Touchscreens at War – but Which is the Best?

Nowadays touchscreen cellular phones are seen as trendy by a large portion of consumers, but there are so many different brands on the market that it’s difficult to decide which one is the best for you, especially if you’re contemplating your first touchscreen purchase.

The iPhone raised the bar

One of the more well-known brands is the iPhone, which has set a high standard of expectations for consumers. Many of the newer brands simply can’t compete, despite trying hard to do so, but there are two new models that just might be able to keep up with the iPhone, if not surpass it to set a new standard of expectations – these are none other than the BlackBerry Storm and the T-Mobile G1.

The Blackberry Storm

The BlackBerry boasts a high-quality screen perfect for watching videos, and a 3.2-megapixel camera that acts as a camcorder, while the iPhone is unable to play certain videos online due to lack of Flash support and has a poor quality 2-megapixel camera that can’t capture video. Sure, maybe you’re not buying a touchscreen for the camera quality, but how often do you have the urge to snap up an unexpected incident?

Let’s not forget the G1’s slide-out QWERTY keyboard for ultra-fast typing, and the BlackBerry’s touchscreen that lends the feel of physical buttons, against the iPhone’s virtual keyboard that’s difficult to work with, has no copy and paste capabilities, and is unable to receive or send picture text messages.

The T-Mobile G1 - Great First Effort from Google

The BlackBerry can also be used as a modem, and although the T-Mobile G1 isn’t quite as stylish as some of the other models, it can run several programmes at the same time and is easy to navigate. So while established brands like iPhone may be an instinctive choice, but it may very well be worth your while to try something new this time.

LG Renoir T-Mobile Review

LG Renoir Paints a Pretty Picture

The LG Renoir handset has an 8-megapixel, auto-focus camera with a Schneider Kreuznach lens and Xenon flash, plus a 8GB memory card for all your music and photos, GPS and Google maps, optional Sat Nav, WiFi connectivity, Dolby quality audio on the MP3 player and FM radio plus a selection of top TV channels with T-Mobile’s Mobile TV service.



Surf the web with T-Mobile’s web ’n walk, and use the stereo Bluetooth to share your files and listen to tunes on the wireless stereo headphones. The LG Renoir is tri-band, weighs a mere 110 g and is only 108 x 56 x 14 mm. You can talk for up to 3 hours, and it has 300 hours of standby time with a 3 hour charge. The LG Renoir is everything you could want in a sleek, stylish package.


At T-Mobile, the LG Renoir is free with selected plans, and comes with a free digital photo frame. With T-Mobile’s Flext 50 18 month plan, you also get free mobile Internet worth £5 per month, plus an extra 10% off if you buy online and £350 worth of texts and calls each month.

That’s 1750 minutes or 3500 texts or any mix for £45 per month, or get the Combi 30 with loads of text and minutes for £30 a month. T-Mobile’s My Faves has limitless calls, texts and pictures to your 5 favourite people, and T-Mobile’s U-Fix has a monthly allowance that you can top up like pay as you go.

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T-Mobile G1 Google Phone Out Now

The new T-Mobile G1 mobile phone, manufactured by HTC, features the Google Android Mobile operating system and comes loaded with every conceivable feature that anyone could ever want. These include the TFT touchscreen with 65K colours, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Java MIDP 2.0, voice memo, a built-in GPS so you always know where you are, 192 MB of RAM and 256 MB of ROM, Bluetooth v2.0, with headset support only and games. Add to that, a 3MP camera with 2048x1536 pixel resolution and autofocus for those who want high quality pictures, miniUSB, SMS, MMS, instant messaging and email to ensure that you’re always in contact.

T-Mobile G1 in Black

All of this also comes with Google’s open source Chrome Lite browser, a digital compass, document viewer and MP3 player for those who enjoy listening to good tunes. The T-Mobile G1 Google Phone also has built-in handsfree, up to 406 hours of stand-by time and up to 5 hours 20 minutes of talk time to make sure that you’ll never be cut off.

T-Mobile G1 in White

If that’s not enough, the T-Mobile G1 Google Phone’s other features include a 3.2 inch, 320 x 480 pixel resolution display, polyphonic 40 channel ringtones, MP3, WAV, WMA and vibration, a phonebook with almost infinite memory for entries and fields, Photocall, and almost limitless call records’ memory. And just in case all that’s not enough, it also has drag and drop functionality and an accelerometer, which makes it easy to understand why the T-Mobile G1 Google Phone is generating so much excitement.