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  • The New iPhone and Why I’m Hanging On To the Samsung i8910

    Posted on June 8th, 2010 anphase 21 comments
    iPhone 4

    iPhone 4

    The iPhone 4 has just been announced and it’s got peo­ple excited. These are the high­lights and some insight on the device:

    • A 3.5″ 960 x 640 res­o­lu­tion dis­play with IPS tech­nol­ogy– that’s one of the high­est res­o­lu­tions around. The i8910 has 640 x 360 dis­play to put it into perspective.
    • 720p @ 30fps video record­ing + 5M cam­era with LED flash — meh.
    • New “square” design — it has a more indus­trial design than pre­vi­ous iPhones
    • Front fac­ing VGA camera(640x480). The i8910 has a QVGA front cam­era (320x240). The cam­era is for video call­ing (they call it Face­Time), but there’s a catch — it’s only over WiFi. I’ve been video call­ing over 3G for ages now on my i8910 and i8510 before it. Even my Sony Eric­s­son K800 could/can do that — that’s from way back in 2006!
    • It runs the renamed iOS 4.0 — they had to rename it, it was becom­ing silly for the iPad :-P
    • It has the Apple A4 proces­sor under the hood. Not sure if it’s clocked to 1GHz like on the iPad though.
    • It also has a gyro­scope ala Nin­tendo Wii. That plus the accelerom­e­ter should make for some inter­est­ing gaming.

    You can also buy iMovies for iPhone(US$4.99) which allows you to edit and cre­ate videos — that’s a fea­ture the i8910 was sup­posed to have. The A4 proces­sor is prob­a­bly the enabling fac­tor for that.  Despite all this, the i8910 still holds its own. It still looks gor­geous and it has some fea­tures that the new iPhone doesn’t have. Right now I have HyperX V5 Turbo with SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 on top. This is an awe­some com­bi­na­tion that I intend to keep. Look­ing at the mobile mar­ket right now, I can not jus­tify get­ting a new phone. Not the HTC EVO 4G, not the iPhone 4 and cer­tainly not the Nokia N8.

    Now about the N8; I think Nokia is lag­ging way behind the com­pe­ti­tion  right now. Their hard­ware is not  as rev­o­lu­tion­ary or inno­v­a­tive as it used to be, their soft­ware is even worse — it’s slow, unat­trac­tive and it’s still not intu­itive. Until they pull up their socks, I’m prob­a­bly going  to go for other phone OSs when the time comes. Maybe Android or even iPhone 4.0. There’s a table from Engad­get high­light­ing the dif­fer­ences between the major play­ers; iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G, Nokia N8, Palm Pre Plus, HTC HD2 and I’ve added the Sam­sung i8910!

    Click through to view the full chart.

    Comparison of the Titans

    Com­par­i­son of the Titans

    Until all the boxes are yel­low, that is, until the i8910 is way behind the com­pe­ti­tion and it isn’t bet­ter at any­thing at all, I won’t upgrade.

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    • brower

      Nice post.. interesting ^^

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    • nomi

      Nice post. I thought you had given up on i8910. No more offi­cial updates from Sam­sung is very dis­ap­point­ing but glad to have those won­der­ful cook­ers around who really relived the device and things like SPB Shell, Tsunami home­screen add more magic to it. Sam­sung really led me down on this. I don’t like to change my phone often and now I guess I won’t have to do it soon.

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    • Georgije

      You for­got that the i8910 also has TV-Out. It’s not HDMI, but it still is TV-Out.

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      That is true, I should prob­a­bly add DLNA as well, I stream my videos to my com­puter a whole lot, I doubt that can be done by any of these other devices out of the box. That’s yet another plus for the Omnia HD. Thanks for that.

