Technology certainly moves on at a frighteningly quick pace, a decade or two ago and people were lugging their phones around on a Sainsbury trolley with a 20 kilogramme battery pack, but nowadays your average smartphone is small enough to fit in your wallet.
The success of Apple’s iPhone, the granddaddy of all smartphones, shows just how much of a demand there is for these technological terrors. The ability to make calls, text, surf the net, and email all on one device is extremely useful, especially at the touch of a button. One of the major appeals of the current generation of smartphones is the development community and the sheer amount of applications on sale and in production. Most next-gen phones have a whole host of features including GPS, iTunes, games, Skype mobiles and windows live messenger mobile apps.
With so many smartphones now on the market it can be difficult to decide which one to go for. Currently there are four main contenders for the crown of best next-gen mobile, these are the iPhone 3GS, the HTC Hero, the N97 and the Palm Pre. There are several others, but these four are by far the main contenders. Like I said trying to find out which one is the best or the most suitable for you isn’t easy. If your looking for some simple and comprehensive information then head over to techradar.com which is by far the best technology review site on the web.
Having skimmed through most of the reviews it seems that iPhone, by virtue of the sheer amount of application available, is still winning the smartphone battle. However, the HTC Hero with its Google Android operating system is a close second. The HTC Hero and N97 also have the added benefit of being unlocked allowing you to choose which telecoms networks you want to use, it even gives you the option of using them as a pay as you go phone. Both the iPhone and HTC Hero currently have a large and increasing dev community which allows users to access hundreds of applications.
Although Apple is still ahead in the battle, it’s clear that the war for smartphone supremacy is not over yet.
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