Six Best Smartphones of 2009

the Street.Com ^ | 12/25/09 | By Jason Notte

[STONEWALLS]

"BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Smartphone makers upped the ante this year with sleeker designs, better touch screens and new applications. Consumers, chanting "I want one too," responded with open wallets. ....smartphones were the fastest-growing segment of this year's mobile phone market, with sales rising from more than 318 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 411 million last quarter. The struggle for smartphone dominance escalated just as rapidly, as Nokia(NOK Quote) and its Symbian OS phones watched their market dominance wither. Nokia's share plunged from 47% at the end of last year to 39% last quarter. Meanwhile, Research In Motion's(RIMM Quote) BlackBerry products held 20% of the market all year, but heard Apple's(AAPL Quote) footsteps as the iPhone's share went from 11% to 17%.

[Squantos]

Same here........great piece of gadget gear for road warriors !

That outage the other day killed my internet and email yet the phone was fine. Had to actually get the laptop out and fire it up to get work done !.......:o)

[Noumenon]

Well, the AT$T logo doesn’t resemble the Death Star for nothing. If your company uses BES servers - as mine does - then the Crackberry is the way to go. Mine delivers company email, Syslog alerts and SNMP trap alerts coming from our regional hub. We take a power hit, I know about instantly.

iPhone’s definitely got the best web browser, and a whole bunch of neat apps.

I managed to get the President’s phone ringtone from that 60s cult classic “The President’s Analyst” on my Storm 2. A few people actually remember it from the movie.