However, I will grant you that it was certainly easier to teach my mom to use the iPad I got her than it would have been to use any sort of Android tablet and there's something to be said for that.
"Neither group is going away", says Ed S. And I think that statement pretty much wraps up all that can be said about this debate.
Take a Ferrari, and take a four-wheel drive – not a specific 4WD car, but the drive in general – and compare them… what's the point? Yes, the fact is that ANY 4WD car can do something that a Ferrari can't – go off road, for example. But that is for the simplest of reasons: a Ferrari was never meant to go off road, pretty much as 4WD was never meant for top-speed contests. And no sane individual would think of bash Ferrari for its cars' inability to win Paris-Dakar. The mere thing is, either concept does just what it was created for, and it does it spectacularly: the Ferrari will alsays be a lightning on tarmac and a top-class high-tech racer, and a 4WD car will rule in cross-country challenges and off-road trials. Provided you chose a good one, of course – 4WD per se is no guarantee of a quality vehicle, much as Android per se is no guarantee of a good smartphone. Comparing two entirely different philosophies is like comparing individual needs – entirely subjective and inevitably biased. And as a conclusion: it is better to choose a single thing and polish it to perfection, than to take 20 and make them all perform average or even below average – the "a bit of everything" philosophy usually leads to "a lot of nothing" results.
I have an HTC Android device and I'm "mostly" pleased with it. My question is….Where are the proud Android users? It's as though nothing good can EVER be said about these devices without comparing themselves to the iPhone. I have now decided to give Apple a chance to earn my business. These constant comparisons over the years have subliminaly hinted to me that there must be alot of great things I about the the iPhone and the device deserves my unbiased consideration. Articles like this make intelligent consumers like myself think about retrospective possibilities.
I've always believed that outward superiority is a sign of likely internal inferiority.
Dose it really matter? Each will do what you want it to, I compared the IPhone, Samsung, and Droid. And went with the Samsung and I'm very happy with it. It is a great phone! It is what is right for me, to each his own, Like ED and Igor said they are both going to be around. I purchased a IPad 2 for my wife and she loves it cost me a bundle, I pickup a tablet for myself and I love that, they both do the same stuff, read email, internet, take pictures all the thinks we like to do, I just paid a lot less for mine, and my tablet, Samsung , desktop and Xbox all work together sharing files. And I'm sure I could get my wife IPad 2 to work also. So whatever if you like the IPhone then get it, if you prefer the Android go for it. That's America! Freedom of choice! And I for one like that.
Ed, I don't agree that the iPhone is for tech dummies.
I am a techie a strongly prefer just about anything over Android, and appreciate the polished OS on the iPhone. Not saying that there aren't people who are new to tech who use iPhone, but making that generalization is wrong.
I don't even know why I'm commenting on this article, it's so ridiculously biased. As stated by others, iOS is an operating system, not a phone. Android is an operating system, as well, but they don't build the phones. Herein lies the problem, which has been the PC's problem for years. Apple designs and develops the hardware and the software, which is why their computers run so slick, as well as their phones. No, the phones don't have huge 4.5″ or larger screens (if you've never tried one, go for it, like I did when I bought a Samsung Galaxy II Skyrocket, and see how wonderful they are to type or do anything with one hand.) Don't get me wrong, as I do love Android phones. The latest have very awesome features and beautiful screens. I bought 3 of them, and returned them only because I need my calendar, email, music and all to sync with every device I own, whether it be my home PC or MacPro, or my iPhone, iPad or iPod. You can get the Androids to do these simple tasks, if you jump all over between apps and go through gmail to push from there, but even then, it's not seemless. With my iPhone, I can be sitting in front of my PC or Mac, and enter an event on my phone, and it pops right up on my PC and Mac as fast as I can blink. I can do the same with Outlook, as well. Whatever I enter in Outlook will pop up on my iPhone in a second. Some say the iPhones are TOO simple. I always get a kick out of that one, especially when the same people brag about how they can enter their cars without a key, or starting the car with a pushbutton starter and their key in their pocket. And NFC? Wait until you're credit cards are wiped out of cash by a smart hacker that can get at your information. They can already do it with credit cards stored in your wallet, they'll be having a hay-day with the NFC gadgets out there. I must agree with MrTea above – it's America, get what you prefer and don't rip the other person for getting something different.
You iphone people make me laugh…my lg 4g thrill blows the doors off any iphone version…as an ex-iphone
owner..i can say ill never waste my money on apple again.
