iPhone(iPod Touch) vs. Android(Google Nexus One)

Google's nexus one is coming out this week. While most of attentions have been focusing on Android-based phones vs iPhone, Flurry shined some lights on the not-so-secret weapon of Apple - iPod Touch(which I own one): iPod Touch Downloads Explode on Christmas Day, Surpassing iPhone for the First Time!

iPod Touch is a great device for anyone that doesn't need a phone or can't afford all the expenses(monthly data/voice plans) associated with a phone. I am talking about teenagers/college students here. I bet many teenagers get their first tastes of apps through the App Store on iPod Touch. I am still waiting for companies to come up with a Andorid-based iPod Touch-like device(zii is supposed to be the one, but it's not yet ready for consumer).

Even Google's nexus one is supposed to be best of breed, it still comes up short on the internal storage: 512MB( a iPhone or iPod Touch has at least 8GB internal storage). Until Android allows downloaded apps to be stored on external SD card, 512MB is not enough considering game apps can take up a lot of spaces.

One more thing that I really hate about Android is that there's NO easy and user-friendly way to take screenshots. Supposedly, it's because of security concern. Well, how are bloggers/average users going to review Android apps without taking screenshots? It's really a lot to ask users to download the android SDK + Eclipse just for taking screenshots. This is just purely non-sense.

I also want a program to sync with with my phone so that I can browse/download apps on PC. I guess Google isn't doing it because it hasn't figured out how to protect apps downloaded to PC from being pirated.

Tags: google apple iphone android nexus-one app-store ipod-touch