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Nokia 5800 v/s iPhone 3G

Nokia 5800, the latest entrant in the touch-screen war, is the first product by Nokia. While others rolled out touch-screen products almost immediately after iPhone, Nokia has been more reserved and it appears it has succeeded in making a real rival for the iPhone. With Nokia 5800, Nokia has produced a device almost as good or even better in every aspect than the iPhone 3G.

Delivering on Nokia’s vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia’s groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog.

Among the many features it offers some of the most prominent ones are the variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). You can use the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available. You can also find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Also the phone introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, web and online sharing all at once.

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January 6th, 2009 Posted by Pranay | iphone | one comment

iPhone GPS and Maps

iPhone 3G came with a very new and important feature, the GPS capability, which is integrated along with Google Maps. The GPS technology along with iPhone software, together would present a totally different mobile mapping interface.GPS means Global Positioning System. It uses information from earth-orbiting satellites to find your present location. A receiver estimates the distance to GPS satellites based on the time it takes for signals to reach it, then uses that information to identify its location. But there is more. iPhone 3G uses not only the GPS technology, but A-GPS , i.e, it tracks your location through the Wi-Fi signals and the information from cellular towers to determine a more accurate location. Thus, in a sense , the GPS technology helps us get a better location.

In iPhone 3G, if GPS is available, the iPhone displays a blue GPS indicator. But if you’re inside — without a clear line of sight to a GPS satellite — iPhone finds you via Wi-Fi. If you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi hot spot, iPhone finds you using cellular towers. And the size of a location circle tells you how accurately iPhone is able to calculate that location: The smaller the circle, the more accurate the location.

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December 7th, 2008 Posted by Pranay | iphone | no comments