SmartPhones

All iPhone bashing aside, the HTC TouchPro2 is still one of the hottest smartphones on the market today. Two months ago, when it first came out, this slide-out keyboard, touchscreen smartphone was flying off the shelves so fast it had gone out of stock after even at Verizon's own online store. Then, when they refilled inventories, the device voted Hot for the Holidays at the last CTIA convention, only remained in stock for one day. A little less than one month ago, the TouchPro2 was sold out again.

But now, as of November 9, nearly two months after the TouchPro2's release, supplies have finally been restocked once more. How long will it last in stock, though?

Probably not long, even in the face of the Droid. The HTC TouchPro2 is a world phone, for one, and the Droid is not. Add to that a tilting touchscreen and one of the best keyboards for texting and you have a device that looks way more like a champ than a contender.

written by SmartPhoneWizard \\ tags: Droid, HTC, iphone, TouchPro2, verizon, Windows Mobile Smartphones

Look out, HTC! There's another new Droid in town - that is, another new smartphone running on the Google Android OS besides the highly-hyped HTC Droid Eris - and it's coming from LG. It's the LG EVE, the aptly titled debut of LG's promised line of Android smartphones to look forward to.

Interesting on the name: EVE. Recent advertisements for the Droid have already stigmatized it before even hitting the stands as a "masculine" smartphone. So here comes a more feminine alternative, rolled out the same day, and running on the same shiny new mobile operating system from the geniuses over at Google.

So while the HTC Droid is targeted at guys who are into their gadgets (big on music, video, games, and apps), the LG EVE is targeted at social media addicts, with a killer aggregator for the Twitter, Facebook and Bebo set. A prediction on that: both smartphones will be competing viciously for the YouTube set.

The LG is a touchscreen smartphone and a keyboard smartphone with a 3" touchscreen with stupendous 480 x 320 pixel resolution and a built-in accelerometer and it has a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Take your pick. The camera on the LG EVE, at 5 megapixels, could take over as the only digital camera you need too. And expandable up to 16 GB means you can hold plenty of photos - and home videos too! Yes, the EVE has video recording capabilities.

The price on the LG EVE makes for an interesting spread, as unlocked it costs around $400, but you can get it for about 70%, making it $49.95, with contract.

written by SmartPhoneWizard \\ tags: Android, Droid, EVE, Google, HTC, LG