Best iPhone alternatives
If you're looking for a new smartphone without an Apple logo on the underside, then you've come to the right place. There are plenty of phones available now, offering the same great functionality of an iPhone, but with a couple of tricks of their own.
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Choosing which iPhone alternative is best for you will come down to deciding which part of the iPhone experience you wish you could change. Screen size is the obvious place to start — the iPhone's 3.5-inch screen can prove to be too small to handle the multitude of complex smartphone tasks many of us use our phones for. This year's big screen phones offer comparable image clarity, while increasing the screen real estate by up to 50 per cent.
Do you miss having a physical keyboard? Research in Motion (RIM) may be struggling financially, but the Bold is still the smartphone with the best keyboard, in our opinion. You'll miss out on the iPhone's huge range of apps, but for business professionals, the Bold is still a great alternative.
Maybe you just refuse to pay AU$1000 for a phone. If you're looking for a slick smartphone experience on a budget, then Nokia's Lumia 710 is an excellent option. Again, you'll find considerably fewer apps designed for Microsoft's platform, but you won't miss out on an excellent smartphone experience and you'll only pay one-third of the price — outright or on a plan.
Samsung Galaxy S III
The Galaxy S III is the best phone we've seen so far this year. Samsung matches great hardware and software with outstanding battery life, making it a very tough phone to beat. more »
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4.1 OS can Go with Google Play(equal to App store of Apple) called Goo pad Mini, it have the same 1024*768 resolution as iPad Mini,a better Dual Core GHz CPU. Instead of limited ROM（Memory, Goo pad Mini Can support GB extended Rom or
Bigger.it called Goo pad, But its price is 129 droller.
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.
That's why it's used this way ;)
Nokia 3310 :)