P.S. Just to illustrate the futility of this article's approach…
Very recently, a certain 18-inch laptop earned the highest praise on this website, as being (and I quote) "if you have the means… absolute perfection". That particular laptop (which IS a stellar product, no doubt about it) does NOT have a 3-pound chassis (that a few others do), does NOT have a touchscreen and canNOT use a stylus (which some others can), does NOT boot in under 25 seconds (which several others do), does NOT have a superb pointing stick (that many others do) and does NOT have 8 hours of battery endurance (which a few others do)… in other words, absolute perfection got "beaten" by others in at least five ways, as demonstrated. But while none of those "others" got the ultra-rare five-star rating, this one did. With this article's approach in mind, where's the logic in that rating?
Wishes and needs are individual – that is why there are so many models on the market to choose from, so (most) people could choose what best suits their needs and preferences. And things should be "judged" on how they do what they were created to do, not on how they (don't) do what one wishes they could do. You cannot choose what features the iPhone or Galaxy or Whatever comes with… but you CAN choose which comes with the features that YOU like best and/or need most, and purchase that one. And whatever your choice, it does not make the other one(s) inferior. Just unsuitable FOR YOU, and that is all.
I'm not seeing ten reasons NOT to buy the iPhone, but 10 neat tricks on a competitors phone. I used to trust computer magazines, but Laptop has WAY to many headlines that are a "trick"
This phone has this superior feature… That phone has that superior feature. Yada yada ya. Sometimes, however, it can be a single feature or lack of feature that makes all the other features pointless. The greatest phone in the world is instant garbage, for example, if it had 1 hour battery life. On that note, let me tell you THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE that is the game changer and the deal breaker here.
1. I have an old HTV EVO 4G an old Gingerbread 2.3 OS that's generations behind the current Android OS. Release date: June 2010.
2. I have an iPhone 4S, released October 2011.
Don't get me wrong. The 4S is superior to the Evo. Of course! It's one year newer.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have both devices and one is clearly superior, but I use it less.
A: The larger screen on the Evo makes ALL the difference for most things I use a smartphone for. Email, web, video, schedules/calendars, taking notes, getting maps & navigation, you name it. The iPhone IS JUST TOO SMALL.
DEAR APPLE: The way we use smartphones has changed. The frequency with which we use them for certain things has changed. The iPhone 5's size upgrade is an ADMISSION that the 4S was too small. Guess what? I promise you, like Nostradamus himself, that the next major revision of the iPhone WILL BE BIGGER. And that will be an ADMISSION the iPhone 5 was too small.
Bottom line: I'm an Apple Fanboy. I have a Macbook Pro, two Apple TVs, an iPad, and iPod, and 5 iPhones (I've had and kept all 5 gens of iPhone.) I love the iPhone. The "walled garden" sucks but that's fixed with a jailbreak.
BUT THE IPHONE IS JUST TOO DAMNED SMALL FOR A MODERN SMARTPHONE. PERIOD. END OF STORY. I am FORCED to go Android for my next phone for one reason alone. Tiny-toy size just won't cut it for a smartphone power user.
OK, that was venting, but now, whether you agree or don't agree, I have a very intelligent question to ask the audience:
Now ask yourself. The Mac makes WAY less money than the iPhone, and yet how many different models and sizes do they have? The iPod makes WAY less money than the iPhone, and yet how many different models and sizes do they have? The iPad makes WAY less money than the iPhone, and they're about to release a new size of that too!
Q: Do you think it makes sense that the single most profitable thing Apple has, they they could release a larger size for the 65% of us who, by statistical survey, have told the world we prefer a smartphone in the 4.3″ to 5″ range?
A 4.8″ iPhone alongside the 4″ iPhone would mean complete and utter domination by Apple. The only upside to Apple not releasing a 4.8″ iPhone is that they will keep their competitors more even with them, which is good for innovation and thus good for us consumers. Everything else is bad. Less profit, less happy shareholders, and disgruntled Fanboys like me being forced to go to Android.
"Apple may be patting itself on the back over its move from a 3.5-inch to a 4-inch display, but in the smartphone size race, the iPhone 5 trails the field by a wide margin. In the Android world, the 4.3-inch Droid RAZR M is considered a "compact" phone, the 4.8-inch Galaxy S III is mainstream and the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II is large." — If 4.3″ is compact, what does that make 4″. I'll tell you… "sub-compact" or in simpler English: "tiny".
Apple, you make great products.
Let's see the stupidity of the fanboys' arguments:
@ML – "I'm done with them and all their services."
So you no longer use Google Search, Gmail, Youtube and Maps… see you one day in your cave mate. Your paranoia fits the confines of a cave really well.
