texazzpete:

Please mention any other phone in the world that has similar 'features and functions'.

At the end of the day, what you guys fail to realise is that specs matter little - it's the ultimate user experience that wins overall. The Nokia N97 is loaded to the hilt with all the bells and whistles. Guess what? it's a thoroughly mediocre phone that even Nokia have gone on record to express grave disappointment with the finished product. The N96 had better specs than the N95 in almost every way. It sucked.
The ultimate reason why Apple sells so many iPhone is that the overall user experience is top notch in every way. From the build quality to the OS, to the plethora of available apps, it just feels complete.

ruba_slipa:

, but the avantage that HTC Desire has is that the Android system is much more free than Apple's system, so you can add this and that software, add any music you feel like, give out that music to your friends, in fact, make the phone do anything you want - very unlike Iphone. I'm a hacker, so that's what I like.

knick:

Never an I phone fan, Still i prefer my U1i Satio,12.1 megapixel,cant do without it.

texazzpete:

I'm sorry, but we're discussing cutting edge smartphones here. The Satio doesn't measure up.

texazzpete:

There are far fewer bugs in the Apple iPhone OS than in Android - and the OS is far more complete and intuitive than what you're rocking on your Desire.
Over priced?! please tell us how much the Evo 4G is on sale for in the US. The Palm Pre launched at the same $199 price point (after a $100 mail in rebate for that matter). The 16GB iPhone 4 pricing is consistent with any high-end smartphone launched in the US and the UK in recent times.

Please read any review of the HTC Desire's camera - the camera is not top-of-the-range. Equating megapixel count to image quality is just plain silly. And naturally, the iPhone 4 screen is still miles better than that in the Nexus one/Desire.

~Sauron~:

In this day n age, no smartfone can match the iPhone. . . . .
The apps on em are just too good to be true. . . .It's the king of smart phones.
Steve Job, i doff ma hat to you. . . . .

knick:

Never an I phone fan, Still i prefer my U1i Satio,12.1 megapixel,cant do without it.

tboy111:

You raised some good points but lets just go through the list quickly without going into details shall we:

Weight? HTC wins
Free Sat Nav? HTC wins
Higher standby Battery? HTC wins
Larger Screen? HTC wins     [size=6pt]Although iPhones has HR, the screen is smaller. Bigger screen = Better Web Browsing and watching Videos
Less Battery Life? HTC wins
Better Storage? HTC wins


P.S: The Main feature which i pointed out might be the best was the phone conversation front camera - the problem here is you can only do this with another iphone4 owner and can only be done through wifi
Another props for iphone4 is the hd video recording BUT Desire will soon start supporting 720p HD video recording too thru a future update

bigrovar:

i took the iphone's announcement with so much meh, nothing announced about the new iOS is ground breaking or even revolutional. video chat has been on phones since 2005 and even the use on the iphone is limited to wifi connectivity and can only work btw iphone 4 phones,[b] the iOS still lacks critical functionalities like multitasking and support for basic webstandard (flash) [/b]the one thing about the iphone 4 which caught my attention was the screen resolution which is the biggest yet on a phone. the iphone is still running on a closed and controlled ecosystem where apple decides every single thing that goes into the device. if this announcement was made some years ago, i might have been impressed but not in this days of evo 4 G, nexus one and nokia N8. right now android is the mobile platform of the moment and their latest update called froyo has got more features then iOS , things like ability to turn the phone into a wifi hotspot, ability to sync your music to the cloud and play them from anywhere, tight integration with google, system wide voice recognition, flash support, and google maps which brings free turn by turn navigation etc add all this to an open ecosystem and the android is no brainer, on the hardset space the HTC's EVO 4G device is a power house and it is still the best spec phone in the planet. it has 99% of what the iphone4 has (beside the gyroscope ) and packs even more juice, no wonder it completely sold out in its first day of release.

will the iphone 4 be a commercial success? no doubt. but that is more because of the appeal of the google brand than anything else. android is manking more and more in roads into tranditional apple heartland with cool innovations and openness.

what about nokia and symbian?
some one once called symbian and old and dated os and i thing he got it wrong. old yes dated well the s60 ui is very dated but symbian is deeper than just UI the under the hood stuffs is still one of the best u can find in a mobile OS in term of battery life usage and ability to perform well with low resource little wonder its the biggest mobile platform by a very wide margin more people use symbain than use windows just to put things in perspective, the problem with symbian is the UI. s60 in all its rebostiness is old and clucky. its not the most easy to use OS. nokia intends to fix this by moving the UI to that based on Qt the symbian ^3 OS is the first step towards this. but the milestone for nokia is symbian ^4 which is suppose to be a complete UI redesign and completely based on Qt. if nokia call pull it off then symabian would maintain its global lead in smartphone market share. for now symabian is still the best os in the low and mid range smartphone market although its has little hold in the high end device segment.
another thing nokia need to work on is the services round their products. ovi mail, ovi store, ovi messaging etc all need to be very stable and well integrated into their devices.

in all this year is going to be an interesting one in the mobile smartphone space, we wait to see what windows 7 series (or whatever the real name is) brings to the table and off cause there is meego the nokia intel child.
all i can say is that for phones when elephants fights. we the users wont be the grass that suffers

toladop:

The iPhone4 now has multitasking.

Trust Apple on d flash, they are gonna force HTML5
By d way, i don enter homepage after how may years

olatunji_n:

i enjoy my Nokia X3 And Nokia 5230 more then any ipod phone,i am a fan of nokia so stop bothering about ipod.huh

bigrovar:

Nope it doesn't the iOS would allow some services to run in the background and the number of services are very limited (like 7) there include things like music streaming, Voip etc. what this means is that if I have an app which streams music and decide to run another app. Even though the musicc streaming app would be closed. the stream services (running in the background i.e the process streaming the music) would continue to run even though the app is closed. It basically allows some services to run as daemons. Because of this we can see the ability to make skype and receive calls cause Voip is one of the services which is allowed to run in the background so the skype services can be allowed to run in the background even though the skype application is closed. Any application whose service is not among the chosen 7 would not even be able to take advantage of this feature. Hence if I write a game app and u want to switch from the game to read a text msg. the game would be closed (or the state saved and closed) That is different from what u get on android or symbian where u can switch from one app to another (while the previous app still continue to run in the background)

bigrovar:

I said iOS lacks support for major web standards. even though I hate flash I can not deny that its a major web standard. html5 is still very much in its infancy and not many sites use it yet. what the Iphone gives u due to its lack of flash support is a broken web. take it or leave it.

oloritinu:

nonsense,how many phones are we going to have.technology will not cease- by the time apple gets to iphone Gmillions the world will come to an end. now apple ipad is out before august ipadG followed by ipadGs ,ipad2G and so on. rubbish

oloritinu:

nonsense,how many phones are we going to have.technology will not cease- by the time apple gets to iphone Gmillions the world will come to an end. now apple ipad is out before august ipadG followed by ipadGs ,ipad2G and so on. rubbish