“iPhone Killer”. This term refers to any mobile phone that will put up a good fight against Apple’s iPhone. Now of course, whether the user prefers the ‘iPhone Killer’ or the iPhone is completely up to them. Here are some of the supposed, “iPhone Killers”

BLACKBERRY BOLD. (Released August)

Blackberry is a well respected smart phone company. They have done pretty much what no other smart phone company has ever done. The key to their success in my opinion is without a doubt the ability for almost any Blackberry to be able to check your e-mails 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

The Bold will be available on four different carriers. It comes with 3G HSDPA, wi-fi compatibility, & GPS, (Ironically all of the things iPhone has).

HTC Touch Diamond. (Release in Coming Months)

HTC has made the HTC Touch & The HTC Cruise, (Failures in my opinion). They are now moving on the their latest endeavor, the HTC Touch Diamond. 

The HTC Touch Diamond is going to be the iPhone’s key competition in my opinion. To quote Louisa Hearn from the Sydney Morning Herald, “The Touch Diamond is its answer to the mass market appeal of the iPhone” ‘It’ being HTC in this case.

The overall foot print of the handset is not really that big with a small, rectangular shape of only eleven millimeters. The screen is High Resolution. It also boasts animated access to applications such as TXT messaging, e-mail, photos, music and weather. The key part of the HTC Touch Diamond’s OS in my opinion is the fact the the touch screen is 3D. That means that some of the things on the screen will be 3-Dimensional.

The handset has a look alike of Apple’s iPod Touch Wheel, HSDPA, Wi-Fi Support, 4GB of storage, GPS and a 3.2 Megapixel camera.

 

So, there you have it. iPhone’s supposed killers. In my opinion the iPhone is better, but I could not pass judgement on handsets that are yet to be released.

 

 

Source: Sydney Morning Herald