All three companies are back with much more impressive, much more refined new smartphones.

Ever notice how many bits of common wisdom actually contradict each other? I mean, haste makes waste – yet the early bird gets the worm. There are no second acts in American lives – but if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

The “try, try again” part is definitely what the Motorola, HTC and BlackBerry people are up to. One year ago – one year into the iPhone era – each of these three companies stumbled publicly. The BlackBerry Storm, the first touch-screen phone from Research in Motion, was a buggy, sluggish, counterintuitive mess. The T-Mobile G1, made by HTC, was the first phone that ran Google’s new Android operating system, but the phone itself was chunky and clunky. And Motorola, well, it’s been looking for a hit ever since the Razr phone.

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