Here is an MSN money article which recommends NOT buying any smart phone other than the Blackberry or iPhone.
Smart-phone also-rans
In the past few years, several smart phones have hit the market with features similar to the iPhone and BlackBerry, but they haven’t generated the same buzz.As a result, fewer developers are likely to create applications and other products that cater to those phones.
Today, the BlackBerry dominates the smart-phone market with 40% market share, followed by the iPhone with 25%, according to data released by comScore in December. In the near term, both are expected to stay at the top. ComScore found that most consumers who will be shopping for a smart phone in the next three months plan to purchase a BlackBerry (51%) or an iPhone (20%).
By contrast, only 5% of respondents said they planned to purchase T-Mobile’s MyTouch. The Palm Pre and Palm Centro received 2% and 1% of the vote, respectively.
Seems to be flying in the face of a ton of contrary evidence. Listing the myTouch was a little strange, but….
Mmmm, yeah. Serious methodological questions here. In one case you are asking about a manufacturer (BlackBerry) and in the other case you are asking about models (MyTouch, Palm Pre, and Palm Centro). Not at all surprising that the numbers will be much lower.
Plus, if they were actually surveying in December, pretty sure that T-Mobile users would have been waiting to hear about Nexus One while other folks new to the market are going to be looking at more updated handsets like Droid, Droid Eris, Hero, etc.
I’m, er, not buying this.
I tried reading the original article, but had a hard time reading the actual content sandwiched between the ads, links to other pages, and search popup “helpers”. It’s almost as if the page was constructed by someone with ADD.
Is the content of the page the article or the links to the rest of MSN? I can’t help but feeling like the article is a glorified domain-squatter’s link page. I’m almost surprised they didn’t skew the survey to promote Windows Mobile. But that’s just me.