Over at Macworld, we reprinted a Computerworld story on the latest phones from Verizon released in anticipation of the holiday season. The most interesting of the four phones, at least from an iPhone perspective, is the LG Voyager (pictured here), which has touch screen and a QWERTY keypad. (The latter is available when the screen is flipped up.)
So the touch screen makes the LG Voyager Verizon’s response to the iPhone, right? Not according to what Verizon told Computerworld’s Matt Hamblen:
While some reports have described the LG Voyager as Verizon’s answer to the touch-screen capabilities of Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone, which uses the AT&T network in the U.S., a Verizon spokesman objected to that characterization. “It’s more than a touch-screen phone. We’ve had 18 music phones … and touch-screen phones as well, including the Chocolate, which has sold 3 million,” said Verizon spokesman Tom Pica.
You can find more coverage of what Verizon has up its sleeve around the Internet, including this CNet story, which plaintively asks, “Verizon, where’s your iPhone killer?” These days, it seems, the only “iPhone killer” out there was released last week by Apple itself.
Hey-yo!
But seriously… the Verizon announcement comes a day after Samsung released its iPhone rival, the Serenata music/mobile phone. Which makes one wonder: Will every phone released between now and the New Year get billed as an iPhone killer?
Yes, unfortunately, we all better get used to the phrase 'iPhone killer'.
I'm sick of it already.
Come to think of it - Has there ever been a product marketed as the xxxx killer that actually killed that product?
I don't think so - anyone creating a truly revolutionary / great product wouldn't need a cheesy marketing line.
yawns @ verizon
It is nice to know that even the iPhone detractors see the iPhone as the product by which all others should be measured. So take heart in that everytime we hear that annoying phrase, it reaffirms the iphone's dominance, making the iphone the defacto standard in people's minds.