GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
As iPhone is the most talked about smart phone on the planet and it has won millions of hearts of users by his multi-touch screen and other powerful/beautiful design. Of course, iPhone has brought so much money for Apple. On 23rd, Sep 2008 Google released G1 and claimed that they will have a share of the big market of smart phone. So, which is better about iPhone and G1? That maybe asked by many people who want to buy a new phone. Here I will give some of opinion about G1 and iPhone.
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
• I will compare these two phones in three aspects,
hardware, software, and their performance as a media player.
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
• Part 1: Hardware. • 1. The price and storage memory • First, the price and storage memory is what I concern
most, for iPhone $199 8GB, $299 16GB, for G1 $179 1GB. When you see this you will say G1 is $20 lower than iPhone but G1 is only 1GB and you will pay another $40 for an 8GB SD Card. So I think iPhone win in this round. 2. Appearance iPhone is 133 grams/4.7 ounces and G1 is 158 grams/5.57 ounces. G1 is taller while iPhone is thinner (G1: 117.7*55.7*17.1, iPhone: 115.5*62.1*12.3). 3. Mobile Network For mobile Network, they both have Quad Band GSM/EDGE UMTS, but G1 uses T-Mobile-only US 3G and iPhone uses AT&T-only US 3G.
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GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
• 4. Touch screen and input • About touch screen display, iPhone has Multi-touch 3.5 480*320 163 • •
ppi, but G1 does not support mulit-touch. And in input aspect, G1 uses keyboard, Trackball, 6 buttons and touch screen, while iPhone has home button and multi touch screen. 5. Expansion In expansion ports, G1 uses SD, ExtUSB(USB+audio) but iPhone has headphone, Dock connector (USB+ audio, video, remote). They have the same wireless WiFi 820.11b/g Limited Bluetooth 2.0 EDR. 6. Others G1 has GPS and fixed focus 3.2 MP camera, iPhone has fixed focus 2 MP camera and GPS. only big difference is the iPhone uses multi-touch screen and G1’s camera is better than iPhone. And iPhone has a 1400Ah battery with 300 hours standby time but G1 only has a 1150Ah battery with 5 hours talk time and 130 standby.
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• About hardware, the two phones perform almost the same and the
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better? • Part 2: Software. • iPhone and G1 are both using Webkit as
their browser engine. In media playback aspect, iPhone supports music, audiobook, video, streaming, downloads and rental, while for G1, only music playback. G1 has Android Market as its third party software store while iPhone has iPhone app store. G1’s platform is Modified Java development and iPhone uses Cocoa Touch.
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
• Part 3: Their performance as media player. • G1 supports H.264, 3GPP, MPEG4, Codec 3GP •
video and MP3、AAC、AAC+、WMA、MPEG4、 WAV、MIDI、REAL、AUDIO、OGG audio formats. iPhone supports AAC，Protected AAC，MP3，MP3 VBR，Audible (formats 1, 2, 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV audio formats and H.264 (up to 1.5Mbps), MPEG-4 (up to 2.5Mbps) 640*480, 30fps, AAC-LC (up to 160 Kbps), 48kHz dimensional sound .m4v, .mp4 and .mov format.
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
• Amazon MP3 Store allows you to download 6
million songs without the DRM protection, 89 cents per song. It is similar with the Apple iPhone, you need to pay for the video and audio sources on the Apple store. But how to get free sources for your G1.
• For iPhone and G1 you can buy songs and videos
from store, which is really expensive, and you can also make songs and videos for your iPhone and G1 by yourself, you just need to convert your DVDs and videos to mp4 format and then you can put them easily to your iPhone and G1.
GPhone vs iPhone, which is better?
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