By Lindsay
There's a battle going on in consumerland - which smartphone will win the war? We have 4 main contenders. The Apple Iphone, Blackberry, Android phones, and Windows mobile phones. I have set up and configured all of them, and personally I like the Apple Iphone. But it's not up to me to decide what you should buy. So I'll pass on my views as to the winning smartphone.
The Blacberry is a closed platform. It's one claim to fame is that text messages are very secure. So secure that countries such as India and Saudi Arabia now require that the text messaging servers for Blackberry be in their own countries so that they can decrypt your text messages, check them, then send them out again. It will be a loser in the smartphone wars.
The Windows mobile phones are very good, easy to set up for email, but, well, no real market penetration. Second loser.
The Apple Iphone is a fantatsic product. It's main advantage is the ability to run many applications (downloaded from the app store). Pricing is expensive. Being proprietary all applications must be tested on the Iphone before release, so they will work well. But losing market share to....
Android based smartphones. The Android operating system is used by all the major cellphone manufacturers. Issues over applications that may run on one manufacturers phone but not another exist. But you can't beat it's price. Android phones will win the war.
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