Battle of the Smartphones begins...?

Now I'm a bit of a techno geek (no not music, gadgets and shizz), and since I've had my iPhone 3G for about a year now, I can tell you honestly, that I've never owned a piece of technology that has changed my life so much. People still ogle at it (admirers and chavs alike), I'm still finding weird and wonderful little things it does and normal phones with buttons and no touchscreen just seem "so last century".

And so when Rory Cellan-Jones proclaims a new battle is about to commence within the smartphone world. I say, no there bloody well isn't. The Palm Pre? Well only 8gb of memory, a shite keypad and this so called WebOS sounds good on paper, but the reality is open more than one application at a time and it'll kill the phone. The Blackberry Storm II? Well it does have the name 'Blackberry' in front of it, and RIM look as though they've managed to expand into the teenage market (because they're always receiving emails, mind you Blackberry's have even made receiving a spam email cool) But the iPhone's got the x-factor, everyone knows what it is, and all other phones just feel like in someway they were influenced by the grandaddy.

Nokia N96, the HTC Android phones, Samsung Tocco, all of these phones have tried and failed to claim the crown of the iPhone. The app store and the simplicity means there's nothing out there that can dethrone the grand master. Maybe the Storm II might pose a bit of a threat, but there's a difference between a threat and a contender. The battle was won way before it even began. Over and out xD