As iPhone is the
most talked about smart phone on the planet and it has won millions
of hearts of users by his multi-touch screen and other
powerful/beautiful design. Of course, iPhone has brought so much
money for Apple.
On 23rd, Sep 2008
Google released G1 and claimed that they will have a share of the
big market of smart phone.
So, which is better
about iPhone and G1? That maybe asked by many people who want to
buy a new phone. Here I will give some of opinion about G1 and
iPhone.
I will compare these
two phones in three aspects, hardware, software, and their
performance as a media player.
[b]Part 1:
Hardware.[/b]
1. The price and
storage memory
First, the price and
storage memory is what I concern most, for iPhone $199 8GB, $299
16GB, for G1 $179 1GB. When you see this you will say G1 is $20
lower than iPhone but G1 is only 1GB and you will pay another $40
for an 8GB SD Card. So I think iPhone win in this round.
2.
Appearance
iPhone is 133
grams/4.7 ounces and G1 is 158 grams/5.57 ounces. G1 is taller
while iPhone is thinner (G1: 117.7*55.7*17.1, iPhone:
115.5*62.1*12.3).
3. Mobile
Network
For mobile Network,
they both have Quad Band GSM/EDGE UMTS, but G1 uses T-Mobile-only
US 3G and iPhone uses AT&T-only US 3G.
4. Touch screen and
input
About touch screen
display, iPhone has Multi-touch 3.5 480*320 163 ppi, but G1 does
not support mulit-touch. And in input aspect, G1 uses keyboard,
Trackball, 6 buttons and touch screen, while iPhone has home button
and multi touch screen.
5.
Expansion
In expansion ports,
G1 uses SD, ExtUSB(USB+audio) but iPhone has headphone, Dock
connector (USB+ audio, video, remote). They have the same wireless
WiFi 820.11b/g Limited Bluetooth 2.0 EDR.
6. Others
G1 has GPS and fixed
focus 3.2 MP camera, iPhone has fixed focus 2 MP camera and
GPS.
About hardware, the
two phones perform almost the same and the only big difference is
the iPhone uses multi-touch screen and G1’s camera is better than
iPhone. And iPhone has a 1400Ah battery with 300 hours standby time
but G1 only has a 1150Ah battery with 5 hours talk time and 130
standby.
[b]Part 2:
Software.[/b]
iPhone and G1 are
both using Webkit as their browser engine. In media playback
aspect, iPhone supports music, audiobook, video, streaming,
downloads and rental, while for G1, only music playback. G1 has
Android Market as its third party software store while iPhone has
iPhone app store. G1’s platform is Modified Java development and
iPhone uses Cocoa Touch.
[b]Part 3: Their
performance as media player.[/b]
G1 supports H.264,
3GPP, MPEG4, Codec 3GP video and MP3、AAC、AAC+、WMA、MPEG4、WAV、MIDI、REAL、AUDIO、OGG audio
formats.
iPhone supports
AAC，Protected
AAC，MP3，MP3 VBR，Audible
(formats 1, 2, 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV audio formats and
H.264 (up to 1.5Mbps), MPEG-4 (up to
2.5Mbps) 640*480, 30fps, AAC-LC (up to 160 Kbps), 48kHz dimensional
sound .m4v, .mp4 and .mov format.
Amazon MP3 Store
allows you to download 6 million songs without the DRM protection,
89 cents per song. It is similar with the Apple iPhone, you need to
pay for the video and audio sources on the Apple store. But how to
get free sources for your G1.
For iPhone and G1
you can buy songs and videos from store, which is really expensive,
and you can also make songs and videos for your iPhone and G1 by
yourself, you just need to convert your DVDs and videos to mp4
format and then you can put them easily to your iPhone and
G1.
Moderator's edit: Fishy isn it?
All the best converters come from the same company.
EDITED.
