Nokia N95
You win some, you lose some. When I buy a new, expensive thing like a phone, I research it to death, but I'm never 100% sure I've made a good choice until I've had the thing for a while. I've had my Nokia N95 for a week and I'm sure. It bleeding rocks.
This is a page about why.
There are countless glowing reviews online. Here are two:
http://www.gadgetnutz.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=00349
http://www.mobile-review.com/phonemodels/nokia/nokia-n95-en.shtml
Why is N95 an iPhone killer?
5 mp camera, shoots great video. iPhone takes only stills.
TV out
GPS
Mobile blogging
Memory expansion (iPhone has none. N95 uses cheap MicroSD. $20 for 2 gb. Can use 4 gb.)
Normal airtime plans (AT&T jacks you roughly twice the normal per minute rate.)
To be fair, iPhone has a slick touchscreen interface, visual voicemail, threaded SMS, motion sensor to change display orientation and many first-ever features. They'll eventually have a formidable device and will be widely copied.
Here's a good comparison: http://www.cnet.com.au/mobilephones/pdaphones/0,239036203,339279031,00.htm
Sports Tracker. A free app that saves my route using GPS, then exports it to Google Earth. Think about this. My first use will be when I tramp to remote cemeteries. These are notoriously hard to give directions to. With normal GPS, you could save the lat/lon and e-mail this to someone who would then enter it into Google Maps or a GPS device or whatever. Then, you'd have directions to the nearest road. Sports Tracker gives directions to any point on earth.
Here's my first test. It's in my building at work, but you get the idea. In Google Earth, you can see the GPS coordinates all along the way.
More features I love. There are more every day:
In-phone video editor. I can create presentations with transitions, titles/credits and soundtrack in minutes.
Automatically sends a text message when I decline a call.
Stereo bluetooth audio plays MP3s through my headset.
Normal USB connection automatically copies pics and vids I've taken to my desktop when I connect it.
I can post text, pics and videos directly to my Vox blog from anywhere.
Natural voice dialing works perfectly.