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    • Mike

      I have a i8910 and i have never bought a apple prod­uct. But this new iphone 4 is very appeal­ing, i’m sell­ing of my i8910 and wel­com­ing the iphone 4 to my tech fam­ily. :)

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    • Mike

      + say what U want about apple, their shit works very well. there soft­ware is seam­less and every­thing is just so easy. Sam­sung can learn a lot from this. if the i8910 had apples soft­ware it would be a pow­er­house machine. too bad it doesn’t, even the new galaxy S looked great till they removed the flash on the back. WTF WTF!!! Samsung !!!

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @Mike I’m wait­ing to see what the iPod Touch 4 will be like when it’s announced in Sep­tem­ber. I hope like all the pre­vi­ous ones it will be like the iPhone (the screen, the design, the gyro­scope and cam­era) with­out the phone. That I’d most cer­tainly get that :)

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    • Ken­rick

      How have you been doing video call­ing over 3G? Do you need to have a spe­cific app for it?

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      @Kenrick You don’t need any addi­tional apps, it’s built in. When mak­ing a call there’s an option to make a voice call or video call.

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    • Mike

      You couldn’t be more wrong about the N8.
      A 12MPX cam­era that for the first time in a phone will give a real­is­tic view of that res­o­lu­tion, match­ing the iPhone pixel den­sity with dou­ble the res­o­lu­tion. 720p record­ing done prop­erly with great stereo audio, intel­li­gent sound pro­cess­ing, intel­li­gent dig­i­tal zoom, amaz­ing optics. Zen­non and LED flash.
      Amongst that, can you think of a phone that has the same hard­ware com­bi­na­tions. USB OTG, BT 3.0, wifi B/G/N, HDMI, full visual mul­ti­task, kinetic scrolling mul­ti­touch, FM radio and trans­mit­ter, flash 10 sup­port in browser.…I could go on.

      No phone is as fea­ture packed as the N8 and that is a fact.
      The OS looks great and that is my opin­ion. It is Sym­bian as mil­lions of peo­ple know but with all the parts added to bring the user expe­ri­ence to 2010.

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      I agree that feature-wise, the N8 is up there, but I think Nokia focused on the wrong thing. It takes more than just fea­tures to win peo­ple over. The soft­ware now plays an even big­ger role and that is where I feel Nokia should have put more effort. There’s no doubt that there’s a mar­ket for fea­ture packed devices like the N8 but there’s an big­ger mar­ket for devices like the iPhone that pri­or­i­tize software/the user expe­ri­ence over fea­tures. I’m not a big Apple fan but in this case(with the iPhone 4) I think Apple bal­anced the two in the best way they ever have — a new OS packed with fea­tures + for­mi­da­ble hard­ware — hard­ware that almost equals(and in some case beats Nokia at their own game. I hope Meego lives up to the hype though, I’m look­ing for­ward to the N9.

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      That’s not to take any­thing away from the N8 though, I still think it’s a great device, just not for the mainstream.

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    • Twin­kle Arora

      LOL Omnia Hd again!!

      So Apple has many fea­tures and many dis­ad­van­tages also over Omnia HD.

      Advan­tages–
      1. Great Brand Name.
      2. Cool res­o­lu­tion screen and mul­ti­touch.
      3. 1Ghz Proces­sor. And Bet­ter Graph­ics Engine+Module.
      4. 30fps (lol) HD 720p record­ing.
      5. Touch focus. Even in video!!!!!
      6. Apple store with tons of apps.
      7. Max num­ber of appli­ca­tions avail­able till date is only on Iphone(App store).
      8. And last but not the least GYROSCOPE lolzz in which phone you get one and search youtube for its amaz­ing fea­tures and pos­si­bil­i­ties.
      9. Faster and newer wifi tech inbuild.
      10. 14hrs Talk­time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      11. 10 hrs Video and 40Hrs Audio!!!!!!

      Dis­ad­van­tages–
      1. Screen is lit­tle small as com­pared to omnia HD.
      2. Screen which can be eas­ily bro­ken into pieces when dropped on a wrong/bad angle.
      3. Not proper mul­ti­task­ing as com­pared to s60v5 Omnia HD.
      4.5MP cam­era as com­pared to 8MP in Omnia HD.

