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myTouch dooms iphone future
As google CEO Dr Eric Schmidt steps down as a board member of Apple, the iphone is about to be blown out of the water. As I've said in previous posts, the iphone is unworthy of it's place at the top of the mobile sales market. But all that is about to change with the first serious android contender. Previously the HTC Magic and the HTC Dream where the only Google android phones available, and they aren't all that hip. Enter T-Mobile's new myTouch.
The phone also made by HTC addresses all the issues of the previous android based phones, delivering a sleek, fully customisable phone. And when I say customisable, you haven't seen anything like this before! Through use of google android you can fully customise your home screen, widgets and applications, and being android there are thousands of apps to chose from, many of which are free. Place your music player next to your calendar and your email short cut so everything is within a single touch. This is truly a phone you can make your own. But the customisation doesn't stop there!
The outside of the phone can be uniquely designed! That's right, you can chose from preset colors and designs OR design your own! No two myTouch phones will ever be the same! And at only $199 on a 24 month contract you can afford to match them to your favourite outfits ladies. So for customisation the myTouch beats every other phone on the market, and backed by Google Android the phone is secure and stable.
Spec wise, the phone doesn't do to badly, but it certainly could do better. Similar to the iphone the myTouch comes with an inbuilt 3.2 mega-pixel camera, capable of both still photography and video. There is a full HTML browser so surfing the internet on the go is easy, and with 25 days of stand-by time (6 hours of talk time) the phone won't let you down in the battery compartment. Also similar to the iphone the myTouch has a 3.2 inch touch screen. As the myTouch has only been released for 2 days I have found it difficult to find a full list of specs for the myTouch and will update you with a full list when details become available.
What is for certain however is I would have liked to have seen some additions to this phone, that simply aren't there. Firstly I would have liked to have seen at least a 5 megapixel camera attached to the phone. The myTouch also relies on a virtual keyboard by way of the touch screen, much like the iphone, I certainly would have liked to of seen a full physical qwerty keyboard, which could be slid out from under the phone. While I do like the addition of a proper mouse toggle, there is as yet no mention of how much storage space is on the phone, if indeed any.
In essence the myTouch is a neat phone, but it alone will not break the hold the iphone has over the wider community. What the myTouch does however signify is that HTC are making some serious attempts, and that as with everything else google becomes involved in, they thoroughly intend to rule the mobile phone market through way of andriod. The myTouch will be great for the style conscious or anyone who wants a solid android phone. But whether you do buy a myTouch or not, be on the look out for the next generation Andriod powered phones, they're set to send Apple packing once and for all.