what is the best smartphone on the market?

Smartphones offer the features you need to manage the myriad details of your life whether that includes scheduling business meetings, tracking your family’s schedule, reading email, or surfing the web. The line between business smartphones and the more consumer-oriented multimedia phones is becoming blurrier with every new smartphone that’s announced.

First up is the Apple iPhone 3GS
Smartphones were once almost exclusively the tools of high powered business users and road warriors. The original Apple iPhone, and more significantly, the iPhone 3G, were the single greatest catalysts in expanding smartphones’ appeal to the general consumer audience. The Apple iPhone 3GS (‘S’ for Speed) continues the trend of improvements we enjoyed with the 3G. Certainly more evolutionary than revolutionary, the folks at Apple listened to the criticisms that were leveled at the wildly popular iPhone 3G and actually took action on most of the issues. While competitors have made major strides in closing the gap between the iPhone and everyone else, this is still the phone to beat for most users. We won’t rehash the well known features of the iPhone 3G. For details of that excellent smartphone, you can check out its review. Instead, we’ll highlight the improvements that make the iPhone 3GS a top choice for a wide variety of users. As with its predecessor, there are two models that are identical except for the memory capacity. The top rated Apple iPhone 3GS boasts a whopping 32GB of onboard memory while the other lesser model still has a very respectable 16GB and costs $100 less. We're still not particularly pleased that there's no option for memory expansion but with that much storage embedded, the argument is irrelevant for most users. (The previous version had 16GB and 8GB options). Both models are available in both black and white. Standout Features • 3.0-megapixel digital camera
• Video recording capability
• Supports multimedia messaging
• Document editing functions


Next the Motorola Droid
Let’s say it right off the bat: the Motorola DROID is the best Google Android based smartphone phone to date. It’s the first device to run using the greatly improved Android 2.0 operating system and Motorola has gone a long way to address most of the shortfalls that were inevitably leveled against previous Android phones in comparisons to the competition. To make things even better, it offers some of its very own unique features that should put the DROID on anybody’s short list when considering a smartphone purchase. Standout Features

• 3.7-inch touch screen
• Superior call quality
• 3 keyboards: 1 physical, 2 virtual
• 5.0-megapixel camera
• Multitasking capability

Next is the Palm Pre
The name Palm was virtually synonymous with PDAs not too many years ago. But when PDAs gave way to the more versatile smartphones, Palm was left behind as an also ran by the likes of BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone. While they continued to make some pretty good devices, the legacy Palm OS didn’t get much attention so their entry level Centro phones quickly became outdated. Palm chose to use Windows Mobile as the operating system for their higher end, business oriented Treo smartphones but that eliminated the uniqueness that they had enjoyed by making both the software as well as the hardware and the Treo became just another WinMo phone. The Palm Pre has been widely hyped as the device that will put Palm back on top and, from what we’ve seen so far, that may be just what happens. The Pre uses Palms new WebOS which not only puts the manufacturer back in control of the device and its software but also melds the phones internal capabilities and data with information that’s available on the mobile internet. The Pre is just the first of several anticipated smartphones that will be based on the Palm webOS and could indeed be the shot in the arm that Palm and exclusive U.S. distributor, Sprint, have needed. Standout Features • Palm Synergy data synchronization
• Superior multitasking functionality
• Palm webOS