iPhone Killer

Wendy Cheng is your typical Apple hater. She hates how Apple users think they are superior because their computers are beautiful. She also hates how they act arrogantly towards other ‘PC’ users. Though, it seems as if, all too often this hatred for Mac fanatics is often translated into a hatred for all things Apple.

Wendy recently reviewed an iPhone, or at least thats what she thought it was. It was not until after she finished reviewing it, one of her affiliates told her she was really reviewing the “Fake China iPhone.” Ironically she seemed impressed with the knock-off.

Later when she actually got her hands on the phone she had a hard time operating it; instead of using her finger to scroll, she used her nail. She then goes on to talk about how the sound quality is surprisingly good, but everyone knows that no one cares about music anyways. Wendy says that the phone is only mediocre. This is because the touch-screen is horrible and even though the music feature is nice, no one cares about it.

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Nokia, one of the biggest cellular manufacturers has taken the opportunity to taunt Apple in the phone business by advertising the advantages of unlocked phones. Last week, Apple mass bricked iPhones while Nokia stealthily rolled out their “unlock” campaign.

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In addition to ad banners, Nokia is utilizing the publicity to pump up the N95, their high end smart phone that has been heralded as an iPhone killer that is competitively priced. You can see more of the web ads by hitting up nseries.com/open.

Anyways, Apple isn’t going to get off so easily on this one, its a very sensitive issue right now which is causing quite an uproar right now. It would be so easy for competitors to point out “Hey, Apple is locking you in while we’ll let you use your phone wherever you want!”

Via: Engadget

In this video found on YouTube, Kat and Ashley from Shiny Media discuss the HTC Touch and how it is “smarter” than the iPhone. Personally I think it’s crazy to declare which phone is smarter when the iphone isn’t even out yet. What do you think?

Here in the United States, the iPhone will be in hand by the end of June. But you Europeans and Asians are still left guessing about when the iPhone will make an appearance.

Most people overseas may decide to just wait for the iphone (whenever that may be), but for those who are in serious need of multitouch phone use, there is an alternative.

Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), the largest manufacturer of mobile devices running on Microsoft Windows OSs, announced the HTC Touch today. The Touch runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional and boasts touchscreen access to email, contacts, and appointments. And whether you think it’s cool or not or as innovative as the iPhone or not, it carries with it one major point of distinction: It’s available right now in the UK and in the rest of Eruope and Asia by the end of the month.

Here are a few videos showing the HTC Touch in action.

[Via Wireless IT World]

Verizon always said they would respond to AT&T and their iPhone. But I think most people (me included) figured that would mean some “wickedly uncool” Motorola phone or a novelty Chocolate phone or something. Never in a million years did I expect Verizon would sell the fabulous LG Prada: perhaps the closest thing to an iPhone in the world.

According to TheStreet.com, Verizon’s answer to the iPhone is the LG Prada phone retailing for $600, one honey more than the iPhone. In my opinion this is the smart thing for Verizon to do. The Prada phone is already out in the market and has gained a lot of exposure for its luxury brand name and iPhone like features.

Maybe Verizon Wireless will retain some customers after all.

[Via Network World]

With the announcement of the RAZR2 today, Tech Digest have run a comparison review of Motorola’s “wickedly cool” phone with Nokia’s N95 and Apple’s iPhone. The winner? Read on.

The review goes over a variety of different features each phone has to offer, including the camera, video and music playback, size, connectivity, “whizzy features” and as with any respectable review, the downsides of each product. In terms of music and video you’ve probably already guessed that the iPhone has won hands down, although the other two phones should allow over-the-air downloads, something which at present many are unsure the iPhone will do. The camera’s on the iPhone and RAZR2 are mediocre by today’s standards, both offering 2-mega pixels, but the Nokia N95 wins with its beautiful 3-mega pixel snapper. The iPhone loses points to the other two phones on its size but the 3.5-inch screen compared to the RAZR 2’s 2.2-inch and N95’s 2.6-inch. The iPhone is flamed for its out-of-date 2.5G technology where the N95 and RAZR2 have 3G standards, but the RAZR 2 doesn’t have Wi-Fi which both Nokia and Apple’s devices do.

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The LG Prada may be a little too much like the iPhone to you, but when you see Brevisys’s Pi, you’ll think again.

Brevisys are planning to release a direct iPhone competitor which basically looks, feels and acts like the iPhone, according to Electronista. The phone has a 3.8 inch touch screen with a 800x480 resolution, a 2-mega pixel camera on the back and VGA on front for video calling, Wi-Fi internet access, as well as the ability to play music and video on either 4 or 8GB of flash memory - with the ability to add 30 or 60GB of hard-drive storage. Though, the most notable similarity between the Pi and iPhone is the operating system, which although run Linux OS and Mac OS operating systems respectively, look uncannily alike.

I don’t know if a lawsuit will follow, as is accustomed these days when one company releases a product all too similar to another companies, but Brevisys claim “Our multimedia players began their design and development process over a year before the recently unveiled Apple iPhone® and LG Prada Phone. As a result we have our… more...

To complement Greg’s recent post featuring pictures of the LG Prada being unboxed, I hereby give you a video to give you a clearer idea of how beautiful the Prada looks.

Back in early February I wrote about a few prototype devices BenQ had on offer, some of which were rather futuristic, others which were a tad silly, but none the less they are there.

Today, however, Trends News Agency have posted up a bit of information on a possible ‘iPhone killing’, or rather ‘competing’, device with no name, specifications or much else to show - it’s actually just a fancy concept image listed up as a rumour.

The little translucent blue thing in the middle can slide in either direction. When it is placed where it is shown in the picture, you get a semi-conventional numerical keypad so that you can dial your calls. Slide that thing all the way to the bottom, and you get a fully unobstructed view of your widescreen videos. I’d imagine they implented some sort of on-screen QWERTYness too.

I’ve got to say, BenQ are pretty good at designing phones but do they ever actually implement the grooviest designs they have on offer? I’ve not seen one yet!

Sprint Nextel, the nation’s third largest wireless carrier said yesterday that they will begin selling a new Samsung phone with $0.99 over the air music downloads.

This new device is called the UpStage and although it is trying to get a foothold in the over-the-air music download space, I don’t think Apple should be too concerned. Because even if the phone is all that it says it will be, it still only maxes out with 2GB of external memory. And that is a max out. The factory install comes with a mere 64MB of MicroSD memory.

Sure, it is innovative: if you consider innovative being a device that looks like a phone on one side and a cheap Creative Zen on the other. There won’t be any iPhone killer talk coming from Sprint Nextel.

[Via AppleInsider]