Gadgets And Tech

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…)

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I am waiting for the Nokia N8. You see, just last week my dual-sim phone got stolen while I was inside the MRT station and I have been in search of a replacement since then. I have been on the look out for phones that have touch-screen features, bluetooth with A2DP support (so I can use it with a bluetooth stereo headset), Wi-Fi, video and camera, audio and video out (for sharing the videos with others using larger screens), expandable memory, supports a wide range of audio and video file types and preferably with a document viewer at least (an editor is not necessary because I would rather use a netbook).

I have looked at other phones besides the Nokia N8, and have thought about getting smartphones like the HTC HD2 and the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S but a few of the features that I have been looking for would be compromised.

The specifications and features of the Nokia N8 are as follows: (more…)