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Apple iPhone vs. LG Prada KE850
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 12:42 PM EST

"Compared to what's available in the US market now, Apple's new iPhone looks as if it dropped out of the future. How does iPhone compare with new phones on the horizon? And how quickly will existing mobile makers respond to match or improve upon Apple's offerings? Here's a comparison of the iPhone next to one of the latest new phones to be announced, LG's Prada phone, also known as the KE850," Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.

Eran writes, "On the hardware side, the iPhone consistently beats the Prada in important areas that will make a big difference to users... Still, the hardware differences on the two devices are trivial compared to the software that powers each."

Eran writes, "The real difference: the LG Prada phone's interface is based on Adobe Flash Lite, while Apple's is driven by OS X Quartz and Core Animation, and its applications are built upon the Cocoa frameworks."

Eran writes, "Flash is great for quickly making animations for kiosks and demos, but it certainly can't deliver the apps Apple demonstrated. That's why the Prada phone’s only touted features are watching movies, listening to music, and viewing common file documents. No mention of any web browser at all, no sophisticated email or messaging apps, and only basic support for other common phone features... Imagine a web browser built on top of a minimal subset of Flash, and its suddenly obvious why the iPhone is further ahead than industry pundits seem to understand."

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Jan 23, 07 - 12:50 pm Comment from: Macatheson

Much as I like Daniel, its quite a reach to compare 2 devices with such authority that he's never even touched.

I think he needs to slow down. The blog-a-day concept means he's really starting to reach sometimes.

Jan 23, 07 - 12:50 pm Comment from: Jeff

With time, the price and size of the iPhone will drop and you'll see what Steve meant with 'Revolution'.

Jan 23, 07 - 12:50 pm Comment from: Tom Strong

Read that article. You will see the LG Prada KE850 is a joke and is being used by Apple haters in a lame attempt to bash the iPhone.

Jan 23, 07 - 12:51 pm Comment from: Smoking Gun UK

Roughly drafted has some really good articles, and then it has a lot of filler. This is the latter.

Jan 23, 07 - 12:53 pm Comment from: Mark

Even looking at those two devices demontsrates how advanced iPhone is.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:01 pm Comment from: Spark

I'm surprised that Daniel reports that the screens are almost the same size. The iPhone delivers 9600 more pixel than the Prada.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:01 pm Comment from: loki capret

Far too many analysts and pundits, or whatever you want to call them, think that just because both phones look similar and have touch screens that they must, in fact, be similar. Nothing could be farther from the truth!!
The pure and simple fact is that once people get their hands on an iPhone and experience the OS that we all know and love and they realize how easy syncing should be, everything will become much clearer!!

Jan 23, 07 - 01:08 pm Comment from: Mikal in NYC

All I have to say is

touch screen vs. multi-touch screen.

BIG difference.



MW= home, as in, my home will use multi-touch screen anytime.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:10 pm Comment from: Jim

Times like this I like to pull out my favourite quote:

"It's the OS, stupid."

Nuff Said.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:19 pm Comment from: Ray

I love these feature by feature comparisons of vaporware.

Very realisitc...very news worthy.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:20 pm Comment from: R2

"That's why the Prada phone’s only touted features are watching movies, listening to music, and viewing common file documents."

The first two of which will most assuredly be superior experiences on the iPhone. I don't know about three, if LG has some way to view MS documents then maybe commoners will find it the better choice there.

I don't need to wait for these phones to be released. It's obvious on paper that the KE850 is a piece of shit compared to the iPhone. The LG is nothing more than a phone with a touchscreen and a few interface enhancements while the iPhone is a revolutionary step toward the future.

Keep in mind, LG is same company that couldn't even get touchscreen -controls- right on the face of their Chocolate phone model (both the GSM version in Europe and Verizon's CDMA version in America). Nevermind an entire screen, just a few navigational buttons -beneath- the screen. Imagine how they'll fuck this up.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:21 pm Comment from: Truth Decay

That's an oversimplification of Adobe Flash Lite:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/productinfo/features/

Jan 23, 07 - 01:34 pm Comment from: Georgy Porgy

Flash UI on the Prada? The iPhone is capable of installing the whole Adobe Flash application, must less
something derived from Flash. This is comparing a chestnut to a green watermelon.
Look at how the iPod has evolved in the last couple of years...imagine the possibilities of this iPhone with
Intels evolving low power chips, core animation, core video, soon to be a complete iTunes built-in, online gaming,
video iChat. In five years, this thing will be so much farther ahead. As with the Apple TV, bandwidth and the cost
of bandwidth, and future satellite upload is the issue.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:47 pm Comment from: r_y_a_n

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/18/HNiphonelikeprada_1.html

"It will go on sale first in late February through Prada shops in the U.K., France, Germany and Italy. It will cost around €600 ($775). In March it will begin appearing in stores in Asia including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, said LG. A version for the Korean market is due out in the second quarter."



The Prada phone is way over priced and I bet it won't sync flawlessly to my Mac like the iPhone will.

All you iPhone FUD producing dingle berries are lame.

