Touch phone war: iPhone, HTC, Samung, LG, BlackBerry, and Nokia

This is a story of iPhone vs HTC Touch HD vs Samsung Omnia vs LG KE850 vs BlackBerry Storm vs Nokia 5800. With the starting of iPhone, touch phone is getting popular. All you need is to touch, flip, or drag. Soon after iPhone, HTC comes out with a very similar products as well, HTC Touch. Apparently both are head on head fight, and HTC are targeting non Apple user.

Being getting popular, other phones makers are following, Samsung with Omnia and LG with KE850, BlackBerry with Strom, even Nokia with 5800. I am sure SonyEricsson will be soon coming out one touch phone. Motorola? Maybe will be a little bit slow....

Well, what is the draw back of touch phone, to me, there are two major issues:
1) Too sensitive, hard to control, you flip a little, but it moves a big step.
2) Hard to compose SMS, imagine you are going to type a 160 words sms, do you know how difficult it is if you are going to touch the screen. It is also tiring even you have a pen.

If anyone can think of a better way to type sms in touch phone, I am sure it will grealy benefit many.

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The powerful Samsung i8510

The Samsung i8510 is a slide phone with a staggering 8.0 Megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, face detection, blink detection and it can also record video. The features for the i8510 don't stop there; HSDPA and Wi-Fi for fast web browsing, Bluetooth v2.0, built in GPS for SatNav software, 8GB internal memory and an MP3 player are all included.

This powerful device includes:
- An 8MP camera - a first for the mobile market, and a first on Symbian OS.
- Demand paging - an OS component which enables shorter start-up times for applications.
- Advanced memory management which results in more responsive applications and phone
features.
- The "cinema in your pocket" experience through access to a rich suite of applications from the S60 applications library.
- HSDPA connectivity at 7.2Mbps and seamless connection through Wi-Fi. An optical mouse and easy navigation enable quick internet browsing, alongside GPS and geo-tagging.

Touch-sensitive navigation pad is fiddly to use at times; lack of xenon flash on the camera; screen could be sharper. Samsung has taken us by surprise by creating an excellent handset that feels like it could have been made by Nokia. If you're looking for a high-end handset with almost every feature currently available -- and then some -- the i8510 is the phone for you.


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First touch screen phone from Nokia - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Nokia officially joins the likes of Apple, Samsung, HTC and LG in the touchscreen mobile phone biz when they finally unveiled the much-talked-about Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. The phone features a 3.2" (360 x 640) touch screen, WLAN and 3G connectivity, a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, integrated A-GPS, accelerometer, proximity sensor, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack.

When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience - with more memory, loud and powerful speakers, easy synchronization - and must still work well as a mobile phone with direct access to important contacts and content. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on all counts and allows consumers to access and share content.

The handset features a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens. With a single touch, images or videos can be shared via websites such as Flickr or Facebook. The layout of icons and access to the main functions works well and Nokia is very keen on its innovative “Media Bar” - a drop-down menu that provides direct access to the phone’s myriad music and entertainment features.

One of the biggest features is Nokia’s ground-breaking Comes With Music feature, which enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to tracks from the Nokia Music Store. Once the year is complete, customers can keep all their music.


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