Top 5 iPhone 3G Killers
The iPhone 3G has just released and we have reviewed it already. It is a great phone but definitely not the best out there. We take a look at some phones which, while priced similarly to the iPhone, have many features that are much better than the iPhone 3G. They can easily kick the iPhone 3G’s ass in a one to one face off. So here we present the devices, that we think, can dethrone the iPhone to become the king of smartphones. All these phones have all the regular features like calling, messaging, email, high speed web browsing etc, so we won’t be elaborating much on those points. We will highlight and compare just those features which are in direct contrast to the iPhone. All these devices will be releasing, hopefully, by the end of 2008. All new phones now have accelerometers, touchscreens and other sensors, all thanks to the iPhone. Do note that the devices are in no particular order.
Side note: The iPhone 3G has changed the history of mobile phone development and set the path for constant innovation. Its Multi Touch UI is its biggest asset. It was so cool and innovative, that even after a year of the iPhone’s release, no manufacturer has been able to beat it in terms of user interface capabilities. However even after the release of the iPhone 3G, it still has some very stupid shortcomings like – no video recording, no cut paste abilities, no MMS, no A2DP, no Flash support etc.
Top 5 iPhone 3G Killers
Samsung Omnia i900 :
The creators of the Omnia i900 at Samsung definitely had the iPhone 3G as a target in mind when they made the Omnia i900. Whatever features the iPhone lacks in, the Omnia makes up for it in the best possible way. It is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 and sports an iPhone esque Multi Touch interface – Touch Wiz. Though it is not as refined as the iPhone Multi Touch UI, it does come very close. It sports a superb 5MP cam and has everything that the iPhone does not – Flash, Video recording ( VGA at 15 FPS & QVGA at 30 FPS ), FM with RDS, A2DP. The audio quality is close in line with the iPhone 3G. Being a Windows Mobile phone, it offers a greater variety of softwares and games. It offers up to 8 GB expandable memory compared to iPhone 3G’s 8 / 16 GB.
HTC Touch Pro :
The HTC Touch Pro is the most powerful and feature packed phone ever on Earth. 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 which is just as good as the iPhone’s UI. In addition it features many more softwares and games from the Windows Mobile stable. The 3.2 MP Cam with AF & Flash is much better than iPhone’s 2 MP Cam. It supports CIF ( 352*288 ) Video recording at 30 FPS. It comes with a QWERTY keypad too which slides under the back of the phone. It combines style (Multi Touch) with usability (QWERTY) and is much more suited for office executives.
Sony Ericsson XPeria X1 :
The Sony Ericsson XPeria X1 is a slightly underpowered clone of the HTC Touch Pro. It marks Sony Ericsson’s foray into Windows Mobile phones. It is slimmer and lighter than the HTC Touch Pro and with a supposedly inferior UI. It sports 256 MB RAM, a little lesser than the Touch Pro. It has a 3.2 MP Cam too, with Auto Focus, Flash and VGA Video recording at 30 FPS. The other features are almost same as the Touch Pro which mean that it pretty much pawns the iPhone 3G except in the UI department. The QWERTY keyboard is much more comfortable when typing, compared to a virtual onscreen keyboard.
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Nokia N96 :
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 color screen – the list just doesn’t end. It is powered by Symbian s60 V3.2 OS v9.3 – The most popular smartphone OS ever. It has huge 3rd party application support, second only to perhaps Windows Mobile. It has the most user friendly interface in smartphones. Even though it doesnt have Multi Touch, it easily surpasses the iPhone in terms of its easy to use UI. It is going to be the flagship Nokia smartphone and packs enough power to kill the iPhone 3G. The UI with the iPhone 3G comparison is subjective. Its Webkit based inbuilt OSS browser and Opera mobile are just as good as Apple OS X’s safari and even beats it in some aspects.
Sony Ericsson C905 :
The C905 is Sony Ericsson’s latest and greatest Cybershot. It will have a mind boggling; yea, hold your breath, 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. Taking awesome pictures is in its genes. It has 128 MB internal memory and theoretically supports up to 32 GB. It has all the other regular stuff like 3G, A-GPS, Geo tagging, WLAN, Bluetooth with A2DP etc. Like the Nokia N96, this one also doesn’t sport a touchscreen, but WTH! , does one need Multi Touch with all such features packed in?
