2010년 1월 1일 금요일

Hype over, the iPhone is finally going on sale in here

After years of rumors and long delays, the iPhone is finally here, threatening the dominance of Samsung and LG Electronics’ smartphones in the Korean market.

KT, Korea’s largest Internet operator and second biggest mobile operator, said yesterday that it will start selling Apple’s popular smartphone product in Korea starting this Saturday. The company will hold a launching event for around 1,000 preorder customers picked through a drawing in Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul. It added that it also plans to include interested people who have not preordered iPhones in the event.

Preorders are possible now through the company’s online handset mall (http://phonestore.show.co.kr) as well as at 2,600 KT stores nationwide.

Both the older iPhone 3G model and the newer 3GS model, released this June, will be sold here. The price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G is 132,000 won ($114). The 16-gigabyte 3GS model will go for 264,000 won for customers who subscribe to KT’s iPhone-specific 45,000 won payment package. The 32-gigabyte 3GS model will cost 396,000 won upon subscribing to the same payment package.

The price of the devices goes down if one chooses a more expensive monthly package.

“I am extremely glad to be able to introduce the iPhone to Korean customers,” said Kim Woo-shik, head of KT’s individual customer division.

The iPhone is available in about 80 countries worldwide. Before KT’s announcement, Korea and Iceland were the only two countries of the OECD to not have launched the phone, named “invention of the year” by Time Magazine back in 2007 when it was first introduced.

KT’s announcement comes after the nation’s telecom regulator gave Apple Korea the green light to launch the phone here last Thursday, making an exception to the law that requires handsets sold in Korea to use domestic locating technology.

Although forecasts about the phone’s success here have been mixed, most industry experts predict that the phone will sell well, at least initially.

Hwang Sung-jin, an analyst at Prudential Life Insurance, said that he expects to see 200,000 to 500,000 units sold in the near future.

“The important thing about the iPhone’s launch here is not that a certain popular brand has finally been introduced to Korea but that it will be a catalyst for the local smartphone market to grow,” he said, adding that the relatively low price of the iPhone compared to other smartphones sold in Korea will also produce lower prices for domestically-made smartphones in the future.

유머와 긴 연기후에 마침내, 한국시장의 Samsung과 LG에 아성에 위협을 주고 있는 iphone이 출시될 예정이다.KT,한국에서 가장 규모가 큰 인터넷운용업체이자 SKT다음으로 규모가 큰 모바일 운영업체, 이번주 토요일부터 Apple의 스마트폰을 판매할 예정이라고 발표했다. 또한 서울의 잠실경기장에서 1000대의 선주문 방식으로 이벤트를 개최할 예정이고, 이와 더불어 이 이벤트에 참가하지 못하는 관심있는 iPhone유저들 또한 포함할 이벤트를 계획중이라고 덧붙였다.


이러한 선주문은 전국에 있는 2600개의 KT-store 및 온라인 몰을 통해서 가능하며예전 iPhone 3G모델과 새로운 3GS 두 모델른 이번달 6월에 발표되었으며 곧 한국에서도 팔릴예정이다.iPhone 3G(8G)기준으로 가격은 132000원이고, KTiPhone요금제(월45000원)를 사용중인 고객들에게는 3GS model(16G)은 264000원에 판매될 계획이다.예를들어, 좀 더 비싼 요금제를 선택한다면, 당연히 기계의 가격은 내려간다.KT의 ICD본부장인 김우식부장은, 한국의 고객들에게 iPhone을 소개할수 있어서 대단히 기쁘다고 피력했고.이제, 세계적으로 iPhone은 80개국에서 사용이 가능해졌고, KT가 이러한 발표를 하기전까지 오로지, 한국과 아이슬란드가 OECD 국가중에서 iPhone을 launched안한 국가들이였다.통신조정위원회에서 Apple Korea에게 지난목요일 iPhone-Launching이후에 발표된 것이며,한국에서 판매된 모바일폰들은 자국내 기술을 사용해야만 하는 법의 예외조항으로 적용될 전망이다.

비록 이폰에 대한 기대매출은 반반이지만, 대부분의 전문가들은 적어도 초기매출에 대한 기대치는 높은것으로 예견되고 있다.푸르덴셜생명의 한 analyst인 황성진씨는, 가까운 시일안에 200,000대에서 500,000대가 팔릴것이라고 기대하고 있다.한국에서 iPhone출시의 중요성을 얘기하자면 특정 인기있는 브랜드가 한국에서 iPhone을 출시한다는 점이 아니라 이러한 스마트폰 시장 자체가 형성되고 성장하고 있다는 점을 들수가 있다. 상대적으로 가격이 낮은 iPhone과 한국에서 판매된 다른 스마트폰들을 비교하다면 앞으로는 국내에서 만들어진 스마트폰들을 더욱 더 낮은 금액으로 생산할수 있다는 것을 내포한다.

