Review: iPhone 4 vs. Moto Milestone 2

With the development of technology, several of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. Now, several of the most popular

iPhone 4 -In many ways, the 3GS is a mirror image of the iPhone 3G; externally there's no difference. It's inside where all the changes have happened, with Apple issuing a beefed-up CPU, new internal compass, larger capacities for storage, and improved optics for its camera. More to the point, the release of the 3GS coincides with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0, a major jump from previous versions of the system software featuring highly sought after features like cut, copy, and paste, stereo Bluetooth, MMS, tethering, video recording, landscape keyboard options for more applications, and an iPhone version of Spotlight. It's important to remember that real-world use will be a better judge of the iPhone 3GS' endurance. The large color display, frequently switching between different applications, and heavy 3G or GPS use will drain the battery faster than just making a call. As it's difficult to develop an accurate benchmark for testing battery life while multitasking, your experience will vary widely depending on how you use your iPhone 3GS. There are quite a few things you can do to maximize battery life, but we recommend using Wi-Fi over 3G whenever possible, limiting GPS use, and dimming your display's brightness. The 3Gs is the first iPhone to show the percentage of battery charge on the Home screen.

Moto Milestone 2- Like its previous incarnations, the Milestone 2 is a bit of a handful at 116x61x14mm and 169g. The front is dominated by the 3.7-inch, 480x854 pixel capacitive touchscreen which has a sliver of touch sensitive buttons beneath it in standard Android style: menu, home, back and search. Around the sides are volume rocker, shutter button and uncovered mini USB power/sync port. On top there's a 3.5mm headphone jack and a power/screen lock button. It's running the very latest 2.2 version of Android, which adds a few style and functionality tweaks including the ability to turn the handset into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot for use with up to five other devices (included here, but it kills the battery). There are seven home screens on the Milestone 2 version, each of which can be populated with widgets and shortcuts in the usual Android way. There's also a neat little bar at the bottom of the screen which displays a series of dots to show you which screen you're on. We were impressed by Motoblur when it first appeared on the DEXT, with its ability to pull together all our Facebook, Twitter and email alerts into a single stream and hold them in the cloud so they could be accessed anywhere. But we were perplexed when it was unaccountably left off the original Milestone, for reasons best known to Motorola.

It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players? This is not a problem at all. You can use almost any audio/video converter no matter what spammers claim.