And Re-introducing the current nemesis of the iPhone 3G,
The HTC Touch Diamond :
The HTC Touch Diamond is the current reigning iPhone 3G ass kicker. It will soon be surpassed by its successor, the HTC Touch Pro. It has similar features to the HTC Touch Pro – Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro + Touch FLO 3D, except that it doesnt have the QWERTY keypad and has less RAM – just about 192 MB. The only negatives with the Touch Diamond are the absence of a QWERTY keypad and the slightly laggy Touch FLO 3D user interface. You can check out the HTC Diamond review here.
Note: The others who didn’t make it to the list, for the sole reason that the top 5 were much better, were:
- Samsung Instinct
- Nokia E90
- Nokia N95 8 GB
- Nokia N82
- LG Prada
- Motorola ZN5
- LG KF750 Secret
- LG Viewty
- Sony Ericsson W960i
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Written by John Alexi on July 14th, 2008 | Category: Cell Phone | 79 Comments »
menghua
July 14, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Samsung Omnia using QVGA screen which I think the visual will not as pretty as Iphone though..
C
July 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm
How about any modern Blackberry?
John thomas
July 15, 2008 at 8:41 am
Yawn, I really dont see what all the IPhone Fuss is about!
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chemicaltomb
July 15, 2008 at 8:44 am
these are nice phones but i dont think there “iphone killers” i would take the original iphone over any of them…. iphoes i really well made and have a massive screen (for a cell) that coupled with the hipe…. nothing can stop the iphone
joe
July 15, 2008 at 8:47 am
is that a joke about a blackberry?! come on
josh
July 15, 2008 at 8:50 am
and.. the prices of these phones are?
i know the HTC diamond is far more expensive than the iphone.
remember, you can’t just beat the iphone in function, you have to beat it in price, too. (not to mention, who the heck wants to use windows media player as their jukebox?)
stirlo
July 15, 2008 at 9:00 am
blackberry = fail
focher
July 15, 2008 at 9:01 am
Man, Apple is really lucky to have such competitors. It’s like printing money for them.
phone guy
July 15, 2008 at 9:01 am
Have you seen the full capability of iphone though?
Only once you have jailbroken the phone and gotten your hands on all the cool apps does the full functionality emerge.
The iphone store leaves a lot to be developed…
have you tried:
tap tap revolution – awesome game uses your music
socks server – allows me to get internet on my laptop through my iphone!
raging thunder: 3d racing game that uses accelerometer
spoof app – uses caller id spoofing to change your caller id to anything and also record calls and change your voice
voice notes – take voice notes on your phone
video recorder: record videos on your iphone using the camera
Emulators – play NES, SNES, playstation, genesis and gameboy advanced games on your phone. I have like 60 classic games including zelda, super mario brothers, etc.
well I have about 80 programs installed, some great stuff, too much to write about here
but the power of the iphone isn’t in the hardware… comparing cameras and keyboards doesn’t take into consideration that the iphone software will dominate the handheld industry. Windows mobile programs are lame compared to those for iphone.
And by the way, I can type on my iphone at 30 words per minute consistently, sometimes higher. Maybe you can do better on a physical keyboard but 30 wpm is impressive.
Once this cool software becomes mainstream, there will be no iphone killer. There’s no tap screen that’s going to beat the iphone in terms of market share, iphone will win hands down.
They might as well start developing the nanotech wristband phone cause apple already has the touch screen market in the bag.
ray
July 15, 2008 at 9:04 am
Totally on the mark. I mean the only reason that the iPhone is popular is that it has a touch screen. Anyone can make a touchscreen. Plus, once the Zune gets integrated into a Windows Mobile phone no one will ever buy an iPhone again.
stinkbug
July 15, 2008 at 9:05 am
“All these devices will be releasing, hopefully, by the end of 2008.”
That about says it all right there. The iPhone G3 is already out.
Nirmal
July 15, 2008 at 9:08 am
My vote goes to XPERIA or Omnia and next comes C905
Justin
July 15, 2008 at 9:10 am
After reading the expected specs for these 5 devices you’re saying may be better than the iPhone, I still don’t know which one of them features one or a combination of the features you are knocking the iPhone 3G about. Which of these have copy/paste? Which can do MMS? Which have A2DP? Which support Flash?
