My cheapo phone can do everything the iPhone can...kind of.

I love watching iPhone commercials promoting the use of the iPhone's "App Store", in which you can purchase Applications that will help you in some way.

For each application Apple decides to advertise as a reason to buy the iPhone, I came up with a simple, yet logical, alternative to the iPhone.

1. Friends Application: One application Apple boasts about is a friends application that lets you know where a friend is, what he or she is doing, and allows you to send them a message. What a great breakthrough, here's my alternative: I call the person I want, ask him where he or she is, what he or she is doing, and bam....I now know. Extra convenience: I don't even need to send them a message...I can just ask them...over the phone.

2. Unknown Song Application: Ever want to know what song is playing? Easy, with the new iPhone app you can put the iPhone up to the speaker, and it detects what song it is. Cheap solution? Call your music guru, put the phone up to the speaker, maybe, or maybe he won't tell you what song it is. 

3. Restaurant Finder: Choosing a restaurant based on what you want, price, menu selection, ad anything else logical is officially out of style, with the iPhone, you shake the phone to decide what restaurant you want to go to. My solution? Pick one I want to go to. Done. If I am daring and want to try a new restaurant, I can ask a friend or local...ground breaking technology at my hands. 

I'm not trying to down the iPhone or Apple, but it seems that for every expensive Apple feature, there's a cheaper, logical alternative around it. Man, maybe I need to pick a new topic seeing as my previous post tore apart the new MacBooks. 

P.S. I'm still a Apple fan.