iPhone 4G OLED, Removable Battery, Video Chat
It seems the rumors surrounding Apple products just won’t stop. Most of the rumors surround Apple’s upcoming tablet or iPhone 4G, and this time, it’s the iPhone 4G. Apple’s exclusive local partner in South Korea, as saying the iPhone 4G will have an OLED screen, support video chat and — perhaps most surprisingly — have a removable battery. It’ll also reportedly have a dual-core processor, more powerful graphics and an improved camera. The officials say that KT’s corporate clients will get the new phones in April as a “litmus test” before they’re provided to local distributors in June.
According to analysts, Apple tends faster to market the new iPhone because of growing competition from the open smartphone platform, Google Android. Loudest releases such devices have become out Motorola Droid and Google’s phone Nexus One, and in 2010 are expected to appear in dozens of Android phones from different manufacturers.
Google Maps Navigation App for Android 2.0
Google on Wednesday introduced a beta version of Google Maps Navigation, an Internet-connected navigation service for mobile devices that offers turn-by-turn, GPS-guided travel directions. Google said its new Google Maps Navigation product will provide real-time, turn-by-turn directions directly within cell phones that are based on the new version of its Android software. The navigation product, which features speech recognition and a visual display that incorporates Google’s online archive of street photographs, marks the latest step by Google to challenge Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone and Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) Windows Mobile software with its Android smartphone software.
Google Maps Navigation could have a huge impact on the overall smartphone market as well. It may be the first killer app for Android, a must-have feature that lures consumers–particularly commutergoogle gpss seeking a smartphone with good nav features–away from the iPhone.
Apple iPhone come to China on 1st October
China Unicom, the second largest mobile operator in China, on Monday announced that it would start offering Apple’s iPhone in the country from next month. China Unicom announced today that it would be selling the iPhone at a standalone price of 5,000 yuan or about $732.50. Most people will opt to choose a subsidized package that will bring the cost of the phone down significantly. The company further asserted that the blockbuster smartphone will be priced at around $733, but it wasn’t clear whether the aforementioned price was for the 16GB version, or for the 32GB model of the iPhone.
