I'm sure like most of you, it took a dinky bit of time to stop losing those tiny dinky stylus' and when we first started hearing about phones of the time to come doing away with them, and all we had to use was out finger (and not worry too much if it's a dinky oily), we couldn't wait! I don't know how many times I had to go the T-Mobile town to keep replacing them and got to know my salesperson quite well. Any years ago, he told me that Apple was working on something exciting that would do away with that pesky think device.
Now that the stylus is finally heading to the archives, the time couldn't be good to start mental about getting a touch-screen smartphone. Ever since Steve Jobs and his Apple empire brought the iPhone on the market with his usual tidal wave marketing campaign, the competition has been popping out their own clone iPhone creations all over the place.
Many of the iPhone clones weren't anyone more than barely dressed up feature phones. The Lg Dare has a sleek and remarkable touch selection on Verizon, but the downside is a screen with lower resolution than the almighty iPhone. Now the Samsung Instinct is somewhat similar to the Lg Dare, but the upside is it's a solid, inexpensive selection for Sprint subscribers. From my perspective, Instinct is a good deal today for two reasons: It now works with the superior Opera Mini 4.2 browser, and Sprint added over-the-air calendar sync with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. I personally have had some issues with Sprint, but now it looks as if they're listening to what their customers want. Hopefully that will last.
Now for someone seeing for a phone that can maintain third-party applications in the native setting, The Dare and the Instinct aren't true smartphones, however. If you want a touch-screen smartphone, though, you still have abundance of options. Now, along with being a true touch screen phone, the T-Mobile G1, the first real Google Android smartphone, boasts a slide-out Qwerty keyboard.
As usual, Blackberry is coming out swinging to stay ahead of the pack with the BlackBerry Storm 9530. This will be the very first touch-screen BlackBerry and puts its own take on the touch interface with its click-enabled Lcd. Naturally, other clubs are speedily getting onboard the touch screen craze, with touchscreen Windows movable handsets like the slider Htc Touch Pro and the iPhone-esque Samsung Omnia. These models both make good use of the notoriously finicky Wm interface. good late than never, Nokia has entered the playing field after years of keyboarded smart devices with the Symbian-based 5800 XpressMusic.
We'll supervene up with reviews of these smart phones late this week. I'm still waiting for the last one to come in to review.
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Stylus Out, Touch Screen Phones Are In