What are the best mobiles for LBS? To answer this questions I have taken four phones from different manufactures and compared them. In my opinion following issues are important if you want to use a mobile for LBS applications:
- buid-in GPS
- large screen size and resolution
- fast internet connection
- good usability and operating system which allows to design own applciation easily
- battery life
- prize
Maybe there are some more criteria to rate phones for their LBS suitability.
Phones |
HTC P3700 |
Nokia N96 |
Iphone 3G |
SE Xpedia |
| buid-in GPS | A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
A-GPS
|
| Screen Size | 2.8″, 640×480
|
2.8″, 240×320
|
3.5″, 480×320
|
3.0″, 800×480
|
| Internet. Conn. | GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUDA
|
GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA
|
EDGE/HSDPA
|
GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUDA
|
| Prize (EUR) | 485
|
TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Size | 102×51x11.5
|
103×55x20
|
115×62x12.3
|
110×53x17
|
| Batery (sp/by) | 270min/385h
|
150min/200h
|
300min/300h
|
TBA
|
| OS / HCI |
Windows Mobile 6.1
|
Symbian S60
|
MacOS X
|
Windows Mobile 6.1
|
| Ranking |
2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
I know this is a very limited evaluation. But for this four phones my winner is the iPhone 3G because of the great suitability and the mobile MacOS X SDK.
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
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