Stephen Fry wants an iPhone killer
Stephen Fry, great British comedian, actor, and wordsmith, has written an impressive blog post calling for the iPhone killers:
"All the big guns want an iPhone killer. Even I, mad for all things Apple as I am, want an iPhone killer. I want smart digital devices to be as good as mankind’s ingenuity can make them. I want us eternally to strive to improve and surprise. Bring on the iPhone killers. Bring them on."
Fry is obviously a smartphone addict — "I have never seen a SmartPhone I haven’t bought" — and takes a look at three devices which could be described as "iPhone killers":
"I really want you to believe that, Apple addict as I am, my eyes have always been open to the virtues of anything good, exciting, functional, elegant, pleasing to use. In fact the real precipitating reason for writing this is the fact that within three weeks I have bought/been sent, aside from my iPhone (which, yes, I dearly love), three soi-disant ‘iPhone killers’ - the HTC Touch, the Nokia E90 and the Sony Ericsson P1i. P1i. While I don’t intend fully to review, road-test or benchmark each device (as if I could, anyway), I do want to share my thoughts about where these devices appear to be going. (I’m not even going to mention outside these parentheses the LG Prada phone, that’s an iPhone beater in the same way Tim Henman is a Federer beater)."
He also picks on issues with the iPhone itself: only having server-side applications, lack of physical keyboard, poor Bluetooth implementation, downloadable ringtones, no mail attachment downloads.
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