Hardware specs or the fact that WinMo 6.1 is better than 6.0 doesn’t mean iPhone killer. Multitouch is a huge advantage in UI. Pretty icons or vibrating feedback means jack if it is still point and click around a kludgy Web browser interface.
Furthermore, the rich development platform for commercial, prosumer and amature developers is what sets the iPhone apart from the rest of the also-rans. Manufacturers and carriers continue to put themselves up against the iPhone in a Smartphone VS mobile computing platform device–and in this case, you can’t compare their oranges to Apple.
Eddie
July 15, 2008 at 9:12 am
I have to say as with the ipod. Apple is 2 generations ahead of many phones and all this with just basically a year in the competition. There are few things that the iphone should add but many are software capable. And that’s where the iphone is king! iphone 2.0 is years ahead of any of these phones or any outhere right now. It all has to do with the mac os X background…. All i’m waiting for to see is the new blackberry touchscreen. But even then there’s no mac os x as an operating system so they are bound to fail!.. as with the ipod.. the iphone will prevail. Resistance is futile!
Bruce
July 15, 2008 at 9:14 am
Funny, I haven’t heard anyone talking about (for instance) an HTC Touch Pro killer. I wonder why not?
Me, I want to see some Android phones.
sd
July 15, 2008 at 9:20 am
More like a list of iPhone roadkill!
Ajay Pathak
July 15, 2008 at 9:21 am
Sony Ericsson XPeria X1 is best iphone killer
Dan R
July 15, 2008 at 9:25 am
Ok, I’ve been saying this forever… but I’ll say it again. Windows Mobile can do everything the iphone does. It just doensn’t do it well, do it responsively, do it without needing to whip out that stupid stylus.
I’ve been using winmo for the past 3 years with all manner of different roms and hardware. I just bought the iphone 3g, and I won’t look back. Software matters. The iPhone’s software kicks the pants off of winmo, and all the powerful hardware in the world cannot make up for windows mobile’s laggy, memory leaky, unresponsive software.
Nate
July 15, 2008 at 9:26 am
Yeah right, none of these have a CHANCE at dethroning the iPhone, it all comes down to software and interface, not features, and the iPhone kills the competition in software and interface. The app store has opened up TONS of possibilities for this phone. Have you seen a demo Super Monkey Ball for iPhone? It is Nintendo DS quality qraphically and is leagues above any other mobile game, hands down. If they can do this with games, imagine what they can do with other apps. This article is totally off the mark.
Sean
July 15, 2008 at 9:27 am
Unless Microsoft stabilizes Windows Mobile, it’ll never kill the iPhone. Many people use it because there’s no other option, but what do you hear whenever anybody talks about it? “Oh, my friend (coworker, brother, etc.) had one of those. He had to restart it all the time”. Hrmm, does that sound familiar Microsoft? Thought so. They didn’t learn with Windows and they won’t learn with Windows Mobile. A phone that works trumps a phone with kick-arse features any day. The iPhone is a phone with kick-arse features and it works too. I like having my cake an eating it too.
I used to hate Apple and hate Steve Jobs for his elitist attitude. I used to project iPod killers. I got sick of being wrong. The only people that have any hope of killing the iPhone are the Google Android phones, but before that can happen, the manufacturers need to pull their heads out of their asses and actually learn to build something that’s sleek, sexy AND feature packed. If Apple can do it, they can too. So, why aren’t they. All of the above just don’t have the sexiness that is the natural to Apple products.
font
July 15, 2008 at 9:27 am
None of these are iPhone killers. In fact, they are pale in comparison. It’s the entire user experience of the iPhone that makes it a better device, not just feature A or feature B. Much like a BMW is a better car than every other car out there: it doesn’t lead in every category, but it leads by far in the sum of every category.
No one comes close to Apple or BMW when it comes to experience and satisfaction.
errr...
July 15, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hate to say it, since I’m a Sprint customer, but the Instinct is a complete turd. At least now, around iPhone 3G launch, there is NOTHING out there for CDMA users that’s even close in terms of featureset, apps expansion, and elegance.
