iPhone Alternatives................................

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

Please, if you have nothing positive to add or just feel like sarcastically saying that your
free phone with that t-mobile $29.99 contract is more than enough, don't reply to this thread, your responses will just be deleted due to low tolerance for stupidity.....................

with that said
Anyone have any good iPhone alternatives?
I'll post a few, mind you here in the states we GSM owners supposedly run on a 850mHz network but that isn't always true as I've used many triband phones here in NYC

1. Samsung F700

yeah yeah, looks like an iPhone..................uh huh




5 megapixels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Qwerty slide out k/b, thinner than the iPhone, how much?!?

after reading this
Finally Confirmed: What the iPhone Doesn't Have

• Songs as Ringtones
• Games
• Any flash support
• Instant Messaging
• Picture messages (MMS)
• Video recording
• Voice recognition or voice dialing
• Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming (A2DP)
• One-size-fits-all headset jack (May have to buy an adapter for certain headphones)

Stuff we already knew it didn't have
• 3G (EV-DO/HSDPA)
• GPS
• A real keyboard
• Removable battery
• Expandable Storage
• Direct iTunes Music Store Access (Over Wi-Fi or EDGE)
my HTC Star Trek has the iPhone beat, I can't live without video recording, which my phone (even though at night I'd need lighting) does, not to mention voice dialing................I need my voice dialing (lol)

LG's Prada Phone
been out for a while

The LG Prada handset being sold in Korea is getting an extra feature not yet available elsewhere - digital TV reception. Ever since the original LG Prada phone went on sale in Europe earlier this year, it drew many comparisons to Apple's upcoming iPhone because it too has a large touchscreen. But what the Prada lacked was some of the iPhone's multimedia capabilities. It seems as though the Korean LG Prada phone is a more likely competitor with the addition of the digital TV reception feature. Prices on the high spec version Prada phone depend on carrier discounts.

feel free to chime in

[goldensamba]

Don't forget the HTC Touch







Processor


TI's OMAP™ 850, 201 MHz

Operating System


Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory


ROM: 128 MB

SDRAM: 64 MB DDR

Dimension


99.9mm (L) X 58mm (W) X 13.9mm (T)

Weight


112g with battery

Display


2.8" LCD touch screen with backlight

240 X 320 dots resolution with 65,536 colors

Network


GSM/GPRS/EDGE Tri-band: 900, 1800, 1900 (The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network.)

Device Control


HTC TouchFLO™

5-Way navigation control

Connectivity


Bluetooth® 2.0

Wi-Fi® IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)

Camera


2.0 megapixel CMOS color camera
Audio

Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker

Windows Media Player supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
Battery

Rechargeable Li-lon battery

Capacity: 1100 mAh

Standby time: Up to 200 hours

Talk time: Up to 5 hours
Expansion Slot

microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter

Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

DC output: 5V and 1A

[Silcc69]

These are all nice phones but that Prada retails for over a g note. BTW they are all triband phone when means they are worthless on Cingular.

[hondarobot]

I think these new phones have a huge amount of potential concerning a number of different applications. I don't know that much abut what's being done or in the works yet, so I'll need to research further before making any comments.

Walking in to work just now, I was thinking about an idea. . .

Well, I'll save that for later. But yes, very interesting tech.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

These are all nice phones but that Prada retails for over a g note. BTW they are all triband phone when means they are worthless on Cingular.

depends on where you live, I've owned a few tri band phones and they worked fine in NYC...................

[hondarobot]

Does anyone know the code used for Multi-touch interactive web design? Example: pull up an internet site (via Safari) on an iPhone, and the browser/user could manipulate aspects via the Multi-touch interface. Not just scrolling or clicking links, but fully interactive. How can objects on a wed page be fluidly interacted with via Multi-touch?

I'm doing a terrible job of articulating this question. . .

There has to be some specific code the iPhone UI is using.

Just curious. I think this thing has potential, but I'm not sure yet.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

something different
at $300 it's not bad

I am hoping they include a camera option on the consumer version

http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo...reenshots.html