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And all I want is a decent Google Maps app on my iPhone. The Android map is so far above what iOS offers - having recently lost my Galaxy s2 to a freak elevator accident I thought I'd go back to iPhone for a while, and this was one of many shocks to the system. I'm approaching the feeling that the only things iPhone does better than Android (for my purposes) is store music and sync podcasts.

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Did you drop the phone into the tiny crack between the elevator car and the wall? Because I have nightmares about doing that whenever I carry a smartphone around an elevator.

I thought I was the only person who ever had these nightmares. I almost always put my phone in my pocket before stepping in and out of an elevator.

My friend managed to lose his keys down the gap. Elevator technicians got them out next time they were in the building.

I have the opposite opinion, when I lots my iPhone and fell back on my Nexus One. The maps were awful, it would never get my current positions. Preloading map areas sounded like a great idea, but it never worked well for me. It would constantly forget the surrounding area, even 1 minute after it was just working.

I understand the Google version uses vectors rather than images, so it should work better, but never did for me.

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