Gajan
July 15, 2008 at 9:37 am
“Plus, once the Zune gets integrated into a Windows Mobile phone no one will ever buy an iPhone again.”
- You say that as if the Zune is doing so well on the market. There’s something called the iPod and iTunes.
Anyways… it’s pretty obvious on paper, there are MANY phones that seem better than the iPhone, but what it lacks in specs, the iPhone more than makes up in ease-of-use and flexibility. The software is a solid OS (even with the recent bugs with 2.0) and NO (yes, you heard me) phone on the market has come close to perfecting the touch screen (for lack of a better word) POWER of the iPhone.
But seriously, a Zune phone being a threat to the iPhone? lol That’s like the Zune coming out 4+ years later to compete with the iPod. I ain’t a Mac fanboy, but seriously, Windows wouldn’t have a chance.
Mike
July 15, 2008 at 9:40 am
Nope sorry. None of them have the “App Store” and integration with iTunes. *THAT* is what makes the iPhone a killer device. Hey, you know that software you’ve been using to buy music with? Well now you can use the same UI to buy games and apps for your phone … oh, and your movies and podcasts will sync over automagically too. Not to mention your email and calendars.
Sorry, but Apple is the King right now and will be until the other manufacturers realize that it’s not a shiny case or touch screen that makes a phone … it’s ease of use and integration into the rest of your “Digital Life”.
1 million iPhone 3Gs … sold in 3 days.
Jams
July 15, 2008 at 10:03 am
The point being made against the iPhone is correct, there is no flash, a lousy camera and so on. But the UI in these phones isn’t remotely close to the refinement and effectiveness of the iPhone’s. From someone who’s life is UI design, I can say these phones couldn’t dream of being half of the GUI on the iPhone. Somehow as far as I am concerned, no one has ever come up with an original UI that comes close to Apple’s mobile or desktop GUIs. And this is what makes something useable and enjoyable. Without this, it’s a bunch of unusable features. Why do you think Apple has so many disturbingly fanatical followers? It’s because they enjoy and essentially fall in love with their gadgets.
Mike McKenzy
July 15, 2008 at 10:07 am
Ray…you are hilarious! Just like when the Zune came out no one bought iPhones anymore??? C’mon. Non of those phones come close to iPhone 1st gen or 3G and we all know it. No one had a touch screen phone like iPhone until after it was released. And now all the copy cats are trying to jump on board (sound like iPod revolution??) But not able to create a suitable competitor. I wish they would, then iPhone would be even less expensive!
fisto
July 15, 2008 at 10:35 am
blackberry Bold definitely kills iPhone 3G
d3m0n
July 15, 2008 at 10:49 am
the i900 omnia has 8/16 gb internal memory and supports upto 8gb micro SD card, so the effective total storage is beyond iphone.
Seth
July 15, 2008 at 11:05 am
yea too bad all these phones are just about 1000, unlike the iphone which is 199
Cyrious Garnetski
July 15, 2008 at 11:17 am
Which one of these killers will be selling a million units the first weekend they are on the market? I don’t have an iPhone nor do I plan to get one, but I recognize that whether or not any of these phones are “better” than the iPhone they are not going to kill the iPhone.
nix0n
July 15, 2008 at 11:44 am
iPhone has no flash. Is that really Apple’s fault ? No, its that Adobe hasn’t jumped up on the bandwagon to create a mobile version of a flash player. That, and the amount of processing power required to run a flash app? The time it takes to download a flash app (even at 3G speeds) ? Come on, as a tech-nerd you’re focusing on lacking features – but most “phone users” aren’t going to even care at what Mhz the phone runs on. They’re typical non-nerd users like your mom and grandma.
Seriously?
Omnia: $400
HTC Touch Pro: $800.00
Sony Ericsson XPeria X1: $900.00
Nokia N96: $800.00
Sony Ericsson C905: $1,400.00
HTC Touch Diamond: $700.00
iPhone (which mind you, now that it is on a 3G network is mostly controlled by software updates): $200
Now, for all these others phones… are they as streamlined, easy to use, and give you the option of having an all-inclusive online store? One place where you go for movies, music and tv shows (in addition to getting updates for your phone, and the ability to download even more applications?)
