Iphone gets some competition
In 1979 the first commercial mobile phone was launched by NTT in Japan and shortly after, in 1991 cellphones became more widely used with Finland being the frontrunners. Since then cellphones have evolved in many ways.
The first text message ever was sent on the 3rd of December in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging) and Nokia was the first cellphone manufacturer to intergrate text messaging into the cellular phone. Since then many other manufacturers have created cellphones with this feature including Motorola, Sanyo and Alcatel.
Nowadays we can send picture messages, voice messages, and even video messages. Along with this we can take photos, listen to music, download music and videos, surf the web and of course listen to the radio on our cellphones.
Last year Apple, which has been a market leader in technology created the Iphone which hit the stores in the United States on the 29th of June this year. The Iphone is a cellphone, Ipod and Mini computer all rolled into one. It is very easy to operate with just a touch of the screen and has inbuilt features such as a dictionary and spell check. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone). There were 270,000 phones sold in the first 30 hours that it went on sale. It is not yet available in New Zealand.
It looks as though Apple has already got competition with search engine Google rumoured to be releasing a similar phone (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10455627) which naturally would be called the GooglePhone.
This is very exciting of course that two global companies should release cellphones but I have a question, who really cares? Nobody jumps up and down when Sanyo release a new phone and yet when a computer company does it is such a big deal. I mean I understand that it's a big deal considering the market share google has and the money they draw in from advertising, but surely it is just another phone and surely it is normal for a technology company to expand into other areas, especially these days.
Which phone gets your vote? the googlephone or the iphone and why?
The first text message ever was sent on the 3rd of December in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging) and Nokia was the first cellphone manufacturer to intergrate text messaging into the cellular phone. Since then many other manufacturers have created cellphones with this feature including Motorola, Sanyo and Alcatel.
Nowadays we can send picture messages, voice messages, and even video messages. Along with this we can take photos, listen to music, download music and videos, surf the web and of course listen to the radio on our cellphones.
Last year Apple, which has been a market leader in technology created the Iphone which hit the stores in the United States on the 29th of June this year. The Iphone is a cellphone, Ipod and Mini computer all rolled into one. It is very easy to operate with just a touch of the screen and has inbuilt features such as a dictionary and spell check. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone). There were 270,000 phones sold in the first 30 hours that it went on sale. It is not yet available in New Zealand.
It looks as though Apple has already got competition with search engine Google rumoured to be releasing a similar phone (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10455627) which naturally would be called the GooglePhone.
This is very exciting of course that two global companies should release cellphones but I have a question, who really cares? Nobody jumps up and down when Sanyo release a new phone and yet when a computer company does it is such a big deal. I mean I understand that it's a big deal considering the market share google has and the money they draw in from advertising, but surely it is just another phone and surely it is normal for a technology company to expand into other areas, especially these days.
Which phone gets your vote? the googlephone or the iphone and why?
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