Cell Phone Classifications: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sony Ericsson
Recently I’ve got very interested in comparing iPhone to its probable (or better to put it like this – potential) competitors. In order to find which devices can compete with my all-time favorite I decided to learn the classification of phones by the major manufacturers: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem and Sony Ericsson.
I’m sure that you are aware of the fact that all phones fall into different categories or classes: from simple devices to highly sophisticated smartphones. So what is the classification of phones?
Initially the classification of this manufacturer featured 5 classes:
- A – budget phones (are real rear phones)
- A+B – youth-oriented phones of the series 30x and 31x
- B+ - middle-class phones of the series 50x and 51x
- C – expensive 70x series phones
- G – image phones which planned for production
From 2005 the company introduced the new system which features 3 classes:
- OT-E – budget phones
- OT-C – middle class
- OT-S – image class
- A – budget models
- C - consumer-level devices
- E – economical devices
- M – Active lifestyle phones
- S - Business class
- SL – Image phones
- SV – smartphones and multifunctional devices
The scheme of giving names to phones of the young brand Benq–Siemens has been left unchanged: the indexes of phones are named by letters and digits, but the meaning of the symbols proper have changed and t he digital sequence has been violated:
The new names:
- P – Smartphones with qwerty keyboard
- E – Under the letter the company released a number of devices which fall into different classes, so iti s hard to say anything certain
- S- it is the only letter that was left unchanged; these are still business-class devices
The devices are classified according to one feature and it is possible to encounter phones of different price category in the same class
- B – Basic level devices
- W – WAP-enabled devices
- G – GPRS-enabled phones
- V – 3G phones
- F – Image models
- L – Multifunctional phones
- C – Middle-class devices
Motorola uses letter designations:
- A – High-tech devices which feature the latest inventions of the company
- V - Image phones
- T – Business-class phones
- E – Entertainment and youth phones
- C – Cheap models
- MP – communicators and smartphones
Digits also carry information:
- The 1st digit stands for the price category
- The 2nd digit – The generation of the phone in the given model line
- The 3rd digit – the place of the phone in the given generation
- The index “i” stands for modified devices
Apple iPhone Review: iPhone vs. LG Voyager
Apple iCal Can Assist Better Than You Think
While adding an event to your Apple iCal calendar for iPhones, you can do even more than just name it and specify a date and time.
It’s a great personalassistant that reminds you of upcoming events, assists in gathering others for meetings, and regulates the access to the right files at rhe right moment.
iCal has got hidden superpowers, and it’s easy to enable them by simple
- double clicking on the event’s name
- then clicking the Edit button.
To invite other participants to an iCal event, you need to type their email addresses into the Attendees gap, or you can open Addresses panel by typing Command-Option-a, then drag contacts from the list. After adding the desired contacts and event details, click Send for Apple Mail to deliver the event request. If it is necessary to change event, you can send an update with the repeated information.
There are many options here. For instance, you can assign customized, color-coded categories to track work projects, personal arrangements, and other commitments. You can set up the same events with the repeat menu. To create an event that lasts over one or more days, click the all-day checkbox.
iCal can remind you of your upcoming events through an alarm function, which reminds you of one or more event via pop-up messages or email. When pop-up reminders emerge, you can delay them for one minute or as much as a week. It is possible to schedule the iCal alarm to automatically run a script or access a file on your PC at a specified time.
Attach documents, graphics, pictures, maps, spreadsheets, or whatever to an event and include relevant URLs is also very easy. Finally, you can insert additional text where the Note field is, like a phone number or meeting agenda.
After all editing click Done. All the data event you added will be accessed next time you double click on it.
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
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
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?