The Dirty Secret of Today's 4G: It's not 4G

The Dirty Secret of Today's 4G: It's not 4G

Windows Phone 7 OS - 1st Preview

Key features:

• Premium mobile OS (high minimum hardware requirements)
• Clean, uncluttered interface with distinctive design language
• Easy and thumbable user interface
• Smooth operation with cool animations and transition effects
• A fresh start with no legacy support needed
• Backed up and developed by one of the largest software companies in the world
• Excellent MS Office mobile implementation
• Top-notch social integration
• Excellent cloud services integration (SkyDrive, Windows Live, Xbox Live)

Main disadvantages:

• No system-wide file manager
• No videocalling
• Limited third-party apps
• No Bluetooth file transfers
• No USB mass storage mode
• No memory card support
• No multitasking
• No copy paste
• Too dependent on Zune software for computer file management and syncing
• No music player equalisers
• No Flash or Silverlight support in the web browser
• No sign of free Bing maps Navigation so far
• No DivX/XviD video support

Sources

GSMArena

Nokia N8 FX Studio special effects video software

Nokia N8 with Video Fx Software


Nokia Flagship and 1st mobile to support latest Symbian S60^3 will come along with very cool software called FX Studio

iOS4 ( iPhone 4 ) : 1st impression

iOS4 (iPhone 4) : 1st impression - Definitely Male


NEWS
iOS4 upgrades for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G (with not all features supported), and iPod touch (again with not all features and no first generation) for free on June 21st


BEST
1. FaceTime - iPhone 4 to iPhone 4, anywhere there is WiFi 
Its VOIP/Video service like Skype
2. Display - 326 ppi. 800:1 contrast ratio also 4x better than 3GS. Uses IPS technology for superb color and wide viewing angle.
3. 3.5" display, same size, 960x640
4. Gyro + accelerometer = 6 axis motion sensing (Gyroscope ) 3 axis gyro for pitch roll and yaw 
 5. Video Recording at 720p at 30fps 
 6. Connectivity : Dual mics, 802.11n 
 7. Better Battery - 7 hours talk time / 14 h (2G). 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video. 40 hours of music. 300 hours of standby 


Good
1. Browsers in the lead with supporting HTML5 standard 
2 .Huge apps collection ... as always
3. FarmVille / Guitar Hero  for the iPhone. 
4. Thinnest smartphone on the planet.

9.3mm thick, 24% thinner than current iPhone

5. front facing camera. Camera with LED flash on back
6. the stainless steel band is the primary structure of the phone, "Brilliant engineering, uses band as part of Antenna system."

One side is Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, other is UMTS and GSM.
7. Without developers doing any work. 

iPhone OS 4 - Apps automatically run full size but look even better because iPhone OS automatically renders text and controls in higher resolution.  
8. 32GB of storage 
9. Showing unified inbox and threading in mail

10. Google here comes - iAds 
for users it mean more free apps for developers more money! 
11.  CPU - Apple A4 Processor 
12. Tethering

Bad
1. Micro-sim tray,
2. No micro sd card
3. 5 megapixel camera
4. Looks like android type multitasking NOT like Symbian OS 

you can control audio apps in multitasking bar by swiping left or right. 

5. Display is NOT - OLED !!! 
6. No Hot-Spot Capability like in Android 

Ugly
1. Its a Apple !
2. It still control app market
3. For US users its still AT&T
4. Video-calling over WiFi only ( blame At&T )
5. No Flash in browser
6. Same old problem with iTunes ( must use it ) and no bluetooth file transfer

App Review: Advanced Task Killer

Advanced Task Killer


OS - Android 
Rating - **** (#)

Category – Tools

Price - Free

Use - Simple tool to kill running applications

Similar - ES Task Manager

Orientation - Landscape / Portrait 

Review - Android OS keeps running lots of application in background, which is very good as it keeps your data sync. But you have no control over when you dont want them to run. Maybe you want your mobile to save battery or run faster. Advanced task killer does he jobs of killing all the apps you dont want. Simple and easy to use must have app.

# - Must have app

App Review: 4 in a row

Title - 4 in a row

OS - Android 

Rating - **

Category – Games à Brain & Puzzle

Price - Free

Multiplayer – 1 /2 Player

Online Gaming – No

Goal - Connect four pieces in a row / coloum

Level – 1 to 7

GamePlay Modes - No

Similar - ConnectFour

Orientation - Landscape / Portrait 

Review – Classic, simple strategy game just like Tic Tac Toe where you have to connect 4 chips.  Small difference in game play is that chips cannot stay in air.  

