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Mar 25

Nexus One Vs. iPhone Info-Graphic: Googlephone Wins

Posted in: iPhone, nexus one, Phones, Today's Chili

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If you ever doubted that our friends at iFixit were the kings of the nerdy tear-down, you can stop it right now. With one simple (and rather big) info-graphic, Kyle Wiens and his minions have managed to detail almost every difference between the flagging Nexus One Googlephone and Apple’s iPhone 3GS. And despite a huge defeat in the first month’s sales (almost three million versus almost 100,000), the Nexus wins in just about every category.

In fact, if the cellphone market were instead a game of Top Trumps, Google would be killing it. From its bigger, higher resolution screen through its processor and the RAM available to it to its easy-to-replace battery (two steps vs. the iPhone’s whopping 16 steps), it has the iPhone beat. Why, then, is nobody buying them?

We’d say software. From one end, the iPhone has roughly a zillion apps available, against the tens of thousands in the Android marketplace. And from the other end, it seems that the real, normal cellphone buyer could care less about multitasking, preferring something that is just easy to use.

We have seen this before, remember, in the MP3-player market. Everyone tried to compete with added features, from FM radios to voice recording, but people kept buying the iPod because it was easy, it worked with iTunes and it was what all their friends had. If Google or anyone else is going to beat the iPhone, it had better come up with something that isn’t just an old desktop style OS made for the small screen.

Nexus One vs iPhone Infographic [iFixit. Thanks, Kyle!]

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