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When the original Android G1 launched in 2008 there were rumors that Apple had asked Google to avoid integrating a 3.5mm audio jack and multitouch gestures on the HTC G1 (given that Apple has patents related to both technologies). After Microsoft and Palm got the multitouch magic for the Zune HD and Pre respectively, we [...]
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Verizon has managed to create great hype for the Droid (with Google’s support thrown in). Partly the drama before launch and the feature set including first time Android 2.0 with Google Navigation helped. So how does the Droid do against the iPhone 3GS? Lets take a quick look at the spec sheet first:
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Sony Ericsson stunned the world with its latest offering the Xperia X10 that was being rumored since long as project Rachael / or the X3. This time Sony Ericsson has designed the device completely by itself, rather than depending on any ODM like HTC (who made the Xperia X1 for them). And looking at the [...]
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Recent leaked images of the upcoming upgrade to the Android OS (version 2.0) has pumped up the comparison between the iPhone and Android devices. Different manufacturers have tried their hands on Android and the custom Sense UI by HTC and MotoBlur by Motorola have managed to create atleast some buzz. Conversations around my twitter friends already seem [...]
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The latest Android with some new spice is official. The Motorola Cliq brings an all new direction to the once leading mobile manufacturer. After the superhit days of MotoRazr, Motorola has quite failed to churn out any significantly successful smartphone. The A760 and A1000 that were amongst my favourite touchscreen devices, but the subsequent upgrades [...]
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It was Motorola’s big day yesterday with the release of its Android offering: Cliq. The Cliq spec sheet is pretty much standard with a 3.1″ touchscreen, 5MP camera, WiFi, bluetooth 2.0, GPS, 3G and a physical sideways sliding QWERTY. Motorola has loaded the Android v1.5 with a custom UI called the MotoBlur. Blur syncs all [...]
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General Mobile is the first Android manufacturer to bring the DualSim support to the Google OS powered smartphone. The DSTL1 that went on sale in the US recently is by no means a super smartphone with breakthrough features, but has the necessary bit along with a Dual Sim Standy mode for you at $499.
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We are surely in a smartphone boom. With more and more companies jumping into smartphone production and the great number of business phones that are being produced today, some predictions (estimates) which would have been termed wild a while back, looks so real now.
The Apple iPhone is growing faster than Apple’s own imagination, such that [...]
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The early Android phones were equipped with a physical QWERTY, while the newer ones like the HTC Magic and the HTC Hero are iPhone like structures with full touchscreen. This adds a challenge to compete with the iPhone UI, something that is already backed by multiple touch.
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Now thats some serious criticism of the iPhone design. The 3GS carries the same design as the iPhone 3G, which replaces the aluminum back of the 1st Gen iPhone with a plastic. While IMO the plastic body is much more comfortable than the earlier Aluminum (looks is a different subject, its subjective), HTC’s Chief Innovator [...]
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Google Android platform is backed by multiple manufacturers, just like Windows Mobile. However iPhone has managed to catch the market early. While Android is going slow; iPhone has already become a trend-setter.
So would the Gphone catchup with the Apple iPhone?
Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that being open source and with no licensing cost, Android would [...]
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