[OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevikas at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 12:39:42 GMT 2009


(OpenMoko could also be an option?
Comes with GTK itself so GPSd along with josm or anything else should run
better than "mobile" platforms

moko also comes with resistance based touch and 3d accel and gps and all
regular features and also "my favourite" USB host option.

me contemplating to buy one of those)

2009/11/24 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>

> 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/<http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your-%0Aiphone-application/>
> [3] http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector
>
>
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