Android vs. iPhone: Which Has the More Advanced Users?

19.11.2009

If Android owners are slightly more Web-enabled, iPhone fans are slightly more social. As , iPhone users come out on top when it comes to most advanced social-oriented phone activities -- everything from sharing photos to spending time on social networks and blogs.

Only in video-specific social activity does the Android clan pull ahead again, with significantly higher percentages of users capturing video and sharing it over the Net. (More Android users also watch video on their phones, according to Nielsen's numbers.)

Android vs. iPhone: Mobile Apps

How 'bout them apps? This one may be a bit surprising -- after all, you'd expect to see iPhone owners apping it up more often, given the at their fingertips. Android owners, however, come out just barely ahead in the relative realm of application usage: Seventy-six percent of them say they utilize apps, according to Nielsen, while 74 percent of iPhone owners say they make use of their mobile programs.

Android vs. iPhone: The Big Picture