Thursday, January 11, 2007
New Apple iPhone Vs O2 XDA Atom Exec
The newly unveiled iPhone by Apple is really something, it's really the glimpse of what handheld communication devices will be like in the near-future and sporting many similar features and designs of my own "dream-phone", the Apple iPhone really sports many features unseen in today's most advanced pda-phones and bearing the trademark of Apple for both functionality and as a fashion icon, the svelte iPhone has a very nice GUI, GPS-mimicking functions, with collaboration with Google Map, everything is very seamless, like a handheld street directory and phone book all in one.
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.
It is really a "smarter" phone, incorporating built-in advanced sensors that really doesn't require the user heavy stylus-tapping to scroll through tedious levels of menus, instead it's more "human", the iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo. The same XYZ motion sensor that I put into my "life-saver watch" has been finally put into a communication consumer device!
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away and an ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
It is basically a media-centre, mp3 player, phone, street-directory, storage device and internet-browser. Lets see how the iPhone fares when compared to another smart-phone of similar caliber. The O2 XDA Atom Exec.
The iPhone sports a 3.5 inches 320 by 480 at 160 ppi Multi-touch screen compared to the older and smaller Atom 2.7" 240 x 320res LCD touchscreen. The iPhone has Quad-band 3G GSM connectivity compared to the Atom's Tri-band 2.5G GSM. The iPhone has Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0, the Atom Wi-Fi(802.11b) only and only Bluetooth v1.2.
OS is rather ambiguous, the iPhone sporting the Mac OS X, with the Atom running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, it's beyond debate to know that the Mac OS X has much better intuitive GUI interface and eye-pleasing animation, lively menus compared to a static drop-menu box of the Windows Mobile 5.0.
Both have a 2.0 mega pixel camera though. Some strengths noteworthy will be the 4GB or 8GB Storage for the iPhone compared to the miniscule 64 MB RAM, 192 MB ROM of the Atom, but it can be complimented with a 1Gb miniSD though, (that's a mere 1.192Gb of storage compared to the 8Gb iPhone).
I guess the new iPhone totally 0wnZ the O2 Xda Atom Exec in terms of user functionality, animation, features and specifications, it's not a completely fair comparison though, considering the O2 Xda Atom Exec is 2 years old. But still we can see the trend of communication devices these days. Media is a very strong factor. Not to mention the "cool" factor.
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