Samsung Instinct vs. iPhone 3G: which one will be better?

It's not only the battle of two devices it is the battle of two cell phone services

providers: Sprint and AT&T. These two phones will be their best and most powerful

presenters that they have. iPhone 3G is not out yet but AT&T was successfully selling

the previous versions of iPhone for almost a year now. So some people love AT&T

and other love Sprint and it's their choice. What we are going to do is compare

the features of the two phones.

First of all let's do the comparison of the exterior of Samsung Instinct and iPhone.

Instinct is made mainly of plastic which is not that neat today; iPhone has pats

made of metal and harden glass to prevent it from scratching.

As to AT&T vs. Sprint there are some advantages and disadvantages;

but concerning these phones Sprint is giving very high internet speeds and music

store from any point of coverage. AT&T's iPhone can only connect to iTunes store

via Wi-Fi, which restricts it to the city limits. Besides, everybody knows about

Samsung Instinct's and iPhone's GPS capabilities.

I personally liked the voice control on Samsung Instinct; however not sure if it

would work as good as they demonstrate it, so train your speech to be able to control it.

I'm not sure if it was a good idea to have the keyboard only in landscape mode.

My personal opinion is that I want to choose what mode to use because it really frustrates

me that I need to turn it every time I want to input some text.

One more thing that I love about Instinct is its open platform. I really like to install

and use the software I choose. iPhone has made a pretty good job on giving positive

experience for the customers but it is closed platform.

Another good thing about Instinct is that they give an additional battery and an external

battery charger, which can be very helpful during traveling. iPhone should be twice as

fast in web browsing as the old iPhone is. It supports Bluetooth, GPRS, GSM, EDGE, Wi-Fi

HSDPA, UMTS connectivity and that's what they are proud about. One of the biggest news:

it will be able to give you 3G video talks with your friends.

One other big news is that Apple is going to allow third party applications on their iPhone

but only those that are approved by them. Not sure how popular that will be.

Apple has done a pretty good job on the user interface. And the question I have is:

"Will the third party applications be free or they are going to charge the customers

for that?" The platform it is running on is Mac OS X Mobile which should bring the

customers best experiences.In the rest of features the iPhone 3G will be just as its

predecessor (one of the best phones out there.) It will roll out on July the 11th in

70 countries of the world. The 8GB version will cost $199 and the 16GB version will

cost $299.

Google Reveals Its New Phone

Google launched its own cell phone, a device called the Nexus One, at a press conference in Mountain View, CA, on Tuesday. Designed and built by the Taiwanese handheld-device company HTC in partnership with Google, the phone is being sold through a new online storethat will sell not only Nexus One but also future devices based on Android, Google's mobile operating system. Consumers can buy the Nexus One on its own, or with a service plan on T-Mobile's network.

Calling the device a "superphone," Mario Queiroz, a vice president of product management at Google, said the company wanted to create a phone to demonstrate "what's possible on mobile phones through the Android platform."

Stressing that the Nexus One is actually the first in a series, Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of mobile platforms, said that devices sold through Google's online store will always demonstrate "the best possible Google experience."

The Nexus One includes a one-gigahertz processor that's faster than that of most smart phones on the market today (Verizon's Droid, for example, has a 550-megahertz processor, and the iPhone's processor is estimated to be around 600 megahertz). Other hardware specifications include a 3.7-inch display, a five-megapixel camera, light and proximity sensors, and dual microphones that allow for noise cancellation.

"With that hardware, we've think we've got half the story," said senior product manager Eric Tseng. "With the Nexus One, it's not just hardware alone." Tseng noted that the Nexus One's processor allows the phone to run multiple applications simultaneously without slowing down, and to support a new 3-D framework that comes with the 2.1 version of Android, which was also announced at the event.

Tseng demonstrated several applications that showcase the 3-D graphics of the Nexus One, including a full-featured version of Google Earth. The phone let him navigate through the popular mapping software in three dimensions, flying over areas and zooming in. "We really wanted to push the 3-D capabilities that you get with these high-end chips to their limits," he said.