Comparison of Motorola Droid X vs iPhone 4

The newly released iPhone 4 is having some troubles in the press at the moment and may face some resistance from the new Droid X. If Apple do not resolve these iPhone 4 problems, unsure likely customers may move over to Motorola’s new Droid X as their communication device of option. There are some similarities and differences to think. This includes the operating system iOS 4.0 from Apple and the alternating Android 2.1, complete with Moto blur from Motorola. Apple’s iOS4 is a proprietary operating system, and only allows software that is first accepted by Apple, and made available from Apple’s online store. In the meantime, however, Android is an open source platform, and allows developers to freely develop new software and plug-ins for the operating system.
The memory from the iPhone is 512MB in the Droid X. The iPhone 4 weights 4.8 ounces, while the Droid X is 5.4 ounces.The iPhone keyboard is onscreen. The Droid X also utilize an onscreen keyboard, but also takes gain of SWYPE technology. Mostly, SWYPE allow users to drag their finger across the screen, touching all of the letters that fit in in a particular word, without lifting their finger. This device then automatically detects the word that the user was “swyping.”
On-board storage has iPhone as an easy winner with a choice of either 16GB or 32GB, even as its rival only offers one option of 8GB. The Droid X, though, comes with a 16GB MicroSD card built-in, bumping its default storage capacity to 24GB. Storage hungry users can also upgrade the microSD card, making the DroidX capable of conduct more overall data storage than the iPhone4.
Screen size gives the iPhone 3.5 inches, and 4.3 inches from the Droid, clearly making the Droid X a better choice for users that need lots of screen real estate. The Screen resolution, however, is far better from the iPhone 4 with 640 x 960 pixels, compared to 480 x 854 pixels. Compare to cameras, the iPhone 4 offers a 5MP camera with LED flash, at the same time Droid X offers an 8MP camera with a dual LED flash. The iPhone 4 offers a touch-to-focus feature, while the Droid X repeatedly focuses on human faces.Both phones have inspiring specs and features. but, the iPhone 4’s recent trouble is it will be interesting to see how many consumers opt for the Droid X vs the iPhone 4.

On iPhone 4 Day, Microsoft Opens Apple’s Store in California

June 24th is the mega opening of the Microsoft Store in Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego, California. The San Diego store marks Microsoft’s fourth venture into the retail space and opens later this morning at 10 a.m. PST.The Microsoft Store is just yards out from the Apple Store. Which means it’s challenging for attention with the especially long line of people hoping to get their hands on the new iPhone 4g.
The grand opening function has been deeply promoted on local radio stations and will feature a presentation by Demi Lovato this coming Saturday, June 26. In an exertion to draw a crowd, Microsoft is giving tickets to a meet and greet with Demi Lovato to the first 100 people in line today. The first 1,000 people having “VIP treatment” for Saturday’s show.Microsoft Store workers are also raffling off electronic devices like the Microsoft Zune, the new Flip camera, miscellaneous laptops and gadgets, and giving away gift cards.

I stopped to take photos and videos to the store opening of the crowd, as well as capture the Apple versus Microsoft commotion. It doesn’t hurt the Microsoft staffs are using megaphones to go down out the noise from a few doors down.In the video below I spoke with Nicole Barnhart, over my iPhone 4 has been in the Microsoft Store line since 12:00 a.m. PST. She said me that she was approximately the 50th person in line and that the majority of the crowd is waiting to get their hands on the Demi Lovato tickets.

How To utilize Google Voice On iPhone 4

Google opened up Google Voice to every person nowadays. While there is still no dedicated application for the iPhone, don't let that stop you. Here's how to use Google Voice with the iPhone 4 as follows:

First remember the big message between Apple, AT&T and Google over the Google Voice iPhone app through the summer of 2009? The FCC doesn’t make any real decisions between Apple, AT&T and Google, but that doesn't mean Google has been sitting around waiting for the FCC to make up its mind. In starting of this year January, Google launched a new version of the Google Voice application that Apple doesn’t able to approve (or disapprove). Why? Because it is used from the iPhone's browser. Since it workings in Safari, which means it will work from the iPhone 4 too.

The HTML5-powered Web app will let iPhone users access Google Voice without the need for a third-party application. The new Web application will work on iPhones using OS 3.0 and up. In this version of Google Voice will also work with Palm's web OS devices. The Google Voice disaster extended last year when Apple first accepted a Google Voice application from Google and then later pulled it. Many of they believed that it was pulled from the iPhone Apps Store at the request of AT&T. Google Voice lets users make cheaper long-distance calls and forward calls to several other numbers. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission opened an inquiry of sorts and asked all the companies involved for an explanation of why the application was removed. The results of that investigation have still not yet been exposed, 10 months later.

