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Nexus One vs iPhone

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:38:42 +0000

Google launched first mobile phone Nexus One. Here is a detailed comparison between Nexus One and iPhone.

	Nexus One	iPhone
Height	119 mm	115.5 mm
Width	59.8 mm	62.1 mm
Weight	130 grams	135 grams
Display	3.7 inch	3.5 inch
Resolution	800×480 pixels	480×320 pixels
Camera	5 megapixels, autofocus	3 megapixels, autofocus
Capacity	512MB RAM 512MB Flash 4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)	256 MB RAM 16GB or 32GB flash drive
Processor	Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz	600 MHz
Video Recording	720×480 pixels at 20 frames per second or higher, depending on lighting conditions	VGA up to 30 fps
Cellular & Wireless	UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900) HSDPA 7.2Mbps HSUPA 2Mbps GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 Mhz) Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR A2DP stereo Bluetooth	UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 Mhz) GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 Mhz) Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology
Location	Assisted global positioning system (AGPS) receiver Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning Digital compass Accelerometer	Assisted GPS Digital compass Wi-Fi Cellular Accelerometer Proximity sensor
Power and battery	Talk time Up to 10 hours on 2G Up to 7 hours on 3G Standby time Up to 290 hours on 2G Up to 250 hours on 3G Internet use Up to 5 hours on 3G Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi Video playback Up to 7 hours Audio playback Up to 20 hours	Talk time Up to 12 hours on 2G Up to 5 hours on 3G Standby time Up to 300 hours Internet use Up to 5 hours on 3G Up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi Video playback Up to 10 hours Audio playback Up to 30 hours

Nexus One can be a good competitor to iPhone for sure. Share your views about new Nexus One

Google Sync for mobile phones

iPhoneInterest — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:04:47 +0000

Google sync lets you synchronize your contacts and calendar on your phone with google account.
It works fine with following mobiles
iPhone
BlackBerry
Nokia S60
Nokia standard
Sony Ericsson
Windows Mobile

All most all the famous mobiles except on Andriod

It is useful in case if you lost your phone or want to change your old phone, you don’t need to copy your contacts and calendar manually or by some trick.
Google Sync is capable of

Synchronize your Contacts with Google
Depending on your phone, get Google Calendar events to your phone
Make changes either on your phone or on the Web

Google Latitude for iPhone (Mobile devices)

iPhoneInterest — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:03:25 +0000

Google latitude is new feature in google maps on the mobile devices. Application allows you to determine the location of your friends around you who have decided to share their location with you.
The next step after locating friends, you may want to contact them. Google has provided SMS, Google Talk, and Gmail support to do this. Check out this cool video for more information.

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Google voice search coming to iPhone

iPhoneInterest — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:24:31 +0000

You say where is the nearest PizzaHut and it gives you search results on browser window. so cool… isn’t it.

Sound is converted into text file through voice recognition software and sent to google search engine. The application is expected soon on App Store. It is controversial though that they are launching it first on iPhone and not Google android phone.

Google Earth for iPhone

iPhoneInterest — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:01:41 +0000

iPhone Firmware 2.2 Features: Map Street View, Emoji Icons, Disable Auto-correction, Possibly Copy/Paste

Amit — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:44:41 +0000

Lots of gossip is going new features on the forth coming iPhone 2.2 upgrade. Will it have some new features or a bug fix patch just like 2.1 upgrade?

Apple has not officially announced any new feature in the release notes sent to the developers who are doing compatibility testing of their applications with 2.2 upgrade.

Developers have found out following new features:
1. Disable/Enable auto-correction: iPhone users will be able to turn on/off auto-correction.

There is no doubt about the iPhone keyboard capability and its auto-correction feature but this feature is frustrating on many occasions when you want to type in local language (e.g. u r an ifone lvr).

2. Google Map Street View: Last week, google announced street view supoort in G1 Mobile Phone. iPhone also came up with the same idea. Let’s see who is in quantity in streets for the street view.

3. Japanese emoji icon: emoji icons are one the important feature in Japanese mobile phones. Including emoji icons might help in increasing sales in Japanese market.

4. Copy/Paste functionality: As discussed in one of the earlier post, it is quite possible that next upgrade will have copy/paste functionality. G1 phone is about to hit the market soon and it has copy/paste functionality in it. This might put some extra pressure to Apple to include Copy/Paste as soon as possible.

G-1 Mobile Specification

iPhoneInterest — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:06:41 +0000

1. Touch screen and slide open keyboard
2. 3.17 inches screen
3. 1 GB Micro SD memory and expandable up to 8GB
4. Trackball for easy navigation
5. Zoom functionality by tapping on the screen
6. Shortcut keys for one touch access to most popular google applications (Gmail, Maps, and YouTube)
7. 3 Megapixel camera
8. Bluetooth enabled
9. GPS enabled
10. Internet connectivity from all the popular technologies (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/Wi-Fi and UMTS/HSDPA)
11. 130 hours of standby time
12. 5 Hours of talk time
13. Dimensions 4.6″ X 2.16″ X .62″
14. MP3, M4A, AMR, WMA, MIDI, WAV, OGG file format support
15. Voice recognition, voice dialing and speaker phone
16. Google map is important feature, you can use it street view in the map. So if you are standing somewhere you can see your street view in the mobile.

iPhone Browser

admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:07:17 +0000

iPhone browser let you browse file in window explorer fashion. You can download iPhone browser from here

By using iPhone browser, you can take back up of files and folders from your iPhone to computer. The backup you take by this browser is not very user friendly. It simply dumps iPhone files without doing any changes. It might not be very useful to use such backups in your computer but it does help a lot when you want to restore these files to iPhone. To restore these files simple drag and drop files to appropriate location in iPhone browser.