“Compared to what’s available in the US market now, Apple’s new iPhone looks as if it dropped out of the future. How does iPhone compare with new phones on the horizon? And how quickly will existing mobile makers respond to match or improve upon Apple’s offerings? Here’s a comparison of the iPhone next to one of the latest new phones to be announced, LG’s Prada phone, also known as the KE850,” Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
Eran writes, “On the hardware side, the iPhone consistently beats the Prada in important areas that will make a big difference to users… Still, the hardware differences on the two devices are trivial compared to the software that powers each.”
Eran writes, “The real difference: the LG Prada phone’s interface is based on Adobe Flash Lite, while Apple’s is driven by OS X Quartz and Core Animation, and its applications are built upon the Cocoa frameworks.”
Eran writes, “Flash is great for quickly making animations for kiosks and demos, but it certainly can’t deliver the apps Apple demonstrated. That’s why the Prada phone’s only touted features are watching movies, listening to music, and viewing common file documents. No mention of any web browser at all, no sophisticated email or messaging apps, and only basic support for other common phone features… Imagine a web browser built on top of a minimal subset of Flash, and its suddenly obvious why the iPhone is further ahead than industry pundits seem to understand.”
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What is this “comparing the interfaces sight unseen” BS?
Both interfaces have been demo’d on video, for all to see. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain that the Prada is leagues behind the iPhone in ease of use and app integration.
and yes, the Prada does far less, poorly, for far more $$.
Get your heads out of your butts.
Hey, someone is writing something and actually knows what there talking about. Yay!!
Finally someone who understands that the LG phone is just a phone while the iPhone is way,way,way, more.
WOW…, reading all of these talk back just makes me wanna laugh…,
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I like apple to, and i usethere products., i just think that the iPhone is getting WAY more attention then it should be getting!!
all i hear is iPhone iPhone iPhone!!!! cmon people its not that great!, they just redid a couple things that are in a regular cell phone, used some of the same things as seen in the PRADA and BAM!!! u have an iPhone…
Its like the same thing happened with the XBox and PS3.., Sony waits, , , looks at what Microsoft has to offer and then tries to top it (and then FAILS). The iPhone is just another phone thats gonna be forgotten about in like 2 years.., if you want a REALLY good phone, Then get yourself a NOKIA., those are THE BEST
ok, i have the iPhone, and its not that great.
i dropped it once..with a leather cover on it..and it cracked.
and if any type of moisture gets in those cracks (even your breath) it shuts down, and you cannot see who is calling you, or any buttons on the screen.
its pitiful
i wanna all new photo of apple launch
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