Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2009

[andrewducker]

• Nokia shipped more than double Apple's smartphones last year.
  RIM in second place, Apple in third.
  (tags: apple nokia phones)
• Tough love is good for children
  It found that children from the richest backgrounds were more than twice as likely to develop the key characteristics compared to those with the poorest origins.
  
  Additionally, children whose parents were married were twice as likely to show such traits than children from lone parent or step-parented families, the report said.
  
  But it added that when parental style and confidence were factored in, the difference in child character development between richer and poorer families disappeared.
  (tags: psychology bbc children)

Comments

[andrewducker]

The reviews I've seen have said that some things the iPhone does better, some the Droid does better.

The main thing that non-iPhones have going for me is that I can install any app I like on them. If Apple did that then I'd have one already.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

BTW - did you read any review that considered the Droid to be superior to the iPhone? Every review I've read is like this one: "It's the question that everyone will ask, so we might as well get it out of the way now - is this an iPhone or HTC Hero killer? And the answer is no."

[andrewducker]

Seen a couple that say that The Droid is better at some things and the iPhone is better than others. The inbox is supposed to be better for dealing with everything in one place (but I suspect that's a matter of taste). And there's the usual stuff about background apps and more freedom and having a physical keyboard. But if those don't matter to you then I suspect the iPhone still aces it.