iPhone Knock-offs
Follow along with our iPhone coverage from knock-offs to Microsoft's CEO...
Pretty blah... but clearly established with the iPhone brand. The phone, like many other devices produced by Cisco's Linksys consumer division, uses Linux as its operating system.
LG Prada Phone
LG Prada Phone Looks Like An iPhone Knock-Off, Or Is It Vice Versa?
Glowing icons on the face of the phone disappear when not in use to reveal a pure, un-adulterated black exterior. The phone is ultra thin (just 12 mm), nonetheless it hosts an array of additional multimedia functions, including an MP3 player and a music multitasking function for messaging. It also boasts an external memory slot, allowing the user to increase memory capacity for images, music and film clips.
Features
• Capacitive Touch Screen
• Music Player (MP3, ACC, ACC+, WMA, RA)
• Music Multitasking (Messaging)
• Video Player (MPEG4, H.263, H.264)
• Macromedia Flash UI
• Document Viewer (ppt, doc, xls, pdf, txt )
Ballmer laughs at Apple iPhone
Microsoft CEO sez:
"Just because Apple's iPhone is meant for consumers does not mean it won't impact business users and their wide array of gadgets" ...
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Analysts Say iPhone Prices Might Drop
The 4 GB version of the Apple iPhone, with a retail price of $499, will cost Apple $245.83 to make, iSuppli estimated; the 8 GB version of the iPhone, priced at $599, will cost Apple $280.83. "With a 50 percent gross margin, Apple is setting itself up for aggressive price declines going forward," said Jagdish Rebello, a director and principal analyst with iSuppli. Apple Inc. will have plenty of room to eventually reduce the retail price of its upcoming iPhone, according to preliminary gross margin estimates by a market research company. Read the full newsfactor.com storyApple, Cingular look to iPhone innovations
Cell-phone carriers have long sought the next big thing to produce the sort of revenue they collect from customers who use their handsets simply for talking. But ring tones, Internet browsing, streaming video, e-mail and a host of other services have failed to take off as expected. All data offerings accounted for less than 11 percent of the industry's total service revenue in the first half of last year.
That's part of the reason even big mobile-phone companies that won't be selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone are focused on its June debut. It might turn out that the so-called killer app isn't the ring tone, the TV short or the music download, but the system that makes it easy to get all those things.
By JAMES S. GRANELLI for the Monterey County Herald, CA
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