If you Want to use Google Voice with your iPhone 3G, 3GS or your iPhone 4? Visit m.google.com/voice in your mobile browser.The Web-based app certainly doesn't work as well as the more fully-featured Google Voice for Android application, but it gets the fundamentals done in a pinch. Google says, "For fast access to the most significant features like 'Dialer', 'Compose SMS', 'Inbox' or 'Contacts,' you can easily add shortcuts to your iPhone home screen or Palm Launcher. So cheap calls and messaging will be just a one touch away. "

Nokia’s N8 equivalent for iPhone

In this week at a press eventin Singapore, Nokia showcased the touch-screen device N8, for the first time in the constituency. In This N8 was first announced on April 27 and will hit store shelve in the third quarter, according to the Finnish handset maker, the world’s biggest producer by shipments. What will help Nokia preserve its governing position in an increasingly competitive smartphone market?

It can be use a pick-me-up: previously this week it warned that this quarter’s earnings will be lower than expected, blaming stiffer struggle with cell phone rivals.There has been a hurry of new device announcements in latest weeks. Nokia has follows Apple’s iPhone 4, Samsung’s Galaxy S and Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10.

Nokia is banking on the N8’s inspiring to make a scratch in the Smartphone market.

It prides a 12-megapixel camera and high-definition video, and will also offer streaming TV services. A Nokia presenter said that Symbian 3, an proficient version of the company’s operating system, it has a long heritage with its users and supports multiple languages, which is significant in Asian markets. In this N8 is estimated to sell for 370 Euros ($459.23).

Whether it makes a depression in the iPhone’s momentum is an open question — the Apple device expected more than 600,000 preorders shortly after its launch.

Apple making history Again in sales: US and UK website crashes

Apple has reported awesome demand for its new iPhone 4 model, it sold more than 600,000 in a single day on Tuesday which saw ordering websites collapse in the US and UK. By similarity, when the iPhone 3GS went on sale last year. At that time I just were sold in its first three days. But that opened in eight countries, while the iPhone 4 has gone on sale only in five.

The launch of the iPhone 4 is still one more week yet, but Apple and AT & T has been busy with orders for this iPhone 4. customers can order from the Apple or AT & T websites, but it seems countless will be disappointed that only the black iPhone 4 that can be booked for June 24. Apple and AT & T Website has been heavy traffic because of many consumers who want to become the first for this iPhone 4. The one of Apple resellers blame AT & T website that is not ready to provide the high demand.

While everybody was busy with bookings the iPhone 4, Apple announced the Mac Mini with the newest hardware updates like as SD card slot, the faster Core 2 Duo processor and a removable base coat for memory upgrades this morning. Apple has apologised to people who tried to order the phone and gave up in irritation, saying demand was distant higher than it expected. And finally they announced "We hope that they will try again, once the iPhone 4 is in stockpile."

In UK, where Apple is present the phone without a agreement through its online store, Apple's website crashed as people tried to order it. And in the US, where it is only available with a contract from AT&T, the phone company's website freeze as it tried to handle. Last year in UK O2 had limited rights to sell the new iPhone, but more number of handsets were sold in the first two hours of trading than all handsets in an average day

Vodafone published the door with iPhone 4 UK price

Vodafone may have become the initial network to published the iPhone 4 UK price.A dedicated iPhone site gone live stating that users, they can be able to get the new 16GB iPhone 4 for £189 on the lowest 18 or 24 month deals.But if you have a 32GB alternate then the price shoots up to £280, again on the year and a half or two year deals, according to PC Pro, which saw the site before it was taken down.
Whenever, we are spoken to Vodafone, and it confirmed that there is still no official statement regarding to the iPhone 4 UK prices.This announcement is backed up by the official Twitter feed, which one stated: "This was a test website so nothing yet to be complete or announced. The Official information will be released very soon!
The costs announced would mirror the same tariffs as last year, so we believe there may be a small amount of truth in there, even though we are still intrigued to know the official iPhone 4 UK price on pay as you go.

Walmart Ready to selling iPhone4 on June 24th

CNET and BGR has reporting Walmart they plan to added their name to retailers of selling the iPhone 4 on 24th June . We all know that when Apple launches a product it gets demented. Its easy to get iPhone 4 on June 14th. If you desire to being part of the craziness that day then you have Walmart who expect you to use the night at the door. This announcement by RadioShack.

Walmart said, Friday that it will be one of some retail outlets who will have the iPhone 4 on June 24, its first day of availability in anywhere. 

Apple finally cracked video-calling for Apple iPhone 4Gs

Has Apple again done it? The company has a track record of taking much-maligned or under-used technology and refreshing its fortunes may have just made mobile videoconferencing the Next Big Thing. The new iPhone 4, revealed on Monday in San Francisco, has much more impressive new features, but the critical one could be video-calling. In this device has two cameras, one mounted on the back and one on the front and allowing iPhone 4 users to make video calls to one different over a Wi-Fi network.

