Showing posts with label iOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iOS. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2012

Android ICS vs iOS 5

Features
Android ICS
iOS 5
Google Services
The instant account-based access you get to Gmail, Google Maps, the contacts, the calendar, Latitude, and chat are great.

You can download Google apps from the App Store, too. The Google Voice app has a better layout for iOS
but it's also slower and much less stable.

Camera Tools
Ice Cream Sandwich brings on a whole lot of new photo tools, the most significant of which are the photo-editing tools in the image gallery. They include red-eye reduction, straightening, and "hipster filters," whatever those are. The camera app itself adds a useful panorama mode that seamlessly creates a landscape still.

iOS 5 has great software image rendering, but photo quality also requires the image sensor and camera lens

In the camera roll, you can create a slideshow, plus crop, rotate, remove red-eye, and auto-enhance, but from the looks of it Ice Cream Sandwich have more features.

NFC
NFC (near-field communications) is becoming a big deal in mobile. If you have an NFC-compatible phone, you'll be able to use the on-board Google Wallet software right away to pay for purchases by tapping or waving your phone near a compatible terminal .

No NFC for iOS 5 yet
Cloud feature



Android has long enjoyed over-the-air OS updates, and its online Android Market also takes advantage of over-the-air app installation. Google Music is one big cloud feature
iCloud does over-the-air syncing from the device to the cloud (no more USB connection to the computer!) and syncs content like apps, music, and contacts, so you can later restore. You can also wirelessly edit photos, manage e-mail folders, and create and delete calendars.
Voice Action App
Android has also had its own voice actions app, which can launch navigation, calls, texts, search, and more, at your command

‘Siri’ is the voice-triggered assistant with an attitude that replaces the Voice Control app. ‘Siri' can create reminders, search for directions, text people, call you a cab, and so on

Turn-by-turn voice navigation
Google's turn-by-turn voice navigation for driving directions can effectively replace your in-car dash or GPS navigator--and possibly save you hundreds of dollars
Integrated Google maps are great, but there's no voice readout

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

iPhone

iPhone:

The 1st iphone was introduced in January of 2007.Then in July 2008, the iphone 3G was released in 23 countries, next the iphone3Gs was released in June of 2009. The iphone 4 is the most recent model of the iphone to date. The iPhone 4 connects on GSM network and was exclusively available for AT&T prior to Apple’s announcement on January 2011 of a new variant, the iP0hne 4 CDMA, which is made available on Verizon Wireless.

Comparison Chart


IPhone 4 iPhone 3GS IPhone 3G IPhone (Original) 
Variant iPhone 4 GSM IPhone 4 CDMA
Release Date Jun-10 Jul-11 Jun-09 Jun-09 Jun-07
Operating System iOS 4.0 iOS 4.2.6 iOS 3.0 iOS 2.0 iOS 1.0
Display 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen(640) x (960) pixels 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen(320) x (480) pixels 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen(320) x (480) pixels 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen(320) x (480) pixels
Processor 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8Apple A4 chipset 600 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 412 MHz processor 412 MHz processor
Memory 512 RAM16 or 32 GB storage 256 MB RAM8, 16, or 32 GB storage 128 MB RAM8 or 16 GB storage 128 MB RAM8 or 16 GB storage
Data Connectivity GPRSEDGE N/A WiFi b/g3G WiFi b/g3G WiFi b/gBluetooth
Bluetooth Bluetooth USB 2.0
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n3G USB 2.0 USB 2.0
Bluetooth
USB 2.0
Cameras 5 MegapixelLED Flash 3.15 Megapixelno secondary camera 2.0 Megapixelno secondary camera 2.0 Megapixelno secondary camera
Secondary camera present

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Free online course: iPhone Application Development

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

It's basically an entire iPhone dev class, from Standford, posted onto the web.