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IPHONE 3G has just been released and is a great phone but there are also some other phones which are priced similarly and have different features as compared the iPhone. There is a wide range of mobile products available for consumers to choose from. All these phones have regular features like calling, messaging, e-mail, high speed web browsing ,Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity etc, but there are those smart phones, which have features that the iPhone does not offer. All new phones now have accelerometers, touch screens and other sensors, all thanks to the iPhone. While some of these are called iPhone killers, each brand has its own faithful clientele.
The main contenders
Samsung Omnia i900: It has a 3.2-inch display and being a windows mobile phone, it offers a greater variety of softwares and games. It is packed with features like a 5 mega pixel camera, 8 GB / 16 GB internal memory, multi-touch, windows mobile 6.1 Pro etc. FM radio with RDS, geotagging, 3.5 mm audio jack, TouchWiz UI, optical joystick. It has flash and video recording. The audio quality is also excellent.
HTC Touch Diamond is easily the lightest and the thinnest windows mobile phone in the market. It is a Microsoft windows mobile-based handset with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, GPS receiver and 3.2-megapixel camera. A breakthrough in size, style, connectivity and overall user experience,available through Airtel for Rs 27,500
The HTC Touch Pro is a powerful and feature packed phone. It sports 288 MB RAM, coupled with a very powerful 528 MHZ processor. It runs on windows mobile 6.1 Pro and features a very cool user interface-TouchFLO 3D. In addition it features many more softwares and games from the windows mobile stable. It has 3.2 megapixel cam with AF anf flash and supports video recording . It comes with a QWERTY keypad too, which slides under the back of the phone.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a windows mobile, a multimedia entertainment device, 3 inch VGA display has a 3.2 megapixel camera too, with auto focus, flash and VGA video recording. The QWERTY keyboard is much more comfortable when typing, compared to a virtual onscreen keyboard.
LG KF700 is the first phone to integrate three separate input methods: a 3-inch touchscreen, a shortcut dial, and an alphanumeric keypad. Other features include an MP3 player, MPEG4 video player, 3 megapixel camera,. External memory is supported via microSD cards.
The Nokia N96, though not a touchscreen phone, has everything you could ever expect from a phone. A superb 5 MP cam with auto focus and flash, video recording - VGA at 30 FPS, 16 GB internal memory, A-GPS, a DVB - H receiver, a dual ARM 9 CPU, 128 MB RAM, a brilliant 2.8″ 16M colour screen The most popular smart phone OS ever, it features the most user friendly interface.
BlackBerry Bold features a 2 megapixels camera with video recording capability, the phone comes with built-in flash and 5x digital zoom. For music and video, the BlackBerry desktop manager software includes Roxio media manager for BlackBerry as well as Roxio Photosuite 9 LE, to edit pictures and create photo albums on the computer.
Sony Ericsson C905 is latest and greatest cybershot. It will have a mind boggling; 8.1 MP super cam with AF, flash, VGA video recording at 30 FPS and the likes. It is the best camera phone ever and gets precariously close to digicam territory. It has 128 MB internal memory and theoretically supports up to 32 GB. It has all the other regular stuff like 3G, A-GPS, geotagging, WLAN, bluetooth with A2DP etc. Like the Nokia N96, this one also doesn’t sport a touchscreen.
There are others too like
Samsung Instinct
Sony Ericsson W960i
Nokia N95 8GB
Motorola ZN5
LG Viewty
Nokia E90
LG Prada
Coming back to the iPhone, the following are some of its disadvantages, as it lacks certain features even found in most low-end cellphones currently available in the market.
IPhone has
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No provision for video recording.
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Does not allow copy and paste.
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2 megapixel (MP) camera, while flash and optical zoom are missing .
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Cannot simply forward a text message, but can only be sent via email.
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No multiple contacts for SMS, hence no bulk mail.
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Cannot delete mails and photo albums in bulk, but only one by one.
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Cannot change an iPhone battery, but has to be sent to an Apple outlet .
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No support for Adobe Flash .
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No support for wireless modem.
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Cannot get all YouTube videos, but only a few selected ones that have been rolled out for the Apple-favored H.264 video codec.
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Cannot download ring tones from anywhere except iTunes.
Well, mobile companies are not taking any chance to allow Apple from taking over the cell phone market the way it has swept the MP3 player market. Each brand has its own loyal clientele and handsets are very much a personal choice, and the good news is that, there is an enormous range to choose from.
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