Phones the UK Never Got to See…

Although the Americans have to pay extortionate prices for their Smartphone’s they sill get some of the best ones - while we small people in the UK/Ireland sit back and watch in anger.

The List:

• HTC Evo 4G
• Samsung Epic 4G
• HTC Incredible
• Samsung Captivate
• Motorola Droid 2
• My Touch Slide
• My Touch 4G HD
• LG Ally

The above is but a small list of the handsets that most Geeky consumers in the US and Canada opt for. You’ll see the trending towards handsets with ‘4G’ in the title, which aside from the latest iPhone, domestic smartphone customers may not know what 4G is all about. The concept 4G basically means ‘SPEED’! Like an Ultra-Broadband for mobile phones.

We people of the UK and Ireland probably won’t see these speeds or this technology become the accepted mainstream in smartphones for a while – but it is on the way. The HTC Evo 4G is one phone that seems to make the Apple iPhone 4 look like a child’s rattle as it sits with the highest and most impressive spec ever to exist in a phone. Then you have HTC’s other handsets like the extremely popular HTC Incredible, which is pretty much the successor or big brother’ to the HTC Desire.

Now the other phones that we may be familier with are theMotorola Droid 2 and the My Touch slide. The Droidbecame available in the UK not too long ago but we haven’t heard any news about its successor yet – and the My-Touch was made available a long time ago on Vodafone – a cheap and cheerful Android first for the network. Now there are news and rumours about a big upgrade from it called the My-Touch 4G HD. I love the way American phones are brought out to sound SO impressive. Like the Samsung ‘CAPTIVATE’ or ‘EPIC’. US phones seem to be getting even more juvenile names every day. One thing I keep wishing for is to see handsets like these on the UK market so we – the geeky public – can have a play around or  even break one out of jealousy.

The UK’s Current Smartphone Market

• HTC Desire
• Samsung Galaxy S
• iPhone 4
• Samsung Wave
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
• Google Nexus one
• Motorola milestone
• Nokia N8 (releasing soon)

I would highly recommend all the above phones for anyone who is looking a smartphone before Christmas in the UK and some great deals are in place if you scan the T-Mobile website.