In stores October 22nd, with a price tag of $179, I think they wanted to make it $199, but you know we already have a phone with this price that is even hippier than this one, so they made a little cut :)

The features of the software, muti-touch screen, Application Market, and other stuff, gives me the right to call it iPhone competitor, and other phones that are. So I will compare it with it.

Smaller screen of 3,17″ but bigger resolution 480×320. Screen runs in HVGA.

Battery life supports 5 hours of talk time and 130 hours of standby, well they all say the best results, but it’s just like iPhones. Camera is 3.1 MP, camera software looks better also.

Has Wi-Fi, GPS, EDGE. (No evidence of 3G to me, sorry)

Android is Google masterpiece, so it has everything Google is about. Maps software is very good, and unique, StreetView with compass feature, very impressive and interesting! Oh and YouTube.

“Great” music player, Mp3 purchases and downloads over Amazon’s MP3 store.

And it has full QWERTY keyboard. The screen slides to the side.

Well It may not be most beautiful phone out there, but it’s certainly very good, and in many points innovative device.

• Quad-band GSM/EDGE, dual-band HSDPA (850MHz/2100MHz)
• 950mAh battery
• 240×400 3.0-inch screen
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash and VGA recording
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Wi-Fi b,g
• Infineon MP-EH + M180 chipset
• Motion sensor
• FM Radio
• 104.5 x 54 x 16.8 mm

Specs are pretty much killer, for this phone, FM radio and motion sensor, as long as with ful qwerty keyboard will make it hell of  phone, but it’s still PRADA…

This video of modded rear-shell of iPhone is pretty convicting, russian modders made Apple Logo at the back of iPhone shine just like on MacBooks. It’s very interestin how this affects battery and is it made with leds or using phone’s own screen backlid. They are saying brightness is controllable in settings. Very nice, but it’s kinda passe considering alot of people are switching over to 3G version of the phone with plastic back.

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It’s been almost a month since I updated my iPhone to 2.0 firmware and jailbroken it. Broken with pwnage tool 2, the breaking process was quite easy, as I figured it out in the end. With default pwnage setting I got Cydia, it’s an Installer competitor. As I figured out Cydia is more user and developer (also hacker) friendly.

My 1.1.4 firmware iPhone was broken with ziPhone, and I have to say to you, after I upgraded to 2.0, my battery life was twice better as it used to be before. Maybe it’s the ziPhone breakage sucks, or apple did so much optimization that OS now consumes less battery, I don’t know, but the end result is still very good, I have the same battery life as it was when I first got my iPhone. Impressive.

Favorite Apps so far:

1. Trism - Very nice “puzzle” app, I played the demoon 1.1.4, so i decided to buy the full version now, pretty good game, with 3 different gaming modes it makes the game even better. Best game you can get on the iPhone, and only on iPhone, because it uses touchscreen and accelerometer. There is a luck factor in the game but still, for $4.99 it’s very good game, I would even pay twice as that for it!



2. Cube Runner - A free game, navigate your “ship” through randomly placed cubes and labyrinths using accelerometer. Pretty good game, it’s a pity it’s free, but I’m sure developer must be putting an effort in the paid version. As it is free, the graphics are lousy and there are only 3 levels, but you can make your own if you know how to program them.



3. GTS World Racing - Car racing game, pretty classic ones, good, not great graphics. I really like the control, you steer, accelerate and break by tilting the phone. 4 play modes, I’m still completing the Challenge Cup, since you can only play this game while sitting still, I like to play games while I’m in the process of lying on the bed. So, for $7.99, quite a time killer, but price should be a little lower in my opition, I still don’t regret.



4. Light - a free light app that makes your screen completely white + maximum brightness. There are so many apps like that in App Store, I prefer this one because it’s free and is controllable through Setting, not itself. I don’t need this control but it’s better when you screen is solid white :)
5. Remote - a remote controller of iTunes application on your Mac or PC with your iphone, very good, I bet you already heard of it. Free, published by Apple.
6. Eventful - keep informed about events in your area, demand artists to your town, see your what events your friend are going to visit and more. It’s actually a client app for website www.eventful.com, I like it. There is also an alternative app by Yellow Pages, YPMobile app, Events tab. Eventful is Free.
7. midomi - Song recognition application, works pretty well for me, now I’m out of songs I know that don’t have a name for me. Free

I’m looking forward to buy MobileFinder, Super Monkey Ball, BeatMaker and some more racing games, maybe also a puzzle game.

What I have to add is that App Store is a big success for Apple, bringing applications right to the user. Apple recently confirmed App Store brought them $30 million and 60 million apps downloaded. Knowing Apple gets 30% of an Application price, it’s $100 million paid for 60 million apps, as long as most apps are free, and other are more than $1,7 I’m not afraid to tell that free apps are most commenly used (who woulda thought? :)

The new casing. Well, my opinion, while it looks and “feels” better than the previous aluminum one, you have to admin it, it is also cheaper, and gets warmer faster and keeps the warmth longer. What’s the deal you’ll say? The thing is that warm is the worst thing to the battery, thats why you shall never leave your phone or other battery-powered gadgets on the sun or in hot places.

Good part everybody already know, the headphone jack is not recessed. Camera is the same.

• Storage: 400 Mb of user memory
• Screen: 2.4”, 240×320, 262K colors
• Connectivity: USB2.0, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (A2DP supported), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

Specs/Features:

Up to 1080p HD video playback

Ultra-low-power GeForce GPU for intuitive and smooth 3D user interfaces

Integrated media processor for over 100 hours audio and 10 hours HD video playback

Image processor with advanced DSC and HD camcorder processing

Connectivity to support Web 2.0 and social media applications

Display support for up to 1080p HDMI, WSXGA+ LCD, SXGA CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV-Out

This thing will power Windows Mobile devices in the future. Nvidia calls it “Tiny Computer with massive punch”, well that sounds tru, just look at the User Interface video:

And, this video demonstrates HD Video, but what do we see in the beginning? It’s the attempt to reinvent Cover Flow, not impressed.