When talking about the latest trend in the field of smartphones, only two things come to mind- its touchscreen and physical QWERTY keyboard.
What is the most interesting thing about all of this- it’s that the smartphones which were using stylus kind of lost their popularity, while the iPhone with its touchscreen and the three following devices with the opportunity of the QWERTY keyboard continued their march.
I’m talking about Motorola Backflip of Motorola, MyTouch 3G Slide of HTC and of course Samsung Moment of Samsung. All of three devices except of the fact that have the physical keyboard are also equipped with the same operating system.
The basis for all three is Android OS: for Motorola Backflip it’s Android 1.5, while for HTC device it’s 2.1 which is much better in terms of functionality.
The design of the device is much alike. But when HTC has a range of three quite bright colors to choose from and the Backflip has a sophisticated metal-like coverage, then Samsung Moment is not that noteworthy.
Next interesting factor is the display of the devices. Their measures are 3.4, 3.2, 3.1. Here the numbers talk against the Motorola, but then the fact that both Backflip and MyTouch are based on HVGA and Samsung on AMOLED, changes the picture.
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