I honestly think widgets are overrated . So many iPhone users think that Android is like iOS but with widgets . It goes so much deeper than that . The customisation isn ' t merely cosmetic . With Android you have the power to do anything the way you want to . You aren ' t locked into any app at all and furthermore with the intent engine if you ever have a task that requires another app it ' ll give you the ability to pick which app you would like to complete the task with . That ' s so liberating and cool . Overlays are another great feature . Not only can you do split screen multitasking but you can have floating windows all over your screen that can be collapsible into little icons . Floating videos , post it notes , even entire apps . This is great for handling data for all sorts of things . Need to compare response curves between two speakers ? Open up two web pages side by side and look back and forth between both response curves to really understand what you ' re looking at . Multitasking is also great . Anything can run alongside anything and everything you have open will continue running and finish doing what it ' s doing even while you ' re on another app . You can literally pirate movies on this thing with torrent apps . And that brings us to my final favorite android feature the file system . You can handle files in a global file system that is compatible with all devices . You can literally copy files to and from other computers with shared folders just like you ' re moving files back and forth between two folders on your PC . You can even use your phone to transfer a file from one computer to another computer . It gives you full and complete control over your files . And if you don ' t wanna bother just toss everything onto your SD card in any order and the media server process will automatically arrange everything and make it available to any app that can use it . Just pipe in all your songs , photos , ebooks etc . And any app you decide to use will find and catalog all the files into your libraries as if you painstakingly arranged and labeled them yourself . Androids strength doesn ' t lie so much in its features like widgets or apps but in its flexibility and the power it gives you to do anything you want the way you want . Even before Google got involved Android was designed to work with anything and that ' s what it does .