Do you love the iPhone? I certainly love the idea of the iPhone, as well as the early pictures and reviews on the user interface. Just the thought of a portable media player that is also a phone is very attractive. Instead of carrying more than one gadget ,such as a cell phone, an MP3 player and a palm pilot, you can just carry it all packed into one slick device. It looks amazing on commercials and garners decent reviews, but for some of us there are two big obstacles in the way.

One- The whopping price tag.

Two- AT&T is the ONLY service provider of the phone.

Wow, that first hurdle is a pretty big step to overcome. The second wouldn’t be so bad if there were more provider options, but the fact remains there aren’t. So, where do users of other service providers go for a phone much like the iPhone and maybe a little cheaper, if it can be helped?

To answer that question here is a small list of possible alternatives to the iPhone.

• Verizon- LG Voyager; LG Dare; Samsung Glide

• Sprint/Nextel- Samsung Instinct; HTC Touch; Blackberry Curve; Palm Centro

• Alltel- HTC Touch; Blackberry Curve; LG Glimmer

• AT&T- HTC Tilt; LG VU CU920; LG VU CU915

Early reviews of the Samsung Instinct prove to be positive, and the official website even lists reasons why it outshines the iPhone; check it out for some more info. Some of the other phones lack certain similarities such as the HTC touch, which is a little wider in form and has a smaller screen display, but the price tag is in a much more comfortable $100 range. A couple of the phones even lack the biggest feature, a touch screen, such as the Blackberry Curve and the Palm Centro, but they still fortunately prove a decent alternative.

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