Apple has caused a panic, with competitors scrambling to crank out Web-friendly, widescreen phones. But like the iPod, the harder rivals try to blunt Apple’s strengths, the worse they look in comparison.
A week after the iPhone 3G announcements, Forbes.com has got a pictorial and article up running down some ‘iPhone killer’ competitor devices, although the gist for now seems to be there is nothing like a real killer rival standing out just yet.
Apart from the Blackberry Thunder (which there’s almost no real detail about yet), the entries on the ‘killer’ list are mostly old hat – featuring standards like the AT&T Tilt and the N95, with their everything-but-the-kitchen-sink power; the HTC Touch and the Sony Ericsson Walkman w580i, and the Samsung Instinct. Oddly, there’s even an entry for a ‘Google Phone’ – although we know that the Android platform will produce a wide range of devices rather than any single G-branded handset to compare head-to-head to the iPhone.
It seems like we’re already well overdue for the next iPhone Killer Of The Month entrant – I’m sure it won’t be too long before we’re seeing some fresh candidates. For now, I still don’t see anything on the Forbes list that stands out as an imposing iPhone 3G rival, though it will be very interesting to see what Blackberry has got coming.
What do you all think?
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