Apple is expected to sell the unsubsidized factory unlocked iPhone 4 for $599 (16 GB model) and $699 (32 GB model.

Before running to the Apple Store just remember guys the next iPhone is expected in a few months…

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The dock has two ports on the back, which are basically the same as the two on the bottom of the iPod: one for connecting to a computer, one for connecting to speakers of some sort to play music from the iPod/iPhone… The dock has no speakers built in, and nothing else on it apart from the infrared receiver on the front… So, the actual dock doesn’t allow you to do anything you can’t do already do…

Additional changes are more positive. The included Apple Remote is the 2009 edition, made from aluminum and black plastic, now possessing seven buttons rather than the six found on the earlier 2005-vintage Apple Remote design. It looks, feels, and works great, though the Infrared technology it relies upon to communicate with the Universal Dock works primarily when you point the remote directly at the dock. Radio-based RF remotes are better, but the Apple Remote is as slick as Infrared versions come.

The Apple Universal Dock is great if you just want something that looks great to put your iPod in. If you actually want a product that does something useful, then this probably isn’t for you, but you can’t complain about it — it doesn’t claim to do anything but ‘dock’ your iPod or iPhone, i.e. sync and charge it. But given how high the total price is at this point, and the frequency with which the company changes iPod and iPhone body styles, Apple should really offer a bare Universal Dock for $29 as an alternative to the device-specific ones it sells. But what’s here is a nice set if you’re interested in all or most of what’s in the box, and willing to pay the extra dollars to get it all. It’s worthy of my general recommendation.

There is a story on Reuters that Google topples Nokia from smartphones top spot, its has 222 Diggs, and probably same amount of comments like people have no idea that Android is going to be the no.1 in the world… That hype behind the story is totally weird…

I’m not surprised about that because I knew that Android is going to top the world in a short time because it’s a smartphone operating system not entirely a phone which means that any company can take Android and release an endless number of phones with Android and no one can stop them since they ship a good device…

It’s totally different when talk about a single phone shipped from only one company with the same design and features and absolutely the same price… I mean here the legendary Apple’s iPhone… You cannot say that Android is better than the iPhone or the iPhone is better because the experience with Android is with the operating system not the device but with the iPhone you are talking about an experience with software and hardware…

I take car manufacturers as an example, do you see a lot of Ferrari cars in your country??? If yes then which car is better a Ferrari or Suzuki??? my answer is, both are great but the Ferrari is way better, powerful, fast and surely fancy but Suzuki is good too and there is a lot of Suzuki cars with different prices and equipment it’s more affordable than Ferrari… I see the same here with smartphones…

I think that Android is going to be the no.1 platform in the world (If it’s not already) and iPhone, Nokia and BlackBerry will not catch up with Android and they are stupid if they are fighting to gain the lead…

I must admit I was a little wary, first because of the antennagate fiasco, then after hearing complains about iPhone 4′s flaky proximity sensor… I considered picking up an Android handset, but on getting reviews and playing with the emulator it left me unimpressed. I also thought about picking up the Palm Pre, but that device seemed a little too last-generation… Besides, that 720p video camera on the iPhone 4 was awfully tempting…

So, i asked a friend of mine to buy the “sim-free” version in UK for me, as he was going to come to India in a weeks time… which costs approximately 43,000 Indian Rupees… Yaa i know that’s hell expensive but all Apple gadgets are expensive, its a fact that we have to live with…

I’ve now had the iPhone 4 almost 6 days… How do I feel about my purchase???

Well its almost what u call “magical”… The two ultra smooth glass panels, united with a classic brushed steel band… Then the near-invisibility of the pixels, and the smoothness and responsiveness of iOS 4… It all just comes together in a way that almost makes me forget that couple of months back I was criticizing Apple’s iPhone and opted for a Blackberry… It feels like its an artistic master piece rather than just a smart-phone…

The Looks

The first thing that you would notice is its sleek redesign… The iPhone 4 is much slimmer (9.3mm), flatter, and feels like a much sturdier smartphone than the iPhone 3GS thanks to stainless steel along the edges and reinforced glass on both sides (said to be 30 times harder than plastic)… It also feels a tad heavier, by just 2 grams (now 137g). The volume up and down buttons are now metal and separated… The iPhone 4 is available only in black at this time, but a white version will be coming later this year… Maybe Apple would solve the antenna problem in it…

The Screen

Apple has been boasting about its new “Retina” display, with its incredibly high-resolution of 326 pixels per inch (ppi), four times sharper than past iPhones… This is quite evident when you’re reading text on websites and emails on the 3.5-inch screen… Even more noticeable, however, is how much better the contrast is on the new iPhone 4, with much deeper blacks and richer colours compared to the iPhone 3GS—with a screen that looked washed out when viewed side by side with the iPhone 4…

