The iPhones are now faster and cheaper, but you’re wondering what your options are.

Let’s face, if everybody is after them same thing, where the fun it that? You don’t want to miss out on the features like touchscreens, GPS, and the mobile web, but there has to be some choices, right?

Well, you’re in luck, as we’ve put together some of them for you. Here’s a few options to be on the lookout for.

Samsung Instrinct 

The Samsung Instinct is a real clone to say the least. The all-touchscreen Instinct is about the same weight and size as the iPhone, with most of the specs you would expect for a new phone, like 3G, GPS, 2-megapixel camera (with video recording), and full e-mail and web browsing features.

Although the OS doesn’t compare to the iPhones, and the crude zoom button isn’t comparable. Call quality is fair, with music playback being decent, one drawback being the battery only has 5 hours of talktime, not all that great for a smartphone. Cons? No wifi, and the photos are mediocre. 

Samsung Glyde

Next we the Samsung Glyde, a slider with lots to love. Elegant, lightweight, and versatile descibe this little beauty, with its clean profile makes for a stylish phone. While this isn’t exactly the iPhone Killer, the slideout QWERTY keyboard does make it appealing.

With good call quality and speedy performance, the downside was buttons near screen perimeter are sometimes unresponsive, no on-screen QWERTY keyboard for texting, and the speaker was disappointing for multimedia playback and speakerphone calls.

LG Vu

 With the LG Vu, we have a stylish touch-screen phone with HSDPA speeds, a 2.0-megapixel camera, a full HTML browser and quad bands. The Vu is slim and lightweight, reminding us of the LG Glimmer and the LG Voyager.

The 3G cellphone also comes with a 2-megapixel autofocus camera with good colors and quality, and marginally acceptable video quality. While call quality was good, the rated battery life for talk time is just a little over 3 hours.

 

The Blackberry Pearl is no stranger to most, and while it doesn’t have a touch-screen, it’s a true contender with it’s features and provides a real challenge to the iPhone. With very fast battery charging and nearly nine solid hours of talk time, it’s a great cellphone with business-oriented features.

About the only physical drawback might be the bi-character key setup, as opposed to others having individual keys per letter.

Nokia N95

The Nokia N95 is not a touch-screen either, but it is packed with a lot of features that are hard to ignore. Starting with Wifi, it also includes a 5 megapixel camera, and an innovative two-way slider design.

We like the standard-size 3.5mm headphone allows you to use your own headphones, and the 3.6Mbit/s HSDPA wireless lets you watch video, along with stereo speakers. Like most of the contenders, the battery life is not good. The price you pay for a smartphone? The biggest con of all? The price.