Is This The Device That Makes The iPhone Its Bitch ?

Oh it´s all so confusing. One minute you think you have a handle on technology and then before you know it everything has changed. Now for anyone interested in gadgets, the horror of upgrading has become a necessary evil, but things are just getting silly now. Most electronics companies update their product range 4 times a year, and every time they do so they make everything that has come before appear to be obsolete.

This is something of an issue unless you are the sort of person that has so much money that they can literally go into the street, set fire to bundles of notes and laugh until they choke. For the rest of us, this kind of tech is a substantial outlay and we can´t really afford to get it wrong. Apple, with their iPhone have proved how incredibly lucrative the smartphone market can be, and so lots of other companies have now started to produce serious competition.

The HTC Hero (pictured above) has just won gadget and phone of the year. It does many of the things that the Apple phone does, but does them rather better. And while it lacks the apps that the market leader has, that too is apparently changing. Not only that, but Blackberry and Palm also have new phones out that dramatically close the gap on the iPhone. So what´s a boy to do ? After all, you can be assured that whatever you spend and no matter how cutting edge you are, it´ll all be out of date before you´ve even taken the damn thing out of the box. The world of mobile phones is going through a period of immense change and I feel as if I should just hide under the table until the storm subsides. At this rate I´ll just end up buying nothing at all under the principle of ´it´s my ball and I´m taking it home´.