Hardly think so.
These are just phones with a few extra features, but at least twice the price.
Luckily, I haven’t been sucked into the iPhone-phase. I don’t own one, and most likely will wait for a few more things that I need – but I can honestly tell you that these phones are not iPhone killers. iPhone is in a class in all of its own.
Inexpensive, intuitive, stylish, and you only need one application to use it. iTunes. Done deal. For your grandma, it’s the greatest phone on earth – and is definitely setting the framework for other future releases.
But, honestly, if you’re going to make a list – check the price points too. The price of the phone is much more important than if you had MMS messaging or not.
Sorry, went off on a rant there.
– nix0n
His Shadow
July 15, 2008 at 12:01 pm
>> ray
July 15, 2008 at 9:04 am
Totally on the mark. I mean the only reason that the iPhone is popular is that it has a touch screen. Anyone can make a touchscreen.<<
Yeah? So why didn’t they? Why did every last one of them wait for Apple to show them how it’s done?
And guess what. Touch is one thing, Multitouch is entirely another. But go ahead, keep playing the insert-Apple-product-here Killer card.
Arthur
July 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I vote for the SE Xperia X1!
d3m0n
July 15, 2008 at 1:16 pm
$200 really?
wat about the contract..
Do ur research iphone with its half baked functionality is well above $500.
Lancelot
July 15, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I have a 1st. gen. iPhone that’s jailbreaked & I won’t be buying the 3G. The one thing the 1st. gen. did that the 3G can’t is deliver all that’s promised. Especially when you consider the increase in Monthly fee’s that AT&T has demanded. If you look at the AT&T 3G coverage map only a small part of the country is covered but everyone seemed to miss this fact. If I’m paying extra for 3G then I should be seeing a lot more coverage. Also, Apple really missed the boat when it came to some of the hardware. Take the camera, its only 2MB & should have been upgraded but it wasn’t, Why? I think due to the processor they use not being able to handle the load of a 5MB. Finally, Is the software great, Yes. Is the iPhone Great overall, No. Is it a Good phone that has a very over priced phone plan, Yes.
ramon
July 15, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Interesting comments, but no one has paid attention to modern phones running on Linux. These ones will kill iphone 3G. For instance OpenMoko [http://www.openmoko.com/].
mj
July 15, 2008 at 1:26 pm
There’s a serious disconnect between what geeks think is an iPhone killer and what will actually be one.
For example, the HTC Touch Diamond is pumped as the latest iPhone killer. If that’s the case then I’m even more convinced of this division. My SO, decidedly non-geek, returned the HTC Touch Diamond after less than a weekend because it simply doesn’t deliver. Sluggish interface, especially jarring when you exit the lovely TouchFLO and find yourself stranded in Windows mobile (her words, not mine)
Sure, it has a front facing video camera for all of the video calls she never makes. It was a 640×480 screen but so small it might as well have been 480×320. The hardware, though beautiful and great sized was marred by an unresponsive touch screen and a proprietary headphone jack.
Similarly, examining the reviews, especially video reviews of other devices indicate that why they may have additional features – they miss out on responsiveness. .e.g the Samsung instinct videos hide the fact the browser and mapping applications take forever to launch.
And don’t get me started on the N95 models. Good grief.
As long as geeks are measuring the competence of devices by the paper specifications, then they’ll never be able to appreciate or predict an iPhone killer.
Ian H
July 15, 2008 at 3:04 pm
It’s important to keep in mind that with the iphone Apple is primarly focused on building a computing platform, not a great phone. Phone elements not critical to the computing mission are included as table-stakes, but they don’t need to be good quality.
If Apple can convince the masses that they have the best platform for interacting with facebook, surfing the web, playing games, and checkng email (primarily computing tasks for the average joe), the fact that they offer mediocre GPS software and a sub-par camera are moot.
Sure, the masses will look for this stuff, but not much past “Camera?
check! GPS? Check”.
If Apple can win a critical mass of users willing to pay premium OS upgrade/network/application fees, they win big, and they can afford to fix that other stuff later.
Looking for a great phone? Keep looking.