Apple did not want to make different models because its profits will go down you idiot! It does not own the factories that make them and it will be charged higher costs to maintain too many lines. Furthermore small screens with small substrates are CHEAP to make.
Do idiots like you even know that Android owns nearly 70% of the global smartphone market while Apple is barely even 20%?
U bought an iPhone 2G? Why would any retard buy a second hand phone with sealed batteries? Right… fanboys dunno that lithium-ion batteries die after 300 charges… or only have 1-2 hr battery lives. With most Androids, you can at least swap batteries, stupid. Any Android also becomes FASTER with each Android OS upgrade.
@Thomas – "easily find a proprietary cable in the office"
Er… you fanboys did not even realize that the "new" proprietary cable is DIFFERENT from any other proprietary nonsenese Apple has ever had?!?! That was the reason that the European Commission wanted all phone makers to standardize on the USB. Looks like Apple didn't get the memo, or they got only the internal memo to squeeze sucker-fanboy consumers for more profits.
@Matt – "iPhones are perfectly capable of email attachments."
Which phones can't? You speak as though only iPhones can do that. But try attaching a few files to email over a crappy 2G/3G connection. You fanboys still don't get it. Its about being able to do the alternative thing. Androids can be used as a thumbdrive with any computer. You may crawl out from under that rock now.
Just a thought – isnt the lightning connector great for use of third party accessories without need of drivers? or something along those lines? Plus, soon enough the lightning connector will be as available as the 30-pin connector (aka you can find one anywhere).
@Astarbucks.. High-Five I likeeee.. PS: Instead of iphone jailbreak, they should jailbreak from Apple prison.. Muahhahahaha..
This article is crap. I was hoping for at least 1 valid argument :\
I am LMAO at this spirited debate. It certainly rivals any of the Obama vs Romney posts. Maybe we should all focus on the larger issues at hand?
have you ever even seen an iPhone? Battery life and time is always visible and with a quick swipe of my finger I can see local weather, access to my social media choices, latest notifications from different apps, hone calls, texts, and emails as well as stock ticker. sad what passes for product comparison
All of these reasons are reasons why I own an Android device. Fact is, it's just so far ahead of the iPhone that there's barely a comparison to be made. Sure, the iPhone's hardware is better and the battery life might be longer, but when it comes to forward thinking software features iOS is stale and boring and it just doesn't measure up anymore.
I was looking forward to the launch of the iPhone 5 with an open mind. I'm someone who's owned an iPhone 4 and a Lumia 800 as well as a decent number of Android phones, so I'm no fanboy. But unfortunately Apple failed to win be back. Going back to iOS (or Windows phone actually) would just be a massive step backwards.
@Astarbucks….. +1 and a few more. Do you know, by the way, why Apple changed the names of all its products to have the initial "i"? Because, they started making products for iDiots.
No way you can change an iDiot's iDiotic mentality!
Android rules!!!
To be honest android and the the platform jelly whatever is the best phone to loose to the iphone period USA rule. No droid what?.
Android the easiest phone to get hacked.
10 ways android beat iphone. But there's 1 million ways iphone beats android.
"1 way iPhone beats Android"
Slide one: It doesn't crash and it does what you ask of it.
::argument over::
"… it does what you ask of it"
…unless you need to navigate using transit directions or accurate maps! In my part of the world (Dublin, Ireland), the mapping provided with IOS6 has moved our city zoo and given us a new airport! As this is server based, it could be corrected by Apple purchasing the latest Tom-Tom data, which is highly accurate.
IMHO the choice of phone/platform should depend on function required.
I have colleagues who happily use iphone 4Ss without any complaints. The iphone 5 is probably an even better model. There is no doubt that the iphones are polished pieces of technology. I personally have no desire to root or mod my phone, however I chose my old Galaxy S because I wanted
1. Good telephony function (iphone had its handheld signal dropping issue at that time)
2. Free Sat Nav function (I wanted a screen comparable to the Garmin that I was replacing)
3. Large screen so I could surf the web while in court (I'm a lawyer) with the ability to watch flash content
4. Ability to read emails, including word, pdf and excel attachments.
5. Ability to copy my downloaded attachments from my phone to various pcs and upload documents and ebooks to read while waiting in court, along with music files.
6. Option to replace the battery if it failed. I have not had to do this yet, but most of my old non-smart Nokias eventually died due to worn out batteries.
7. Ability to skype with a big enough screen to see the other party.
My sons had ipods and I was VERY unwilling to go through the pain of setting up iTunes on my PCs… on the other hand the Samsung Kies software was nearly as bad. The good thing was that android phones do not need to use such proprietary software to connect, as they can be mounted just like USB sticks.
