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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Comparing Features and Specs of the HTC Surround to the Apple iPhone 4

By Thomas Torolam


For a long time, the iPhone looked as if it stood as the unrivaled champion of the smartphone market. Android operating phones have been rapidly hitting the market to stir up some competition. Of these it was always the phones that were produced by HTC that made the most noise. Now, HTC has released one of the most hotly anticipated phones ever. The Surround is the first phone from HTC that features the impressive Windows 7 mobile operating system from Microsoft. Many foolish individuals believe the Surround will put an end to the iPhone, but those who kept an open mind believe otherwise. If you are trying to decide between the iPhone 4 and the Surround, then there are a few things that you should keep in mind. Let's look at a few of the top considerations.

The first thing that you will notice when you are looking at the iPhone 4 and the Surround is that both of them contain a full-face touch screen. The only difference is that the HTC phone face can slide out from its body. Most phones of this nature slide out to reveal a QWERTY keyboard, but the Surround has no such keyboard. Instead, when you slide the face of the phone out you will reveal a decent sized speaker. This is what gives the HTC phone its name: it can provide surround sound music right from the phone. No phone has ever tried to double as a boom box, so this is quite an interesting feature. While it certainly doesn't produce loud enough sound to rival even a cheap boom box, the speakers of the Surround are far superior to the iPhone 4's speakers.

The other major difference between the iPhone 4 and the Surround is the applications that are available. This is the major difference between the iPhone and most other phones. Since Apple got a head start with its App Store, there are significantly better applications available for the iPhone 4 than there is for the HTC cell phone. However, on the Surround, you will have access to the Zune service, which is rapidly accumulating a large number of developers and applications.

No matter which phone you choose, you will definitely want to purchase some accessories so that you will have a personalized phone that feels as if it were made just for you. This is probably even more important than what phone you choose. A HTC Surround with some excellent accessories will be better than an iPhone 4 any day of the week. Get a case and maybe a backup battery, and you'll be in business.

The Surround and the iPhone 4 are both impressive phones, but there is no clear cut winner. If you want the ability to listen to your music out loud on perhaps the best speaker system ever designed for a mobile phone, then you should definitely go with the Surround.




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