Paul Boutin, over at Slate.com, has suggested that of all the other phones being released at the minute that aim to take a slice out of the iPhone, none will come close.

In the article he says that the likes of Nokia and Samsung sell off their phones as two or three products in one, but offer something rather limited to which they had originally promised, whereas Apple sell themselves short but still manage to convince enough people that their products are the best of their time.  In what way is the fruity technology giant selling it short? The iPod, internet communicator and mobile phone all in one on an OS X based system really makes the phone a computer, and not a phone.

Mr. Boutin says that Apple’s iPhone “interface looks and works more like the computer you use all day, blurring the distinction between the two. There’s nothing else like it in the pipeline,” and “once the third-party application restrictions start to loosen, the iPhone won’t be just a phone. It’ll be a platform.”

[Via MacDailyNews]