      So in all its will be quite nice to upgrade to Apple 4, I don’t know about anphase why he always sup­port the failed mul­ti­me­dia phone i8910 Omnia HD.(as com­pared to mar­ket­ing and expec­ta­tions before the prod­uct was released).
      Maybe he works with Sam­sung, tell if I am wrong?

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    • shashankpandey1991

      @twinkle:
      Anphase is not sayin that omnia HD is bet­ter than iphone 4.. he is just say­ing that thr is not a vast dif­fer­ence between the phones
      so instead of spend­ing big amount of money on any phone rite now.… wait for launch of phone which is much more pow­er­ful…
      coz, it not hav been a year n Sam­sung hav a more pow­er­ful phone than Omnia HD i.e. Galaxy S..
      n thr will be another phone in 7–8 months which will out­cast even galaxy S n thr will be another after that so y change phone now..
      bet­ter to hold up for best of the best…!

      P.S. m never gonna buy a sam­sung phone again no mat­ter the phone is most pow­er­ful phone in the market…!

      i’ll go wid HTC’s next big launch(phone bet­ter than EVO 4G) :D

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    • Twin­kle Arora

      you said,“P.S. m never gonna buy a sam­sung phone again no mat­ter the phone is most pow­er­ful phone in the mar­ket…!“
      this is the point that I wanted to include.(nicely said).
      Sam­sung is down now.

      And this is uni­ver­sal truth(as you said) that new mobiles come every 3–4 months with some newer or unique technology/feature.
      BUT the fact is that I have pur­chased many mobiles and what I expe­ri­enced that Apple take care about their cus­tomers very much and they lis­ten to them, and adding the fea­tures that I men­tioned its a worth upgrade only if you have some cash lying around that you don’t care about because if it fell it’s screen can break eas­ily and your money will go in trash.
      But if you are a care­ful han­dler then this Iphone 4 is a must have as I men­tioned the fea­tures above.

      Most impor­tant thing is the brand name–
      For exam­ple — This kind of inci­dence has hap­pened to me many times–

      I am at a place I am hold­ing my Omnia HD and tak­ing to some­one and my friend Amit asks me which mobile is that then I said Sam­sung Omnia HD and then I started speak­ing about it’s features(camera,HD etc.) and sud­denly my other friend came hold­ing an Apple Iphone(I don’t know whether it was 2G or 3G) and sud­denly Amit said wow! you have a Iphone! ‚!!
      Amit started speak­ing about the Iphone himself!(about mul­ti­touch etc)
      and I thought– FK my mobile ‚no one knows about it and I have to speak myself every­time!!
      These types of inci­dents hap­pened to me sev­eral times.

      The con­clu­sion is that Iphone is a mobile that if you hold in you hand and roam on street every­one will rec­og­nize that and think “Hey! Thats an Iphone“
      And on the other hand if I take my Omnia HD (even if it has many fea­tures over Iphone 3GS)
      no one will rec­og­nize — not even the com­pany of it!!!)

      So, the fact that every­one knows about Apple Iphone and it is well pub­li­cized and every­one thinks of it as a High-tech mobile and One doesn’t need to prove about its features(like in case of Omnia HD)
      then WHY IT’S NOT WORTH A UPGRADE!!!

