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If we know from a previous article that the battle for the title "best business smartphone" is between BlackBerry and iPhone, the situation on the "personal use" segment is similar. iPhone is competing on this market too, not with BlackBerry, but with a Nokia product, N97 and Palm Pre.

Smaller and easy to slip in a pocket, Palm Pre has a bright 3.1'' touchscreen and a tiny QWERTY keyboards. Some interesting features are added to these design plus points, and I personally liked very much that if a friend calls, his Facebook picture is displayed along with the number in your address book. It also can import personal meetings and events from Google Calendar and you don't have to tick them in two calendaries.

Palm Pre's touchscreen is responsive, as good as iPhone's and in time, developers are working on applications for iPhone's rival.This product is a serious challenger for iPhone and it has some interesting features as support in this competition.

Nokia brings in the arena a new powerful device: N97. This phone has a large touchscreen, which is doubled by the QWERTY keyboard, and this turns the little phone into a mini laptop, which has an easy customizable and impressive screen. The stable and easy to use keyboard is far much better than Apple's virtual keyboard. This phone is a classic design product, and its stylish appearance might efortless beat Apple's design. Users' familiarity with this type of products (the abundence of old school Nokia elements) is making them feel comfortable when using it. Nokia N97 has 32 GB of memory, built-in, and it can be augmented with SD cards, which are not at all expensive, and this gives you the possibility to carry with you thousands of useful files, or take thousands of pictures. This smartphone is compatible with Nokia N-Gage platform and this means that a number of exclusive games will play on your bright screen. It has a Skype client built in, and it is pretty cool because it offers cheap calls over the Internet. Nokia's App Store is less impressive than Apple's, because it has only 1,000 programs and the accessibility is somehow limited. This phone has actually high price tags, and if you get it with the pay-as-you-go option, it goes somewhere around £500.

iPhone, is an O2 exclusive, and the lowest tariff for the 16 GB version, without the 18-month subscription is around £1,300. Palm Pre, available on the US market for $200, was aggressively overcome by iPhone 3G, with its $99 price tag. This was a cruel hit on Palm's product, but the UK pricing wasn't established yet.

If you want to join the smartphone group of users, you could try one of these best products. Nokia N97 is well designed and capable, and it has the best camera of the three products presented here, an original design and a good list of features. Palm Pre is using in this competition its ease of use, the keyboard especially, and iPhone comes strong with both hardware and software featues, and it is obvious that an minimum equipped Apple is still competitive on the market. App Store is offers thousands of applications, and this allows you even to add your creations, and you can demonstrate your creativity in front of other users, and drain everything you can from this little device. iPhone's features and options, and also the continuously growing versatility make out of it the most wanted and an irresistible smartphone.