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Is the iPhone as good as its hype? Does iPhone’s much-discussed touch-screen interface really make using the device simpler and more intuitive? That is the question. There are another two products in this usability comparison test were selected for two reasons: They were available, and they had competitive feature sets. In particular, the testers needed a touch-screen phone to compare to the iPhone and a more traditional button-based phone with strong multimedia capabilities. LG Prada has received a fair amount of publicity, which is not yet available from a U.S. cellular carrier. LG declined to participate in these tests
Nokia’s N95, based on the Series 60 variant of the Symbian platform, provides only the more traditional type of button-based navigation, but it is a multimedia powerhouse. It boasts a 5-megapixel camera and can create VGA-quality, 30-frames-per-second videos. It also supports many types of media playback and has a long list of other features including built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, not to mention a bar-code reader that came with the test device. It has a 2.6-in., 320-by-240 resolution display.

There is some news from Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. employee yesterday accidentally blogged about an upgrade to Office Mobile that shouldn’t be available for another couple of weeks.
The upgrade, when it becomes available, should solve an incompatibility issue that left Windows Mobile 6.0 users unable to read Office 2007 file formats.
Jason Langridge, who works in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile group in the U.K., wrote that Office Mobile 6.1 was available and he included a link to the download page. But a representative with Microsoft’s public relations firm said the upgrade was put on the site initially for internal testing and was accidentally made available to the public.

The new version of Office Mobile is expected to become available soon, probably within the next two weeks, he said.