When the iPhone 4 finally broke the shackles provider, the enthusiasm was great - but now the competition has the edge. In addition to six Android phones are lined up in front of a Nokia N8 Apple's secret weapon.
Dual-core Smartphone: LG P990 Optimus Speed
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 (February 2011). In particular, the pace of work and the web browser were very fast. In everyday use the LG device, however, was partly behind the Google / Samsung Nexus S (5th). One possible reason: The Nexus S is working with the optimized operating system, Android 2.3, the LG to the older Android 2.2. An update on "Ginger Bread" is to follow though. Despite the fast processor, the battery life of the LG was not worse than the other top smartphones. With an overall score of 1.97, the P990 ends up at number 6, because the COMPUTERBILD list is highly competitive: 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 Desire HD and the Nexus One position is still three more Android devices before the iPhone 4th For the popular Apple's smartphone is only number 8, for Nokia's Symbian-Flagship manages N8 with 3rd place far forward. In the field of photo and multimedia, N8 the new standards.
The new mobile phone COMPUTER BILD-Test
The COMPUTER-issue 8 / 2010, the test criteria have been updated for mobile phones. The weighting is practical. The most important changes:
Operation: The testers evaluate 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?
Internet: speed and representation are tested to the same standards as Firefox, Internet Explorer & Co..
Battery Life: The battery life measurement takes into account Internet connections via mobile and wireless networking and GPS.
For comparison: Old tests
In future, all phones COMPUTER evaluated under the new testing procedures. The old top list but still provides a good overview of the numerous, complex tested smartphones. Within the old test method, the comparability is therefore still necessary.
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 costs around 120 $ without contract and even offers free navigation. Who can do without a touch screen, with Nokia's C5 gets a well-equipped and with "good " smartphone also good 120 $ (February 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. 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 can 4 is better, but the names of the surf stars: LG P990 Speed Optimus, Samsung S Galaxy, Motorola Milestone 2, HTC Desire HD and Nexus One. The androids play from even Flash videos.
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. Here trumped such as Samsung's Galaxy to S: With his super-AMOLED screen, it also radiated in the open.
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.