I personally abhor social networking tools, so the new tighter integration to Facebook is not of benefit to me, but I see that it has become essential to many (younger) users.
In summary, the iphone is not for me, but I see no reason why it should not be a good choice for millions of other people.
iOS fan boy this, Andriod fan boy that. You people crack me up.
Bring up topics like world hunger, social injustice, and international politics and be ready to face a vacuum of opinion. Mention what kind of phone you have and prepare for a holy war.
For more than 5 years we keep listening how one or another will kill, starve, beat and throw Apple out of business. Fact is that with every release many people buy it. You don't understand a simple fact here: this is not about technology (larger screen, pen support, ability to see files, USB connector), just about a certain lifestyle. Is the same reason that some (many) people buy Mont Blancs instead of Pelikan fountain pen. Good luck with your prophecies.
I have to respond to Thomas, stating that: "NFC cannot substitute your wallet yet, especially not outside North America.". I believe NFC is most used outside the U.S. and just starting to take hold here. It's especially useful over seas!
Even if the article is biased, it's also factual. Personally I'm picking up a Windows Phone 8 device (probably the Nokia Lumia 920).
Examples of i-Tard/iDiot arguments (Part II):
@Doug Isom
You brag about "Battery life and time is always visible"? You think the iPhone is great because of that? Quick, grab my hand, I'll drag you out from under that rock!
@Ryan Stanley
You're a moron for realising why nobody will want to use the Lightning crap. Its not even USB 3.0! Its just USB 2.0! It even has a microchip in the freaking cable to do something as basic as charging and file transfer. Why? So that they can charge you US$29.90 for the cable and US$19.90 for the adapter moron! USB costs $1 to $2. Forgot about getting cheap cables from eBay anytime soon too. The price will come down no doubt but with this chip, it will always be 3-4 times that of USB. Just like how the inkjet manufacturers put chips into their ink cartridges, G.E.D.D.I.T!
Even with such a crippled OS with so many limitations, iOS crashes and hangs all the time you fool. I've got so many friends who moved over to Android as a result. Ever noticed how often iPhone users say "just switch on and off" (i.e. reboot) and it will be ok? Ever tried to google "iOS hangs"? Try reading Forbes:
The worldwide market share numbers also proves the fact. Even without hanging, the Apple Maps shambles already shows how crap it is.
Even today, Mac users clutch to their comfort blankets thinking that Windows hangs all the time. Sounds familiar? But Windows XP celebrated its 10th year anniversary last year or the year before! Many enterprises are still using Win XP! Its a standard Apple ploy and only moronic consumers believe that!
Would you buy a car with a Ferrari badge/price but the tyres cannot be user replaced and has to be thrown away unless you pay 1/3 to 1/2 the price of the Ferrari to have the factory change the tyres for you? That's an iCrap with a sealed battery for you. Would you buy a Ferrari that has only 1 gear but they claim is easier to drive because you do not have to learn change gears while other people have to change up to the 7th gear? That's what a crippled proprietary OS with no features and all sorts of limitations do. That's what having no micro-SD card slot is for example, or the fact or not having true multi-tasking. Yeah right, easier for the ignorant.
@Azrael, @MichelleinVegas, & all other iTard-fanboys who have NOTHING to offer
Shut the hell up and go elsewhere if you are so obviously out of your depth here.
I love Android and am not a big fan of Apple. I think the comments under this article AND under the 10 reasons the iPhone 5 is better are hilarious. A major irony I see is that Android is all about choice vs Apple keeping everyone in a walled garden, but anyone who chooses Apple over Android is (insert derogatory label). It's akin to reminding everyone to vote but calling them an idiot if they don't vote for candidate X.
It's nice to know that the entire Android ecosystem and all the phones that use it can beat the iPhone in 10 different ways. However, let me know when you find a single phone that can beat (or even tie) the iPhone. What sort of "article" is this!
Are you still living in a cave somewhere? Its true "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog".
The Samsung Galaxy S3 phone as the top of the line phone beats the heck out of the iPhone as the most popular smartphone in the UK, Korea and many other countries. Its pre-order was 9 million world wide and sold 20 million in 2-3 mths. iPhone only had opening sales of 5 million.
Come out of your well, the sky is much bigger.
Both systems have their advantages (for competitive and cost reasons), however it would have been nice if the author actually owned an iPhone to know that many of the items he mentioned are absolutely doable on iOS.
