Best iPhone alternatives

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Joe capitalises on a life-long love of blinking lights and upbeat MIDI soundtracks covering the latest developments in smartphones and tablet computers. When not ruining his eyesight staring at small screens, Joe ruins his eyesight playing video games and watching movies. Twitter: @Joseph_Hanlon

Has the super-chic sheen of the iPhone faded since everyone and your grandma bought one? What is she doing with it anyway? She doesn't use apps and she can barely send a txt!

If you have this kind of crazy-talk swirling around your head, then you're probably in the market for a brand-spanking new smartphone minus the Apple logo on the underside. Trying to find a phone that offers Apple's ease of use and rich feature set used to be a difficult task, but 2011 has brought forth a swell of super smartphones to rival the apple of Apple's eye.



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zoot posted a comment   
Australia

OK...the phones battery life is shocking!

I'm a company manager/director and I run 2 phones, one 9900 B'Berry and the new iphone 4S.

The BB can push out all manner of documentation in a day and battery life is about 2 days.

The new iPhone4S 64G [3 days old] has very few apps downloaded, siri turned off, location finders turned off and I'm halfway through the battery by midday. Granted it handles graphics well and all that, but up against the BB with a 2 day battery life and a full QWERTY key board...the 4S is not as far in front as most would have you believe.

 

ozoneocean posted a comment   
Australia

Hahaha, nooooo, definitely NOT "the benchmark", unless you're a complete smartphone neophyte. The reason it's used for comparison is because it's such an extremely well known, iconic, branded device. To the average non-tech person the "iphone" basically means the same thing as "smartphone" and for them smartphones didn't exists before the iphone.

That's why it's used this way ;)

 

DavisF posted a comment   
Australia

(I meant Palm pre 2 and 3)

 

DavisF posted a comment   
Australia

Looking at the list, I guess I'll stick with my pr%u0113 2 for now unless I can get my hands on a pr%u0113³, nothing can beat webOS even when HP has killed it.

 

Will1505 posted a comment   

i think we forgot the one phone the kills anything on the market today.....

Nokia 3310 :)

 

Joseph Hanlon posted a reply   
Australia

How could I forget the 3310! :p

 

Qiren posted a comment   

The N97 mini shoudn't be in too, its doesn't have a slick UI and extremely laggy. And its still using resistive touch screen rather than capacitive.


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