Best Social Media Enabled Smartphones of 2010

This is a showdown of most powerful social media enabled Smartphones which will dominate the social media scene of 2010-2011. These are the phones which will make you ultimate social media addict. Nope, iPhone is not included in this list, because it already has way too much exposure. Now it is time to give the contenders a chance to show their faces.

The elements that are mostly factor for choosing these phones are

• Processor power range from 600 MHz and above
• Android Platform ( with the exception of Blackberry and Symbian)
• Social media engagement and multi tasking
• Overall performance
• Platform engagement such as twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Friendster, flickr

Now let’s see what we have over here:

HTC Incredible

Key Elements: High Performance 1GHz processor with Android 2.xx Platform, 8GB internal Storage, TV Out, 8MP Camera with HD Capability

Type: Touch Screen 3.7 inch AMOLED

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Detailed Specification [ubergizmo.com]

Comments: Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now. It’s better than the Droid, even better than the Nexus One, and certainly beats off of any previous generation handsets like the Eris, myTouch, or Cliq. It’s also an excellent Smartphone no matter how you cut it. It comes with HTC Sense UI and Android Market Access. I would love to get my hands on this one.

HTC Desire

Key Elements: High Performance 1GHz processor with Android 2.xx Platform, 5MP Camera with HD Capability

Type: Touch Screen 3.7 inch AMOLED

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Comments: HTC Desire is the best affordable high performance Android device that you can purchase right now. Almost everything as same as the Nexus One with the addition of HTC Sense. It’s also an excellent Smartphone no matter how you use it. The Social Media Addict’s power phone. I would love to own this one.

Motorola DROID / Milestone

Key Elements: Performance ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor with Android 2.xx Platform, 5MP Camera with HD Capability

Type: Touch Screen 3.7 inch AMOLED, Dedicated QWERTY keyboard with 5 way navigation

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Comments: Motorola Droid is one of the best Android device that you can get your groove on. The dedicated QWERTY keyboard made it extremely popular among the social networking addicts. It’s not so much better than the Nexus One Or HTC Desire. Yet it beats other Smartphone those are out there. It’s also an excellent Smartphone even it is not loaded with extremely powerful processing speed. I would definitely choose this if only this has a 1GHz processor.

Blackberry Bold II 9700

Key Elements: Performance 624 MHz processor with Blackberry 5.0 OS

Type: Standard Screen 2.44 inch, Dedicated QWERTY keyboard with Touch-sensitive optical trackpad

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Comments: Blackberry always have their niche features, this is one social media phone that is packed with power and comfort of typing. Very affordable and not to mention Blackberry Internet Services provides seamless corporate needs. This is one heck of a messenger phone, the only phone comes near to this on typing is Motorola Droid. I have one of this.

Nokia N8

Key Elements: High Performance 680 MHz processor with 3D Graphics HW accelerator. Build on Symbian ^3 platform. 12MP Camera, f2.8 lens, ND Filter, Smile Detection with True HD Capability. 16GB internal storage.

Type: Touch Screen 3.5 inch AMOLED

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Comments: Finally Nokia comes up with a true Touch Screen social media life enabled phone. Hi end camera features are one of the key element of this phone. Powerful and effective social networking engagement. Coming soon and Exp. release date 2010, 3rd quarter. I’m sure this will be contender to many Smartphone out there. Yes I would like to have it but I am worried that they might not have all the apps Android offers but and Definitely yes if I can test it out first.

Samsung I9000 Galaxy S

Key Elements: High Performance ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor. Build on Android 2.x platform. Has a flavor of 8/16GB internal storage.

Type: Touch Screen 3.7 inch Super AMOLED

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Comments: Yet another Android phone on the loose, exceptionally pricey it seems. Comes with good social networking engagement. This one is expecting to come out 2nd quarter of 2010.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10

Key Elements: High Performance Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor. Build on Android 1.6 platform. Powerful camera capabilities.

Type: Touch Screen 4.0 inch AMOLED

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Comments: Pricey but truly eye candy android phone from Sony Ericsson. Comes with good social networking engagement. It’s powerful love to have one of these.

Conclusion

There you have it. Personally I would choose HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, Motorola Droid/Milestone, Blackberry Bold 9700 and Nokia N8. I know many of you might not agree with me about this list. But, you can tell me what is your favorite Smartphone and Why?

Is this post is stating me as a Android Fanboy? Maybe.

I would love to know your opinion. Do talk to me on Twitter or just comment below.

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