Friday, 21 May 2010

Andriod 2.1 and HTC Desire, competing with iPhone 4.0

As we seen now world is jumping from iPhone to Android. HTC has provided right product at the right time with right apps. as I am writing this from opera mini on my new HTC Desire. I have to say I have had iPhone before desire and i am feeling better when i have desire in my hand.
The only thing I miss in all these qwerty keyboards is keys for Cursor movement and why I am saying this because in desire I can see they had space available to put two arrow buttons on the left and right corner to move cursor left and right. I am not sure why they dont have that.

If you see Sony Erricsson P1i, with full hard QWERTY keyboard it has two little keys in the bottom, and they help you to move cursor on the screen. Desire or any touchscreen phones keyboard can be the same, they can put keys on Left and Right of A and L keys respectively.

here is side by side comparison of iPhone OS 4.0 and Desire

  • iPhone 4.0 Not sure will it have multiple apps running.
  • Desire Does that already with Andriod

  • New iPhone might have 5MP camera.
  • But Desire already has 5MP camera with brilliant video.

  • On iPhone Google Street View is just a normal street view
  • Desire's Google street view app can move with you as you walk and show you where you are exactly. Great!

  • Skype runs well on iPhone but you cant have skype and something else running side by side on iPhone.
  • Desire killed that by having multiple apps. you can have fring running on the back all the time.

  • iPhone does not have any thing like RADIO which is there from centuries.
  • Desire has built in radio - i have to say its not very user friendly but it does work.

  • iPhone OS 4 might bring out option to use ur iPhone as modem for your laptop.
  • But Hey HTC Desire does that for you and do it well.

I am just worried like before Apple was one the main contributors of COMPUTERS and MAC and at that time they were so advanced that no one could beat them but suddenly Microsoft jumped into the band wagen and Apple went into liquidation. It can happen again with iPhone and Andriod that iPhone might lose its charm as other providers are coming up with better products.

Apple needs to keep up with others and open its products to make it easy for users and developers.