article originally posted on Pomeganda.com
As Pomegranate’s resident Social Media expert, it was high time I got my hands on a smart phone. I had been contemplating the iPhone for some time, with little motivation to move forward. Born and raised on a PC, I never really jumped on the Apple train, having been quite loyal to my Microsoft-based products for a good portion of my natural-born life. Some would see this as a curse. I might have to agree.
As a loyal Verizon customer since 1999, I began the search for a new phone. I owned an LG Voyager for about a year but wasn’t feeling satisfied with its performance; it was time to break-up and move on. I started casually dating the LG EnV touch, but that relationship was short lived, leaving me with a bitter taste in my mouth and a jaded outlook towards media-based phones. I was determined to put myself back out there and meet the love of life; a phone that was, by definition, perfectly seamless for all my social networking and data management needs. Blackberry? Droid? Eris by HTC? As a supporter of Google services for years, I decided it was time for an Android-based phone with Google integration. It was safe to say I was fully in love with Google and was desperately wanting to take our relationship to the next level.
What is it about a Google phone that makes it stand apart from the rest, you ask? Most importantly, Android is an open-source, Apache-licensed operating system that Google makes available free of charge to device manufacturers who can add their own application genius for download in the marketplace. Basically, there’s no single, unified Android platform like there is for the iPhone which means you get a much greater amount of diversity, hardware and software, than the iPhone. You get Android 2.0 with Google’s proprietary push Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, YouTube, and Google Maps Navigation with live street view rolled in. And because of the nature of open source software, the Apps Marketplace is a veritable smorgasbord of delicious and (very often) free applications that are sure to enhance your mobile experience. If you’re heavily invested in Google and all its glory, then you’ll have absolutely no problem making the switch.
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