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

Reference : http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/11/11/motorola-droid-causes-a-disturbance-in-android-based-web-traffic/

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