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Americans like smartphones more than they do regular phones or feature phones. Smartphones have been around for perhaps four years. And already, one out of two Americans owns one of these. It looks pretty much like if given four more years, smart phones are going to completely wipe out every other kind of phone. Of course, the center of the universe, as far as smartphones are concerned, the product every other product needs to compete with, is the iPhone. And compete they do. Windows Phone 7 (with Nokia famously abandoning its Symbian operating system for it) and Google’s Android compete for dominance over the market share that Apple’s iOS enjoys at the moment. And every phone maker from Motorola and Samsung to HTC and Dell wants to beat the iPhone at its own game in the hardware. What phones and alliances have the top rated cell phones to compete successfully against the iPhone? Actually, there are quite a few, and short of the iPhone’s sheen of invincibility, these phones really do the build a better iPhone than the iPhone. They are thinner than the iPhone, they have 4G where the iPhone does not, they have multicore processors (Motorola’s Atrix, for instance) where the iPhone has one, and more importantly, they have larger screens. Let’s look at some of the top rated cell phones that contend for the iPhone’s crown.

The fact that Apple has decided to keep its screen the same 3.5″ size for four years, to leave out technologies like LTE and dual-core and to leave 4G out of its latest iPhone does allow the competitors a beachhead. Let’s see how well they take advantage of it.

For some reason, LG has for the most part stayed out of the smartphone game; almost all of its phones are ordinary feature phones. It seems to be off to a powerful start with the LG Revolution – a powerhouse phone that’s a half-inch thick, has a 4.3 inch screen and that runs on a 1GHz processor. In storage and imaging, it competes head-to-head with the iPhone with 16GB and two cameras (one of which is its 5MP main man). It goes on sale on Verizon any day now.

The word is out among the phone makers that AT&T is looking for something to replace the hole left in its lineup when it lost exclusivity to the iPhone in February. While the Motorola Atrix seems to be that phone, Samsung’s Infuse, with its 1.2GHz processor, a superb 8MP camera, a huge 4.5 inch AMOLED screen is actually 4G. It goes on sale sometime in the spring.

Finally, the phone that has actually moved smartphones to the next level – the dual core Motorola Atrix. The strange thing about this smartphone is that Motorola isn’t calling it a phone. It comes with a gigabyte of RAM, a dual core processor, a huge screen. Motorola’s actually calling it a pocket computer. Taking the analogy further, they even have a docking station that looks like a laptop for this phone. Pop it into the docking station, and it can actually power of whole laptop (or something that looks like it).

These top rated cell phones that are barely recognizable as such anymore simply make these exciting times to be on the market for a phone.