Smart Phones - What are you using?

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Does the Iphone have video ?? and whats the camera like??

It is rumored that a new iPhone will be released in the next couple of months with the release of version 3.0 of its OS that will include video and video editing capabilities on the level of the Flip Camera.

It is also rumored that the current low-end model will be available for less than $100.00 at the same time.

Will have to wait and see on both accounts.

--------------- Added 01 May 2009 at 07:15 ---------------

Originally Posted by lasto

I heard the GPhone was supposed to beat the iphone hands down - what happened there

They teamed up with T-Mobile in the United States which many people see as a company for teens and not for business. Others see them as a second tier company as they don't have a lot of penetration in the market and their marketshare reflects this.

Whereas Apple signed their exclusive deal with the company that has the largest wireless network in North America. They also got that company to eat 60% of the costs of a new device by allowing them to force users to get a 2 yr contract with an expensive data plan.

Like it or not Apple coined the market with the Iphone and proberly will continue to dominate the market in yrs to come.

The Blackberry Storm is actually a better device than the iPhone and probably has as much if not more application support than the iPhone. While the App store has a lot of apps, there is a lot of repetition and things that are plain silly. However whereever there is an iPhone app, you can be sure that there is probably a Blackberry clone around the corner. Unfortunately, the Storm is a Verizon exclusive and will be hobbled by their obsolete CDMA network. Verizon will be better able to compete in 2012 when they switch to LTE

I'll not deny that the iPhone is a strong device in the market but it didn't create anything that wasn't already being done for a decade previous to its release. People have been Blackberry and Palm devices long before the iPhone and they will continue to use them. Especially, since you can't get Microsoft Outlook (and therefore Exchange) on your iPhone yet.

Apple isn't really the first to the market in new segments these days. They just seem to do better marketing than some of their competitors. Even their new "Mini Tablet" product that is rumored is already available from HTC in the form of the HTC Shift.