That said, the author *did* forget some of the other major areas where Android beats iOS:
* Access to thousands of viruses. With a store that isn't vetted, Android users get treated to all sorts of dangerous malware and viruses. We Apple users miss out on all the fun!
* Consistent Updates. I just hate knowing all my friends are up to date on their iPhones and all running the same version of the OS. Where's the fun in having carriers that keep their phones' OS up-to-date?
* Quality assurance. Where's the fun in having a iPhone that just works? Android users get all sorts of surprises in their operating systems, from memory fragmentation, to app crashes to short battery lives, again Android users have more to look forward to.
Ok, the article was a little lame, but after reading the comments, just had to…
First off, I don't like Apple's incompatibility with most of the tech world, app designers HAVE to cater to Apple's wishes; I don't like their business practices; I just don't like Apple. I own a fourth-gen iPod Touch. Got a nice tax refund in 2011 and lived in the Texas Hill Country where there was no cell service, so I didn't want to pay monthly for a full-on contract (which was only AT&T at the time, no thank you) just to save money on a device.
I wanted something that could hold all, if not, most of the music I may want to listen to over the next couple days/weeks as I did, and still do (I live back in the city now,ugh…) a lot of driving, so I picked up a 32gb. Android was just coming into its own, and ICS was but a dream. iOS and Apple hardware was just superior to what Android OS/devices offered at the time. Free wifi is everywhere these days, most MickeyD's have it. That extra $100 for 64gb iPod and I might as well as got a netbook or another PC laptop which I would happily find or make a dedicated spot for in my vehicles. I am still thinking about this, but I really can't afford the convenience of needing/wanting the type of connectivity to the internet I like having, which I would use mostly for music if it were in a vehicle, with a quick stop to look up any other information I may want/need. Other than performing basic tasks better, music was my focus. So iOS it was.
Then I found out that the camp I had worked and lived at for a year and a half wanted to eliminate my position. Suddenly I needed a phone again, and would have liked something that could do the things iOS could do, without paying for the expensive, rather sad service of AT&T. But there were other things I needed the phone to do since, at the time, it looked like I was going to be spending a lot of time roaming the country on the open road searching for that dream life; or until I ran out of money and landed somewhere I could put up with. I needed an Android device.
* Ability to easily connect to my laptop and transfer whatever file(s) I needed to. Don't have access to a printer to print resumes? Most employers I've encountered get off on the fact that I could email my resume to them right there on the spot, and VERY quickly in a format that they could read on their computer.
* Removable battery. Why not?
* I'm a HFL. Don't tell me what I can and can not do with a device I paid half a grand or more for.
* Memory upgrade. I said to hell with a few bills for a pay period and got an S3. Sprint (you got to have faith man!!) gave me a hell of a deal, so I got a 16gb S3 and a free 8gb iPhone for the second line. Since it was money I probably should have spent on something more important, I just got the 16gb because I KNEW I COULD JUST BUY A MICRO SD FOR IT. And the amount of information they can hold is growing super fast. It was funny to put the iPod and iPhone together. Same thing really.
I have come to really like my S3. And yes, the bigger screen is a plus; and having more than one button to use. Stock was great, but it only took a week before I submitted to the temptation to hack and mod it. Paid $25 for an extended battery, so I can go four sometimes more days of heavy, heavy use with the help of JuiceDefender without recharging. BTW…
@ Thomas – No, you can't just find an Apple charger just lying around, even in an office. WHAT I CAN FIND is a freakin microUSB cable. Unless you order online at Amazon and get it shipped from China or something, $20 for piece of wire and another $20-$30 retail just to be able to plug it into the wall is just plain robbery.
I can watch a Blu ray rip of Episode 3 on my S3 and it looks f*cking great. I currently work as a broadcast engineer for a TV station and the ability to use Flash to see the live stream is important..and Skype in to the system…and just plain do anything with the computer system here while making the drive to come help fix it when something goes wrong. Being live 24/7 we lose money every second we aren't broadcasting. So far, after three months, I don't think there is a single thing I can't do with this device. Sprint's 4g towers are going up at a pretty good pace, in spite of my doubts. Now, I can use my S3 to hotspot to the internet on my laptop without paying extra and get faster speeds than my crappy, monopolistic cable provider.
I sold the free iPhone to a friend and he pays me for the service, so I rooted that as well. I noticed that MOST of the apps that were available for rooted iOS were, in fact, apps to install Android native features. SHOVE THAT UP YOUR iHOLE. I rooted my iPod because, apparently, iOS has Bluetooth just to say it has Bluetooth. It can't do anything productive with it. So I'm about to change all that. I still use iTunes: I am IN LOVE with the visualizer, originally called Magnetosphere, which I am trying to find/build a port for on Android OS.
