Monday, July 20, 2009
SpecsT-Mobile's myTouch has a 600Mhz TI processor, and 288MB RAM.
Keyboard
myTouch 3G's software keyboard is easy to get used to. The downside to it is that the "keys" are set too close together, making you more prone to typing errors, and generally make typing quite difficult.
Home Screen
This T-Mobile 3G smartphone, which features the Android OS 1.5 update, also has widgets on its homescreen. However, myTouch 3G has media-player, calendar, analog-clock, search and picture-frame widgets. You can even pull up the full menu from the home screen.
Multitasking
myTouch 3G, uses pop up notifications to alert you to app updates, IM, etc. All you have to do is simply tap and pull down these notifications menu.
Calendar
T-Mobile's 3G smartphone naturally supports Google Calendare and allows you to set up reminders that pop up on your status bar through the notification system.
Specs
From the company that started the "the mobile-computing revolution" comes its latest innovation. Palm Pre is equipped with a 900/2100MHz processor with 288MB of RAM.
Keyboard
It's fitted with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, its keys are too gummy, like you're using a simple old mobile phone instead of a smart phone. The top row is also just a tad too close to the slider screen; you'd have to slant your fingers when you type.
Homescreen
The Pre's homescreen has a Quick Launch bar along the bottom of the screen which allows for quick access to oft-used functions such as contacts, calendar, or any shortcut of your choice. Plus, you can also see your wall paper on your home screen as well.
Multitasking
Palm Pre makes multitasking easier with its deck-of-cards visualization. You can view each open app at once; shuffle them any way you want. The visualization drains the battery life, but not much more than on other smartphones like the iPhone.
SpecsForm the Nokia NSeries comes the Nokia N97. It is equipped with a 434MHz processor, and a 128MB RAM
Keyboard
The N97 is fitted with a horizontal hardware keyboard that is quite easy to use. However, the top row of buttons is a bit too close to screen which, unfortunately, cannot be adjusted.
Its keys are too flat to type comfortably, and the layout can be a bit disorienting, with the spacebar shoved down to the lower-right corner. Overall though, the N97's keyboard is better than other Smartphones with hardware keyboards.
Home screen
The N97's home screen features widgets that update you (in real time) right on your home screen so you won't have to open another app to retrieve them. The N97 features Facebook, MySpace, your personal e-mail, music player, favorite contacts, and date and time widgets. However, most aficionados agree that the Accuweather widget is the best. It utilizes the N97's built-in Assisted GPS and automatically updates the temperature on your home screen when you travel.
Multitasking
The N97 allows you to manage your open apps by pressing Options in the lower-left corner and selecting Show Open Apps, but doesn't have a notification system. Although some info such as your Facebook account, does get updated in real time via the widgets.
Specs
The new Apple iPhone 3G S has the Apple logo at the back, same with the iPhone 3G, though the label is more displayed.
When it comes to smartphones, naturally, the better processor and the bigger memory, the faster experience
Apple hasn't released the exact specs yet, but Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, reported that a rip down of the Apple Smartphone revealed an ARM Cortex A8 microprocessor running at 600Mhz, and an amped up 256MB RAM, putting it ahead of other sought-after Smartphones.
Keyboard
The iPhone 3G S's portrait-oriented is a little bigger than other touch keyboards. Although typing on it stills a bit difficult, it does have one important feature: it shows you the key you pressed which makes typing easier and more accurate. Another related plus is that the landscape keyboard can now be used in all text-heavy apps such as Mail, Notes and Messages.
Home screen
The 3G S has the standard home screen, with all the apps in a grid.
Multitasking
Multitasking has been the iPhone's weakness. When apple announced that multitasking is a drain on battery life (during the announcement of the iPhone OS 3.0), they responded by allowing third-party apps to use a push-notification system. This means that an app can alert you to an instant update without your having to close your current open app.
Calendar
The iPhone 3G S‘s calendar is pretty much the same as the OS 3.0. But, you now have more control over which calendars you can use. For instance, you can now add subscription calendars and those that support CalDAV servers like the Google Calendar.
While we deemed the HTC Touch Pro2’s hardware keyboard perhaps the best to be had on a Windows Mobile smartphone right now, we saved the usual ire for the handset’s lack of a 3.5mm headphones socket. That’s all changed, however, for the Canadian Telus version; going by MobileSyrup’s video, HTC have shuffled over the ExtUSB port and squeezed in a 3.5mm jack.Video after the cut
The CDMA version of the smartphone will therefore work with both HTC’s standard ExtUSB headset as well as any other 3.5mm hands-free headset or plain headphones. It’s seemingly part of HTC’s plan to put a 3.5mm audio socket on all of its upcoming devices, though we didn’t expect them to start with a phone already available in other markets.
Otherwise, aside from the CDMA radio, the smartphone is the same as the Touch Pro2 we reviewed earlier in the month. No word on specific release date in Canada as yet, nor when it might make it south to Verizon in the US.
After already committing to releasing a 15-inch OLED TV potentially as early as December 2009 in Korea, LG have now revealed their plans to have a 32-inch OLED display on the market in 2012. Suggesting that OLED would provide a new source of revenue, LG Display CEO Kwon Young-soo told press that the company’s focus is on larger panels rather than cellphone-sized versions.This, the executive claimed, is because “the larger the display, the more efficient the OLED technology.” It’s certainly given the company’s HR department a boost: LG Display have apparently taken on 1,700 new staff in research and development this year.
“The commercial success of OLEDs hinges on how it shows its superiority compared to existing liquid crystal display (LCD) technologies. We will focus on TV panels rather than cell phone panels because the larger the display, the more efficient the OLED technology” Kwon Young-soo, CEO, LG Display
LG Display are still investing into LCD, however. After reporting a profit in Q2 2009 after panel prices rose and demand outstripped supply, the company is investing the equivalent of $2.59bn into an eighth-generation production line, which will be operational by the second half of 2010.
