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Verizon unveils “iPhone killer”
Quick show of hands: how many of you are sick of hearing about the iPhone?
Yes? Thought so. Let’s instead talk about purported iPhone killers!
On Wednesday, Verizon announced LG’s Voyager, which, like the iPohne, features a large touchscreen and is geared toward the higher end of the cell phone market. Unlike the iPHone, however, its internet connectivity uses Verizon’s faster EVDO service (as opposed to EDGE) and includes a keypad. Mike Lanman, Verizon’s Chief MArketing Officer states, “We think it’ll be the best phone ... this year. It will kill the iPhone.”
The Voyager was one of three new phones released by Verizon today.
Reuters has the full scoop for your reading pleasure.
Deep Thought’s Take:You know, there is one thing that bothers me about all these iPod killers and now, iPhone killers. I’m sure most of them are solid products on their own accord, so why not market them on their own merits? Why does it have to kill the iPhone? All this sort of marketing speak seems to do nothing. People say that a product is an iPhone- or iPod-killer like what they’re saying actually means something, but as of now, little has been able to stop the iPod/iPhone juggernaut. Until some product can find a chink in Apple’s armor and take some substantial market share, this iPhone/iPod killer rhetoric is a waste of energy.
If there’s any force that can bring down the iPod or iPhone, it’s still Microsoft. Sure they may not have quite the clout that they did in 2000 with he rise of Google, the rebound of Apple, and the ever-present threat of Linux, but Microsoft may be the one company that can create something that could reduce the iPod’s dominance. But I digress; that’s a topic for another article.
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very interesting… I think The LG phone will get a good run. but iphone still has the Hype.
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This is bit of a late post, and a lot has happened since then, including Sprint promoting an iPhone killer, which was subsequently blown out of the water by the iPhone 3G. Anyway, without a true Android-phone out there yet, I don’t think we’ll see anyone, even Microsoft, release a phone that can compete with the simplicity and ease of use of the iPhone.
For those of you stuck with your contracts, however, I put together an iPhone killer-for the rest of us post, where I suggested us T-mobile users just stick with an unlocked iPhone EDGE and the others to pray Android comes out faster, lol.