The iPhone. The phone name that has set the standard of mobile phones, and has broken down barriers in the mobile industry.
To put it in an epical way.
The Nexus One. The phone that was racing all over the WWW, and is possibly the iPhone KILLER! To put again in a falsely epical way.
I’ll get to Nexus vs iPhone after a breakdown of phones in the last year.
Well so here’s the deal. The Blackberry Storm released last year [was it 08? unsure], poised as an iPhone Killer. It failed unanimously, reducing the Storm name to shreds. Mainly due to it’s clickscreen trying to falsely compete with the iPhone. By falsely competing, I mean didn’t even come close. The Storm received negative feedback and receival. I know two people with Storm’s and that’s about it. I’m not even gonna try to list the amount of people with an iPhone.
Then out came Palm with the Pre and Pixi. Now, these were labeled iPhone Killers but I think it didn’t get enough mindshare to really go that way. But though it didn’t really pose itself as a big competitor to iPhone, Palm brought out two great phones to be in the market, but it wasn’t really the iPhone killer.
Now I’m gonna rewind a bit. Back to when Google/HTC released the Google G1. [HTC G1? Whatever] The G1 was sort of a small opening to Android. But now, it’s coming out to be the next big thing.
But iPhone Killer? I’m not sure if that’d be considered an overstatement, or an understatement. With a likely huge set of HTC Phones that are likely to be unveiled later this year [sidenote: I fell in love with HTC Phones when I first saw the Eris. Design = Pure Win for HTC Phones] Android is taking over most of the HTC Lineup, leaving WinMo in a smaller share of the HTC Phone lineup, Android has surely gotten HTC’s eyes.
By the end of 2010, we should be able to tell where Android is going, and how much it could be considered against the iPhone. And with another iPhone likely being released soon, we’ll see soon enough.
But then, recently, Android decided to switch to the offense team, and with starting at the DROID and Droid Eris, they began rollout of a new series of phones [speaking of which, where are all the other DROID's got to?] the DROIDs. These were more than publicly put out as direct iPhone competetion, and did they underperform, perform, or overperform?
The DROID by Motorola had a TERRIBLE keyboard, being the chief losing point for Motorola here. The Eris also has HTC Sense, so in the private Droid arena, personally, the Eris is better.
The Droid’s both had 5 MP cameras, and uh, nice screens and Android. The ‘iDon’t’ ads list pretty much most of what the Droid Does that iPhone doesn’t, but googling ‘droid doesn’t will offer some other important factors to consider.
Then, Google outed the Nexus One a few days ago.
The Nexus One mainly has a Snapdragon 1Ghz processor, 5 MP Camera, AMOLED 3.7 in screen.
Note, even for 5 MP, the camera has been noted to be outdone by most other phones.
Personally, I don’t see much newer from the Droids. If I were to choose an Atedroid phone, my choices would range from the Droids to the Nexus. The only two factors I’d consider is comfortability in navigation, and proccesor. Eris and Nexus have comfort, Nexus wins in Processor.
So iPhone vs Nexus One is a hard question, usually already answered in most iPhone – Droid comparisons.
Even for its 5 MP camera, I’ve been told the iPhone’s camera is better. The iPhone’s screen is still better. But then in some arena’s the Nexus wins. What I want to see happen, is for a real game changing Android device to show up. Something better then what we have. Not like, better proc, better ram, better battery, better screen, better camera or anything.
Something different.
In the same way when in 2007, and the age of ugly phone OS’es, and ugly devices, the iPhone came out looking better then literally any phone, and then all the phone industry followed suit.
I want an Android device that that.
I want it to happen so that we’ll look back and say, “Remember in 2010, when all the phones were so ugly and crappy, and the [insert genius Android phone name here] came out and the rest of the phone industry followed suit”.
I’ll know how great a phone is when Apple is on all fours trying to catch up.
Now the second topic, the Next Big ‘Thing’.
For years, we’ve had the iPod. Literally the breath of life for Apple that really resurrected the company.
Google needs no resurrection, they just need more devices to finish taking over the world.
So we’ve seen Android phones, netbooks, and e-readers, expanding and expanding. This is not aimed at Google alone, it’s aimed at all of the commercial industry.
We’d been listening to music for years and YEARS. Everybody says that in 2001 Apple completely changed how you listen to music. It did.
Video-Game Consoles changed how we play games.
VHS>DVD>Blu-Ray Changed how we watch movies.
Want to go even more back?
Board Games changed how we entertained ourself. Actually it didn’t change it. It was the basis for building everything off of.
Movie theaters changed what people did in their spare time, Movies.
The Internet changed how we communicate with everyone in the world and connected with the world.
But you know what?
There’s still more internets to be discovered.
And you could be the one.
C’mon Apple, C’mon Google, I want to see the next toaster.
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