iPhone - Attack of the Clones

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Even before the iPhone hits the market (some would say it has no competitor) heat starts to come from competitors. One very credible threat comes from Samsung, a major cellphone player. The heat seems to be on Apple. The Samsung phone is pretty sharp looking. It does music, high resolution images (via a great 5 megapixel camera), internet browsing and a lot more. Samsung supports Java unlike the iPhone. The Samsung F700 sports a whopping 5 Megapixel camera (iPhone has a 2 megapixel), 3G connectivity, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The field is going to get crowded in smart phones.

Another iPhone clone if you can call it that is the LG KE850/Prada phone. This phone is sleek, and looks very similar to the iPhone. It does not sport a slide-out keyboard like the Samsung F700. It is an entirely touch-screen phone like the iPhone and it has the cache of the Prada design studio name. The phone has some short-comings in comparison to the iPhone in data network ability, screen resolution, and internal memory. However the Prada phone has something the iPhone does not have yet - a memory slot.

The two handsets are about the same size although the LG handset comes in smaller. The Prada phone is 99 millimeters long by 54mm wide while the iPhone is slightly larger at 115mms by 61mms. Both are about 12mms thick.

Samsung F700

• HSDPA 1.8Mbps/UMTS, EDGE/GPRS
• 900/1800/1900 MHz + 2.1GHz GSM
• 5 Megapixel camera with auto-focus
• 2.78″ TFT screen 440×220
• Full touch screen
• MPEG4/H.263/H.264/Real
• MP3/AAC/Real
• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• MMS/E-mail/JAVA/WAP 2.0
• Bluetooth® / USB
• Full HTML Browsing
• microSD Expansion slot
• size: 104 x 50 x 16.4 mm

LG KE850/Prada

Features
• Capacitive Touch Screen
• Music Player (MP3, ACC, ACC+, WMA, RA)
• Music Multitasking (Messaging)
• Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, H.264)
• Macromedia Flash UI
• Document Viewer (ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt )

Specifications
• EDGE Tri-Band (900/1800/1900)
• 98.8 × 54 × 12 mm
• 2M CMOS Camera / LED Flash
• External Memory Slot (Micro SD)
• Innerpack Battery 800mAh
• Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, USB Mass storage

Apple iPhone