Nokia S60 vs Google Android vs Apple iPhone (Conclusion)

Final Words

Lets first observe the comparison chart so far

Points	Comparison	iPhone	Android	Nokia
1	Price	5	10	15
2	Carrier	5	5	5
3	UI	15	10	5
4	Touch Screen	15	10	5
5	Multi-Tasking	5	10	15
6	OS Upgrades	15	15	5
7	App Softwares	5	5	10
8	App Market	10	10	10
9	Browser	10	10	10
10	E-Mail	10	10	15
11	Sync	5	15	10
12	Music Player	5	10	15
13	Phy Keys	5	15	15
14	Wifi / Bluetooth	5	15	15
15	Standby / Notification	5	15	15
16	Phy KeyBoard	5	10	15
17	Camera	5	15	15
18	Battery	10	10	15
19	GPS	10	15	15
20	Games	15	10	5
	Total	165	225	230

iPhone : If you want to get a expensive mobile but really do not care about real life need and features like -

Friend -"hey lets take our pic, and plz send it to my mobile"

You "Hey its iPhone, i cant do that, it dark here it has no Flash and i cant send you photos from my mobile !"

Your friend - "i have a gr8 new song from Movie wait i'll send u"
You - "No! i cant do that you send me the song on email i'll download then use iTune and then sync it to my mobile"

You can not delete some songs you don't like from you mobile. Yes, you have to sync it. You should always Sync from same computer, Apple thinks how can you have one laptop, one desktop at home and other work computer at office. You can not set ringtone from your songs in Mobile. Music player is a huge let down in iPhone you have no physical keys to control Play/Pause or Next previous like in Nokia N95.

So basically iPhone is good for only playing Games nor is it a good music device nor it takes a good photo. All in all its has great UI which makes a lots of Hype except that it has nothing to compete with other two mobile platforms.

Android - Killer OS from Google is here to rule. It has almost no big flaws and takes UI to iPhone level and features with par with Nokia. Its growing and will take over the world in no time. 


Nokia - It's the market share leader. Its the No1 company and it sells more smart phone then all the other top 4 smartphone added together.  But even then it has a great threat from Android. Nokia need to improve a lots in UI department with more Capacitive screen mobiles. It has very powerful OS but need to make it easy to use as well. Whats the point if end users do not use all those features.

Nokia S60 vs Google Android vs Apple iPhone ( Cont … )

11.  Sync

I never knew what sync was before there was iPod. It was very difficult thing to understand as well as use. Even today i don’t have confidence in the wild world when i'm about to "SYNC" it might sound stupid of me but believe me i have no confidence. I know technically how it works or how it should work but that’s it. It works when it works and if it doesn’t i don’t know or have no control over why it didn’t work the way i want it!
Apple: This is another thing that made Apple so famous or did it ? I had to install iTunes in my computer ever time because i had to sync Music to my friend’s iPod every now and then. I could never copy paste the way i like. Don’t blame me but as i have said Sync is something i would never want to do. And that is something apple always forces(-1) you to do! :( But it has very good software to do it so called "iTunes" which work on most of the platforms but again using Desktop(-1) in modern cloud computing isnt a good idea.
Android: As said in Email section just enter you email id and all your contacts / email / calander every things is sync in your device. Sync is like Piece of cake for Android device. It like you wont even know its doing so much so in background when actually you just give your mobile is your email id. But yet again i have to remind you that you need to have GMAIL account for that. That's just like Apple saying you need to have iTunes.
Nokia : I won’t be wrong if i say Nokia’s next name should be freedom. Freedom of choice to user. Yes you can sync like you do with Apple with web based software from ovi site, you can use Outlook express , use Pc Suite do what ever you want. You can even sync from Google / Gmail. But its a very difficult task. You need to learn(-1) lots of steps to know how to sync the profiles.

