Smart Phones of today

ince Droid is days away from getting launched, we might as well go out and compare it to the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, as far as the total cost in concerned. The duel between handsets and their prices easily turns into a duel of carriers, a three way competition between Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.

The folks of BillShrink have provided the excellent comparison table below:

Turns out that the Droid and iPhone 3GS cost the exact same price in the long run, while the Pre is cheaper, although it has its drawbacks (fewer apps, less internal memory, no voice commands). Meanwhile, getting the Moto Verizon Droid with an unlimited plan will mean paying $3,799 over a 2 year period, but this handset has some strong points, to be honest.

For example, Droid outperforms the iPhone 3GS and Pre when it comes to talk time, camera quality and multitasking.

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As a reminder, you should probably know that you can now get your hands on the Motorola CLIQ if you’re an existing T-Mobile customer. If you’re not then you’re going to have to wait a couple more days, November 2, because that’s when you’ll be getting your chance. Anyways, this handset comes with Android and is layered with their MOTOBLUR that has deep social integration.

You can now get this handset here for $199.99 USD on a 2-year contract. It was expected that only pre-orders would be taken today, but it appears for all the world that T-Mobile is ready to start shipping the CLIQ to its loyal customers ahead of the November 2nd full release date .

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Looks like everybody wants in on Android. During a press conference held in Taiwan, chairman of Asus Jonney Shih and CEO Jerry Shen talked about some of the company’s future endeavors, including the green energy market, notebooks and netbooks, and the launch schedule for their Android-based smartphone.

The only comment that they made regarding the Android device was that it was launching in the fourth quarter of 2009. It’s not much to go until the end of the year, so we’ll most likely see an official announcement in the following weeks. We’ll keep you posted.

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We’ve just got word – via Nokia’s own official US store that the Nokia N900 running Maemo 5 will be available by the end of this month which is great news. I know a lot of people have been looking forward to this handset, especially since it’s their flagship device. Available for pre-order now,

It’s available on Nokia’s own website  for $649 USD, but I’m sure that you can find a slightly better deal somewhere else. the Nokia N900 is described as a touchscreen computer that has a maximum of a 48GB capacity. The phone has a slide out QWERTY keyboard for text entry and is fronted by a large touchscreen.

On Amazon’s US website here they’re selling the N900 for $582.99 USD, but the release date hasn’t been posted yet.

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Vodafone is the first to take pre-orders for the upcoming BlackBerry Storm 2 and they plan to deliver on October 26th.  We had a feeling Vodafone would be the first to make an official announcement.  A couple of early week stories predicted this and it’s just the first of many official announcements to come.

It looks they will offer the phone for free on a 2 year contract with a monthly fee £35 or more.  The Vodafone Storm 9520 will be slightly different from other carriers but for the most part all features are the same as the 9550.  Customers in the UK and Ireland will be the first to get their hands on the new Storm 2.  Shortly after it become available in Germany, Netherlands and Spain.

BlackBerry Storm 2 Features:

• 3.25″ capacitive SurePress touchscreen
• resolution of 360 x 480 pixels
• runs at 802.11/g networks
• UMTP/HSPA data
• 2GB of memory, GPS,
• microSD memory expansion slot
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• 1400mAh battery
• 6 hours of talk on a 3G network
• bluetooth, GPS and runs the Blackberry 5 OS

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