{"id":38,"date":"2007-05-30T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/30\/verizon-strikes-back-or-does-it-prada-phone-vs-iphone\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:53:25","slug":"verizon-strikes-back-or-does-it-prada-phone-vs-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/verizon-strikes-back-or-does-it-prada-phone-vs-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon strikes back (or does it?): Prada phone vs. iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It does remain interesting, doesn\u2019t it? Days after AT&T was confirmed<\/a> to have the iPhone for a minimum of 5 years exclusively, Verizon comes back to announce<\/a> the launch of the ultimate fashion device (in a rather literal sense), namely the Prada phone<\/a> (or LG KE 850). Verizon was keen to stress that this will not be the only music phone they will offer but this seems to being the current main contender of the iPhone: it has similarly sleek looks, both have a touch screen and even the LG UI is somewhat Apple-esque (See review here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the interesting things is to see how a phone that \u2013 in Europe \u2013 runs on the trusted MIDP 2.0 platform (and will, for Verizon, presumably run on the no less trusted BREW platform) will perform against the first one utilising Apple\u2019s OS X. If Apple manages to have their OS run as smoothly and matter-of-factly as it does on their computers, we will all be up for a ride: whilst phones may not be as buggy as some of Microsoft\u2019s earlier (or indeed current?) operating systems, Apple\u2019s OS X is one hell of an elegant OS and supposedly superior to anything I have seen on the currently available systems. However, OS X requires quite a bit more in computing power than these, and this poses (at least) two challenges, namely a) battery life and b) speed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>LG\u2019s Prada phone on the other hand has shown in the UK that it is a proper everyday device that works well (and looks good). It also comes with 3G (other than the iPhone) although of course it lacks WiFi. LG has recently shown that it has a nifty hand for great look-and-feel: the Chocolate<\/a>, the Shine<\/a> and the Prada<\/a> phone all show a fantastically slick approach to handset design. Since LG phones run on a \u201cusual\u201d OS, all applications and games, etc that run on \u201cnormal\u201d phones, also work for them. And Apple? Nothing I heard of. Even the iPod games have already been cracked (see here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

If one would assume that the iPhone performs well, it would however be sad if that was only for one operator\/carrier. Will Apple make the same mistake it made on its superior Mac OS in the mid-80s, i.e. kill its market prospects by being to exclusive? One would hope that they have learned but perhaps their more recent success with a similar approach for the iPod has overshadowed the no doubt painful learnings they must have taken from being erased by Micrsosoft and the inferior DOS on the computer OS front. Let\u2019s see\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It does remain interesting, doesn\u2019t it? Days after AT&T was confirmed to have the iPhone for a minimum of 5 years exclusively, Verizon comes back to announce the launch of the ultimate fashion device (in a rather literal sense), namely the Prada phone (or LG KE 850). Verizon was keen to stress that this will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,484],"tags":[1350,60,107,310,342,527,686],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-oem","tag-apple","tag-att","tag-carriers","tag-iphone","tag-lg","tag-prada","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-C","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}