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	3	2
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	15	10

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12. Music Player

Lets flash back 10years back when the world was changing for music player, the era of Tape was already dead and it was time for CD or optical media to die with technology MP3. Actually MP3 is just a file format not a technology or a device. But this must be the only computer format which you can actually name as device as well :P. In 2001 iPod was made by Apple a portable Mp3 player. At this time there were other mp3 player as well but iPod was famous even if it didn’t have many features like other mp3 players. It wouldn’t be wrong to compare iPod at that time with iPhone this time around. No matter how many flaws it had it was very very famous there was a wave of it, it was fashion it was something you MUST HAVE. Why such a history of iPod bcoz Just to make a iPod a phone was what made a iPhone believe it or not! Actually even if iPhone could do nothing like any other mobile when it was lunched with 100's flaws it was cool iPod which has a superb Music Player in which you can make phone calls as well ! This might sound funny but iPhone is a cool Music Player at least; thats what half of the world thinks. But i'm from another half of the world. I know Nokia doesn’t even have half of UI quality of the music player in iPhone and Android is no where near it. So should i say iPhone is the untimate music player.. NO a big NO. Because the way i listen to music on Nokia is the best to me. Its no where near iPhone. Just today the moive "KITES" is out.As soon as i read the news i downloaded the music mp3 from my browser and in within few minutes time i'm actually listening to it. It’s so simple to do in Nokia. After few hours if one of my friends comes with his mobile i will transfer this songs to his n he will be playing it as well. That’s how Nokia has defined a Music Player to be. It not like 10year old mp3 player where you join your mobile to Computer and transfer file convert it etc etc. So even if someone tells you iPhone is the best coz it’s iPods bigger brother it is not! It’s useless in front of how i actually use nokia every day. Nokia can be your mp3 player even if you don’t have computer but for iPhone you are out of luck in such a case. You must convert music before you can actually play and making matter even worst you can’t delete songs you no longer need! What ? Yes you read it right .That’s what APPLE is for you and you have no right to delete songs from your mobile that you don’t want anymore :D wow even then google about iPhone and you will read people saying iPhone as best music player !!! Can you explain how !

iPhone: Cool UI in mobile app with superb cover flow, good for you if you are ready to use iTunes(-1) ( it’s the only way apple knows ! ). Does not support(-1) any other music file format.
Android: Does not have a desktop app for music(-1) !!
Nokia: Comes with desktop app as well you have freedom to play anything you like with direct download from internet. Can play all the format that you desktop player can DIVX, Real, OGG, AVI etc. Music Edition of Nokia Phone comes with physical keys to play/pause or next/previous the songs. Selected Mobile with 'Comes with Music' lets you get free mp3 download for lifetime.

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	2	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	10	15

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13. Operating Mobile and Physical Keys

How do you answer the phone is equally an important part. I should not say this but many time i do answer the phone while i'm driving my bike with just one hand ! thats not a good thing to do nor will i recommend it to do. But one hand operation is very important like you may be cooking with one hand or typing with one hand or doing anything important and then you also need to answer the phone.
iPhone has a great disadvantage in this as its a bulky phone and more importantly there is no physical key ! Its lame when it says "SLIDE TO ANSWER". I havnt used iPhone much but this is the biggest error in iPhone i have seen till the date. Some time it shows option to end the call where as some time it does not.

iPhone: No physical answer keys (-2)
Android: Physical keys
Nokia: Physical keys

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	3	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	15	15

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14. Hardware - FM Radio / Bluetooth / Wifi

All the leading mobile have WiFi / Bluetooths now a days. But as in America Internet is easy to get every where they do drop Real FM radio from there mobiles, Internet radio is very cool things to have. But still in Asia if you see mobile add in tv or printed media it says: "With Wireless FM". Thats a big thing for people in asia they might not need a iPod or Mp3 player for music but to listen to NEWS, FM is a must. Nokia is a clear winner here.
Next thing you define in Mobile is "with Bluetooth" which  has changed the whole scenario of how mobile used to be. You can just click on photo to send it to your friends mobile. Share funny( or may by adult!) MMS and cool songs, you can even play games with your friends. Bluetooth is the only thing people know about actual wireless communication. But hey having being said so much about Bluetooth did i said that iphone doent have this type of Bluetooth ! yes i'm not kidding. Belive it or not Apple thinks giving Bluetooth to user is not a good idea !!! yes yes that’s apple for you. But the problem with apple bluetooth is not in hardware; It’s blocked in software.
iPhone: Bluetooth Not for file transfer (-1), no FM (-1)
Android: 3rd party apps for file transfer
Nokia: Supports full file transfer

