The new iOS 6 has created a lot of buzz after it was announced by Apple at the WWDC 2012 in San Francisco. On the other hand, Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) OS has been getting a fair share of its buzz and popularity with the Android community and all the Android fans as well.
New Apple iOS 6 versus Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS wars is undoubtedly going to happen and we're here to take an unbiased, non-judgemental closer first look on both OS's and you can judge for yourselves with what you think is the better one of the two. Remember, only the notable and stand-out features of each OS are listed below.
Apple iOS 6
- Browser: Reading List (yes + offline), Tab/Bookmark Sync (yes)
- Phone: Call reply actions (yes), Call filtering (yes)
- Email: Unified URL/Search Bar (yes), Priority/VIP (yes), Unique Account Signatures (yes), Limited Attachment Support (yes)
- Video Call/Chat: 3G + Wi-Fi (yes), Facetime (yes), Skype (yes), Tango (yes)
- Photo Streaming: (yes)
- Voice:Siri: Dictation (yes), Voice Commands (yes)
- Maps: Street View (no), 3D/Fly-over/Aerial Mode (yes), Turn-by-Turn Directions (yes)
- Social: Twitter Integration (yes), Content Sharing (yes), Facebook Integration (yes)
- Notifications: Reply with text, Do Not Disturb, Shade (yes)
- Messaging:Cross Platform: (yes)
- Video Stabilization: (yes)
- Reward Card/Travel Management: Passbook (yes)
- Device Recovery: (yes)
- Service Sharing: Twitter and Facebook (yes)
- Browser: Reading List (yes + offline), Tab/Bookmark Sync (yes via Google Chrome)
- Phone: Call reply actions (yes), Call filtering (yes)
- Email: Unified URL/Search Bar (yes), Priority/VIP (yes), Unique Account Signatures (yes), full Gmail client (yes), Complete Attachment Support (yes)
- Video Call/Chat: 3G + Wi-Fi (yes), Google Talk (yes), Skype (yes), Tango (yes)
- Photo Streaming: (yes via Google+)
- Voice: Dictation (yes), Voice Commands (yes), Google Voice Actions (yes), S-Voice on SGS3 (yes)
- Maps: Street View (yes), Turn-by-Turn Directions (yes), walking/biking/transit (yes), 3D/Fly-over/Aerial Mode (yes)
- Social: Twitter Integration (yes with 3rd party apps only), Content Sharing (yes), Facebook Integration (yes with 3rd party apps only)
- Notifications: Reply with text (yes), Do Not Disturb (yes with 3rd party), Shade (yes), Premium experience (yes)
- Messaging:Cross Platform: (yes)
- Video Stabilization: (yes)
- Reward Card/Travel Management: (yes with 3rd party apps)
- Device Recovery: (no)
- Service Sharing: Virtually all cloud and social services