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    • shashankpandey1991

      haha­hah atleast ur frnd amit asked which phone is that…

      my all frnds asked “Is that sam­sung Star” lolz

      u r very true on the part that iphone is sta­tus symbol

      evry apple prod­uct is sta­tus sym­bol actu­ally..
      n the rea­son i think is u pay more money for less fea­ture that auto­mat­i­cally makes a sta­tus that u r rich :D

      i hav evry apple prod­uct that can come into ur mind(all type of ipods, ipad, MACpro) except iphone coz i had ipod touch.…!

      n ya my dad bought HTC HD2 n i had it for a week… n my frnds got crazy when they saw it..4.3″ HD screen, pow­er­ful hard­ware n beau­ti­ful inter­face… evry1 was damn curi­ous bout the phone they were like “OMG WAT PHONE IS THAT??” the luk on thr face was as gud as they seems if they said is that a iphone..“
      and when they used it they said its bet­ter than iphone(even frnds who had iphone), even i think that too…!

      iphone was cool 1–2 years back… now its UI is quite bor­ing. it hav been same from the first generation…!

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    • Kath

      I just bought the Sam­sung Galaxy S two weeks ago and I must admit it works a lot snap­pier than my i8910HD.

      But I’m still hang­ing’ on to the i8910HD because of the stereo player and the fact that I love the phone so much too.

      I’m going to sell the Omnia II which I use as my nr.1 phone because of it’s wei­hgt and the flex­i­bil­ity of WinMo 6.5.

      I think the Galaxy S with Andriod is going to be my nr.1 now.
      It has the weight of the Omnia II and is far more flex­i­ble (easy to use) than WinMo.…

      I already love my new phone like the i8910HD after flash­ing with Hyper’s rom + some apps. like Handy Shell and weather and a cou­ple of others.

      And there is ONE BIG ADVANTAGE with Android (like WinMo):
      I can use Sprite Back-up to com­pletely back up my phone sys­tem, set­tings and what ever I like.

      With Sym­bian S60v5 this isn’t pos­si­ble though.
      And I realy miss this fea­ture on the i8910HD.
      Espe­cially after flash­ing Hyper’s rom + all set­tings and apps.

      You have to do the install from the apps and all the set­tings all over again after every rom-upgrade from Hyper :-(

      Accord­ing to Sprite the rea­son for that is Nokia does not want to give the code to get to the core of Sym­bian to make a full back-up from the sys­tem and all phone settings/apps.

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    • Twin­kle Arora

      Ya you are right Iphone seems to be bor­ing to me also as I also have Ipod touch and so I didn’t buy an Iphone(same story) lol,

      But the thing that you never need to tell some­one that you are hold­ing an Iphone is quite nice !
      as we can’t go to every­one and say,” hey! you know this mobile its from sam­sung and has tons of spe­cial features”(lol)

      But in all if one needs to buy a mobile for one own needs and not for show­ing off or for rais­ing sta­tus (lol again) then other mobile also will not be a bad option.

      Lit­tle of the topic talk!
      What do you think that why Anphase is so biased towards Omnia HD(lol)?
      I think he works from them in some way?
      Is Omnia HD that special(comparing with Apple 4) ‚lolzz

      And read the title of this post and tell?
      Iphone 4 is way bet­ter over Iphone 4(also more sup­port from Apple as com­pared to Samsung)

      And all in all conclusion

      SAMSUNG SUCKS!!!
      AND YES ANPHASE! I JUST SAID THAT!!!
      LOL

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      Lol I don’t work for Sam­sung and I am sort of biased. I paid a lot for the i8910, I should have a right to fight for it. There are lim­its though, Sam­sung let me down.

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    • shashankpandey1991

      lolz i was gonna write same thing that anphase wrote…
      even i hav been lil biased over omnia HD..
      n the rea­son is same i too paid alot for it n now its my phone my gad­get my thing… n who in the world would like to crit­i­cize his own thing that he/she bought by his/her own choice..

      in sim­ple words u cant crit­i­cize ur own choice no mat­ter how bad it is lolzzzzzzzzz..!

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    • http://anphase.com anphase

      Thanks for the insight on the Galaxy S, it’s an awe­some device. I think Sam­sung will do bet­ter this time around, they are putting a whole lot of effort into the Galaxy S. Nokia is on the way down unless they change their ways.I hope they do soon before it’s too late.

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