January 9th, 2010, 9:54PM in Mobile by Marc LequimeView Comments
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Google have recently appeared to have claimed their phone just isn’t a smartphone – it’s a ‘superphone’ (how arrogant). But really, what? Can they honestly be trying to tell us that their phone is suddenly superior to every other phone on the market? Google’s claim has been something that hasn’t sat well in the blogosphere well so far.
Google claim that the statistics for today’s phones are no longer impressive, and something new and innovative is needed (they claim that smartphones today have ‘gigabyte storage’ – iPhone 3GS = 16GB, Motorola Droid = 4GB – hardly only a gigabyte?)
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To be frank, their claim sucks. I don’t even understand their claim, but there it is. Superphone is little more than a marketing term.
The definition of a superphone…the difference between superphone & smartphone…the evolution of the platform is such that the openness, coupled with these marketplaces and these app stores, that makes it really easy for people to download 3rd party content; an ecosystem by which 3rd party developers can participate in the ecosystem; the Ghz processors; the more memory; the gigabyte storage…. these are all things that didn’t exist 2 years ago. So we thought that the industry needed another term to refer to these innovations. And again, this is as powerful as your laptop was 4 years go. If anything, you’re carrying these around in your pocket, they’re with you all the time they’re always on… these are all new. So we wanted to refer to it by something and we think that “superphone” is the right way to refer to it.
The bar is raising…These superphones are getting more and more sophisticated…everybody knows about Moore’s law…today’s superphone is tomorrow’s smartphone…
[Google's Super Phone via TechCrunch]
For Added LOL, http://super-duper-phone.com
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