Since the time the first iPhone model made a grand entrance into the telecommunications market and literally kick started the multimedia enabled smartphone revolution, there has been no looking back for it. Four generations of this multimedia smartphone pioneer have emerged during the course of the last four years (the first iPhone being commercially released in January 2007) and each generation has met with tremendous success. Indeed, a specific customer niche – which is not, in any way, an insignificant fraction of the global number of smartphone users – has been observed to be totally loyal to this flagship Apple telecommunications device brand, going so far as refusing to even consider the fact that an alternative to the iPhone is a practical possibility! With rumors of a supposed iPhone 5 release somewhere around the third quarter this year making furious rounds of the smartphone market, let's take a look at some gadgets that are being touted as some of the best alternatives to iPhone 4, 2011.
