Posted on 01/19/2007 11:06:08 AM PST by TC Rider
Both phones feature touch screens, use the slow Edge wireless data network, play music and videos, have digital cameras, and can check e-mail and access the Internet.
By W. David Gardner
InformationWeek
Jan 19, 2007 12:46 PM
Barely a week old, Apple's iPhone already has a knock-off -- a slim, buttonless, touch-screen cell phone from LG Electronics and fashion house Prada Group. Or, is the iPhone a knock-off of the LG Prada Phone?
Announced Thursday for delivery in Europe next month, the $780 Prada Phone features touch-screen technology that is similar to the $500 iPhone, which is scheduled for delivery in the U.S. in June.
The two phones have other things in common: both operate on the slow Edge wireless data network, both play music and videos, both have digital cameras, and users of both can check e-mail and access the Internet. The iPhone will have Wi-Fi capability, which the Prada Phone lacks.
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Apple has a history of lifting technology from other's efforts, witness the mouse and GUI interface that Apple borrowed from Xerox PARC, OSX borrrows heavily from Unix.
And then there is the naming issue, Apple borrowed the iPhone name from Cisco and that still has to be resolved, but I'm guessing that Cisco's price has gone up since the Apple premature announcitation.
One difference between the two phones that I'm counting on is the ability of a user to change the battery on the LG phone.
LG can go to hell.
The Devil Dials Prada?.........
None of this stuff is a unique idea in this day and age. I could probably have envisioned a phone with those features if I were in the business.
Useless without pics.
TC, I know the source didn't have any, not poking you.
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1 posted on 01/19/2007 12:06:10 PM MST by TC Rider
You are repeating urban myths. OS X is BSD *nix. BSD is the most secure *nix based on the DARPA contract for internet security. Everything from PARC was negotiated between Apple and PARC.
Not so. Xerox later sued Apple but by then it was too little too late.
Service with a smile!
It is similar, but on it's face it reminds me of an upgraded interface on for a Motorola Chocolate. That's my first impression.
I bought a bunch from a guy off the street and gave them away. Turned out to be "Pravda" phones. I'm ruined!
Yet there is no listing on Snopes for these 'urban myths'.
I never said the Steves, though both have committed felonies, or that Apple 'stole' the technology, just that some of their most touted accomplishments were the work of others.
They have another bad habit of picking names for products that are already in existence, witness the big payoff to McIntosh labs back in the early 80s, and the ongoing tussles with the Apple music label.
That will teach you to not shop on Canal Street.
I don't know how common the "Edge wireless data network" is among cell phone providers, but music, videos, cameras, email and internet access are pretty common among phones now. The touch screen is not common, but seems pretty obvious especially if you're familiar with handheld computers.
The main thing which separates the iPod from the other thousand MP3 players is its tight association with iTunes and fancier than usual interface. I expect that Apple's phone will have that type of difference from every other high end cell phone.
Agreed. Every major feature has been around or in design/development for years, whether it's adaptive menus, touch-screen, motion and proximity sensors, and even the multi-touch and pinch-interface. See my post elsewhere: http://sanchmo.blogspot.com/2007/01/iphone-revolution-by-evolution.html.
What Apple has done (again) is bring it together into a better product. So now let the battle between Apple, LG and Samsung begin.
Where's Nokia?..../s
Niche markets. Apple for hippies, Prada for wealthy urban sophisticates and metrosexuals. Next out of the gate will be Microsoft for nerds.
That probably comes from Steve Jobs getting a vision for the name and going with it, while just about any other company would run it by the legal department to check if they could get the trademark.
That doggone Bob Saccamano!
LG = Low Grade
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