The Battle Of The Touchscreen Cellphones

Battle of the Touchscreen phones: Nokia Tube, Apple iPhone, LG Renoir, Samsung Omnia

Four phones, four touchscreens - whi

ch one has the best spec?

So the Nokia Tube has finally dropped, and you know wh

at? It's actually quite good. This isn't the high-end N Series touchscreen we all hoped it would be, but it's still a very tasty product with an amazing touchscreen nonetheless. So how does it fare up against its button-forgoing rivals? H

ere's the vitals stats:

Storage capacity

Nokia Tube: 8 juicy gigabytes to fill up.

Apple iPhone: 8 or 16GB fla

sh options await, b

ut there's no card port for expansion.

LG Renoir: 8GB out of the box, with the option to expand via micro SDHC.

Samsung Omnia: Comes jum

ping out of the box with a competitive 8GB, but 16 is reachable through micro SD card.

Display

Nokia Tube: 3.2″ 640x360 pixel resolution, 16M colour touchscreen display, with haptic feedback.

Apple iPhone: A glorious 3.5"

touchscreen with 480x320 pixel resolution.

LG Renoir: A 3.0" 240x400 pixel TFT number

Samsung Omnia: 3.2" TFT T

ouchscreen tech running 240x400 pixel resolution.

Camera

Nokia Tube: The Tube isn't the most snap happy of the bunch, but a 3.2mpx autofocus camera with dual LED flash has the iPhone licked.

Apple iPhone: The skeleton

in the iPhone's closet, the 2.0 megapixel camera is almost archaically weak in comparison to the others here. There's not even a flash!

LG Renoir: A simply stonking 8.0 Megapixels of photographic prowess nestle in the Renoir's bowels. Auto-focus, face recognition, a 16x digital zoo

m and Xenon flash also join in for the ride.

Samsung Omnia: A handsome

5.0 Megapixel cam with LED flash produces some top drawer images.

Connectivity

Nokia Tube: 3G UMTS/HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetoot

h and GPS

Apple iPhone: Super-fast 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and A-GPS with Google Maps (sadly without 3d mapping).

LG Renoir: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G HSDPA

mean Geo-tagging, speedy surfing and GPS are all accounted for.

Samsung Omnia: 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a custom GPS satnav system with 3D mapping..

Media player

Nokia Tube: As part of Nokia's XpressMusic range, so comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack and a penchant for tunes, as well as an old timey-FM radio.

Apple iPhone: The meat the iPhone's meat stew, music is handled supremely well by a built in full iPod and connectivity to

the all-powerful iTunes. The only gripe is Apple's budget bundled earphones.

LG Renoir: There's no radio, but MP3 and AAC are taken care of by LG's own player. In terms of video, there's DivX playback and Dolby

technology.

Samsung Omnia:

The Omnia sells itself as a real jack-of-all, so there's a decent music and video player in there for a myriad of file types. The only gripe is the poor touchscreen that suffers from some serious lag.

Operating System

Nokia Tube: Nokias first phone with the S60 Symbian touchscreen operating system doesn't feature multi-touch technology, but is very slick all the same. Big plus points are won for its love of all things Flash.

Apple iPhone: OS X iPhone keeps everythin

g

running smoother than a swimmer's cap. The m

ulit-touch tech makes zooming, pinching, grabbing, turning and surfing so easy it's like you were born with it.

LG Renoir: There's no sign of

a Windows OS, S

O IT APPEARS THAT THE Renoir is runnin

g on a custom built LG OS. Could be a fatal mistake.

Samsung Omnia: Windows Mobile

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