Since introduction of iPhone, the telecommunication giants are working hard to give it a tough competition. However, they are nowhere near to the touchscreen experience of the iPhone. While much hyped 5800 Xpressmusic is heavily critisized by the experts due to it’s less responsive touch screen, it seems Samsung is seriously working on this issue with currently highest number of touch based devices in their portfolio.

Old iPhone 3G actually hardware wise was not much strong player except multi touch screen. The camera was also average quality lacking flash light. But the iPhone conquered all others due to two crucial features: It’s responsive multitouch display and obviously the Apple OS.It’s design also sets new standars in the touch screen device market with most of following similar or somewhat modified (Call, Home, End) Keys. Now it’s new variant 3GS has even better hardware with 256 MB Ram, 3.15 Megapixal camera and 600 MHz ARM Cortex processor. There are only one device in the market having such a powerful processor- Samsung Jet, but it doesn’t have powerful smartphone capabilities.

When comes hardware, Samsung can stay ahead of others as they manufacture LCD, AMOLED displays, Flash Memory devices and ARM Based processors and other high end semiconductors. Many ‘first devices’ with revolutionary AMOLED display are manufactured by Samsung. Samsung also has some of the best camera phone s in their catalogue with 8- Megapixel cameras and high-resolution video-recording facilities. And you may know that the Samsung’s Innov8 and Pixon has far better cameras then existing Nokias (Just Google for reviews!). Samsung has also developed quite impressive widget based interface that looks much better than iPhone at first sight. If combined with symbian, then Samsung may even conquer Nokia devices as Nokias have much popular Symbian OS but they have to rely on outside suppliers for hardware!

Samsung’s proprietary OS is not much supported by the developers community so that many may not find it exciting, as just looks doesn’t tell the whole thing. Samsung, however, has secured it’s future by making alliance with almost all mobile platforms except Linux.

Nokia nowadays, relies much on the software capabilies than hardware advantage, that’s why their N97 is slower than Omnia HD in performance. Nokia knows to take advantage of small small features (such as FM  transmitter) so that they advertise them greatly and thus remains the No.1 mobile handset manufacturer. They also heavily rely on brand reputation, that’s why they explicitly specify that they’ve got the “Carl Zeiss” optics. Still they only have a single 8 Mpx device: N86!

The new N97, however cannot be expected to be much faster due to it’s comparatively less RAM and slower processor, but has attracted many due to it’s qwerty keyboard, Online services such as widgets, 48 Gb storage space (32 GB onboard+16 GB MicroSD-Optional acessory) and other smartphone capabilities. Resistive touchscreen might be a problem for many.

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But whatever the features may be, these both players are far away from the true muti-touch support of Apple. There are very few display producers make efficient multi-touch devices: AU Optronics and Innolux. There are also rumors that one of them has grabbed orders from Apple. Apple also has obtained a patent for it’s gesture based GUI so that others can’t just ‘inspire’ from their GUI. However, Palm Pre has similar kind of touch sensitive GUI.

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So there is no doubt that iPhone is still advanced than others but in future, we may hope all players get into this battle so that we can get great devices at competitive prices!

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