Wondering when Apple is going to release a game-changing ‘tablet’
computing platform? Pickup an iPhone, you’re looking at it.
tb72
July 15, 2008 at 3:56 pm
“Omnia: $400
HTC Touch Pro: $800.00
Sony Ericsson XPeria X1: $900.00
Nokia N96: $800.00
Sony Ericsson C905: $1,400.00
HTC Touch Diamond: $700.00
iPhone (which mind you, now that it is on a 3G network is mostly controlled by software updates): $200″
really? Cause last i heard the iphone was about $599 without contract,which is what you’re listing as prices for the other phones.
as for price and ease of use and availability right now,the instinct is taking a small (but effective) chunk of users away from apple.Considering theres now a waiting list to get one.The dare also look like a great phone.Just as with the ipod there are “just as good” products out there,it’s just the brand people will go after.In this case Apple has planted its feet in trendy marketing.So owning anything less than apple to some people is less-chic.Alse i’d like to add that apple did not,i repeat-did not sell one million units over the weekend.Theres an article in fortune somewhere that says apple counts the phones they shipped to ATT as “sold” regardless if they sold them or not.So once they’re out of the iphone plant,they’re considered sold,and if they did sell one million phones in the whole world,thats not as astonishing as you make it seem.You’re just being a fan boy and adding to the hype.
IntrepidSilence
July 15, 2008 at 6:25 pm
You are comparing Windows Mobile to the iPhone? Are you kidding? That is the most unstable, unusable platform I have ever used. Perhaps the Symbian Sony phone will give some level of competition but I wouldn’t count on it. None of the phones above offer the same level of integration, ease of use, and stability that the iPhone offers.
Ben
July 15, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I don’t see people lining up on TV for any of these phones.
Justin Cider
July 15, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Ahh… come on! You know the Motorola KRZR is where it’s at!
DexterP
July 15, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Here are the links to 3D models of ‘iPhone killers’:
Samsung:
http://3dsn.com/#keywords=Samsung&category=13
Sony Ericsson:
http://3dsn.com/#keywords=Sony%20Ericsson&category=13
Nokia:
http://3dsn.com/#keywords=Nokia&category=13
Use these images for your news and blogs.
sikanrong
July 15, 2008 at 10:46 pm
windows mobile = fail.
Tyler
July 16, 2008 at 8:33 am
The Blackberry Bold looks like the best contender for an iPhone killer.
Joe the Intro
July 16, 2008 at 10:14 am
I really like my Blackberry Curve. I’d rather have it than the iPhone. Why? 1. It works on Verizon’s network 2. It has high speed Internet (No 3G from AT&T where I live) 3. Work email works on the Blackberry, two buddies have the iPhone 2 and they can’t get Exchange email to work 4. I have a Google Chat App, Twitter App, Facebook App and Opera Mobile loaded. 5. It was only $50 with a new every 2 discount
Not an iPhone killer but I really like my Blackberry!
Ahp28
July 18, 2008 at 2:06 pm
“In this case Apple has planted its feet in trendy marketing.So owning anything less than apple to some people is less-chic.” quoted from tb72.
Now i know why the iphone was such a hit. It a device to show off to the rest of the world that everything else is inferior(which everything else isn’t). Once everyone gets one, it won’t be unique anymore. “Chic” people say they are trend setters, Yeah Right! If seen roadside sweepers to toilet cleaners using it. O man! the iphone is sooo “chic”, its the next “In Thing”.
Top 5 iPhone Wannabes
July 19, 2008 at 9:22 pm
iPhone is not the coolest thing ou there, there are some serious competitors
Mike
July 20, 2008 at 9:14 am
The biggest problem with most of the phones you listed is they are running Windows Mobile. While WM 6 is better than the previous generations it’s still windows and the problems inherent with the OS. I still prefer smart phones that are not running WM.
Shug
July 21, 2008 at 8:38 am
iPhone made by Apple… end of story… Rubbish. iPhone has a bigger screen? Crap resolution. Xperia has professional developers, better design, bigger resolution and it is much more compact than the iPhone. Yes iPhone is cheaper, but that’s what you pay for when you buy a cheap device.
mj
July 21, 2008 at 3:59 pm
LOL @Shug. I always thought Denial was a river in Egypt.
