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23.10.08 # 19:30 # Featured # 8 Comments
Below you’ll find a breakdown of a soon to be classic battle of Smartphones:
The G1 Vs. iPhone
- The G1 has a Linux based open source Android mobile platform, the iPhone runs on the Mac OS X.
- G1 weighs in at 158 grams compared to 133 grams the iPhone weighs .
- Google’s G1 has a screen size of 3.2 inches against iPhone’s 3.5 inch screen.
- The G1 has a sliding QWERTY keyboard while the iPhone has an on screen virtual keyboard.
- G1′s camera is an impressive 3.2Â mega pixels compared to the 2 mega pixel iPhone camera.
- The G1 uses the trackball for navigation compared to the multi-touch option provided by iPhone.
- While the Google’s G1 has been manufactured by HTC and is priced at $179 with a 2 year contract; the iPhone is made in-house by Apple and is price at $199/$299 for the 8GB/16GB models respectively.
- T-Mobile has been given the network responsibility for G1 and its just $70 per month for unlimited web, e-mail and text messaging while iPhone’s network is handled by AT&T and its priced at $90 for the same monthly service.
- The G1 also scores over the iPhone by providing 350 minutes of talk time over the 3G network compared to iPhone’s 300 minutes. But the iPhone beats G1 by about 200 more minutes in the 2G network, providing an impressive talk time of 600 minutes.
- In the standby time though the G1 emerges the winner in the 2G and 3G categories by providing a standby time of 319 and 402 hours respectively; against the iPhone’s fixed 300 hour standby time.
- G1 provides you with the option of purchasing songs through the Amazon store while the iPhone offers the iTunes store for the same.
- Headphone jack – The G1 also has a proprietary mini-USB plug while the iPhone has the standard 3.5mm stereo jack.
- You can watch videos on the internet through YouTube on G1 while the iPhone offers both the YouTube and iTunes TV/Movies option.
- Lastly, while its possible to sync the G1 with your computer only wirelessly in opposition to the iPhones wired syncing in both Mac and PC through iTunes.
So you tell us – who wins?
Obviously both smartphones have a lot to offer, but we can’t help but wonder if the G1 is going to end up pwning the iphone someday soon. There really isn’t a whole lot of griping about the G1 like there was the iphone when it launched, with the exception of a few little things here and there, but then again, it’s only been out for around 48 hours now.
We’d love to hear your thoughts/arguements/rants – so get to writing below!
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I personally think that its an awesome phone but the out side of it looks so so so plain my friends who have an iphone make fun of its simplicity. I hated
I have friends with the iphone also and they say it looks simple but I think the G1 has a slick touch and look to it. A stylish look does not speak for the phone. We did and internet load race and the phones were pretty much a tie. The first site we pulled up was yahoo and my G1 won. The we pulled up google and the ipone loaded faster but overall the ipone internet speed is a little faster due to the fact it loads a smaller image that you have to zoom in to view when the G1 load a broader, full image of the real internet as you would on a computer instead of squinting to see what your looking for at first. The android market beats the apple store anyday simply because its all for FREE! But I wish the apps can come with instructions to use..I have a bunch of apps that I have with no clue how to use them. I also have an ipod 32gb touch which I had to BUY apps that still have no instructions on how to use also..so in retrospec, iphone loses that battle.
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People ask me all the time which is better…I simply avoid the question. However I like the G1 best for the following personal reasons…
1. Open Source Linux Based Android OS, 2. Google Integration, 3. T-Mobile has cheaper plans that work well for my needs. 4. User development community
As far as Im concerned this criteria makes the G1 a far superior choice for me (maybe not for someone else). I love the phone right now, but see even greater things to come.