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	3	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	15	15

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15. Notification / Standby

Iphone : iPhone doesn’t have a standby(-1) screen like you see in your computer's desktop. When you unlock you phone it will show you menu not the Standby or Home Screen. People say that apple did it because it wanted to make it easy ! How hard would it have been if you had to press a Menu button. But yes iPhone dont have any physical keys so it might be very difficult for them to implement the function. Okay so how good is the Menu itself. It’s even worst or should i say like other says Apple made it too easy for users. This might be true if you use 10-20 apps but if you have 100 apps then what.It has no folder system(-1). Oops sorry keep on scrolling.
Android : Its has the best standby screen. It has 3-desktop which is one home central and one each on left and right side. The wallpaper acts like 3d which scrolls slowly with Icons. The desktop also supports many many widgets. But Notification system is made to take many notification at once which is huge advantage as all of them gets text notification at the top of desktop. Which has a stiff learning curve to get used to but it’s very efficient. But even then it has same Menu system as iPhone as you keep on adding apps on your mobile you make it looks dirty as there is no folder and sub folder system.
Nokia: Nokia is slowly improving its standby system. Nokia N97 do support widgets but other mobile are out of luck.S60 v3 models have very good standby screen. It can show application shortcuts, Calendar entry, Music Player, Search, WLan connection etc. But you can’t customize each of them to a great deal like you can with Android. But you can have file and folder system in Menu item which will very nice.

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	3	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	15	15

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16. Key-Board

The smooth Touch Screen has to pay the price when it comes to on-screen keyboard. iPhone has only 1 form type where as Android device you have two choices of having physical slider key or touch only devices. Nokia has a all three type of form-factor for you. 

iPhone: Only Touch (-2)
Android: Only touch / physical + touch (-1)
Nokia: Only touch / physical + touch / physical only

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	2	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	10	15

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17.  Camera

iPhone is improving slowly in this department but still you are out of luck if you need a good camera. The sensors(-1) itself is of poor quality, no flash(-1). But with Android Devices you have lots of choices same goes true for Nokia.

iPhone: 2Mpx ( 3G) / 3Mpx ( 3Gs ) 
Android: 2Mpx - 8 Mpx
Nokia: 2Mpx - 8Mpx

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	1	3	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	5	15	15

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18.  Battery / Charger

iPhone: iPhone has the biggest display among all three which is for sure one reason not to have a great battery life. But also it comes with internal battery which you cannot replace ! Yep you cannot replace your iPhones battery. This is another trade mark of apple. iPad which was lunched few days back has even bigger problem if somehow your battery is dead then company will have to replace your whole iPad not just your battery ! I keep a close eye on ever new product launched and i can see that many of them support iPhone / iPod duck. Even though whole world is shifting towards a standard in mobile devices like MicroSD / MicroUSB Apple stand a little different still there are 100's of product just made for iPhone.
Android: It does charge through USB and is following standards like Mini USB.
Nokia: Nokia may have advantage as it’s the world’s biggest mobile manufacturer. At list least where ever i go if i ask for a Nokia Charger I can get one ;).This happened once while i was travelling by train we saw some guys charging their mobile and we asked  them for 5min and charged the mobile and made one important call! That’s a huge advantage if you have a Nokia Mobile in this part of world. But only recent and only few of Nokia mobile has charging through USB option. Is it really important maybe not for many but someone like me who has his computer on 24/7 might need this.

iPhone: around 1150mAh
Android: 1100mAh - 1500mAh
Nokia: 1200mAh - 1500mAh

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	2	2	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	10	10	15

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19. Navigation (GPS)

iPhone: Paid only (-1)
Android: Google Maps ( Free! )
Nokia: Google Mpas as well as Ovi Maps ( Turn by turn voice navigation FREE !)

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	2	3	3
ImF	5	5	5
Total	10	15	15

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20. Games

iPhone: Huge collection of games and really high quality games
Android: As apps can’t be installed to memory card(-1) haven’t seen big superb graphical games but still have huge range of good games
Nokia: N-Gaget games(-2) might have been revolution to mobile world but the service is already closed and that Gaming department was left to iPhone. Still Nokia has few games but nowhere near like iPhone experience.

	Apple iPhone	Google Android	Nokia S60
Points	3	2	1
ImF	5	5	5
Total	15	10	5

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