VERY LONG STORY SHORT: Needs and Preference. The difference is Android OS is open-source, so an Android device's usefulness will always outlive an equivalent, or even a little bit better iDevice…
This is just stupid. For every reason an Android is better than a Iphone, the Iphone has a reason that a Iphone better than Android.
Ok wow. Can both phones be better?
Android is crap since it is behind, gets hacked, copies apple, has no apps, is slow, laggy, dangerous, unstable, low on features, has no FaceTime, has no iMessage, hasn't got facebook intigration, or twitter, or instagram, the phones have useless cameras, bad battery life so basically this website is a con and should not be used as it makes up stuff to make android sound better when it's shockingly bad! No argument, the truth so don't bother commenting unless u agree cos I don't like lyers
@Jacksjus Seriously? You want to know why doesn't android out stands in the market more than Apple's? Are you being serious?
people will follow apple for the same reason people follow blackberry. the perceived value. the perceived superiority. the bandwagon factor. apple is not better than windows at this point. apple wants to inhibit the forward movement of technology, and use cheating tactics to squeeze the real manufacturers out of the market. claim they created everything. bull. release a phone every so often, with minimal upgrades – why? because people will buy it anyway. that's greed, plain and simple. shady business, cheating to "win" and lying to people. i don't want the same low tech phone as everyone else. i can do more with android.
Sanest comment on this article was by Azrael (Oct 8th 2012, 11.54pm). So many things that are more important than this to get angry about or that should provoke thought. I love tech as much as the next person, but some people sound like they're ready to go to war.
wicked article bro. couldn't stop laughing at the johnny-come-lately remark. apple will have to up their game if they expect to remain a market leader. where is the innovation? i have an iphone 4s and a galaxy s3 and even tho a part of me wants to support apple (i'm an apple fanboy) the galaxy s3 is by far the superior phone, hands down.
I own an Apple 4s and until recently a Galaxy III.
The Galaxy is too big to fit comfortably in a pocket, the user interface is very non-intuitive, the build quality is poor.
The Apple was completely understandable in a few hours out of the box. The Galaxy? After a month I gave it back.
I am not an Apple apologist. I still yearn for my mechanical keyboard on my old HTC.
But all things considered…..iPhone is clearly the best.
Besides, I don't support Samsung whose R&D budget is 4x Apples and all they do is steal technology.
I have seen the inside of this by the way as a consultant for Samsung.
In fact, I won't even consider buying a Korean car at this point.
This article is so true, but reality is i couldnt care less if apple iphone customers who buy the same phone year out year in! think, really think they have the latest in tech! they dont, my mate was parading his voice guidance navigator on his iphone 5 to me, when all i said was you didnt blink an eye lid over 2 years ago when google updated my navigator on my old htc legend to voice guidance!. but now 2 years later your all over your iphone 5 going goly gosh look at this. So old hat! And recently he had to somehow send a map to a customer showing her where to go but didnt know how to do it, i said give me 2 secs i have a galaxy note, i went into s note then into maps of his destination to give the customer, saved it as either a mms or email i sent it to his iphone but alas it just couldnt open the mms typical! so i said no worries i will just send it straight to her email. and he uses his iphone for buisness, im thinking your not going to get much work if your phone cant do that! also i can send pdfs videos pictures , just anything a pc does and his couldnt! a galaxy s2 can even my 3 year old htc legend does. Get out more and use an android for christs sake! even music is just downloaded wirelessly to my phone, no stupid itunes to a computer!
Only thing iphone has going for it is siri. I agree with everything in this article. I like being able to connect my Android phone (galaxy s2) to my pc via a standard usb cable and having access to all files, especially handy for transferring movies on my pc over quickly. I like being able to bluetooth pictures and audio files to my friends phones. I can't imagine not having customizable widgets.
I have just one friend with an iphone, he's not very tech savvy so I often have to show him how to use it and it's very frustrating. U have to keep telling him "sorry I can't bluetooth this photo to you because iphones don't do that" and many more sentences just like it.
