Counterclockwise: iPhone 4, Lumia 1020, Galaxy S4 Active

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Counterclockwise: iPhone 4, Lumia 1020, Galaxy S4 Active

<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/...This TV Show is available upon demand...This means if you want the download link for this show, you should  reply here and we will reply  for you the download link ASAP...So please if you want to download this please don't hesitate reply here and we will be more than happy to post it for you..../newsimg/14/01/this-day-5-years-ago/thumb.jpg" width="70" height="92" hspace="3" alt="" border="0" align=left style="background:#333333;padding:0px;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#aaaaaa;border-width:1px" /> <p>Welcome to this week's edition of Counterclockwise - our weekly article that looks back in time at what happened in the last few years. This week iPhones and Galaxys dominate the the discussion, but we have a surprise appearance by the grandaddies of smartwatches.



iPhone 4 stirs the pot

Four years ago Apple began the resolution wars - the new iPhone 4 had a so-called Retina display with 640 x 960 resolution, or 326 pixels per inch. Few came close to that kind of sharpness at the time, but the floodgates were opened.





Apple iPhone 4

That was four years ago and the iPhone is still stuck at 326ppi, despite moving to a 16:9 screen starting with the iPhone 5. Android manufacturers meanwhile went bonkers and are already using QHD screens (1,440 x 2,560) with 534 pixels per inch.


Non-Retina and Retina displays compered

The iPhone 4 marked a few other firsts too - it was the first iPhone with a camera that made the competition shake in its boots (a great 5MP shooter with 720p video capture) and it introduced the basic design that has been used since.

The iPhone 5 swapped the glass back for metal, but the overall looks are very similar. That might be coming to an end though, leaks of the iPhone 6 point to an iPod touch-derived design.

There's more - Apple renamed &quot;iPhone OS&quot; to &quot;iOS&quot; to put the iPhone and iPad under the same umbrella and introduced FaceTime, a custom video call solution.

A year later in 2011 Apple unveiled the new iOS, version 5. It brought a notification shade and built on Apple's custom messaging formats with iMessage. It enhanced regular SMS messages by routing them over the internet and it allowed users to send photos, videos and contacts more painlessly than going through MMS.



The new notification area and iMessage

That triggered somewhat of a messaging war - Google now has Hangouts, Microsoft has Skype, Samsung is pushing ChatON, BlackBerry expanded BBM to Android and there are a number of third-party messengers, one of which was bought by Facebook for a whopping $19 billion.

Zooming in on megapixels

It was five years ago when we found photos of the Samsung M8920 in our inbox sent to us by an anonymous tipster. The back of the phone showed a massive 12MP camera with a feature few phones ever had - 3x optical zoom.



This came just days after Samsung unveiled the M8910, aka Samsung Pixon12. A 12MP camera was highly impressive back then, but optical zoom would have placed it firmly above all others. Sadly, Samsung later cancelled the M8920 international version.

It was just a year ago when we received images of the Nokia EOS, which you probably know as the Lumia 1020. It promised a whopping 41MP camera, same as the Nokia 808 PureView and like it, it would be capable of lossless digital zoom.





Nokia EOS spy shots

Packing a zoom lens inside the thin body of a phone has always been a problem, so Nokia (who has made phones with optical zoom in the past) decided a large, high-resolution sensor was the way to go. We saw it first on the 808 PureView and it was perfected in the Lumia 1020 - you could do up to 3x for photos and up to 4x for 1080p video.

Clockwork telephony

Smartwatches spring from every tech company out there and have gained enough momentum for companies to develop competing platforms (Google's Android Wear and Samsung's Tizen). However, there was a time when the idea of an electronic watch with advanced features seemed just silly.

Five years ago it was revealed that the LG GD910 watch phone will arrive on Orange the following month. It was a phone in watch form factor, but it didn't run any of the smartphone OSes of the day. It did have a 1.4&quot; touchscreen, a CIF video call camera, text-to-speech for messaging, 3G connectivity an MP3 player.



This precursor to the LG G Watch was competing with the Samsung S9110 watch phone, but both failed to make much of an impact. Costing €580 couldn't have helped.

Can you hear me now?

The brand new design of the Apple iPhone 4 was a stunner, but its good legacy is marred by the phrase &quot;you're holding it wrong.&quot; Coming from noone other than Steve Jobs, it was aimed at people complaining of the &quot;death grip&quot;.

See, the metal sides of the iPhone 4 were more than just a pretty design element, they were its antennas. And depending on how you position the phone in...</p>

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