The Camera

Compared to other smart-phones, iPhones always lacked in the camera department… The new iPhone 4 takes much better pictures with its 5-megapixel camera, LED flash and a larger sensor that delivers better low-light performance… The iPhone 4 can also shoot HD video (720p quality at 30 frames per second) and despite not having good zoom, the clarity, colour and handling of motion was very impressive – especially for a smart-phone…

One of my favorite new features of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime, which can best be described as a Skype-like webcam chat between two people over a Wi-Fi connection – but both chatters need an iPhone 4 (Apple says they’ll “open up” the software in the near future so that it’ll work on multiple devices, and over 3G networks, too)…

Conclusion

Without question, the iPhone 4 is the most impressive smartphone in the market right now… Not to mention it works well with the roughly 250,000 apps already available at the iTunes App Store… The iPhone 4 stops just short of perfection, in other words, but it comes awfully close…

Something I know you would be dying to find out… YES, I can make the bars drop by gripping the device a certain way, and NO, I haven’t run into any issue with the proximity sensor… The display goes black and ignores input when I hold the phone up to my face, as it should… Frankly, I think that whole antennagate thing has been overblown… I’ll take the free bumper, though, thanks… ;)

Much of Nokia’s strong growth came in an era during which hardware innovation on its own could secure high margins, and more importantly, when hardware and software were considered independent… The premium-handheld-device business now is about which device can run software applications most smoothly — a matter of hardware-software integration… Nokia has not been able to make the transition….

While Nokia continues to say that N-97 has been a success, it has seen very low sales compared with the millions of devices that Apple and RIM are selling… Even Nokia E-series devices are not getting the volume of sales that the iPhone and BlackBerry phones are getting…

Nokia appears to still dominate the low end of the cell phone market… Its strength over the past several years has been in selling high volumes of low-cost devices to developing markets… While volumes are still high, there are indications that trouble is on the horizon…

Nokia needs to stop trying to spend itself into something it’s not… It’s time to push the high-end software and applications innovation work into partners’ hands… That does not mean giving up on innovation altogether: it means focusing its engineering and design expertise on getting partners’ consumer innovations into a device that gets to market quickly, efficiently, at cost and at scale…

Natural partners are large and small software firms that want their best apps on lots of mobile phones as fast as possible — from gaming companies like Activision to enterprise software companies like SAP…

If Nokia could become the partner of choice for mobile software innovators, its high-end business could become a profitable way to deploy the capacities that make Nokia undisputed leader in the mass market…

Posted from BlackBerry.

1. Android Marketplace: Google must add a couple of sections like Top Apps, Staff Picked Apps, What’s New and also enhance the update processes to make it compete with the App Store…

2. Touch: There is noway that you can compare an Android phone touchscreen to that of an iPhone… Touch must be improved for sure or at least Google must address the issue if it’s a software or hardware problem…

3. Multitasking: Android multitasking is confusing, that’s because Android keep processes running in the background giving them a short time before killing them based on “You may need this” idea… I think that every Android app must add “Exit” button to the app menu to let users decide either to kill or to keep a particular process running in the background…

4. Networks: One of the annoying issues I was facing with Android is the need to setup the GPRS connection manually because Android do not get the network info automatically… what makes the problem even harder is when I visited the company and they told me that they do not know or support Android yet… The story becomes even worst when you travel, you don’t know how to configure a connection or even the number to call customer support… iPhone handles all GPRS, 3G and cellular data networks automatically…

Android is great, promising and absolutely powerful if and only if they keep enhancing and updating it. Android is good but still need a lot of work and enhancements to go through the same track of iPhone, not to copy it but to provide us better features than the iPhone.

Posted from BlackBerry.

In summary, Jobs pointed out that Flash is proprietary, insecure and unreliable, a drain on battery life and not optimized for touch screens… He said Adobe’s claims of providing the “full Web” with Flash are increasingly irrelevant as more sites come up with alternatives, and that banning iPhone app development in Flash will result in better apps because Apple retains control over new features and innovations…

Outlining these points Jobs closed by saying :

We know from painful experience that letting a third-party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in substandard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.

Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third-party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.

Looks like the war of words won’t stop just like that… It’s as if both sides are implying that “It’s our device and we can do with it what we please.” But the meaning of that statement is completely different depending on who says it…

Lets see what’s in store over the next week.. Cheers. :)

I know numerous people who just have to buy the latest thing Apple has to offer… One of these Apple nerds bought the latest iTouch even though he had got the newest iPhone just a month back… Couple of them have to buy ever iPod that comes out, just to through the last one on eBay or Amazon… This sort of fanatical behaviour is an obsession with people…

Oscar Wilde once said “I have the simplest of tastes, I am always satisfied with the best”

But still why waste so much money on it??? Now we have people waiting in line all night buying multiple iPads… So why are people so mad about what Apple cooks ???

We’re a community, not a company, owned by members not any one entity. — Symbian

I think the move comes seeing the increase in the popularity of likes of Android OS from Google and the iPhone OS from Apple who had slowly started stealing the limelight from Symbian…

But I seriously think Symbian is way late to gain back its popularity here… Should have released its code long time ago..

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