Tuning For iPhone: “Stealth iPhone” from ColorWare

If you’re willing to go the extra mile (and paycheck) to customize your gadgets, but you’re not a big fan of the flashy colors, the new custom edition matte black iPhone (Stealth iPhone) may be the ticket.

ColorWare has been making drastic hue adjustments on iPhones for a while and recently announced that their color-customizing services were available for the MacBook Air. While they’ve offered a gloss black before, the new “stealth” iPhone’s matte black finish is a departure from their usual eye-catching pigments. It seems to be more appealing to a good number of people.

The customization is only available on new phones purchased from ColorWare, and with the matte black customization your new iPhone will run you $675 for the 8GB iPhone, $775 for the 16 GB. A 1-year warranty is standard, but you can extend that to two years for an additional $149.

You can find more details on the ColorWare site.

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Apple iPhone Review: iPhone vs. LG Voyager

I was wondering what device comes closest to iPhone in popularity and functionality. In order to find this out I run a Google search and came up with the device that seems to be the biggest competitor of the iPhone. I myself will definitely stick with my iPhone, but, to tell you the truth, the audience supports the other way of thinking.

So, let me introduce to you the most probable iPhone competitor – LG Voyager. When I was researching into the nature of iPhone fakes I never thought that one of those phones can ACTUALLY substitute the iPhone. But I got a comment on the post saying that Voyager was released before the iPhone (so it cannot naturally be its clone), and the functionality of the device is even higher that than of the iPhone. At first I didn’t believe a word from that comment, but gradually I got interested and decided to make a sort of comparison. In my research I relied on the opinions of the audience.

iPhone vs. LG Voyager

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Apple iPhone Review: iPhone vs. LG Voyager. Part 2

3. Features

We can speak for hours about the devices’ features drawing parallels and finding advantages of each of them, but let me summarize the major differences in features and make the conclusion.

iPhone

2-way sms, but no mms
A fused battery
2.0 megapixel camera
A 3.5” screen
No video recording
No text-to-speech feature
Basic iPhone’s pros: Accelerometer, Multi touch screen, Attractive interface, Pinching images, Visual voicemail

LG Voyager

Full sms and mms capabilities
Removable battery
2.0 megapixel camera
A 2.8” screen
Video recording feature
The LG Voyager has text to speech, so it can read your text messages to you w/out installing anything
The Voyager’s pros: 3g EV-DO network, swappable battery, QWERTY keyboard, GPS, MMS, SD mem, 2 screens, touch screen

The result: 2-1 for LG

4.The quality of Video and Music

iPhone

“The iPhone’s multimedia performance sets bar for cell phones. The video is crisp, and music is as good as any iPod. That’s enough to put it over the top, even without the rich Internet browsing experience”

“Music quality on the iPhone is decent, but the thing that blows the Voyager out of the water is its video quality. Videos just look really great on the iPhone’s wide screen”

LG Voyager

“The Voyager’s music quality was respectable, but its streaming video quality was uneven and the Web browsing wasn’t quite as fluid as that of its opponent. The V Cast Mobile TV quality was respectable, but ultimately it can’t quite compete with the iPhone”

“Music and video quality are pretty good on the LG Voyager, but the streaming video quality isn’t that great”

The result: 2-2 draw

5.Call quality

iPhone

“The iPhone had decent call quality on the whole, but its volume level was too low. Some users have also complained of a background hiss, though I didn’t notice”

“For the most part, the iPhone had decent call quality, but there was a background hiss that could get distracting at times. Also, I found the speakerphone volume a bit low”

LG Voyager

“Though I did notice a slight hiss here, the Voyager beats the iPhone on call quality. The clarity was crystal, and the volume was sufficient”

“The call quality on the LG Voyager was solid. There was little background noise, and callers heard us loud and clear”

The final result

Which device do you think is the winner? According to the audience’s opinion (but not mine again) LG Voyager comes the winner. The Audience proved that touch screen is not enough for the iPhone to beat the more functional LG.

But do you personally agree with that written above?

Apple iPhone Review: iPhone vs. LG Voyager

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Mobile Phones With 3G Technology Announcements

Times Online announced that the UK and German iPhone discounts should clear the market for 3G iPhones. European mobile operators overestimated the necessity for current iPhones and promised to clear excess inventory right before the 3G iPhone release.

It is known that Apple ordered Asian suppliers to produce 200,000 new 3G iPhones by the end of May, than rise to 2 million (500,000 a week) - in June, and new version of the iPhone will be totally different.

Presumed that flip version would enable the larger screen, and a sliding model will have a regular qwerty touchscreen keyboard.

Whether Times Online’s information is reliable is unknown. The inclusion of an built-in keyboards among smartphones was criticized when the iPhone was introduced. Apple will soon be launching Software Development Kit (SDK) for multi-touch OS X. To change something radically could be not a smart idea.

Telecom Italia is going to launch the iPhone in Italy in the next few weeks. The new model will be based on 3G (UMTS) technology. The 3G iPhone, can be available to any provider, but obviously TIM will get advantage for at least first months.

According to MacRumors here are some points for Italian retails:

Introduction of UMTS capable 3G iPhones instead of current 2G version.
No revenue sharing, but a higher price on the market.
Support of various providers, but TIM will have the right to distribute the iPhone with advantage for some months.

3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards, tending to replace 2G standards. Cellular mobile telecommunications networks are being updated to 3G from 1999 to 2010. The introduction of 3G first took place in Japan, and there the convertion to 3G was already completed in 2006. As can be seen, the whole tech world is ready to use mobile phones with 3G technology.

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3G iPhone Due Out Soon - O2 and T-Mobile Cut Prices

With the forthcoming release of 3G iPhone the overwhelming majority of mobile operators with the contracts to sell iPhone are exposed to crucial losses on the stock which is likely to remain unsold. That;s why they have to find solutions out of such an unpleasant situation. What are these solutions?

For instance, the UK operator O2 and the German T-Mobile miscalculated the number of iPhones that could be sold in Europe and at the moment their warehouses are filled with the gadgets that in a matter of months will cost no more than $200.

Even Apple experts confirm that the losses of these companies will be significant.

Nevertheless the companies make their best to recoup the forthcoming losses and at the same time clear the shelves for the new iPhone.

Recently O2 has announced price cut on the iPhone. The company reduced more than a third of its initial price – from 269 pounds to 169 pounds. And a few weeks ago T-Mobile set even more generous sales – from 399 euro to 99 euro.

The French operator Orange will also have to cut the prices. The French sales of the gadget were predicted to be between 500 000 and 600 000, but the company only managed to sell about 330 000 iPhones.

The sale tempos have significantly fallen down and the European retailers find it difficult to clear their stock from the current version of IPhone.

As for the new device which is due out in the middle of June it is said to be completely different to the current version in appearance. They don’t exclude the possibility that the new device will have a regular qwerty keyboard instead of the fan-favorite touch-screen.

Another new tendency that 3G iPhone is likely to bring in is the refusal of the favoring policy towards a single operator in the given territory.

In fact the end goal of Apple is to create the best device ever and then to bring it to as many clients as possible.

Do you think that Apple will manage to do it eventually?

iPhone + Skateboarding = ?

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