gphone vs iphone
Which one should I get? It’s mac vs pc all over again.
Last year about 14 million iphones were sold while only about 1 million gphones were sold. The iphone app marketplace is teaming with more apps (and buyers). But a recent report predicts that by 2012, gphones will outsell iphones. Android’s open environment is more appealing for developers (in the long term), but the iphone’s bigger install base is more attractive right now.
I’ve placed my bet on android so I just recently got a gphone. How’s the gphone? It’s quite similar to the iphone overall – wifi for web browsing, pretty powerful graphics processor for mobile games, gps, app store, camera. Plus it has a keyboard and a digital compass (both missing from the iphone). The look of the phone is not as flashy as the iphone, but that’s okay with me. (Also of note is that globally iphone sales are only around 1% of the mobile phone market for 2008 and many phone carriers are rolling out android phones in the near future.)
still undecided? or perhaps you’re skeptical about this whole smartphone thing. don’t be – it’s the computing device of the future. 162 million mobile phones were sold in the US last year, outselling laptops for the first time. soon those mobile phones will be replaced by smartphones, and after that, laptops will be replaced too.
