What Smartphone would you prefer?

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Android has 12 phones online worldwide. The G1 and Mytouch 3G are on Tmobile in the USA. Verizon has announced their Android Phone which they claim will be out before Christmas. Motorola has announced its Cliq which is going to run on the TMobile network with the Blur interface -- an interface designed mostly for social media. Their price plan + capabilities MIGHT draw in teenagers that can't get the iphone for whatever reason.

Sprint has announced a Nokia phone (Nokia gave up Symbian for an Android phone - interesting choice). AT&T/Dell has mentioned early 2010 for their unit.

If you believe what they say, Android will be on all 4 major US networks by early next year. Blackberry is already on all four. IPhone is limited to AT&T, but, with some hackery, you can run it on TMobile without 3G.

Palm has phones that run on all four, but, their developers interface is less than simple -- almost worse than Apple's app interface. Apple did make a major change this week by allowing free apps to be upgraded within the app. That should eliminate the trial/limited/full version trio of apps that is clogging the store to a degree -- simplifying ratings, etc.

The real question was -- for the capabilities you want in a smart phone, which current phone suits your needs regardless of the network. As it stands, it looks like the IPhone took the lions share which I expected.

It led into a though of this. Apple developed a phone that is fairly expensive, which runs on a network that was unprepared for the data volume brought on it. In the USA, AT&T has brought on a ton of subscribers even though the monthly plans are not cheap......... during a recession.

Even social media has pushed people to utilize their phones to stay in touch minute by minute -- and that phone bill has a much higher priority than car payments, etc. based on some of the news reports.

Seems like designing a sexy product, even during a recession, still works.