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Along time, phone changed very much and now it is a rather different concept than the one which Abraham Bell had in mind in 1870's. Now a telephone is a special device, it is smart, and it can assist you in some things you do, like work, and it can somehow help you to take care of your family: it has ears, because you can use vocal commands for various activities, it has skin, because some phones have touch pads or touchscreens, it can talk, because it offers you information, and it is linked to the www, so it's almost a portable Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Smartphones are today used by millions of people and they  are the latest trend in cell phone industry. They have many useful applications, and they offer a very broad connectivity to your friends, family and work.

Let's take a look at the top ten in the smartphones domain and see what makes these products be in this top, why people like them, which are the positive and appreciated points and also the negative ones, but we should view them through the prism of improvement.


Apple is a revolutionary smartphone and it is on the first place in this top. Its performance has been enhanced and it is definitely different and much better than its previous versions. iPhone is a trendsetter, a fashion statement and a technology art work.

T-mobile Mytouch 3G is a great improvement product comparing to the previous versions, but many users still miss the keyboard from those versions.

Android is doing a pretty well job on G1 from T-mobile, and its highly responsive touchscreen is appreciated by many people, but the fair battery life and the lack of the headphone jack are some parts which should be improved in order to keep this position in smartphones' top.

Palm Pre, the product who made people drive their cars into stores to buy it, has a great operating system and the multitouch display is very well responding to commands. The lack of removable memory is a big big minus, but we hope that next versions, and especially the next one, will have the support for a memory card.

BlackBerry Bold has a great keyboard and the display is also fantastic, but the call quality is lowering the products rating, and the price makes it unaffordable for a lot of people.

RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 has, like its brother BlackBerry Bold, a great display, and a well designed physical keyboard, but it has a mediocre camera, and it doesn't support Wi-Fi connections. This is a quite big lack, in the information and connection age.

The slim and sophisticated design and the easy to use browser bring Nokia E71 in this top, but some aspects might drag it on the lower positions, and these aspects might be the mediocre quality of the camera, and also the fact that this phone has limited applications, only for those in the United States.

HTC brings an intuitive user interface in front of the customers, which was and still is appreciated by many people, next to the great VGA display. The lack of the headphone jack is again, dragging the smartphone down in this top, and the slow performance is another minus on the list.

iPhone 3G, surprisingly, is almost at the end of the top, but has a fast 3G connection, which is good for wireless data transfers, and it integrates an assisted GPS. These two are in balance with the not so satisfying battery life and the higher price, which turn it into an expensive product.

Nokia N97 closes out top, and its widgets which are updated in real-time and the huge amount of 32 giga-bytes of onboard memory are some real advantages of purchasing this product, but on the other hand, the hard to use keyboard and the out of date Symbian are some aspects which bring some disadvantages in front of the potential customers.

This is the 2009 smartphones top, and we are expecting for the developments and the new products. If you experienced good or bad events with the phones presented here, share them with us, or if you have another opinion about the positions the up mentioned products should have.