Sadly you I phone sheeple just don't get it and you never will. …. android offers something I phoney will never offer; True freedom to customize your device to its deepest level to truly make it your own. You cant possibly understand what open source really is..you are stuck in some kind of I p b one fog. I think I phone is great for those people out there that are happy with a stock device. But some of us want more out of our devices. You iphone people don't understand the true level of customization you can reach with Android. its far more complex then what you think. You think its about widgets, im talking about something much more complex. The ability to change things to your desires at a system level. Because you will never understand this kind of freedom and customization available im not going to argue any farther. If you love the I phone than that's good for you. but there are people out there that want more from there device so they get a android. I know you I phone people cant even begin to understand this…so you can keep your I phoney and argue all you want About how great it is. I will continue to use my Android. Because android is by far more superior to I phone. Sad thing is you I phone people are really missing out. Android is far more superior. But go ahead and have your iphone. I personally wouldn't want the iphone its pitiful in comparison to android and that's the truth! So keep your iphone.i wouldn't even take it if it was free. Android is far more advanced and is superior by far to I phone.
Android is the laggiest piece of shit you will ever use, all you android fan boys better get over how great it is. Because from experience ive had the top of the line for both android and apple in 2013, and so far from android all i got was disappointment after disappointment. I'm not saying apple products are perfect, but at least they are consistent, reliable, and are able to handle switching between apps reasonably quickly. honestly saying i would never buy another Android OS phone again.
All you people can just shut up.
My dad has a 4s which overall is a good phone buy it's far too expensive. I could easily buy a Android phone with roughly the same specs for half the price. So what if made out of plastic. I've seen many cars that are made out of plastic. The main downside of the 4s is its screen size.
My sister has a ipad mini. I cannot say anything bad about it except that it is a bit pricey.
I have a s4. Screen size is good. It's fast. It has LTE so I won't have to buy a new phone when 4g comes out in my area. The back cover is plastic, most of you will complain about it feeling cheap but if you are one of these people then USE YOUR BRAIN AND BUY A F****** COVER. I've seen steel ones for as little as £5.
Finally to all you people saying Samsung is crap please bear in mind that Samsung made apples A7 chip.
I'm 15 and I am pmsl at all you "adults" who are crying over phones. Seriously? Go find a job and do something in life apart from sitting on your fat @ss.
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T.S. Eliot, the quiet, gray figure who gave new meaning to English-language poetry, died Jan. 5, 1965 at his home in London. He was 76 years old.
Eliot was an American, born in St. Louis. He moved to England at the beginning of World War I and became wholly identified with Britain, even becoming naturalized in 1927.
Nevertheless, when President Johnson recently awarded the Medal of Freedom to leaders in American literature and public life, Eliot was among those honored. He did not make the trip to the United States, however, to receive the award.
The influence of Eliot began with the publication in 1917 of his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Perhaps his most significant contribution came five years later in the lengthy poem "The Waste Land."
From time to time Eliot would give readings of his poetry in public. He read softly, but when he ended "The Waste Land" in a quick rush of words audiences were always moved.
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Bigotry in Motion
Reaction to two new Eliot books suggests that we are reluctant to acknowledge the obvious: that talent does not translate into wisdom, that beauty does not mean truth.March 16, 1997 magazineNews
40 Poems That Eliot Wanted to Hide, Including Some on the Bawdy Side
With the publication here of Eliot's notebook in a thickly annotated volume called "Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917," more than 40 poems never before seen by the public have been made available.September 23, 1996 artsNews
FILM; T. S. Eliot's First Marriage Turns a Film Into a Tempest
In a country that takes its literature seriously, a forthcoming film is causing a small stir with its portrait of the unhappy first marriage of T. S. Eliot, Britain's favorite expatriate American poet.October 24, 1993 moviesNews
Books of The Times; The Letters and Life of Eliot
Shy, aloof and elusive, T.S. Eliot was, in Marianne Moore's words, "a master of the anonymous," a "cat who could never be caught."September 21, 1988 artsReview
'Young Eliot,' by Robert Crawford
From his Midwest origins, the young T.S. Eliot moved on to the works that would make his name.
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Letter of Recommendation: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
How the poem by T.S. Eliot entered a 17-year-old's head and never left.
August 9, 2015, Sunday
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1965: T. S. Eliot, 76, Dies
Highlights from the International Herald Tribune archives: T.S. Eliot dies in 1965.
January 4, 2015, Sunday
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T. S. Eliot's Secretary, Wife and Possibly Biggest Fan
Valerie Eliot transformed her husband into an impossible thing: Happy.
December 30, 2012, Sunday
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Valerie Eliot, Poet's Wife and Defender, Dies at 86
Mrs. Eliot, who early on served as T.S. Eliot's secretary, later went on to edit his letters and guard his reputation.
November 13, 2012, Tuesday
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The Breakfast Meeting: MSNBC on the Rise, and Judgments on Martha, Conan and Bond
Also, the National Book Awards has aspirations to become more glamorous and influential; and Valerie Eliot, widow and literary executor of T.S.Eliot, dies at 86.