I’d like to see an Xperia do a faceoff against iPhone in the things that matter.
Suggy
July 22, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Shug, you really did make a fool out of yourself there didn’t you?! lol Stupid prick.
Come back when you have something constructive to say instead of just acting like a jealous phanbuoy.
mj
July 22, 2008 at 7:56 pm
@Shug – tell you what – let us know when the Xperia is actually available for people to buy. Easy to say it’s better from a demo video but they said that about the Instinct and the Touch Diamond – both of which were actually pants.
Recon
July 23, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Hmm Interesting,
Everyone is saying “og your a apple fan bot because you can;t admit that windows mobile is just as good” well face the facts Windows mobile has a unresponsive touch screen and has lots of bugs, not to say the iphone doesn’t.
I currently own a instinct and a iphone 3g and by looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong shot the iphone 3g wins. you say the iphone crap because it doesn’t have mms or a 5 MP camera i mean what would you prefer i mobile phone that has everything but is slow sluggish and unresponsive or a phone that has a alot of great things every day people use and had one of the best touch screens ever designed for a phone. Not to mention the rich web browsing experience.
So don’t go calling people apple fans boy when you cannot admit that the apple iphone is one of the best smart phone to date so you say oh it doesn’t have this it doesn’t have that but in true fact nearly all of those things can be activated with basically a new app from the app store.
To me the iphone prevails over nearly all windows mobile phone because of one simple little things.
“It does WHAT i WANT, WHEN i WANT WITHOUT any troubles needless to say alot of windows phone can do all of this if not more but with a sluggish user interface o it all comes down to one thing and easy to use interface with apple have basically perfected to date.
So my vote goes to the iphone 3G because of this but in the end it’s what you want.
Anyways it’s only a phone? right?
Rip Ragged
July 29, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Interesting grouping. Every iPhone wannabe on the planet with the “killer” appellation attached to it.
Please do a side by side table comparing all the features an iPhone has and doesn’t have. I’d want a phone that has all the features an iPhone has, plus all the other features it should have.
A nice, easy to read table should make that fairly simple to assess.
I’ll keep an eye out for it. Thanks.
Its Me
August 10, 2008 at 8:46 pm
to Quote “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,”
Sorry but that what I expect from a camera NOT a phone, yes its great to have them on a phone, but to expect them !!!!
ITS A PHONE.
James Simon
August 14, 2008 at 3:37 am
I disagree with this statement about the HTC Touch entirely:
…Pro and features a very cool User Interface – TouchFLO 3D which is just as good as the iPhone’s UI.
When I was shopping for phones, I found the HTC Touch interface to perturbing at best and the touch screen elements best suited for small children with very skinny fingers. Although the iPhone was not to my satisfaction either, I found the HTC Touch to have an inferior interface.
Of course, it is feature rich so you can always say that your phone has 10 features you don’t use instead of the 5 that come with the iPhone.
In the end I settled on the HTC Mogul with it’s bulk and slide out keypad.
IPs
August 22, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Yeah! its really great blog man! i love htc diamond. Its a real competitor and killer of i phone!
koolbluez
August 25, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Patz…… You forgot the 8MPx LG KC910 with Schneider-Kreuznach lens, upto ISO1600, xenon flash, image stabilization, face, smile & blink detection, camera geo-tagging, video capture @ VGA resolution,30fps & QVGA,upto 120fps for slow motion effect, 3″ WQVGA 240×400 265k color hardened glass touchscreen, Dolby sound, DivX/XviD, all in a 108×56×14mm profile weighin 114g!
Twist
August 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hi, I got Omnia about a month ago and have to say it has not crushed once since. WM 6.1 is actualy stable and fast and comparing to my friends iphone 3g I would defently stick with Omnia and my friend is changing to it as well. Simply has more feutures and it is very user friendly since samsung changed WM a bit and added its own feutures, for example it plays divx and has tv out.
ronniel
September 3, 2008 at 3:47 pm
hi can i asked a question? wear can i get free games for my cellphone?
yj
September 3, 2008 at 4:17 pm
iPhone is the best phone in the world as it offers tons of astonishing apps and functions.
conclusion : iPhone is the best of bestsssssssss.
its me
September 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Quote Twist ” I got Omnia about a month ago and have to say it has not crushed once since”
My iphone has never crushed anything either.
