Wednesday, June 6, 2007

iPhone vs HTC Touch (aka P3450)



The techie in me is really excited. Yesterday, HTC, maker of many mobile phones and PDAs for numerous mobile phone services announced a direct competitor to the Apple iPhone, and it's available NOW. Well, it's available in the UK and Europe now, and will be available in the US later this year. Apple's iPhone is set to be released at the very end of June in the US, and then become available in the UK and Europe later this year. The Touch has a "touch" interface just like Apple's iPhone, except it runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 software. So, it's going to be really intersting to see how the two devices battle it out. I'll give the iPhone a few points for coolness, but it has been announced that it will probably be locked down, so you won't be able to add 3rd party programs. For user friendliness, the Touch is a clear winner. It's very tiny, and will allow you to add games, videos, music, pictures, programs, whatever to your heart's content, and it'll sync very nicely with Outlook. You'll also be able to open, view, and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and view PDF files as you're checking your email on the go.

As cool as the Touch and iPhone are, I've had my eye on the HTC S710 aka the Vox. It's a perfectly pocketable candybar phone with a HUGE screen, slide out keyboard, and runs Mobile 6 software. I love all the features like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and is a quad band phone so I can use it anywhere in the world. It's going to be a great upgrade from my Audiovox SMT5600, which is kind of a great-grandfather to the S710. In just 2 short years, mobile phones and PDAs have come such a long way. The only thing really missing from the Vox is GPS, and HTC is rumored to have a phone like the Vox with GPS that will probably be released later this year. Dena and I went mobile phone shopping two weeks ago, and Vodafone had one in stock, so the sales rep let me play with it for a few minutes in the store. Mmm, candy!

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