Smartphone Palooza: 10 Hot Touchscreens Compared

0Daniel Ionescu • 2nd Jul 2009 • PC World

Curious how today’s latest touchscreen smartphones compare? With 10 popular models to choose from, it’s hard to keep track. But these charts will help you find the perfect touchscreen phone.

Keeping tabs on the latest cell phone models can be a full-time job, especially given the number of cell phones announced by Apple, Palm, Nokia, and HTC (including, most recently, the BlackBerry-like T-Mobile Dash) over the past few months.

I’ve pitted ten recently announced touchscreen handhelds against each other to see how they would match up. Then I’ve compiled a series of three comparison charts to help you decide whether an HTC Hero with a 5-megapixel camera suits you better than, say, a Nokia N97 with a stereo FM receiver.

The charts provide quick answers to questions such as these: Which smartphones have on-screen keyboards and which have hardware keyboards? Which touchscreens are best at multimedia? How much does each one cost?

[Read the whole article and see the charts]

As a bonus to anyone who runs into my blog, here is a PDF of all three comparison charts into one single file. For your convenience, download it here (1.8MB).