New smartphones from Palm and Apple are boosting the market with decent graphics and voice control, but interest in the Palm Pre has been overtaken by the iPhone 3GS if Google trends by the Portable Multimedia blog is anything to go by (left). As the 3GS hit the market, Web interest in the Pre in the US declined.
Business Week has done a similar piece on the situation in the US.
The iPhone 3GS is up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control, as well as the new iPhone OS 3.0 and twice the capacity with a 16GB model and a new 32GB model.
“iPhone 3G S is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet and we think people will love the incredible new features including autofocus camera, video recording and the freedom of voice control,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of WorldWide Product Marketing.
iPhone 3G S takes advantage of the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for high-quality 3D graphics for mobile gaming (see below) and other graphic intense applications. It also supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for faster networking speeds.
The voice control feature in iPhone 3G S offers hands free operation for both iPhone and iPod functions. Simply speak the appropriate commands into the built-in microphone or headset microphone to dial by name or number. With voice control you can play your favourite music by artist, album or playlist and activate the Genius feature by saying, “Play more songs like this.” You can also tell iPhone to pause the music, play the next track, turn on shuffle or ask, “What’s playing right now?”
iPhone 3G S will be available in the UK on June 19 with pricing available at launch.
At the same time the Palm Pre has launched in the US. This was first shown at CES in January, using the WebOS operating system designed for smartphones.
It has started shipping in the US on the Sprint network, with around 150,000 applications downloaded in the first weekend.
There's a good teardown of the Pre, including the TI OMAP3 processor with Imagination technology's PowerVR graphics engine.
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