9 iPhone Killers by mobilephoneonly
Needless to say, iPhone is excellent. A large number of Apple fans queued for scare buying since it was launched. But its faults â video recording, unchangeable battery, MMS, only synchronization with iTunes, make some users disappointed. Almost all mobile phones are imitating iPhoneâs big touch screen, florid users interface, and gravity sensor. Some copyists do a good job in appearance but with an odd interface. Anyway there are some brilliant copyists. In some aspects they have great advantage. We call these phones âiPhone killersâ. We find that these âkillersâ have much in common â they all have 2.8â touch screen and equalizer. And their cameras are better than iPhoneâs 2MP, most of them supporting auto focus. Does iPhone still have predominance? Letâs see with this evaluation of 9 iPhone killers .
We make the basic standards in this contest:
1. No smaller than 2.8â touch screen
2. Built-in gravity accelerator
3. No lower s than 3MP camera
According to this standard we get 9 handsets which are very familiar to us. They are HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch HD, LG KP500, LG LC910, Samsung i908, Samsung M8800c, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic â Nokiaâs first touch screen phone, T-Mobile G1, and Blackberry 9500 Storm â Blackberryâs first touch screen phone. All of them stand for the most sophisticated and newest technology.
Rules:
With regard to iPhoneâs biggest feature â user interface and web browser, we had some rule adjustment. Practical functions such as user experience and video play are paid more attention to while hardware such as camera and CPU are less valued. Appearance, battery life, and price are kept as usual.
1. Appearance (10â)
2. User interface (20â)
3. Display (10â)
4. User experience (10â)
5. Video play (10â)
6. Web browser (10â)
7. Add-ons (10â)
8. Battery life (10â)
9. Price (10â)
Awards:
The best âiPhone killerâ phone 2008
The most popular âiPhone killerâ phone 2008
The most cost-effective âiPhone killerâ phone 2008
Appearance (10â)
All these handsets are their brandsâ flagship. Five editors marked them and then arrived at the average mark. The result shows that HTC Touch Diamond is the most beautiful one. HTC Touch HD and Samsung i908 take the second and the third place.
The phone is named after the “diamond” cut on the back which tells us HTC Touch Diamondâs appearance is far from being ordinary. It looks slim and delicate. If you have some knowledge about Windows mobile operating system which is applied to this phone, you will understand how difficult it is to make it as thin as 11.35mm and its weight as light as 110g.
A 3.2MP, auto focus camera is placed on a silver triangle among diamond cuts on the back, which is exquisite. There is not too much decoration on flanks and interfaces for the sake of its compact style.
Interface (20â)
Besides the Apple logo on the back, the gorgeous, powerful, and easy to use interface is iPhoneâs another selling point. Thatâs why we award 20â on this section, including comfort when touching, equalizerâs scope, if supporting rolling menu or not, the fluency of rolling menu, and reflection speed. 5â are awarded in each section.
In the section of âcomfort when touchingâ Blackberry 9500 ranks first with full mark because of its âSurePressâ. HTC Touch HD gets 4â for its 3.8â touch screen. 4 Korean mobile phones with vibration feedback, LG and Samsung, get 3â. T-Mobile G1 ranks on the last place for its mechanical and blunt touching feeling.
We tested equalizerâs scope as well as its speed and fluency in the section of âequalizerâs scopeâ. Blackberry 9500âs main menu supports auto turning and itâs very swift and free-flowing, thus it ranks the first again. On the contrary, T-Mobile G1âs equalizer is not available in all its interfaces. It goes to the bottom again.
âRolling menuâ refers to switching interface by finger rolling. HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch HD, Blackberry 9500 and T-Mobile G1 are tied for first place in this section. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Samsung i908 are tied for last place, only supporting a scroll bar.
The reflection speed is attached with the most importance by users. T-Mobile G1, which was listed on the bottom in last sections, gets 4â â the highest score in this section. Nokia 5800, which adopted S60 5TH Edition, gets 2.5â, ranking on the last place. The final result shows that Blackberry 9500 is the champion, HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch HD share the second.
Display (10â)
Needless to say, display means a lot to âbig touching screenâ phones. This section is divided into 3 parts â size, resolution and subjective evaluation. In this section HTC Touch Diamond gets only 4â for its 2.8â VGA screen.
Two 1920×1200 pixels pictures were applied to test saturation and contrast of these phonesâ display. They are classified into 3 levels. Blackberry 9500 is the first level, LG KC910, T-Mobile G1, LG KP500 and Samsung M8800 the second, Nokia 5800, HTC Touch HD, Samsung i908 and HTC Touch Diamond the third.
Users experience (20â)
More than 20 users were invited to experience the 9 handsets. After 2 hours we received 17 questionnaires . T-Mobile G1, HTC Touch HD and Blackberry 9500 are ranked the first three.
Vedio play (10â)
iPhone only supports M4V, MP4, MOV. Letâs see these âiPhone killersâ. We play 13 video formats, including avi, mp4, rmvb, wmv, etc, in these sets. If the phone can play one, it gets 1â. We mainly test the built-in video player, but phones with open operating system will earn more marks.
Because CorePlayer can be installed in HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch HD and Samsung i908, they are all added 2â. Though G1 doesnât have a video player it can play 480×352 pixels, H.264, H.263 format video providing Video Player is installed in Market. We gave it 2â.
Web browser (10â)
iPhoneâs Safari is considered to be the best web browser. Youtube video player counts more and more. Browser and Youtube are the two items we test in this section.
Add-ons (10â)
In this contest the hardware equipment is not valued. However, data connectivity and some hardware equipment still need our attention. In terms of data link we compare their data interface, flash memory, expansion slot, earphone slot, GPS, camera and speaker. HTC Touch HD ranks first with 7 mark.
Standby (10â)
It seems that these iPhone killersâ batteries are not better than iPhoneâs. Fortunately their battery can be changed. We tested their theoretical battery life which is awarded 4â and practical performance which is awarded 6â. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic proves to be the best one.
Total score:
When the total score was counted by Excel, we found the champion is HTC Touch HD one more time! It was âthe best hardware-equipped phoneâ in the test â17 windows mobile smart phones contestâ we made last December. In this contest, it is âthe best iPhone killer phone 2008â.
Windows mobile smart phone HTC Touch HD was released at the end of 2008. The most specific feature is its super-high resolution and 3.8â screen.
Developing direction:
A. Special User Interface
iPhoneâs UI is simple and delicate, and âiPhone killersâ have their own special UIs and operating ways. Simple, convenient, brilliant user interfaces are always smart phonesâ selling point.
B. iPhoneâs App Store is thought to be the most mature commercial software platform. Android Market develops very fast. However, Windows Mobile, Symbian S60 and Blackberry havenât built their software shop online so far. Symbianâs signature is a bother. There is no doubt that in the future easy software downloading and online shop are the trend.
C. As 3G becomes more and more popular, mobile phones will be the commonest device for WWW, RSS, Twitter, online video, blog, even online games. Phone-end internet application will be iPhone killersâ developing direction. Google Android OS is open to internet all round. Like iPhone, it is a typical phone in the hand internet era.
In fact these phones are not as convenient and simple as iPhone though we name them âiPhone killersâ. iPhone still has dominance. âSimple is beauty.â is Appleâs maxim. Do these killers have their own maxim?
We wish these phones could do more than imitating; we hope to see more and more creation and evolution in future phones; we hope to see and use phones much more interesting than iPhone. Thatâs the ultimate goal of this contest!
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.
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