Sunday, June 10, 2007

The iPhone VS the HTC Touch

The HTC touch is the newest smart phone out there that's touted to be able to compete with iPhone, but in terms of raw specs, how exactly does it compare with the iPhone ?

Well, first, the 'Touch' uses a new navigating interface called the TouchFLO where you can sweep your fingers on the screen to operate the phone. Moving your fingers along the screen lets you navigate. The screen size at 2.8 inches, is smaller than the iPhone and the screen resolution is also lower at 240x320.

The HTC Touch has a 128MB ROM and 68MB RAM and is providing a 1GB MicroSD free (at least in the U.K.), the iPhone on the other hand has a 4 or 8 GB storage capacity built in.

Comparing the iPhone and HTC Touch specifications....


Apple iPhone

HTC Touch

Screen size

3.5 inches

2.8 inches

Screen resolution

320 by 480 at 160 ppi

240x320

Input method

Multi-touch

  • TouchFLO
  • 5-way navigation control

Operating system

OS X

Windows Mobile 6 -
Professional Edition

Storage

4GB or 8GB of internal storage

128MB ROM, 68MB RAM,

1GB MicroSD Free

GSM

Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)

Tri-band GSM with GPRS/EDGE

Wireless data

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0

Bluetooth / WiFi

Camera

2.0 MegaPixels

2.0 megapixels

Battery

Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing

Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Talk Time : upto 5 hours

Standby Time : 200 hours

Dimensions

4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

99.9x58x13.9 mm

Weight

4.8 ounces / 135 grams

112 grams

Price

$499 for 4GB, $599 for 8GB

$594

Official Website

Apple iPhone

HTC Touch



The HTC's audio capabilities....
- Built-in microphone and 3-in-1 speaker
- Windows Media® Player supported formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, WMA, WAV, QCELP, MPEG4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MIDI

Overall, the HTC Touch doesn't seem to be a bad phone, and I wouldn't mind one.
The HTC Touch will be available in the US in the second half of this year.


The Apple iPhone....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool one, but I think apple could do something more than we expected with their Iphone. like their Ipod vs Zune,yepp,zen etc. Pod beats the other!
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Koushik S said...

I think the iphone's superb. But the main problems are: it doen't have video recording, it doesn't support IM i.e chat (Yahoo, Google etc.) and it doesn't support A2DP (bluetooth Stereo). But the other features are superb like the "slide to unlock" etc.