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They're all quite a departure from ...
... the very first real cell phone, which weighed almost 2 pounds and is remembered here as one of "This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries."
This writer lost all
This writer lost all credibility with me when he said "the Prada - itself an iPhone knockoff"
The Prada was announced before and went to market before the iPhone.
That right there is the sincerest form of flatter folks, patterning your product to be exactly like something that doesn't exist.
Perhaps more research should have been done by this apple-fanboy before writing this drivel
I completely agree. This
I completely agree. This author should be fired. This article is full of lies.
Prada
Thanks for your comment. We've deleted the reference to Prada being a knockoff.
Jeff Caruso
Network World Site Editor
iPhone versus the world
It assumes a lot to say that the iPhone is the 100% gold standard. I have owned an iPhone, a Blackberry Curve, and a Voyager, and I find the Voyager FAR superior. The iPhone handles music better, but isn’t expandable like the other two, and I am too much of a music junkie to restrict myself to iPhone's storage limits.
The big issue I have is with your thought that on-screen keys are the way to go. Absolutely not! The touch screen is hard to learn, and even once learned is sometimes overly or under sensitive. I far prefer my large, clicky buttons under the screen of the Voyager. I won’t buy a device with purely virtual buttons again. Also, when using the touch screen for navigation, the Voyager wins with its tactile feedback.
All-in-all, I'll agree with CNET and rank my Voyager higher than the iPhone. Tell Apple to catch up with their competitors, not vice versa.
What's wrong with QWERTY?
How come the author knocks QWERTY so much? I'm sure the touch interface is great and wonderful, but if I'm going to use the thing for WORK, I need a keypad to type stuff sometimes. But, I guess, since the IPhone wasn't really designed for business users, it makes sense.
I don't understand this
I don't understand this either. I have two friends who have the iPhone and have played with their phones extensively, and the one thing I don't like about them is the virtual keyboard. I find it very hard to type on the iPhone. And this is coming from an Apple fanboy who only uses Macs. But I don't think I would want to own an iPhone because of the lack of a real qwerty keyboard. I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way so marking down a product that offers this feature rather feels like you're looking down your nose at those of us who prefer it.
brainwashed
The iPhone brainwashing is complete. Apple has now invented the touchscreen phone and music player and all the years of devices that came before no longer even exist. Apparently even slider phones and hardware keyboard phones are iPhone clones too. Amazing what passes as journalism.
Samsung One-ups Apple, IMHO
The Samsung design offered by Sprint appears to be the only offering here which is playing on the same field as the iPhone, and manages to one-up the iPhone with its feature set, providing GPS navigation, faster Internet connectivity and third-party application development support.
Awful article - what a joke,
Awful article - what a joke, all of these are iphone clones? I don't get it, i've had a touchscreen smart-phone for at least 2 years before the iphone even existed. Enough with this rediculous mac fan-boy crap - it's just warn out...
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