Right now I have an iPhone 3G but I have very poor reception downstairs which is where I operate my business. I've really abused the hell out of my poor iPhone and I'm not sure if it's the abuse, the antenna in the phone or the poor AT&T network. I am aware the Hero is coming out on the Sprint network in October, which is when I'll be eligible for a 3GS upgrade. I'm tired of getting 20 texts at a time on my iPhone and having to use Skype downstairs (which is more or less a basement) in order to make calls. Even more frustrating is that I can't always have Skype open to listen for calls and the call quality is piss poor (this could be due to the phone though, it's really, really taken a beating). Does Skype for Android run in the background (on WiFi) and listen in for calls and bring them to the foreground when they are incoming?
Next concerns: My iPhone uses a 412MHz processor and 128MB of RAM, I notice that the Hero uses a 528MHz processor. Does it really operate at that speed? The 3GS seems to have a processor that's 800MHz underclocked (for battery I presume) to 600MHz. Both Devices use 256MB of RAM but I am not sure if the Android OS is any better at memory allocation. If I switched I'd be hoping for something that's better than the iPhone which I do need to restart every couple days if things get out of whack. I know the iPhone also has a pretty hardcore 3D GPU in it but I don't really use my phone for games at the moment so I doubt that really matters all too much for me (as long as I have puzzle games I'm happy).
Next to last concern: I really love the iPod app on the iPhone but it seems like the sense UI seems to clone it pretty well. I am also a real iTunes junkie and I have around 25% of my library (most of my favourites) in Apple Lossless. I doubt I could play that on my iPhone and I don't really know if there would be a good tool for managing FLAC for Android on my Macbook Pro - it would really suck to have to manage an independent library for one device but I do have an 80GB iPod 5.5G though I'll admittedly miss the Genius functionality among other things.
Last concern: When the Hero came out I read a Gizmodo review that said it was not quite perfect that the Sense UI was really more sluggish than they thought it'd be. Then I read that this is going to be patched which fixes the biggest gripe about the Hero.
So Android Community, based on what I have posted above do you think I'd be doing myself a favour moving to the Hero. Please keep in mind I'd have to pay a pro-rated ETF to switch and I'm not really concerned about moving to Sprint saving me any money. Or will switching to Android be a hassle do to the integration of using so many Apple products.
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