The video clip showed a soldier in Afghanistan by using his iPhone 4 to watch his wife having a sonogram thousands of miles away. It showed two deaf friends communicate in signal language using their iPhones. At the end, delegates were teary-eyed and clapping loudly. The plan of video calling, is not anything new, some phones had video chat capabilities for a decade or more. But only some people use it outside a single, new video phone call, put off by the poor quality.

Apple’s new-look iPhone, makes with its manufacturing steel-and-glass design and better battery life, can succeed where countless others have failed. and make video-calling is the hot new way of staying and touch with friends.The redefined user experience Phil Schiller says, Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing. The latest iPhone is extremely powerful and you really see that with Face Time. The iPhone4 has a screen that's four times the resolution of the display on compare with iPhone 3GS.

And also we have prepared it easy to use. You don't want to set anything up, just choose Face Time and you're directly linked to that person.

Windows Phone 7 and Google’s Android OS Compete with Apple’s iPhone Platform

Google's Android operating system and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 have been recognized as the main competitors to Apple's iPhone, who have been stressed to attain the excitement of Apple's celebrated in the market.The basic idea of Google is introducing mobile phones is that mobile devices are slowly increasing as the most instant and common means of connecting to the web, which accounts to the Company's lake of income.

The Google’s Handset association comprises as many as 70 software, silicon and handset vendors. In this way of carriers had released the open source Android smartphone software platform in November 2007. The Android smartphones completed in 2008, Within three years of the launch of Android's beginning, smartphones running the new OS, outdid the iPhones in sales in the United States during the first quarter, this year.

Mr. Gartner said, Android's marketplace share has surged 9.6% in the first quarter of 2010, from 1.6% in the first quarter of 2009.The application developers of Microsoft have been impressed with UI. They always appreciating the qualities in early code and initial versions of the developer tools.

We Expect more from the Apple’s new iPhone 4G

Latest design: While Use the iPhone as a phone and it is not get grand reception. iPhone 3G and 3GS smooth, curved plastic back. The iPhone 4G appears to have flat back, most expected made from glass, with an aluminium border roughly the outside.

Better resolution with Smaller screen: Comparing to Gizmodo, the screen is slightly slighter than on the iPhone 3GS, but the display itself appears to be advanced resolution. The current iPhone 3GS display having 480x320 pixel resolution, while the iPhone 4G is rumoured to present a 960x640 resolution – four times the quality of the present display.

Recovered battery: Battery life has been lengthy a bone of conflict with the iPhone – many users find fault to give the device a booster charge during the day. This trouble could be resolve with the iPhone 4G and features a battery 16 per cent larger than the one found in the iPhone 3GS. Which will be crucial for one of the most talked-about original features.

Multitasking: The iPhone 4G will run the new iPhone operating system, iPhone OS 4 (same as iPhone 3G and 3GS users, and owners of the most recent models of the iPod touch). The main key features of the new software is multitasking. The capacity to run multiple apps at the same time and switch easily among them. It's a feature that Apple fans have been hopeless for since the iPhone was first launched. Google's Android operating system, have previously got this purpose. After that you will be able to listen to your playlists while instant-messaging a friend.

More storage: Apple is estimated to fetch the storage capacity of its iPhones in to line with the iPod touch range. That means we might see a 64GB iPhone 4G make its introduction. Users wish to store more films and TV shows. An additional aspects of iPhone OS 4 is the capability to collapse apps in to folders, that means users can be able to store up to 2,160 apps on their iPhone.

Better camera: The iPhone 4G will be a better camera, comparing to Gizmodo. The real facing lens is much bigger than on previous models and some speculating that the iPhone 4G could boast a five-megapixel camera with a flash for capturing pictures in low light. The iPhone 4G might support high-definition video recording, of a quality related to the Flip HD. advance interested of the SDK also reveals the possibility for video conferencing on the iPhone, possibly using Apple's iChat program and a front-facing camera.

A different kind of SIM: Rumours recommends that the iPhone, like the iPad, will be released a microSIM, slightly than the standard-sized normal SIM card used by mobile phones.

Wireless synching: This is possibly the least likely new feature. It means the data need to be backed up across the home Wi-Fi network. New songs, photos and movies to be transferred from the device without the help of USB cable. Microsoft already provides wireless synching on its Zune music player.

Alberta high school planned to use iPhone, iPod Touch

A Junior high school in St. Albert, Alta., canada plans to allow its students to stay plugged in when they school will be open in September. Richard S. Fowler Catholic Junior High School will agree to students to use their iPhones or iPod Touches in the classroom.It's a remarkable change from the school's existing no cellphone policy.Vice-principal of the school Mr.Sean Brown, said the school has changed its policy because the school believes the Apple products can be used to teach students.We can use them for hi-tech reasons in the learning area.

And Brown said, Students will not be permitted to use the phone or texting parts of their devices.Instead they can use applications on the products, surf the internet throughout the school's Wi-Fi network and interactively commune with their teachers.

The school's network will restrict some internet sites,such as Facebook.The school plans to buy 30 iPod Touches for students who can't pay for the devices or whose parents desire not to buy one.