This is a typical law of development - the pioneers are making something sensational and the followers are doing right after the success something quite similar. But the followers aren’t stupid, they won’t make same mistakes. They will focus on the pioneers weaknesses and make a better product with more features and benefits. It seems that LG has simply followed the rule and been “impressively innovative”. This may be just a rip of, but i’d rather buy Voyager than iPhone, mainly because 3G, but at the same time i would differ from others. Personally i don’t think Voyager will be a real competitor to iPhone, because Voyager isn’t a “lifestyle” product, but it will take some customers away indeed.

Some facts about Voyager as well:
* Voyager has a large external touch screen that also slides open sideways for a full QWERTY keypad. This gives users a choice on how they access the phone’s features

* Voyager will use Verizon Wireless’ fast 3G data network to access the mobile Internet, on the other hand iPhone uses slower AT&T Edge data network

* Voyager also comes with multimedia capabilities, including an HTML Web browser; Verizon Wireless’ V Cast mobile TV, video, and music service; and the ability to play MP3, WMA, and unprotected AAC files. For more storage room, the phone has a removable MicroSD memory slot that holds up to 8 Gbytes of memory

When iPhone become available in US tech geeks have been messing with its insides, trying to figure out how to unlock iPhone for use on networks other than AT&T’s.

Since last Monday, Apple officials have been warning iPhone owners that using unlocking software could cause the phone to become “permanently inoperable when future software update is installed.

On Friday the web was filled with complaints from people who had installed the latest update, their iPhone hacked updates were missing or even worse their phones froze up.

Jennifer Bowcock, an Apple spokeswoman, said that when people went to update their software with their computer through iTunes, a warning appeared on the computer screen. It was clear that any unauthorized modifications to the iPhone software violated the agreement that people entered into when they bought the phone.

Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, said the company wanted to maintain control over the iPhone’s functions to protect carrier networks and to make sure the phone was not damaged.

Brian Lam, editor of Gizmodo, a blog devoted to gadgets, was in other opinion. He stated that disabling someone’s phone, instead of just relocking it and to wipe out the apps, is uncharacteristically evil. It seems like Apple has gone way too far.

It is hard to draw a straight line are these actions for making money or protecting the product. At least it seems that the phenomena of Apple and iPhone has started to fade gradually after so called iPhone era.