Apple`s iPhone Competition - Verizon and Samsung
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Verizon isn't sitting back and letting the iPhone win over millions of customers. They are coming after the iPhone, and coming on hard. They have a few new PDA smart phones coming out. Their "iPhone Killer" is the LG KE850. It looks very similar to the iPhone, and has the touch screen as well. It won't have the built in storage. It will offer many of the same features that can be found in the iPhone, but won't have as detailed an operating system. The price hasn't been determined yet, but it should cost less than the iPhone.
Samsung has updated their i730 to the i760. Samsung has changed the layout around a bit and decided to go with a horizontal slider phone, as opposed to the vertical slider i730. I think this layout is overall a better choice for anyone wanting to use it for more than just making phone calls. The phone is substantially slimmer and will sport the new Windows Mobile 6 OS. If you are running Windows Mobile 5, don't sweat too hard at the thought that your phone may be totally outdated. 6 is most likely looking more of a minor upgrade with few extras and maybe a small visual change.
One of the biggest changes that makes this phone stand out against the other PDA phones is that it has the full keyboard as well as a numerical keypad and navigation buttons right on the main part of the phone. This will keep the traditional phone layout while still giving the user the traditional full keyboard. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections for connecting to networks and Bluetooth wireless ear pieces.
Samsung has another PDA phone coming out this year, the Samsung F700. As you can see in the picture above, it will have a similar layout to the iPhone, but feature a horizontal slide out keyboard. It will have its own unique OS. I'm not sure of how functional it will be, but I doubt it will have nearly as much software support as Windows Mobile does now and the iPhone will when released.
While little information is available as of this writing, I see one major flaw, at least for me. Their number pad is across the rows and not the traditional 3x4 layout of any other phone. This is going to take some major relearning from the traditional layout and nearly every other phone in the last 30 years.
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