Iphone Killers....

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Only the phones that are either made on purpose to compete with the apple iPhone or which challenge it feature or market wise can make entries into this thread.

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At 4.6 inches long, a trifle over 2 inches wide and almost 3/4th of an inch thick, the Voyager weighs a little more more than 4 1/2 ounces. That's roughly the same length and weight as the iPhone, but a little narrower and not as deep.

LG Voyager has 2 color screens instead of one.One when the phone is flipped open across the lateral cross section and the other outside of the case which is an attractive 2.8-inch LCD that's touch-sensitive, like the iPhone's, but slightly smaller.

One nice Voyager feature that the iPhone lacks is feedback: When you tap the screen, you feel a vibration to acknowledge your request.The other inner screen in Voyager flips open to reveal another color screen inside, sitting above a QWERTY keypad that makes messaging e-mail, text and web browsing much simpler and easier than the iPhone's on-screen keyboard.

A pull-out antenna turns the Voyager into a real-time TV set that receives eight channels of network and sports programming over Verizon's Vcast mobile television network (add $13 to $15 a month).A few more clicks and the Voyager tunes into Verizon's VZ Navigator GPS mapping and direction service(add a little more precious green a month).

Voyager does also offer you a full-scale Web browser,nationwide broadband Internet access and especially if you want it cheap.Apart from making it easy to send and receive mail from Web-based services such as gmail or from individual POP3 accounts with other providers.If you're pushed by any necessity, you can even have e-mail "pushed" to the phone regularly, like a BlackBerry.

Another aspect where the iPhone is left behind is - Verizon's third-generation data network, which normally operates in the 300 megabit per second range, about four times faster than the older AT&T network that the iPhone operates on.

Now to see what the voyager lacks is, First, it lacks one important common feature it won't synchronize its calendar or contact list with a PC.
And,There is less than 1GB of memory available for music, you will have to add a micro-SD memory card to make it usable more diversly.

And the cost we all know about it, the prices of both the iphone and the voyager.So there is nothing much that i can comment on that,its all known.

So, Finally,Since Verizon has the most reliable network, and the Voyager's keyboard, e-mail capability and access to other Internet and other features make it a good buy.Rather Great buy.

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This handset is a deadly combination of killer good looks,HSDPA connectivity and a 5MP camera.

F490's, even larger 3.2inch 262k touchscreen display ,that is, almost up to the iPhone's class( 3.5 inches). While dimensions of 115 x 53.5 x 11.8mm mean physically it is almost identical to Apple's iPhone and at just 102g it is a world of 33g lighter.

F490 has 130MB of onboard memory, but a microSD slot means there's room for expansion.

It can playback VGA reolution videos at 30fps and handle WMV and MPEG4,MP3, AAC and WMA video and audio formats.Video recording is
slightly a depressing factor at just 15fps at 320 x 240 pixels.

The phone also sports a 3.5mm headphone jack,Bluetooth with full A2DP and A web browser capable of full page.

If not kill the iPhone,I think it definately challenges it.