Unfortunately, this iPhone Killer from Garmin is not going to be available in 2008 as previously announced. Now, the earlier anyone can own one of these is “First Half of 2009″. It just goes to show you that when you have not been in the cellular phone business, there will be stuff that comes up that you don’t know how to anticipate for. In that sense, Apple did meet their original schedule as announced.

LG signed an agreement with Dolby Laboratories today that will allow the adding all the audio processing technology of Dolby Mobile to be included in future LG phones. Now LG will be able to offer such features as Mobile Surround, Sound Space Expander, Natural Bass, High Frequency Enhancer, Graphic EQ, Sound Level Control, and Mono to Stereo Converter. The first phone with such feature will start to ship around end of this year. LG just upped an ante on becoming the true iPhone Killer. Let’s see if Apple has anything up their sleeves to counter this.

Looks like it’s going to be just matter of months before this iPhone Killer is available on the US market.

PhoneArena.com did a very detailed comparison between these 4 Touchscreen phones available in the US market. Here is the conclusion. Instinct came in first place, with iPhone in second, and followed by Dare and Vu. See if you agree with their assessment.

The full report can be found here.

RIM has finally come through on their promise of supporting iTunes on Blackberry devices. The new feature is called BlackBerry Media Sync and it’s a free download from RIM. Anybody wonder how their iPhone Killer, Blackberry Thunder, will do against the iPhone if they both support iTunes?

Here is an interesting article I found on InfoWorld titled  “Why iPhone 2.0 won’t yet rule the roost in the enterprise - The 13 key omissions Apple must fix before it can really compete with BlackBerry and Treo”

It’s a long 4 page article on what’s really missing from the iPhone 3G and what needs to be included in iPhone 2.1 software upgrade. Check it out.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/24/30TC-iphone-enterprise-flaws_1.html