iPhone Could Help Apple Fight Windows

Apple’s iPhone could become a marketing tool for the company’s other product, Mac OS. Since the phone has a version of the Mac is presents a relatively cheaper option to the user to get an experience of the Mac.

Apple says the operating system it’s putting into the phone is more advanced and robust than the Windows Mobile Edition. According to Apple’s iPhone ad:

All the power and sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X — is now available on a small, handheld device that gives you access to true desktop-class applications and software, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.

iPhone would be the perfect platform for Apple to exhibit its new Mac OS and target the vast majority of the Windows users around the world. The Windows Mobile Edition has now grown old, although the company has come up with the newest version but the OS still fails to provide the customer with something which could excite him.

Also a majority of the phones which have Windows are ‘Business Phones’- targeted to the executive class – these phones give a very formal look to the user. But more than 50% of the customers are young people like high school or college students. iPhone will attract these very customers.

The iPhone could be Apple’s new tool to counter the massive presence of Microsoft in the operating system market.

There’s Nothing Called An iPhone-killer

After the “iPod-killer”, now come the “iPhone-killers”. But just as no music player has been able to even challenge iPod’s numero uno position, similarly it seems highly unlikely that any phone with features comparable to the iPhone could compete head-to-head with Apple’s new creation.

Some of the handsets that are being seen as strong competitors to the iPhone & why they lag behind iPhone:

NOKIA N95

• Runs on Symbian OS 9.2 (latest) which is the most virus-prone OS in any handset.
• Nokia has so far failed to do any wonders with its Multimedia packed N-Series.
• In the last 4-5 years (since the launch of MotoRazr) Nokia could never produce a phone to challenge the mighty Razr.
• The phone, although packed with great features, isn’t cheap.
• A low internal memory (160MB) compared to iPhone.
• Its smart phone like features could keep it away from the hands of the average users.
• Nokia has never made a “beautiful” phone. Its handset designs are very traditional and Nokia hardly experiments (barring the new sleek 6300).

LG PRADA

• It lacks an operating system.
• Low internal memory which could result in frequent hanging of the phone.
• LG is not a brand as big as Apple or Nokia; most people would prefer market leaders to LG.

HTC TOUCH

• HTC, like Apple, is new company in the handset market but Apple is still light years ahead in terms of brand recognition & reliability.
• Still this phone comes closest to challenging the iPhone.
• It has Windows Mobile Edition 6, an in-built processor.

SAMSUNG UPSTAGE

• Revolutionary design but it still can’t be compared to the looks that iPhone has.
• Although Samsung is the world’s No.3 in handset market, it has so far failed to match the big players (Nokia & Motorola).
• Samsung hasn’t yet produced a phone that could that the world by storm.

Not that iPhone is perfect.

• It lacks 3G connectivity.
• Has a modest 2-megapixel camera, which could have been (and should have been) better.
• People have their doubt about the durability of the large touch screen.
• It lacks features like Visual Radio etc.

But it has some features which could attract customers in large numbers.

• It has the impressive Mac OS X. Well that you cannot find in any other phone.
• People certainly want to try Mac & iPhone gives them a relatively cheaper option for the ultimate OS transition.
• The looks of the iPhone are simply great.
• Has a huge internal memory of 4 to 8 GB.
• And last but certainly not the least it’s an iPod.

iPhone certainly has its shortfalls but the world has still to witness the birth of an iPhone-killer.

iPhone Puts LG, Samsung In Panic Mode

The exhibition of the Prada at the 3GSM World Congress by LG Electronics is a valiant and desperate attempt by the company to get close to what has been described as the most anticipated electronic gadget in years, the iPhone. Samsung Electronics too showcased the F520 which it believes would give competition to Apple’s iPhone. These moves by the two consumer electronics giants show that Apple’s new star has become a threat to their sales & profits even before it is released.

Everybody knew that Apple was developing a revolutionary gadget for sometime now, but there was no news at all suggesting that LG, Samsung or any other handset maker was also developing something of the sort. LG and Samsung quite hastily stepped up with these phones which they believe would be able to compete with the iPhone. But they might be wrong.

The handset makers would find it tough to compete with the iPhone as did the music player giants with the iPod. It’s true that iPod is not the best music player in the market and the consumers have much better choices, but it was the first of its kind. iPod is easy to use, no hassles involved and no heavy software to slow it down. Likewise, the iPhone too, is the first of its kind. A large multi-touch screen, Wi-Fi enabled, a nice camera, embedded with Google Maps, in-build widgets, a one-button navigational key and on top of that it doubles as an iPod. The design it’s quite new and never thought or seen before.

It’s true that we’ll be seeing a phone much superior and better than the iPhone but it has features which make it exceptional from even the very best of the smartphones. Majority of the smartphones run on the Windows Mobile Edition or the Symbian OS. Now even the people who have never had a PC know that the Windows is the most vulnerable among all the operating systems which power the world’s computers. Every other day we get to hear about a new flaw in the Windows OS. The recently launched and ever growing N-Series range too is facing similar problems. The Symbian which runs it is highly prone to viruses. The OS is quite heavy too and makes the phones to hang frequently.

Well no problem with the iPhone though. Runs on OS X. The Apple’s this star product is attracting more and more new customers. Even its arch rivals (Microsoft) have also tried to replicate it in their new products (Vista). Not too heavy and requiring a modest hardware configuration, OS X is becoming increasingly popular even with the oldest of the Windows devotees. iPhone will prove to be the point of attraction to the large number of Windows users worldwide who want to get the taste of the Apple’s operating system.

Just like the iPod, iPhone too might help Steve Jobs to scale the heights of success that neither he nor anybody else has seen yet.

iPhone: Call It The "Nokia-Killer"

With the entry of the new Apple phone in the market, it is almost certain that the market share of Nokia will slide further. The much-awaited Apple phone is packed with features that Nokia couldn’t provide even in its high-end multimedia packed N-Series. And with analysts forecasting that more & more users will switch to the Mac OS in 2007, it seems that Steve Jobs is ready to make history again as he did with the iPod.

The phone has awesome features. A large screen, Wi-Fi connectivity, a 2-megapixel camera, direct calling through Google Earth, a Safari mobile web browser, sizeable internal memory and it’s also an iPod. The market leader, Nokia, could not give the consumers these features. Although Nokia has been on the top for such a long time, it still hasn’t produced a ‘complete phone’. Apple, on the other hand, has hit the nail in first go.

Nokia released a battery of phones in its N-Series segment but it simply failed in efficient marketing and promotion of their product. Apple’s new phone gained popularity merely on the basis of rumors and false images of the phone which flooded the internet, the employees of the marketing & promotions departments at Apple didn’t have much of a job to do.

Apple’s phone is arguably the world’s most awaited techno product as it even left behind last years superhits, Play Station 3 and Nintendo Wii. Nokia, which is still trying to work out a way to match the amazing MotoRazr, will now be completely overwhelmed by Apple’s new jewel. Now that’s called a “Nokia-Killer”.