[OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi,
I'm looking for the best mobile phone for OpenStreetMap. 
Which mobile phone do you think is better for OpenStreetMap?

Things for consideration are:
- onboard GPS precision
- applications for GPS logging
- applications for POI collection
- battery life when mapping (how long can you map)

Please share any experience that you have with any or even better if you 
had experience with both of them. I only user iPhone for a short while, 
and haven't even seen Android for real but I ran Android emulator via SDK 
to get a feel for it.


Here are some of my thoughts...

Android positive points:
- platform on the uptake, more apps coming every day
- nice POI collection app [1]
- runs multiple apps at once
- quite open platform

Android negative points:
- less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general
- not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts)
- a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone


iPhone positive points:
- lots of apps, both for OSM and general [2]
- CloudMade MapZen POI collector supports for iPhone [3]
- multitouch interface
- great multimedia player (video and audio podcasts)
- nice deal for a 2 year T-Mobile contract

iPhone negative points:
- runs only one app at once :(
- pretty closed platform :(
- quite expensive, no carrier in Croatia offers it in contract deals :(


[1] http://maps.bigtincan.com/btc-mapper.php
[2] http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your-
iphone-application/
[3] http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector


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