Ok, I’d hate to blog any bad news about the iPhone, especially just after having written a post celebrating the iPhone’s unlock. But this is actually quite serious, as you may already know, the iPhone is not like any other cell phone / mobile phone… the batteries do not pop out when it falls on the floor, the casing does not fall apart everywhere like you would expect with a normal cell phone (like the picture to the left), at least not usually.
This is what makes it so unique, however, in return there is a price to pay. Because the iPhone’s battery cannot be taken out and replaced by a new one, its quite obvious that your iPhone’s unique power source will die someday and along with it goes your iPhone…
To ‘help’ you prepare for this holy day, PCMAG has created an iPhone Death Watch. Given that your iPhone’s every functionality depends heavily on its battery, it was actually quite simple to setup a formula to calculate when exactly in terms of ‘after how many charges’ your iPhone will hit the bin.
Read on after the jump…
The fact is there are not many 5-megapixel camera phones available to the UK at the moment, when you try to think of one, you would probably come up with the latest Nokia N95 or even maybe Sony Ericsson’s soon to arrive K850i. But right now, there is nothing as thin and slick as the Samsung G600?
Have a look at this video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RY9BmfM8I4[/youtube]
Here are some main features:
- 14.9 mm slider
- 2.2″ TFT LCD screen with 16 million colours
- 5.0 megapixel camera (2592?1944 pixels)
- Power LED flash
- Autofocus with 4x digital zoom
- Panorama effects
- Macro effects
- 640 x 480 video camera
- Music library which allows offline mode with continuous play
- Video media player
- FM radio
- Bluetooth version 2.0 with dual support
- USB 2.0
- MicroSD slot
- WAP and internet browsing using NetFront Browser V3.4
- Page pilot
- Virtual pointer
- UTrack protection
For some full specs, check out GSMArena.
Have a look at a short demonstration video of the G600 and its comparsion with the N95 after the jump…
The K850i is another candy bar shaped addition to the Sony Ericsson K Series, already featured at CNET as the most popular phone, it is expected to be another blowout for SE!
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