November 12, 2012, Monday
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A Frisky Musical With Many Lives
A revival of "Cats," by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot, is at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.
May 27, 2012, Sunday
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Young Obama's Poetic Politics
An early letter by Mr. Obama is remarkable because he regarded T. S. Eliot's conservatism with seriousness and sympathy.
May 9, 2012, Wednesday
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For Beethoven and Eliot, Missed Connections
The actor Stephen Dillane and the Miró Quartet paired T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" with Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor (Op. 132), at the Clark Studio Theater.
November 10, 2011, Thursday
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Emanuel Litvinoff, Poet and Detractor of T. S. Eliot, Dies at 96
Mr. Litvinoff wrote several volumes of poetry and novels, but is best known for criticizing T. S. Eliot as anti-Semitic in a poem he read aloud with Eliot present.
October 3, 2011, Monday
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After a Tuesday vote that threatened to send state budget negotiators back to the drawing board for a fourth time, a state senator from Manassas apparently had a change of heart Wednesday, allowing the $85 billion, two-year spending plan to pass.
The Senate approved the conference report that reconciled the House of Delegates and Senate versions of the budget with a 21-19 vote Wednesday. There was no floor debate. Sen. Charles Colgan (D-Dist. 29) joined Republicans in approving the bill.
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) said Colgan demonstrated "courage and statesmanship" with his vote.
The most recent issue that had deadlocked senators and prevented the budget's passage on Tuesday was toll rates on the Dulles Toll Road and the Midtown Tunnel in Hampton Roads.
Democratic senators were holding out for the additional funding the Senate version of the budget had set aside for those projects, including $300 million for the Dulles Metrorail extension that local officials said would offset potential rate increases on the Dulles Toll Road. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is financing a significant portion of the $6 billion rail line with bonds backed by future toll revenues.
"The entire project is at risk if the commonwealth does not come forward with more funding," Sen. Janet Howell (D-Dist. 32) of Reston said during floor debate on Tuesday. "I am sorry that we are in this position, but we have to protect the toll-payers up in Northern Virginia."
Howell added the rail project will benefit the entire state because of the "economic bonanza" it will generate in the Dulles corridor.
McDonnell criticized Senate Democrats for tying up the entire state budget for the sake of one project.
"Budgets are generally a tapestry of compromises. No budget contains funding for every program that each legislator supports," he said.
The final budget plan also contains additional "cost to compete" funding, which helps Northern Virginia localities pay higher salaries to teachers to offset higher costs of living. Restoring this funding, which McDonnell had proposed cutting, was another key priority for local legislators.


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The DCF ED is Pentax's best binocular and tops the list for shoppers wanting superior brightness and edge-to-edge sharpness. The lightweight magnesium alloy body, long eye relief, and short close focus make this binocular a valuable tool for use in a variety of situations. With ED glass, phase coated roof prisms, and fully multi-coated optics, the Pentax DCF ED guarantees outstanding color resolution, tack-sharp images, and excellent light transmission. The Pentax Worry-Free warranty guarantees enjoyment of this binocular for years to come.
|Extra-low Dispersion (ED) Glass
|Enhances resolution, color, and contrast.
|Fully Multi-coated Lenses
|Increase light transmission with multiple anti-reflective coatings on all air-to-glass surfaces.
|Phase Correction
|Enhances resolution and contrast through roof prisms.
|BaK-4 Prisms
|Optimize light transmission.
|Roof Prisms
|Appreciated for a streamlined shape and durability.
|Magnesium Alloy Body
|Is sturdy and resistant to corrosion.
|Rubber Armoring
|Provides a secure, non-slip grip.
|Multi-position Eyecups
|Twist up and down for comfortable viewing with or without eyeglasses.
|Center Focus Wheel
|Adjusts both binocular barrels at the same time.
|Locking Right Eye Diopter
|Adjusts for differences in a user's eyes. Located by the right eyepiece.
|Tripod Adaptable
|Can be mounted using standard ¼-inch threading. Adapter sold separately.
|Optics are sealed with O-rings to prevent moisture, dust, and debris from getting inside the binocular.
|Barrels are filled with nitrogen gas to inhibit internal fogging.
|Objective Lens Diameter
|32 mm
|Field of View
|393 feet/1000 yards
|Eye Relief
|17 mm
|Close Focus
|4.9 feet
|23.5 ounces
|Dimensions (HxW)
|5.0 x 5.0 inches
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