Jan 23, 07 - 01:59 pm Comment from: UH OH

One important area where Prada beats iphone: IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! The other is still being assembled by some slave laborer in China working for 5 cents an hour to make sure that Apple slave labor goes unabated.

Jan 23, 07 - 02:06 pm Comment from: UH OH

Where's that dufus 'unsquirted' with his usual dumbass editorials?

Jan 23, 07 - 02:19 pm Comment from: Escaport

Actually UH OH, you can't buy ether of them at the moment, and the Prada isn't coming to the US so it is a non starter against Apple.

Jan 23, 07 - 02:28 pm Comment from: Cpt. Obvious

Please stop posting Eran's blog musings. He already writes about the fucking iPhone enough, we don't need repeats of his repetition here too...

Jan 23, 07 - 02:32 pm Comment from: Macaday

Here we go again. The minute Roughly Drafted and Daniel Eran are mentioned there is a Windows TROLL that comes along and denigrates. I wish they would f@*! off.

It Flannegan the other day and today it's Macatheson. They even have a ready made bunch of names to throw in.

OK, so he hasn't touched the phones but his analysis is more intelligent than any of the pathetic Apple copied the Prad articles that are so rife and which successfully denigrates.

Piss off you trolls is what I say...

Jan 23, 07 - 02:52 pm Comment from: Ryan

All I need to know about the LG is its name.

LG Prada KE850.

Now, what would prevent them from just leaving it at LG Prada? That would be elegant. Why add a bunch of alphabetic nonsense on the end? Were there 849 previous "KE type" variants of the Prada? I don't think so.

The name alone shows that LG is stuck in electronics-industry status quo thinking mode, where you slap a lot of geeky sounding stuff into a product spec sheet (nevermind if it actually works well) and hope people buy it because it sounds "high tech"

Jan 23, 07 - 02:53 pm Comment from: norm e.

Hmmmm?

Did not S. Ballmer say that Apple iPhone would be the most expensive phone??? Well once the Prada phone ships, that will make it the most expensive so Steve B. is wrong already.!!! grin

N.

Jan 23, 07 - 02:54 pm Comment from: Rudge

Yeah. Personally I welcome the LG Prada along with the Apple iPhone. Competition is always good, and this kind of thing will always make Apple step up with its further development. They won't be sitting on their laurels, while the competition is developing the next big thing.

As far as commenting and comparing both mobile phone's promised features, sight unseen, it's kind of ludicrous isn't it? This article really should be postponed until after at least one of them is actually released. Still it is much more favorable to the iPhone.

Jan 23, 07 - 03:16 pm Comment from: KenC

the Lucky-Goldstar Prada. That says it all. It's like an Acer Ferrari. They are hoping that sticking the name of a luxury brand on their product, they'll get some of the shine. It just doesn't work that way. Apple has created their own brand. LG is just borrowing theirs.

Jan 23, 07 - 03:21 pm Comment from: effwerd

The Prada phone page has a nice soundtrack at least.

Jan 23, 07 - 03:32 pm Comment from: Mr. Peabody

I agree with those that say this is just too detailed a comparison of a device that, technically, does not yet exist.

It does make me think though - Once the phone is actually released and for sale, most every phone maker will see how their products could've been done, and should've been done, then they'll all rush to make their phone products look as close to the iPhone as possible without illegally copying it, but their products still will not have the funtionality of the Apple product. M. Dell knows how this is done probably better than anyone else.

This is commonly called the Apple cycle.

Jan 23, 07 - 04:10 pm Comment from: MonkeyBoy

What is this "comparing the interfaces sight unseen" BS?

Both interfaces have been demo'd on video, for all to see. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that the Prada is leagues behind the iPhone in ease of use and app integration.

and yes, the Prada does far less, poorly, for far more $$.

Get your heads out of your butts.

Jan 23, 07 - 04:57 pm Comment from: john

Hey, someone is writing something and actually knows what there talking about. Yay!!
Finally someone who understands that the LG phone is just a phone while the iPhone is way,way,way, more.

Aug 24, 07 - 02:22 am Comment from: Vlad

WOW..., reading all of these talk back just makes me wanna laugh..., smile sorry to brake it to all of you apple geeks but LG came out with the idea way before apple did, and it came ouot before the iphone,
I like apple to, and i usethere products., i just think that the iPhone is getting WAY more attention then it should be getting!!
all i hear is iPhone iPhone iPhone!!!! cmon people its not that great!, they just redid a couple things that are in a regular cell phone, used some of the same things as seen in the PRADA and BAM!!! u have an iPhone...
Its like the same thing happened with the XBox and PS3.., Sony waits, , , looks at what Microsoft has to offer and then tries to top it (and then FAILS). The iPhone is just another phone thats gonna be forgotten about in like 2 years.., if you want a REALLY good phone, Then get yourself a NOKIA., those are THE BEST smile

Jan 18, 08 - 02:21 pm Comment from: hannah

ok, i have the iPhone, and its not that great.
i dropped it once..with a leather cover on it..and it cracked.
and if any type of moisture gets in those cracks (even your breath) it shuts down, and you cannot see who is calling you, or any buttons on the screen.
its pitiful

Feb 10, 08 - 06:16 am Comment from: sayyed

i wanna all new photo of apple launch

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