The iPhone took the world of smart phones by storm and set new standards for these smart small portable devices. Other companies have been looking at Apple with envy eyes and trying over and over again to come up with an iPhone killer.
In the past few months we have witnessed the launching of some real good phones like Motorola’s Droid and Blackberry’s Storm 2, other companies have been following suit and launching their own versions of smart phones. 2010 sounds like a promising year for this market, let’s look into what will be big in the coming year. iPhone 3GS, Motorola Driod, Nokia and Blackberry videos are already flooding the social media, and fighting over the touch-screen do-it-all smart phone market share.
The video should give you a good idea of how the phones look and handle, and our summary below lists each phone’s main features briefly.
Top 10 Smartphones of 2010
10. Apple iPhone 3GS
Main features include:
- A 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera
- A faster 600MHz CPU and double the RAM at 256 MB
- Digital compass with automatic map orientation
- Voice control to play music, make phone calls and open applications.
9. Sony Ericsson Satio
Main features include:
- A 12 megapixel state-of-the-art auto focus camera
- LED and xenon flash, active lens cover
- Built-in accelerometer
- TV out
- Stereo FM Radio
- USB and stereo Bluetooth 2.0
- A web browser with full Flash support
- CPU: ARM Cortex A8 600MHz PowerVR SGX graphics
- OS Symbian S60 5th edition
8. Blackberry Storm 2
Main features include:
- SurePress Technology: Promising a new touch experience like no other
- Large, hight resolution screen
- Wi-Fi
7. Nokia N97 mini
Main features include:
- Ability to personalize your home screen
- More stuff from Nokia’s Ovi store (maps, games, applications, …etc)
6. HTC Hero
Main features include:
- Android OS with Sense UI
- 7 customizable home screen panels
- Move along the panels with a single swipe
- Music Player Touch Optimized
- Breakthrough Browsing Experience
5. Acer Neo Touch S200
Main features include:
- A 1GHz Snapdragon processor
- A 512 MB of ROM and 256MB RAM
- A vibrant 3.8inch highly responsive screen
- A high resolution display of 480 x 800 pixels for viewing videos, pictures and even surfing the web.
- New Bluetooth 2.1 EDR technology coupled with Wi-Fi B and G
- Support for the Windows phone operating system
- A 5 megapixel camera with auto focus
4. Motorola Droid
- Main features include:
- Unprecedented Web experience
- Seamless Web and Phone navigation
- Push Exchange and Gmail
- Lightning fast 3G speed
- Widgets and thousands of Apps
- Android 2.0
- Google Maps and Latitude
- Google Search by Voice
- Thin full slider QWERTY and touch screen
- 5 megapixel camera with dual-led flash
3. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
Main features include:
- A 480 x 854 pixels WVGA 65,536-color TFT touch screen
- A 1GHz Snapdragon processor
- OS: Android 1.6 (Donut)
2. Nokia N900
Main features include:
- Display : 3.5″ 800×480 (WVGA) touchscreen
- Processor : OMAP3430 500/600 Mhz processor
- Camera : 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with dual-LED flash, autofocus, and sliding cover
- Maemo 5 Operating System
- Multitasking to run several applications simultaneously
- Firefox 3 Web Browser with Flash 9.4 Support
1. HTC HD2
Main features include:
- Platform: Ultra slim bar type touch phone / Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
- Processor/Chipset: Qualcomm MSM 8250, 1GHz
- Display Module: 4.3-inch 480×800 WVGA resolution, 65K-color, Sensitive touch screen (Capacitive), support Multi-Touch capability
- Digital Camera: Main camera: 5 MP Color CMOS with auto focus, 2x LED flash
Now that we have many options of available smart phones with different specs and features it will become harder and harder for us to decide our next purchase. I don’t see an iPhone killer in the list yet, but can see some promising phones especially Motorola’s Droid.
We would like to hear your opinion. What would be your next purchase? and which one of the above listed phones is your favorite and which one is your least favorite? Let us know in the comment section.
