The 4 Best Apple iPhone 3G Challengers

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I HAVE AN I-PHONE MY SELF I THINK ITS A GREAT PHONE BUT THE THING THAT THE I PHONE HAS ITS THAT THE BATTERY LIFE IS LOW ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC ALL THE TIME LIKE ME OR YOUR IN THE INTERNET ALL THE TIME ALSO LIKE ME.ANYWAY IT IS ALSO SENTIVE ANY DROP MAY CAUSE A DAMAGE BUT OTHER THEN THAT THE I PHONE 3G IS GREAT AND SO YEAH ITS LIKE HAVING A COMPUTER IN YOUR POCKET LOL WELL I LOVE THIS PHONE I RECOMMEND THAT YOU GUYS BUY ONE ITS A GREAT DEVICE I ALSO LIKE HOW IT WORKS THE INTERNET IS FAST NOT LIKE OTHER PHONES I DONT WANT TO SAY NAMES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN RIGHT AND SO YEAH I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A I PHONE ITS PRETTY KOOL SO GET TO BUY ONE. AND BY THE WAY JUST TO LET YOU KNOW IM ONLY 13 HEHEH I NO HUH TO YOUNG TO HAVE AN I PHONE 3G 16GB ANYWAY I LOVE MY PHONE AND I BELIEVE THAT CHILDREN SHOULD ALSO HAVE THIS TYPES OF PHONES NOT ONLY ADULTS US CHILDREN TOO DONT YOU BELIEVE SO CHILDREN YEAH YEAH PROMS FOR ME AND SO YEAH I THINK I CAN MAKE A CHANGE BY THE WAT PEOPLE THINK I MEAN US CHILDREN ALSO HAVE RIGHT LIKE ALDUTS AND WE HAVE THE RIGH TO VOTE HEHEHE JK ONLY TO HAVE KOOL PHONES LIKE ANYONE ESLE SO YEAH I GOT TO GO BYE

KATIE QUINTERO of CA 2:20AM April 12, 2009

Actually, iTunes is mostly DRM-free. There are some songs that are not, but for the most part Apple/iTunes has switched the online store to 256 kbps, DRM-free "iTunes Plus" music. And if you look at the Terms of Use from Apple as compared to Amazon, you actually OWN you music when you buy it from Apple, as opposed to the restrictions placed on you with the music purchased from Amazon.

Sandy of IN 10:40AM April 06, 2009

Using iPhone without using Apple's iTune store wouldn't make much sense, but songs from iTune store are DRM-protected. Otherwise, the iPhone is awesome.
Speaking of DRM-free music, Amazon does have an awesome MP3 store that is DRM-free with a large selection and often good prices. (It would be nice if Amazon had the same thing with Kindle books.) If Apple could also move in that direction, it would be perfect!
On the note about Amazon, I recently came across an interesting table that details the discounts on Amazon.
It is at http://www.uberi.com
Maybe someone will find it useful too. PC World has also recently recommended it to its readers.
Next stop, a touch-screen netbook without keyboard from Apple. :) So the rumor has it anyway.

John of WA 5:51PM March 20, 2009

i'm sory for using this topic to my homework , because i must give it to my teacher , we're studying about world market . once more time . thanks a lot of .

cuong nguyen of VA 8:24PM March 17, 2009

as an iPhone killer, otherwise it would have been killed already
attention all major handset manufacturers:
its time to innovate, no IMITATE.
apple have got it right, nuff said

ANDYROO 7:13AM March 15, 2009

Stop saying the next iPhone killer is around the corner, as far as I'm concerned, there will never be an iPhone killer phone. There might be a runner-up, but not a killer. The iPhone is years ahead of most competition and certainly the most popular among young people. The Pre certainly "looks" like a decent competition phone, but we will have to wait and see how it actually holds up. I think of it like those cool "concept" cars that never really materialize or at best, come to production looking totally different (old aged). Lets wait and see. How you would like to be on call in public attached to your ear a phone that has been titled the "iPhone killer"?? I'll be looking at you and be saying, look at them....with a wanna be iphone killer phone. :) Good luck and enjoy your iPhone killer.

3G of CA 1:40PM March 12, 2009

It might be in 6 months, but all Palm showed in January was a technology demo. Palm isn't saying what features will actually be present on the final shipping device, simply because they aren't close to completing development yet.
Why not also include WinME 6.5 handsets, which also won't be available for more than six months?

dave of WA 3:10PM March 10, 2009

and I still can't get a fart app for my Blackberry. Man are we behind the times.

Fart_Apps_Needed 6:07PM March 09, 2009

HTC's new Touch Pro 2 is definitley the best contender to take on the iPhone. Looks to do what iPhone can do and addresses the con's of the iPhone (i.e. landscape texting, full qwerty, ...)

Boodahas of CA 4:33PM March 09, 2009

After having Windows-based phones for years, I bought the T-Mobile G1 last week. It's SOOO much better!! Of course the first app I downloaded from Android Market was "FART MACHINE" (it even has a timer for surprise fart attacks!)......But Android is the future, perhaps the iPhone killer!
G1HappyGuy

david klein of NY 1:30PM March 09, 2009