谷歌宏達分別推新品迎戰蘋果
The launch of an Apple iPhone is a cultish event, where every eye in the geek world turns to California, either via the Internet or by satellite link-up。
The result has been every other phone company tends to keep their heads firmly below the parapet when a new iPhone is due - but not this year。
Both Google (backed by Samsung) and Taiwanese phone giant HTC are to launch their “flagship” phones within days of Apple's new handset。
Samsung - engaged in an increasingly bitter legal battle with iPhone - is providing the technology for the Google-badged Nexus Prime。
It's expected to be unveiled on October 11 by Samsung。
HTC's Sensation XL is expected to appear even closer to iPhone's launch - just two days after the October 4 event, in a launch with the tantalising invitation, “Come Feel Every Beat”. The XL is a music-oriented handset - aimed directly at iPhone's traditional home ground。
Nexus handsets are traditionally used as a showcase for new technologies - the last one was the first handset with a Near Field Communication chip used for contactless payments - and Prime expected to be loaded with components such as a rumoured 1.5GHz dual-core processor, faster than many tablets or even laptops。
HTC's Sensation XL will see Google's 1.5GHz processor - and raise the internet giant a 4.7-inch screen. It's also - in a multi-million tie-up with Beats headphones - aiming to provide serious hi-fi in phone form。
Whatever Apple may have achieved, it has yet to master the art of headphones。
This is the first year when Apple's rivals may well have higher-specced phones than what comes out of Cupertino in the Let's Talk iPhone event on October 4. As ever, though, Apple has been tight-lipped - so may have a few surprises up its sleeve據英國《每日郵報》9月29日報道，蘋果公司的產品iPhone一經推出，就掀起了購買熱潮。無論是通過網絡還是衛星電視，全世界都把注意力集中在了加利福尼亞州(蘋果公司總部)。
每當有新的iPhone手機推出，其他手機公司的產品就難有出頭之日。但今年將例外。
在蘋果推出其新款iPhone之後，谷歌(由三星公司支持)和臺灣手機業巨頭宏達兩家公司也將發佈他們的“旗艦”機型。
與iPhone法律糾紛愈演愈烈的韓國三星公司負責爲谷歌的Nexus Prime提供技術支持。
預計，三星將於10月11日揭開其新品的面紗。
而宏達公司的Sensation XL預計會和新一代iPhone的發佈日期更爲接近，時間定在蘋果10月4日活動後的第三天。 屆時(宏達)會發名爲“感受每一步節拍“的邀請函。XL是一款不知不扣的音樂手機，主攻傳統iPhone的消費羣體。
Nexus手機從傳統意義上來講是作爲一款新技術的展示機型來推出。上一例就是首款應用了短距離通訊(NFC)芯片的非接觸支付系統機型。而且這款Prime有望搭載諸如1.5GHz雙核處理器等配置元件，其運行速度將會超過很多機型，甚至是筆記本電腦。
宏達公司的Sensation XL將會採用谷歌的1.5GHz單核處理器，但同時爲該機型配置了超大4.7英寸觸控屏和頭戴式耳機，旨在爲(用戶)提供真正意義上的高真音效。
無論蘋果公司在手機制造方面多麼地技術純熟，但對於頭戴式耳機的研發，它還尚未精通。
這是首次蘋果公司的競爭對手採用高規格手機對抗蘋果公司10月4日在卡布提諾市舉行的新聞發佈會“暢談蘋果”中即將推出的新產品。雖然蘋果公司依然對此守口如瓶，但新產品有望帶來的新功能新體驗仍然值得我們翹首以待。
