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10. Alternate Keyboards
From text predictors like Swiftkey to the innovative like Swype and the
downright adventurous like 8pen, you have a lot of different keyboard
choices on Android. Typing on a tiny phone keyboard isn't anyone's idea of
fun, so it's great that Android provides so many options to make it as
painless for people as possible, and super easy to install. The iPhone has
other keyboards, but they're usually separate apps that require you to
import text to another program—it's just the kind of system-level
functionality that's hard to get around.
9. Automation
One of the most powerful, useful Android apps around is Tasker, the
automation program that lets you turn your phone into a superphone. You can
turn settings on and off for certain applications, by location, time of day,
and pretty much any other condition you can think of. With the right
commands in place, Tasker can access the deepest and darkest settings on
your phone, which is something you just can't do on other platforms. Be sure
to also check out our second list of Tasker setups, three handy Tasker
profiles from our readers, and how to roll your own "Find my iPhone" for
Android. Similar apps like the battery-saving JuiceDefender would also fall
into this category.
8. Custom Home Launchers
While iPhone users can customize their home screen quite a bit if they've
jailbroken, they don't allow the kind of customization that you can get on
Android with custom home launchers. Third party launchers can add all sorts
of extra features to the home screens of your device, like gestures,
different kinds of shortucts, and even low-level settings that can help
speed up an older phone. Whether you're using the super-fast LauncherPro or
the insanely customizable ADWLauncher, third-party launchers add a ton of
configuration to your device.
7. Widgets
Sure, they take up a bit of space, but there's no substitute for the
convenience of having a big weather widget right on your home screen, or a
music widget to show you the currently playing track. Even more useful are
the to-do list widgets, that take an "in your face" approach to productivity
, which is not only effective but necessary from people, as they don't
require you to actually look for your to-do list—they're always reminding
you of what you need to do. If you've jailbroken, you can get widget-like
apps for the iPhone, but you can only put them on your lock screen—not the
actual home screens that you're always swiping through.
6. Removable Storage and Battery
It isn't part of the Android software, necessarily, but Android's open
nature allows for quite a few hardware advantages too—namely the ability to
take out, swap, and upgrade your battery and SD card. If you find that you'
ve maxed out the storage on your iPhone, you're pretty much out of luck,
whereas with an Android phone you can pop in a new SD card and have
gigabytes more storage to play with. Similarly, you can swap out a spare
battery for longer trips or even get an extended battery that'll help your
phone go longer without charging. Photo by Hiroyuki Takeda.
5. Wireless App Installation
Browsing for and discovering new apps should be fun, not challenge to make
it through a tiny app store with your sanity intact. The App Store and Cydia
App Store aren't exactly fun to browse on your phone, but you either have
to download apps on your phone or plug it into iTunes to sync them all over.
With the new Android Market, or with third-party sites like AppBrain, you
can find a cool app, hit the install button, and it'll be on your phone the
next time you pick it up. It doesn't get much more convenient than that.
4. Custom ROMs
While there are a lot of third-party apps that give you advanced features on
Android, one of the coolest parts about the entire OS being open source is
that people can take it, tweak it all over, and install their version
instead of the one that comes with your phone. Whether it's the feature-
filled CyanogenMod or the interface-overhauling MIUI ROM, there's little
limit to how much you can tweak your Android experience. As with launchers,
these give you a lot of system-level tweaks that you just wouldn't be able
to get this easily on other platforms—and it puts them easily within users'
reach. Whether it's tweaks that speed up your phone or features like FM
radio, custom ROMs are without a doubt one of the biggest advantages to
Android's openness around.
3. Controlling Your Phone From Your Computer
Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn't HaveThis one's a
little more out there, but we've featured quite a few apps that let you
actually control your Android phone from your PC—whether you just want to
send texts from Chrome or access any of its other functions right from a web
browser. Yes, you can VNC into your iPhone, but it's not the same as using
a separate app that accesses its baser functions.
2. Flash
Say what you want about Flash, but it's everywhere you go, and when you're
forced to view the web without it, you realize how much you actually rely on
it day-to-day. Whether its accessing fully Flash web sites, watching Flash
videos, or playing games like the ones on Kongregate, having Flash installed
on your phone and tablet let you access a lot of things you otherwise
couldn't have. We may grimace when we hear its name, but it's too prevalent
to go without. It just feels like you don't have the whole web at your
fingertips.
1. True App Integration
Google Voice may finally be available for the iPhone, but the experience
will never be the same as it is on Android. Other iPhone apps always direct
you to the default dialer and visual voicemail apps, so even if you want to
use Google Voice full time, you have to manually navigate it to yourself. On
Android, apps like Google Voice integrate directly with the operating
system—if you want to make calls with Google Voice, every call you make
from the phone's dialer goes through Google Voice. When you click on a phone
number in your browser or in Google Maps, it goes through Google Voice
instead of sending you to the wrong dialer. True app integration like this
makes using custom phone, SMS, voicemail, and even browser apps absolutely
seamless on Android, which is something you won't find on the more locked-
down iPhone platform. | l***a
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: 老有人问，看看这个回答怎么样
: http://lifehacker.com/5801862/top-10-awesome-android-features-t
: 10. Alternate Keyboards
: From text predictors like Swiftkey to the innovative like Swype and the
: downright adventurous like 8pen, you have a lot of different keyboard
: choices on Android. Typing on a tiny phone keyboard isn't anyone's idea of
: fun, so it's great that Android provides so many options to make it as
: painless for people as possible, and super easy to install. The iPhone has
: other keyboards, but they're usually separate apps that require you to
: import text to another program—it's just the kind of system-level
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