His Shadow
September 23, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Noise. Nothing but noise. Any article that has the insert-Apple-product-here Killer simply doesn’t get it. How many years has the competition had to create the iPod Killer? 7? They aren’t even close. The one-two punch of the iPhone/App store will make the iPhone the dominant smart phone on the market. Not only will its feature set rapidly improve while old models continue to be upgraded (a situation practically non-existent on other mobile systems) but applications will stretch the boundaries of what can be done with a mobile, internet connected device. And those applications are available, immediately, from a single download as you go source.
Analysts who continue to imagine the Apple product killer are simply unaware of the leaps and bounds Apple is beyond their closest competitor. And they are not about to give up that lead.
Raj S
October 3, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Right now, Google android phone can be names as the iPhone killer.
mj
October 9, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Really? With one handset, no market and poor hardware you’re ready to declare a winner?
Idiotic…
its me
October 10, 2008 at 2:34 am
My mate got the samsung phone. Why does it have to come with that stick thing. My kids keep loosing the ones they have for their DS. The iPhone is a true touch screen, the others are press screens and at that can only register one touch/press at a time. It will take a lot to be an iPhone killer. The iPhone is not perfect, but is more perfect that all the others out there.
Android will be like windows. A compatible competitor, BUT and a big BUT, it will have to work and be compatible with a lot of phones, that where the problems start. The iphone killers will have some better features that the iphone (as a lot of phones have now) but as the whole finished article, it unbeatable at the moment.
Ig Apple released flash player and a better camera (all smart phone seem to have 2mp cameras) it would set the bar right at the top. As my phone is jailbroken I can forward sms messages, send and receive MMS messages, have a video camera, have a plug and play USB drive, laptop modem, remote control for my iMac and some great games and apps.
I dont wont to slag off the other phone because I’m sure they will be great phones and make a lot of people happy, but for me there is only one phone, the iPhone.
Cheers GAry.
Jetson
January 18, 2009 at 2:08 pm
the one thing that killed all 5 things that supposedly stand a chance at killing the iPhone… they all relied on Windows UI. The number one problem with any and every smart phone other than the iPhone, is that they all run on Windows based platforms…which in a nut shell, compared to Mac OSX… it’s like comparing Nintendo DS with blip two on two football… they just don’t compete in the same league.
And why doesn’t the iPhone have video, cut n’ paste etc? They aint stupid… as soon as anyone gets close to actually competing in the slightest way… you know for sure the iPhone WILL have video, and possibly flash capabilities… but by that time, Apple will be on to the next best thing, while everyone else is stiiiil trying to compete with the iPod and the iPhones. Although, having an iPhone for over a year now, if it did have a video camera, all I’d be recording is a bunch of crap no one would want to see anyway… and having to manage it… whatever… it’s overated. Marketing and product development this day in age is a different world over what it was just 5 years ago. Apple is the master in market control… when they need to release all the horses, they will… until then, sit back and watch the iPhone continue to outsell all 5 of those iPhone wanna be’s combined in the next year, again and still. All of you out there… save yourself the trouble and headache… just get an iPhone and get on with it… you will not be disappointed… ask how many of your friends are completely satisfied, or even half way kind of like any of their Widows enabled smart phones. The percentages in each camp is staggering when you ask around. Anywhoo, if you want a super phone and a laptop (near literal) in your shirt pocket, with the worlds best UI and software based system, with a staggering number of applications in every category available in iTunes… many applications and games are completely free.
That’s enough from me… find someone else who has an iPhone and ask them their 3 favorite things about it and their 3 least favorite… they will easily give you about 10 things they like and might have 1 or 2 things they don’t like, but don’t really care much about. Ask a Blackberry owner the same question… your results will often be just the opposite… 10 things they hate, and maybe 2 things that are good… hand them an iPhone and it’s all over.
So enjoy your Windows based Stupid-phone… when you are done being taken advantage of and wasting your time and money… get that iPhone and see for yourself what your mobile smart-phone is really capable of… you’ll wish you had years sooner.