Chinese HiPhone has already released two phones that bear a resemblance of Apple iPod Nano. HiPhone W008 is a heir of these two devices. This sliding phone has 2.2 inch TFT screen with 240×320 px resolution and 262K colors, two 0.3 Mp cameras both usual and frontal, Bluetooth, FM radio, accelerometer, 1 Mb built-in storage, microSD memory card slot (up to 16 Gb). As many other Chinese phones HiPhone W008 supports Dual SIM card mode. The battery provides about 4 hours of talk time. The price is $128.
Italian resource HDBlog.it published video showing difference between the most popular touch screen phones – Samsung Omnia, Samsung Omnia II, Samsung Omnia HD, Samsung Galaxy, HTC Hero, HTC TouchPro2 and Apple iPhone.
Chinese developers continue to amaze us with new iPhones clones. This one is one of the most remarkable examples. It is iPhone NG68. This device combines design of Apple iPhone and iPod Nano media player. As a result iPhone NG68 looks nice and has thin case (only 10 mm). The list of technical characteristics is typical for other Chinese phones – 2.4 inch touch screen with 240×320 px resolution, 0.3 Mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0 module, 480 Mb built in memory and microSD card slot (up to 16 Gb). The price of iPhone NG68 is only $90.
At last Apple introduced its new iPhone 3G S. This remarkable event took place on Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. Letter “S” means “speed” – new iPhone supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA and runs twice as faster than its predecessor. The design of this device is almost the same – it also has easily soiled plastic case. iPhone 3G S is based on iPhone OS 3.0 platform which has more than one hundred improvements. The list of technical characteristics also has some improvements – 3 Mp camera with autofocus and video recording support, extended built in memory, magnetometer and more capacious battery. This new smartphone also has Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR. iPhone 3G S will become available in AT&T mobile operator’s shops on June, 19. Its price is $199 for 16 Gb version and $299 for 32 Gb one. In other countries new phone by Apple will become available in next few weeks.
iSuppli company continues to do its favorite work - mobile devices’ cost calculation . This time it is T-Mobile G1. Calculated cost doesn’t include t costs of transportation, assembling and software development. So the cost of Google phone without all this additional exps is $143.89. Today T-Mobile G1 mobile phone is available at the price of $180. By the way similar analysis was performed for Apple iPhone 3G. Its “pure” price is $173. According to Tina Teng who is chief analyst of iSuppli T-Mobile G1 phone is nice and powerful device with good operating system. Nevertheless it is yields to iPhone in design and control simplicity. Prices for main components of Google phone are: ARM11 and ARM7 CPUs - $28.49, 3.2 inch touch screen – $19.67, camera - $12.13, radio-frequency amplifier -$9.84, built in memory - $9.70.
Some time ago Apple company was criticize for opportunity to control iPhone software remotely. They said that this function was included to reduce injurious actions of some applications which were downloaded on AppStore. The tactics of Big Brother also looks attractive for Google. According to use rules of Android Market which is AppStore analogue the opportunity to close harmful applications remotely is provided.
Computerworld.com tries to acquit Google and says that company declared such function of it’s own free will whereas Apple was red-handed. Secondly Google owners are going to give back money for each broken application.
The process of iPhone cloning is not stopped not for a second in China. Different developers create every possible fakes and CiPhone i88i is one of them. The screen of this device has 3.5 inch diagonal but its resolution is only 320×240 px. To make up the deficiency this Chinese mobile phone has 1.3 Mp camera, 2 GB built in memory, FM radio, TV out and microSD card slot.
French GeekInc site published photos of HTC Touch HD together with iPhone 3G. As you can see they are very similar to each other. Besides both of them have 3.5 mm audio jacks. It is also said that camera of new HTC mobile phone works well and the screen with 800×480 px resolution is excellent.
At last iPhone 3G was introduced officially on WWDC exhibition 2008. There were a lot of gossips about new Apple mobile device and great number of guess-works about future iPhone 3G design and technical features. So let see which of them were true.
