Above is a video showcasing a recent iPhone 4 clone - but this time with a swivel clamshell keyboard design which is very snazzy, if not a tad thick. The specs haven't been released yet, but we do know it has a 3.2-inch display, along with dual-SIM functionality, dual cameras (front and back presumably) as well as Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. We're not sure what kind of OS it runs, but it is definitely one mimicking the look and feel of iOS. Menu operation is a tad bit laggy. From the video (nail usage), I'd speculate that the device has a resistive touchscreen, and if the proposed price point of roughyl 600 RMB holds true, then that is likely the case. The keyboard, aside from just swivelling, can also flip back over so that it sits on the back of the phone, which is pretty cool. Ho
In the battle of Android vs iOS/iPhone, a recent survey published by Nielsen shows that within the leading mobile phone's being purchased in the U.S - Apple iPhone OS, RIM blackberry OS and Android OS, more men are buying Android, whereas more women are buying iPhone's with it's iOS. statistics show that 33% of males prefer Android over 29% for iOS, and 31% of women rather iOS over 23% for Android. As for the Blackberry OS, it's coupled with the iPhone by sharing the same percentage of 27% of the overall Smartphone OS pie - Android coming in slightly behind with it's 22%. Microsoft Windows seem to be falling behind a bit with it's 14%, however, it's still learning to run. I'm probably not going to put my money on it yet, but I am hoping for a catch up to come - what with all the new Wi
Despite the fact that this iPhone 4 clone does not have the IPhone OS and UI, it apparently holds the best clone title yet. It runs on Android 2.1 and judging by the video and source, it runs as smooth as a babies bottom. complete with WIFI, Bluetooth and a front and back camera. Like the iPhone, it has a capacitive touchscreen of 3.8 inches but unlike the iPhone, we don't yet know what the chipset/CPU is that's powering the phone. Btw, the set featured in the video is a protoype.
The manufacturers have printed on the Apple logo on the back back for the prying eye, however, nitpickers might pick up on the different speaker on the bottom. other than that, it looks much like other Iphone 4 clones. Design aside, and to re-iterate, this prototype has so far been dubbed the 'king' of Iph
Windows Phone 7 (WP7) devices are certainly starting to pop up here and there and are becoming more widely known. The above video shows a browser comparison between the WP7 browser, the browser of iOS on an Apple iPhone, and the browser of Android on the Google Nexus One. You see the WP7 browser load some sites faster, and some sites slower which is hardly surprising. Also, scrolling and panning/zooming seem on par with the competition. Of note is that this isn't the final version of the software, so it certainly looks promising.
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Surely by now most have seen this video, with it's greater than 3.5 million views, but stumbling across it for the first time myself today, I decided that it must be shared with the rest of those who haven't seen it yet. This was produced by an employee of Best Buy who then suspended him. When he was offered his job back, he allegedly didn't take it. Way to go.
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Android 2.2 on an iPhone 3G system without WiFi and audio playback. Certainly interesting. Watch the video! Irony is to die for.
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Can you say clash of the titans? Interesting (and expected) was that on sites with no Flash content, Froyo (Android 2.2) soared ahead. When there was Flash content, Opera Mobile and the iPhone 3G didn't need to load it and so beat the Android phone handily, with the iPhone creeping past the HTC HD2 running on Opera Mobile.
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Is this really the picture, globally?
“IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.” These were the words of Apple spokesperson Natalie Harrison to The Loop, and it makes one wonder at the previous report of Android outselling the iPhone in Q1 of 2010 which doesn't seem to lend any credence to the words of Harrison.
I'm actually unsure as to whether Android poses a greater threat inside the US or outside of it - I rather suspect outside as more phones pick up the OS.
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However, both fall short of the Blackberry which still holds pole position, interestingly enough and, actually, a little surprising this far into the iPhone's lifespan. The percentages are as follows: Bronze to iPhone at 21%; Silver to the Android platform at 28%; Gold to the Blackberry at 36%.
What can we expect from the future? Well, HP bought up Palm, Windows Phone Series 7 is incoming full of force and momentum, and more and more phones are being announced to use the Android OS. I guess that the battle for smartphone market share will heat up. Price will become one of the primary battlefields for competition. As a consumer, I'm sitting back smiling.
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... for poor sex life and diminishing quality in the bedroom. In a fairly large survey on the quality of sex lives, 28% of women blamed the iPhone and Blackberry as being harmful to physical intimacy. The survey was conducted by company Bayer, which actually just bought the rights to a female sexual dysfunction drug (coincidence? I think not!) so it is not surprising that the findings have come out the way they have: terribly limited.
Don't you think that if you are letting work emails after work get in the way of physical intimacy with your loved one, that it speaks volumes about more entrenched relational problems? The undercurrent of sexual... issues in relationships has pervaded every culture since time inanimate (well, at least since we lumbered into humanity from our not-so-distan
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