Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Motorola Milestone, another Android
Next week sees the release of the latest Smartphone to run on Google's Android OS. Already speculated to be the next "iPhone" killer. It runs no the latest Android software "2.0".
"The platform was conceived to help bring a desktop computing experience to mobile devices, and make things like email, instant messaging and quick web browsing accessible to the masses. When the first Android phone went on sale last year, reaction was lukewarm; the handset, the G1, was clunky and didn’t compare favourably to Apple’s iPhone, the new gold standard for design."
Known as the Droid in the US. It has sole more than 800,000 pieces since the start of November.
Android allows users to do more on their handsets than the iPhone. Like instant Facebook and Twitter updates, listening to music while writing an email, and threading conversation. So you get to see your chats, email, and text messages in a single place rather than spread across programs.
It is also important to note it has a really really big screen.
The overall hardware specs are:
"The platform was conceived to help bring a desktop computing experience to mobile devices, and make things like email, instant messaging and quick web browsing accessible to the masses. When the first Android phone went on sale last year, reaction was lukewarm; the handset, the G1, was clunky and didn’t compare favourably to Apple’s iPhone, the new gold standard for design."
Known as the Droid in the US. It has sole more than 800,000 pieces since the start of November.
Android allows users to do more on their handsets than the iPhone. Like instant Facebook and Twitter updates, listening to music while writing an email, and threading conversation. So you get to see your chats, email, and text messages in a single place rather than spread across programs.
It is also important to note it has a really really big screen.
The overall hardware specs are:
- CPU: TI OMAP 3430 (Arm Cortex A8 @ 550 mhz, PowerVR SGX 530)
- RAM: 256MB
- Flash Memory: 512MB built in (for program storage)
- Secondary: 16GB removable MicroSD (for music/images/general storage)
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