Gadgets And Tech

Despite the many competitors of the Apple iPhone 4, this state of the art touch screen smart phone which is described as a new innovation that “changes everything – again” is still the hottest item in the market. Even before a local telecom carrier launched the iPhone 4 two days ago, many, including some blogger friends I know, have already reserved their unit which is exclusively available at Globe Telecom.

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I am not surprised as to why there are so many Apple iPhone 4 fanatics, aside from the loyal Apple users. The new features of the iPhone4 includes video calling or more known as FaceTime. With the tap of a button, iPhone 4 users can wave hello to anyone or share a funny face across the globe — iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 or to the new iPod touch over Wi-Fi. (more…)

Canada’s Research In Motion Ltd., the makers of BlackBerry could unveil its answer to Apple’s iPad. Their new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it may come out in the US as early as next week. (more…)

I am aware that the Apple iPhone’s popularity especially to its loyal followers is hard to go against but there are also a lot of people who are trying to find an alternative to the Apple iPhone 4. With the rise of Android smartphones, there are now many choices aside from the closed and exclusive iPhone and these smartphones can give one freedom in terms of choosing and downloading applications since Android is open source.

Below are five smartphones that can be an alternative to the Apple iPhone 4 together with their specifications and features.

*Samsung Epic 4G

Samsung Epic 4G specifications and features:

GENERAL
2G Network CDMA 800 / 1900
3G Network CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
Announced 2010, June
Status Available. Released 2010, September

SIZE
Dimensions 124 x 65 x 14 mm
Weight 155 g

DISPLAY
Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
- QWERTY keyboard
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Swype text input

SOUND
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, buy memory

DATA GPRS No
EDGE No
3G Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; WiMAX
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

CAMERA
Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA

FEATURES
OS Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)
CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Social networking integration
- Digital compass
- MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Flash Lite v3.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- T9

BATTERY Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

*HTC EVO 4G

HTC EVO 4G specifications and features: (more…)