Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The best smartphones

It was once the undisputed dominator and even today, the iPhone is probably the most popular smartphone. The fascination can not put into test tables, the result of COMPUTERBILD list surprised yet - only 11th place!


Android and Nokia push the iPhone out of the Top Ten

The most innovative new addition to the COMPUTER IMAGE-best list, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: What looks like a chubby smart phone, turns out to be when pushed as a cross between the current Android phone and Playstation. At least the mobile part in convincing test. The test criteria are varied, but who excels in all disciplines, it creates as the Samsung S Galaxy to the top. Milestone 2 with Motorola, HTC HD Desire, Desire HTC Z, Google / S Nexus Samsung, LG P990 Optimus speed and the Nexus One eight Android devices are currently the fourth iPhone And Nokia's Symbian-N8 flagship captured 3rd place In the field of photo and multimedia, the N8 standards. But the unofficial successor of the communicator, the Nokia E7, it creates far forward (No. 9). The popular Apple's smartphone is the first time ever in the top ten in the competitive rankings.

Dual-core processor in the mobile phone

LG presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​the P990 Optimus Speed ​​- one of the first smartphones with two computing cores. The performance is noticeable: The Optimus Speed ​​is the fastest mobile phone, the computer image has been tested (April 2011). Despite the fast processor, the battery life of the LG was not worse than other smartphones. With an overall score of 1.97, the P990 lands on the 8th place.

The COMPUTER BILD mobile phone test

The testers evaluated how easy and intuitive operation, navigation and move to the main menu are. Is one-handed operation is possible and there is a QWERTY keyboard? Speed ​​and appearance of the browser will be tested to the same standards as Firefox, Internet Explorer & Co.. The battery life measurement takes into account Internet connections via mobile and wireless networking and GPS.

iPhone 4 breaks the chains Provider - prices tumble

After delivery bottlenecks and iPhone-4 reception problems, there is again good news for Apple fans: The iPhone 4 is also on Apple's online shop - SIM-lock free. This and the new pricing structure should provide further growth.

iPhone power to the prepaid plan?

The iPhone is not cheap, does not come into question for everyone. But: Large touch screen, navigation, internet and e-mail support, camera and video capabilities, chat clients and the integration of social networks like Facebook and Twitter do not have to be expensive. The Nokia 5230 barely scraping by on a good test score over - it will cost barely more than 100 $ without contract and provides for free navigation. Who can do without a touch screen that receives a properly equipped with Nokia's C5 and with "good " smartphone also around 100 $ (April 2011). But beware: Many applications load data continuously from the Internet! Quickly come together without the proper contract a few hundred megabytes. Consider the choice of tariffs, or mutated, the "Saving Phone" cost trap.

Windows Mobile 7 - the wind in the smartphone market

Microsoft has released Windows Mobile smartphones with 7: The devices should also be attractive to consumers, Microsoft copied but almost all restrictions on data sharing, and Apple is on cloud computing (online storage). The first Windows-Phone-7 devices (HTC 7 Mozart, LG Optimus 7) won good test marks, seasoned with liquid handling. The keyboard HTC 7 Pro not suffered from the co-rotating surface. Whether Microsoft's cooperation with Nokia, the two sides leads to success remains to be seen.

Qualities of the Internet Smartphones

Basically, there are also the PC thought internet pages on the mobile screen. The larger the display and the resolution, the better the overview. How good surfing on the phone is, has shown us the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 4 does it better, but the real surf stars come from the Android camp: Samsung S Galaxy, Motorola Milestone 2, Desire HTC HD, LG P990 Optimus Speed ​​& Co. as well as play Flash content.

Point by point: Display quality

In terms of display sets the iPhone 4 benchmarks: 960x640 pixels, it offers the highest resolution currently on the mobile market. Individual pixels are barely visible. The reading is difficult for sunlight. This trumps on the LG P970 Optimus Black: In terms of brightness, it was a new record.

Free navigation

Most current cell phones have a GPS satellite receiver and can be customized with appropriate software as a navigation system with voice message use in the car. Nokia Ovi pressed ahead, and offers maps, including voice-guided car and pedestrian routes free for Symbian devices. Google counters with full-featured voice guidance for Android devices, version 1.6. Telecom customers with the iPhone, Android or Windows-phone-7 Smartphone enjoy "select Navigon" during the contract period free access to the full on-board navigation. All Windows-phone-7 devices offer free route guidance based on Microsoft's Bing maps.

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