Best Touchscreen Phone
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
Indeed! Who would have imagined, say even a decade ago, that you would be able to perform mobile computing, let alone using a touchscreen interface for doing so! However, it's such a relief to quit punching keys for accessing all applications and performing various tasks on your cell phone, isn't it? I mean, it's a relief for those who have given up using conventional cell phones to make way for touchscreen technology in their lives. Talking about touchscreen technology, let's first understand what it means before we hop on to discussing which are the best touchscreen phones that are currently available.
Touchscreen Technology A Brief Overview
Most of us have used touchscreen interfaces sometime or the other and have a rough idea about how it works. Touchscreen technology interface is an electronic visual display which is capable of picking up touch sensor locations within the perimeter of the display area. The most common ways of using touchscreen interfaces is via fingers or stylus. There are, presently seven different types of touchscreen technology for most touchscreen interface devices. These are Resistive Touchscreen, Surface Acoustic Wave Technology, Capacitive Sensing Technology, Infrared Touchscreen, Optical Imaging, Acoustic Pulse Recognition Technology and Dispersive Signal Technology. Most touchscreen mobile phones use capacitive sensing technology. Now, let's proceed towards finding out what are the best touchscreen phones available as of today.
Top 10 Touchscreen Phones
Best upon the number and quality of novelty features, here is a list of the top touchscreen phones to have hit the market till date. If you're considering getting yourself a touchscreen phone and have still not decided upon one, I would suggest you take your pick from amongst the following!
Apple iPhone 4
This baby is equipped with an array of mind-blowing features such as Wi-Fi connectivity, digital compass, assisted GPS, a 960X640 resolution, flash drive Retina display (16 GB or 32 GB), 3.5 inch screen, a contrast ratio of 800:1, etc. It offers amazing stand by time of 300 hours with video playback time of up to 10 hours and audio playback time of up to 40 hours. The oleo phobic coating on front and back makes this ever-glossy phone fingerprint resistant. Longer battery life and exciting software features make this smartphone emerge as a top contender for best touchscreen phones available!
Apple iPhone 3GS 32 GB
A 32 GB memory is something to reckon with! Besides, a qwerty keyboard, Bluetooth, GPS, embedded 3G, Wi-Fi capabilities, a 3 mega pixel digital camera, digital player and a 6 hour long battery life makes this scion of the Apple iPhone legacy a strong contender for the best touchscreen phone slot.
Motorola Droid
This one's my personal favorite! Don't be fooled by its petite looks, it packs as much punch as all the BlackBerrys and iPhones of the world! The fact that it runs on the Android 2.0 OS speaks volumes about its applications and superior operative capabilities. Besides, for those who are comfortable using an actual keypad, there is a qwerty keypad which slides out from behind the screen if you wish not to use the touchscreen interface. With embedded 3G, a display resolution of 440 x 854, 2.0 mega pixel digital camera, digital player, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities, this Motorola model is a winner! True to the adage, great things come in small packages.
Other touchscreen phones that qualify to be nominated among the top ten touchscreen phones would include:-
- Blackberry Storm 2
- Palm Pre
- Samsung Galaxy S
- HTC Desire
- HTC Desire HD
- Samsung's Google Nexus S
- HTC Droid Eris