By Cho Jae-eun [jainnie@joongang.co.kr]

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Samsung Galaxy VS HTC

Market Share(US,NoN-US)of the iPhone

Comparing Apple iPhone vs. Motorola Droid vs. HTC Droid Eris

Motorola has aggressively positioned its Droid phone, which runs Google's Android operating system, against Apple's iPhone. The ads for the Droid have emphasized what the iPhone can't do and what the Droid can.
There's another dog in this fight, though: HTC's Droid Eris, which has been less touted, but also uses the Android operating system as its platform.
Claims in ads are one thing; how these smartphones actually stack up is another. The table below compares these three phones on some key features: hardware, software, and price. With this information, you can make a more informed buying decision when you head out to for your next phone.


By Sam Costello, About.com

Motorolar가 Apple의 iPhone에 맞서서 Google의 Android운영체제를 기반으로 하는 Droid-phone을 공격적으로 positioning하고 있다.특히나 광고를 보게되면 iPhone이 할수 없는일과 Droid가 할수있는것에 중점을 두고 있슴을 알수가 있는데, 이와는 별개로 Android를 운영체제로 하는 HTC의 Droid Eris가 그것이다. 아래의 비교자료는 각각의 Phone기능,특징을 비교하였고(H/W,S/W,가격)이 자료를 이용한다면 구매결정에 좋은 비교자료로 활용할수 있을것이다.

Google Maps for Mobile

In 2006, Google introduced a Java application called Google Maps for Mobile, which is intended to run on any Java-based phone or mobile device. Many of the web-based site's features are provided in the application.[13]
On November 28, 2007, Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 was released. It introduced a GPS-like location service that does not require a GPS receiver. The "my location" feature works by utilizing the GPS location of the mobile device, if it is available. This information is supplemented by the software determining the nearest cell site. The software then looks up the location of the cell site using a database of known cell sites. The software plots the streets in blue that are available with a yellow icon and a green circle around the estimated range of the cell site based on the transmitter's rated power (among other variables). The estimate is refined using the strength of the cell phone signal to estimate how close to the cell site the mobile device is.
As of December 15, 2008 (2008 -12-15)
[update], this service is available for the following platforms:[14]
Android
iPhone OS (iPhone/iPod Touch)
Windows Mobile
Nokia/Symbian (S60 3rd edition only)
Symbian OS (UIQ v3)
BlackBerry
Phones with Java-Platform (MIDP 2.0 and up), for example the
Sony Ericsson K800i
Palm OS (Centro and newer)
Palm webOS (Palm Pre and Palm Pixi)
On November 4th, 2009, Google Maps Navigation was released in conjunction with Google Android OS 2.0 Eclair on the
Motorola Droid, adding voice commands, traffic reports, and street view support.[15] The initial release is limited to the United States.[16]

지원되는 휴대폰
Google Maps는 아래의 다양항 실행 플랫폼을 포함한 대부분의 휴대폰에서 작동합니다. m.google.com/maps 을 이용하여 휴대폰으로 다운로드하실 수있습니다
Android : 안드로이드
BlackBerry : 블랙베리
Windows Mobile : 윈도우 모바일
Symbian S60 3rd Edition (most new Nokia smartphones): Symbian S60
Palm OS: 팜 OS
iPhone (pre-installed) 아이폰

Reference : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Google Maps


Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a basic web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit,[1] and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.[2] It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. According to one of its creators (Lars Rasmussen), Google Maps is "a way of organizing the world's information geographically".[3]

Google Maps uses the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SymbianOS, and iPhone OS which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.

Google Maps provides high-resolution satellite images for most urban areas in the United States (including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as parts of Australia and many other countries. The high-resolution imagery has been used by Google Maps to cover all of Egypt's Nile Valley, Sahara desert and Sinai. Google Maps also covers many cities in the English speaking areas. However, Google Maps is not solely an English maps service, since its service is intended to cover the world. The highest-resolution images are in some Japanese cities, such as Tokyo.
Various governments have complained about the potential for terrorists to use the satellite images in planning attacks.[4] Google has blurred some areas for security (mostly in the United States)[5], including the U.S. Naval Observatory area (where the official residence of the Vice President is located), and previously[citation needed] the United States Capitol and the White House (which formerly featured this erased housetop). Other well-known government installations, including Area 51 in the Nevada desert, are visible. Not all areas on satellite images are covered in the same resolution. Places that are less populated are usually not covered in as much detail as populated areas. In some areas, there are patches of clouds which make the map cluttered.[6]
With the introduction of an easily pannable and searchable mapping and satellite imagery tool, Google's mapping engine prompted a surge of interest in satellite imagery. Sites were established which feature satellite images of interesting natural and man-made landmarks, including such novelties as "large type" writing visible in the imagery, as well as famous stadia and unique geological formations. As of November 2008[update], the U.S. National Weather Service also now uses Google Maps within its local weather forecasts, showing the 5 times 5 km "point forecast" squares used in forecast models.[7]
Although Google uses the word satellite, most of the high-resolution imagery is aerial photography taken from airplanes rather than from satellites.[8]

Reference : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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