Is it time to set-up a comparison between these two devices? Well the iPhone 3G is already out there and has been reviewed many times by some of our colleagues, but the BlackBerry Thunder hasn’t been announced, reviewed, or fully leaked: it’s full of speculations. Even the name is under battle: is it Thunder, or Storm, or Thunderstorm? Honestly…

Jim Hill at ElectrigPig thought it was time to get these phones in the battlefield, and after reading his points, he can sort of prove that the Thunder is better than the iPhone, even with the few specifications that we are aware of.

There are 8 reasons: the Thunder is better for typists; Better contracts (in terms of price plans); Better for business (BlackBerry has a huge reputation with businessmen); Better memory (microSD removable memory); Better display (resolution at 360×480 pixels with advanced haptic feedback); Better compatibility (Has Bluetooth, which works in headset-only mode with the iPhone, USB, and is designed for Windows, which is the most used operating system in the world); Works with iTunes and Windows Media Player (BlackBerry Media Sync); has Visual Voicemail for any network.

I wonder what he will come up with once the device IS released.

You might have read the recent rumour that Sony Ericsson is going to make a new announcement by next week. We speculated over the release of the devices codenamed Remi and Hicaru, but here we have a slider leaked with the name of G705.

The Sony Ericsson G705 features a 3 megapixel camera, built-in GPS, WiFi, a M2 memory card slot, and has 128MB of internal memory. Geo-tagging is included in the software.

We don’t have much more information, but we do have quite a lot of pictures, which are available after the jump.

Source: SE4M via GSMArena

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According to sources, AT&T’s contract with Apple lists that the iPhone 3G is exclusively locked to their network until 2010. The agreement was reportedly until 2009, but large-scale subsidies were paid to keep the device away from other companies in the US until 2010.

The iPhone is one of the main products allowing AT&T to detach itself from the “common” mobile phones by offering a rather futuristic-looking deal to the consumer. It will fuel many sales and promote AT&T as a cellular company.

The old agreement stated that next year the iPhone could be sold by T-Mobile and that Apple could bring out a CDMA version to sell with Sprint, Verizon, and other North American carriers.

The agreement timeframe isn’t confirmed by any of the parties, but AT&T’s chief Randall Stephenson has said that he and AT&T are “very happy” with the deal.

Picture: Atmaspheric endeavours

Source: Electronista

What impressed me most on the K850i’s software is that it multitasks. It doesn’t run on a smartphone Operating System, but Sony Ericsson endeavoured to make its Cybershot different to every other camera-feature-only phone by implementing some decent software. Not that it beats the Nokia N82, but then again, the N82 is a fully-fledged smartphone, which leads us to the discussion of what really is a smartphone. Is it just a device that multitasks? Is it a device that provides internal APIs and allows its use? Or is the K850i a smartphone? We will not consider it a smartphone in our review, but will rather just treat as a non-smartphone, camera-feature-only phone.

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To add to the most expensive phones list comes the Amosu Ultimo Diamond Apple iPhone at $177 300.

I’m not sure if anyone really buys these stuff, but just for curiosity let’s look at the bling implemented:

• 1,179 encrusted diamonds
• 16.18 carat diamond weight
• VIP-service Concierge full year access

Source: Uber Gizmo