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iPhone vs LG Viewty

This could turn out to be the biggest battle in the Mobile Phone industry since they began. The iPhone so far is heading the way with is undoubtedly superior marketability, but is it actually the better phone?

The best way I could think of comparing these two rivals is to compare the features that they both share or maybe don't share and weigh them up against each other, so lets begin:

Touch Screen

As most of you would have probably guessed they both have a touchscreen, but are there any differences? Well let me start with the iPhone. The iPhone has a 3.5 inch (diagonally) screen which is 480320 in resolution at 163ppi, which too be fair ain't too shabby. Everything on the iPhone is based around its touch screen, meaning that the only way to use it is by the touchscreen and nothing else. The viewty likewise is based around the touchscreen and there, but there are buttons for call and cancel (which you can see in the picture above). The Viewty has a 3inch touchscreen (diagonally) which is 240400 and has a 262k colour display, which is standard on most of the newest phones these days.

What I would say is the most annoying about the iPhones touchscreen is that it is not stylus supported and I'm afraid to say I am one of those that doesn't like any smudges on my screen. However, Apple make up for this by supply you with a cleaning and polishing cloth with the iPhone. The Viewty on the other hand comes with Stylus support and a stylus included, which I like because it saves me smudging the screen all the time, and I know the stylus would be designed keep the Viewty screen smudge and scratch free.

Camera

This is probably the biggest difference between the two phones. The iPhones comes with a 2 Megapixel camera, which in this day and ages is...well...not good at all. Its just terrible. For all the technology it contains Apple could only manage to get a 2 Megapixel camera on it. To make matters worse the camera doesn't even take and videos, which almost renders it useless. Pretty much every new phone that comes out that has a camera has video recording technology, so this to me is a big let down by Apple. Then again, the iPhone still allows video the all important video playback, so you can import videos onto it. But like all things Apple you will have to find yourself a converter to convert your average mpeg to a iPhone mp4, which again is another let down by Apple, because this may restrict the easy at which you upload videos onto it.

The Viewty comes with a 5 Megapixel camera, which totally outshines the iPhones 2 Megapixels. This will mean you will have greater quality pictures even when you resize the to greater resolutions. Also the Viewty has what the iPhones doesn't, a video recorder. So it seems this camera is more complete compared to the iPhones, but like I said before both these things should come as standard on new phones. The Viewty allows us to play videos in the normal mp4 format as well as wmv and DviX, which i think is one of the best formats around.

Applications

The iPhone comes with many useful applications, the most notable of which is the inbuilt iPod, which is similar in function with the iTouch. So you could probably say when you are buying an iPhone you are buying a phone with iTouch technology, which is something I wouldn't complain about. You also get the Mac Browser called Safari, which is a very efficient web browser that is clean and easy to use. Another thing that I like is the Youtube button, maybe because I'm on Youtube a lot. I reckon this is a great idea, as you get instant access to a large amount of videos in a touch of a button (obviously you need internet access) and this can make up slightly the fact that you cannot create your own videos with your own camera. There is even a GPS tracker built into the iPhone that makes it that bit easier to navigate on unknown areas.

But the Viewty also has a link to Youtube that also enables you to upload videos from your phone directly to Youtube. This is probable something Apple could have done but cannot implement because they don't have video recording on their product. Also like the iPhone, the Viewty has a GPS tracker too, which is a useful addition as pointed out before. I am unsure what browser the Viwety uses but there is a Google Package that you can install on it, that basically gives it the Google makeover and makes the net fully functionable like the internet on a Computer.

The Other Useful Things

Both of them require you to be connected to a wireless connection before you can use the internet, this is something that could become quite annoying because it could prevent you access the net if you were on the bus or just out an about. However, most of the shops and shopping centres contain Wireless internet access, so this may not be a huge problem. Because the Viewty comes with a Stylus you are able to text by writing the letters instead of having to press the individual letters. This type of thing had already been implemented on the Sony Ericcson W950i and was something I enjoyed because I am not the quickest of texters. In saying that, pressing letter by letter, which the iPhone has, is also something that saves us slower texters.

Apart from all the gadgets that these two phones posses, I can safely say they are both very stylish phones and are unrivaled by any other phones in the current market today, but which would I choose?

Which One Shall It Be?

Now that is a difficult question. The iPhone is the must have thing in this New Year, but I am not fond of taking an 18 Month O2 contract just so I can get my hands on one, neither am I keen on not having video recording capability. In saying that, it would still be good to have one just for show xD. The Viewty seems to overshadow the iPhone in terms of the things it contains (apart from an iPod of course) and its camera is something to be marvelled. Furthermore, I am not restricted to the company and contract I would like to take out, I can choose from all the major companies and even go on pay as you go.

In the end I would still choose the iPhone because it just seems superior even though its not. This could be because of Apples massive marketing campaign which put it into the view of the whole World. It is a shame LG haven't marketed the Viewty as much, as it is a definite rival of the iPhone and should be up there battling at the top spot.

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