What I like and dislike with Android

I’ve been using Android[1] for some weeks now and I like it.

Widgets. They make me more creative and productive
Third-party keyboards like Swype. They make it faster and more fun to write
Background updates and syncing. Makes some apps more useful because they are always updated and in sync
Real multitasking
Android phones has big screens that makes it easier to consume and create content
Web installing of apps. It’s cool that you can go to Play Store in your web browser on your computer and hit install on an app and it gets installed on your phone
Google Now. I think that is the future. Predictive search that helps the user. Much more useful than Siri
The total Google experience
Batterylife. I’m impressed on how good battery life Android phones has, and still has real multitasking, widgets and background updates
File storage. You can use it as a USB Flash Drive (at least on Windows, I haven’t succeeded doing that on Mac yet)
Feels modern and is fun to use

Phones has bad build-quality, very plastic, gets scratches easily and has loose parts (maybe LG Nexus 4 can change that now. It looks awesome)
The OS doesn’t get updated on branded phones when there is a new version available
Not as many professional apps. Mainly amateur, single developer made apps
Some apps has a UI that is made for smaller phones, it’s sometime hard to navigate and use a large phone with one hand because of the UI in some apps
No full backup. You need to manually backup your files or use some backup app or something. It would be better if it had some kind of automatic backup as iOS has
No Reader mode in web browser. Not in Android browser or Chrome at least
No scroll to top as iOS has. Tap on top bar to scroll the page or app all back to the top again

Android is a Linux-based mobile operating system developed and distributed by Google in conjunction with the Open Handset Alliance. Search for more info. ↩

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