Nexus One versus iPhone: The hype battle

Welcome Ben

I am glad to announce that seasoned IT journalist Ben Kelly will write a weekly column for MyBroadband on various tech related issues, including Apple, Gadgets, Smartphones, Telecoms and general computing trends.

For those who don’t know Ben, he has been covering the technology and telecoms beat for more than a decade. He has written for Computerweek, Computer Reseller News, Finweek and Brainstorm. At present he is the surveys editor for the Mail&Guardian and a contributing editor for Stuff Magazine. In his spare time he lusts over gadgets he can’t afford, plays World of Warcraft and whispers sweet nothingnesses to his collection of Apple products.

It is really great to have Ben as a columnist on MyBroadband. This is part of the drive to get more industry insight and in-depth articles on MyBroadband as requested by you in our recent survey: expect another announcement soon ;)
 
Great article and very true. The kids of touchscreen phones are hard at battle these days and it does make for interesting stunts in the press.

They both have a lot to learn in the smartphone department though - luckily we have Symbian and WinMo to set a good example of what the smart in smartphone is all about.
 
rpm said:
Google Nexus One versus iPhone: The hype battle

This is still a phone with an operating system built by one company and hardware built by another. If you were thinking that Google went out and hired an army of hardware engineers to create the Nexus from the ground up and then handed off the design to HTC to build then you are sorely mistaken. Most likely they sat down with the boffins at HTC and together fleshed out the hardware specifications of the phone. The iPhone, on the other hand, is Apple’s work from the ground up.
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You can build from the ground up, but in this day and age it cheaper to source people who have perfected the art already. It's not always business sense to re-inventing the wheel.

Granted, that's why Apples stuff is like no other, but in this day and age, you'd be stupid to build everything from the ground up everytime.

Aside Analogy: You'd be surprised how many car shassis are shared amonst different car brands. Some Compact SUV's use chassis from sedans.
 
welcome ben.
well done rpm at getting him on board - looking forward to some quality articles.
now, about that other announcement...
 
Apple built the iPhone from ground up? Apple may have designed the phone, but I know it is Taiwanese contractors who actually built the phone in Chinese factories since day one. Did Apple designed the chips and all the innards of the iPhone? I'll be surprised if it did. I'll also be very surprised if the contractors never provide any inputs to Apple as to how best to design/build the phone to maximize profit.

Apple deserves the credits for the design and concept of the phone, but I'm willing to bet iPhone also uses a lot of existing technologies. So all this criticism of Google's partnership with HTC seems odd and ridiculous.
 
rpm said:
It is really great to have Ben as a columnist on MyBroadband. This is part of the drive to get more industry insight and in-depth articles on MyBroadband as requested by you in our recent survey: expect another announcement soon ;)
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It was a good article/column (whatever you crazy kids are calling it nowadays:p). It's awesome to have Ben on board; I look forward to the next announcement!
 
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one huuuuuge shortcoming... no multitouch.. which means you have to use a stupid trackpad device.

what an enormous #FAIL

seriously. It cant be THAT hard to create an iphone killer?

capacitive touch +
multitouch +
intuitive interface (NOT like winmo) +
open up the hardware

winning formula

why can no-one get it right? Everyone who has tried, only gets 2 or 3 out of the 4
 
"This is still a phone with an operating system built by one company and hardware built by another"

Wasn't the iPhone built by Foxconn, and not Apple?
 
zeely said:
one huuuuuge shortcoming... no multitouch.. which means you have to use a stupid trackpad device.

what an enormous #FAIL

seriously. It cant be THAT hard to create an iphone killer?

capacitive touch +
multitouch +
intuitive interface (NOT like winmo) +
open up the hardware

winning formula

why can no-one get it right? Everyone who has tried, only gets 2 or 3 out of the 4
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Android devices are easily capable of multitouch - a lot of custom builds and apps actually do take advantage of it. However any device that gets released in the US does not have multitouch for what is speculated would be an infringement on Apple's unfortunate patent on the technology.
 
So Ben Kelly what was so great about the iPhone? It was announced 2 years in advance, when it came out compared to top phones on the market it was average, but "Oh wow it was made and programed by apple! then its must be good enough for the queen of England!" over priced with a nice touch screen, the way people go on about it you swear it was made of pure gold....

Article sounds like it was written by an iZombie.....
 
*sigh*

Just mention Apple or iPhone and the tech orientated come crawling out of the woodwork. Really, comparing everything to the iPhone is getting old and quite frankly rediculous. I am not one who likes to moan about a free news resource but really, this is a poor excuse for an insightfull article. Sorry Ben, even as an Apple fanboi... you could have done alot better.

And since when did the iPhone become the almighty yard stick in which to measure all other phones?
 
zeely said:
one huuuuuge shortcoming... no multitouch.. which means you have to use a stupid trackpad device.

what an enormous #FAIL

seriously. It cant be THAT hard to create an iphone killer?

capacitive touch +
multitouch +
intuitive interface (NOT like winmo) +
open up the hardware

winning formula

why can no-one get it right? Everyone who has tried, only gets 2 or 3 out of the 4
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Apple has a patent for this (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jxlJ5lpRZOi6UTNEitAwEgfopsVQ)

This means will always have to resort to mod ROMs with this function hacked in. No company will be able to release multi-touch officially...
 
dburger said:
Apple has a patent for this (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jxlJ5lpRZOi6UTNEitAwEgfopsVQ)

This means will always have to resort to mod ROMs with this function hacked in. No company will be able to release multi-touch officially...
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aaah... ok..

but then what do you make of this?

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/12/08/samsung-multitouch-bada-phones-incoming/
"Samsung didn’t just wax lyrical about its Bada SDK this morning, it let slip that there are multitouch Bada mobiles on the way, packing both resistive and capacitive touchscreens"

and this

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hd2-2957.php
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches
- Sense UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Pick-to-mute
 
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