As the mobile world has evolved, new players have started to take market share from the established players. Let’s take a look at three of the best up and coming manufacturers.
iPhone 3GS
The first thing that will strike you about the iPhone 3GS is how fast and responsive it is. After all, the ‘S’ in the name iPhone 3GS does actually stand for ‘Speed’. It’s up to twice as fast as its predecessor was, and that increase in speed isn’t the only new thing. You now get a 3 megapixel camera, a choice of 16 or 32Gb of storage space, and full voice control throughout the whole of the phone. Plus, of course, you get the cool factor that only comes from owning an iPhone 3GS.
HTC Hero
Android is trying to take over the world, and its new home is the beautiful HTC Hero. It has all the good stuff that made the first Android phone (the G1) good, but puts it all in a touchscreen-only body, which is both sleek and sexy. Since the keyboard has been removed, the HTC Hero also has a full, onscreen keyboard, and a sumptuous new interface called Sense. You also get the Android Marketplace, which lets you download and install third party apps to your HTC Hero, and it ends up creating a smartphone that really can morph into whatever you want it to be. It really is a kind of Hero; it’s the HTC Hero.
Palm Pre
So, the iPhone 3GS offers that perceptible cool factor, and the HTC Hero offers a game-changing open source software solution. And since Palm have been around for years, one must ask: what does the Palm Pre offer that’s different? Well, one could talk about the WebOS interface it uses, as it’s unique in the annals of phone history. And indeed, there’s one feature of WebOS, directly related to the keyboard, that makes the Palm Pre so cool. Universal search. Now, many phones do that, but the Palm Pre does it so much more cleverly. Just start typing what you want to know about, from the front screen, and the Palm Pre will search your contacts, apps, music, pictures, and even the internet, to interpret and find what you’re looking for. That really is a cool feature, and it may well make the Palm Pre the coolest QWERTY phone out there. If you value the interface above all else, the Palm Pre is the phone for you.