Philoking.comfrom Jason Burns’ perspective…

Let me start by clarifying that this is all in the SDK emulator, so it’s clunky anyway, but I thought I would take a minute to do a comparison for those of you thinking that Google’s new OS might be as revolutionary as the iPhone OS.

In principle, it IS that revolutionary, because it’s open source and anyone, including me, can develop applications for it. (and I am )

But as someone who has become quite comfortable browsing the Internet on my iPod Touch, the Android OS is not quite there. Not saying that it won’t be by the time you buy a device using it, but not right now.

The Android OS has a keyboard shortcut and menu option for zooming in and out of the page. Sure clicking G to zoom out is easy, but it’s not quite as intuitive as pinching on the iPhone. Perhaps for something that will so heavily be used as a browser, having a dedicated hardware rocker for zoom like a digital camera would be a better way to go.

I have seen the video for the Touchscreen version and it had pan like an iPhone, but not the zoom and pinch ease.

Another thing I noticed is it’s slow, and could possibly cause a user to think a page loaded horribly wrong. For some reason it loads the page elements, and then applies the style sheet after the fact. So when loading my page for example, you see the first example, before the second:

And you notice the page had still not completely loaded. Again, these are just initial impressions, but with the loads of hype, I would have thought it was a bit more polished being that there is already a complete SDK and even an eclipse plug in for developers.