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iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple Inc., is more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses, but providing fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology
A. iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple Inc., is more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses, but providing
B. Designed and marketed by Apple Inc., iPhone is more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses while providing
C. iPhone, more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses, is designed and marketed by Apple Inc. though provides
D. iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple Inc., is more intuitive to use and is thus more popular among masses, but it provides
E. Designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and more intuitive to use, iPhone is more popular among masses and thus provides
A.
iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple Inc., is more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses, but providing fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology - In the "X, but Y" structure, X and Y must agree (be in parallel). In this answer choice, "to use" and "providing" are not parallel
B.
Designed and marketed by Apple Inc., iPhone is more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses while providing fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology - Here, usage of "while" is awkward in the context. "While" is used in two scenarios - 1. As a contrast conjugation (similar to but, although etc.), and 2. To indicate simultaneous activities.
C.
iPhone, more intuitive to use and thus more popular among masses, is designed and marketed by Apple Inc. though provides fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology - This is an easy discard. The highlighted text acts as a non-essential modifier. If we remove the non-essential modifier, we notice that the "-" does not work in coherence with the rest of the sentence. Maybe a "," would have worked better instead.
D.
iPhone, designed and marketed by Apple Inc., is more intuitive to use and is thus more popular among masses, but it provides fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology - It is grammatically and structurally correct. The highlighted text acts as a non-essential modifier, "to use" and "it provides" are in parallel, and "-" is correctly used to provide additional information to support the preceding sentence
E.
Designed and marketed by Apple Inc. and more intuitive to use, iPhone is more popular among masses and thus provides fewer features than most of the Android phones - it does not have NFC technology and has only limited support for the 4G technology - This option completely destroys the meaning of the sentence. It says that iPhone is more popular and therefore it provides fewer features. Catastrophically incorrect!
--Two additional points:
1. "Masses" is a noun and therefore needs "the" article
2. "of the" in "most of the Android phones" is redundant