The Gadget Show smartphone shootout
In last nights episode of The Gadget Show in the UK, Channel 5′s presenter Jon Bentley was testing four smartphones to see which one would come out on top. The phones in questions were the Blackberry Storm, T-Mobile G1, HTC Touch HD and the iPhone 3G. They carried out three tests, none of which were very scientific and dropped the phone that came off worst in each test. The first test was the camera and email attachments and the T-Mobile G1 came off worst and was dropped. The 2nd test was how easy the phones were to use and this time we saw the Blackberry Storm say goodbye with poor keyboard performance taking around 40 seconds more to create and send an email than the Touch HD, in second place the iPhone but there was not much in it. The final round saw the iPhone 3G and the Touch HD go head to head on battery life, this is where it all becomes a little silly as they started calling each other then taking pictures and playing games, all requiring different processing power etc so not really a very scientific test however this did see the Touch HD come out on top lasting 30 minutes longer than the iPhone 3G. You can see the full video here.
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May not have been too scientific, but I guess they were using ‘real-life’ functionality (all be it compressed into a short period of time). Interesting he chose to use the stylus on the Touch HD. Wonder how it would have faired on the typing speed with just finger use.
I’m surprised at the BB Storm – I’ve had a brief play with one, and although I thought the screen was difficult to use, I got the feeling that with some time to devote to it, I could get used to it – I wonder if the same problems will be reported in a few months time?
The G1 seems to get the same reviews all the time – not up to scratch but has potential – reviewers seem to think the O/S is fantastic, but it also doesn’t seem to do much.
The Touch HD is a lovely device, but suffers from the Windows Mobile ‘clunkiness’ and microdofts desire to make everything backwards compatible, and capable of running on an form factor. Until theres a replacement for the core functioinality (messaging, calendar, contacts) that runs a seemlessly and integrated as the iPhone it the platform will struggle.
The iPhone still looks like the consumer device (I love my HD, but I would get an iPhone for the wife) – ease of use would be the big factor here. Yes there are some things it doesn’t do, but what it does do it does really well, with a fantastic user interface.
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