Battle of the Titans

The new Apple 3G iPhone was announced today just a month after RIMM announced the 3G Blackberry 9000. Last week Google said that they would have phones running their new Android software out sometime this year but without committing to an exact date.

Titans

While the Blackberry has been the clear winner for quite some time in the corporate world, the iPhone holds a lot of promise since Apple is known to constantly innovate and please its customers. That however should be interesting. Interesting to see just how far the newest iPhone has come.

On the other hand, the Google Phone for a lack of a better name at this point, also holds tremendous promise due solely to the powerhouse which is Google. Googlites are not known for doing anything just half ass. That is the brains working at Google are huge crowd pleasers when it comes to applications on the web. Google is thought of as the great leveler. Meaning that they always go one further for the people!

And as this is being written, I'm awaiting yet another phone altogether, hardly mentioned around these parts. Its the Helio service by Samsung phones. I have the model called the Fin, the worlds thinnest clam-shell phone with internet, GPS, texting, emails, rss feeds, camera, games, videos, and music. The only thing that the Fin is not good at is web surfing. Another thing its not good at is swimming. I took mine swimming the other day and now I find myself having to order another Helio until my contract is up. So I chose the Helio Ocean. The Ocean promises a better web experience over the other Helio phones and with its Qwerty keyboard, better texting and email response functionality. The reason I've chosen the Helio service over any other is the one price gets all. I pay $99 for all services all the time rather than a la carte or minutes only but extra for data. Helio says they are a virtual phone company but gives you everything easily. So for now, I'm a Helio subscriber.

The kicker comes in the price tags. Helio Ocean is about $300, Blackberry is around $350-500, but the new iPhone is but $199. It is for this reason that I hope to find that when my Helio contract is up, that the iPhone will have gone a few more improvements and that there will be tons of great apps available. On the other hand, the Google Phones should be no less a functional powerhouse but that remains to be seen.

RIMM has been a good trade for most and Apple too.