Phillips' Touchscreen Mobile Phones

I have come to the conclusion that touchscreen mobile phones are the future. I know that it doesn't take a genius to figure that out because all major mobile phone makers are developing their own touchscreen mobile device.

It's obvious that the effort to craft touchscreen cell phones are related to the success of the iPhone, Apple's hot touchscreen device. Anyway, Phillip's has decided to join the touchscreen mobile phone competition by unveiling the Phillips X800 and the Phillips Xenium X-Connect.

Let's tackle this babies one by one. We will begin with the Phillips X800 . This touchscreen mobile phone offers a 2.9-inch 240 x 400 screen, and 2G GSM for data. That means that this Phillips cell phone does not offer WiFi or EDGE. The Phillips X800 also offers a low-end a 2 megapixel camera, microSD slot and Bluetooth.

The other notable features offered by the Phillips x800 are handwriting recognition and a documents reader. A positive attribute it offers is an impressive battery life with eight hours of talktime and up to 850 hours in standby. The information on this phone indicates that it's not a do-it-all mobile device that can top other popular touchscreen devices in the mobile phone market.

Here are the remaining info on the Phillips x800 touchscreen mobile phone:

Display: Type TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
Size: 240 x 400 pixels (Wide QVGA), 2.9 inches
Screensavers and wallpapers
Ringtones Type: Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
Customization: Download
Vibration: Yes
Memory Phonebook: Yes
Call records: 30 received, dialed and missed calls
Data: GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
USB: Yes
Features Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games: Yes
Colors: Black
Java MIDP 2.0
MP3/MPEG4/WAV/AAC player
Voice memo

Let's proceed with the Phillips Xenium X-Connect. This second touchscreen cellphone from Phillips offers high-end features such as Windows Mobile 6, UMTS and HSDPA, and a 3-inch display. However, it still does not support WiFi.

The other notable features of the Phillips Xenium X-Connect include built in GPS and mp3/video support . this device also offers microSD support, bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, and PDA-NRG. It's also offers a unusual feature that gives users the ability to use AA/AAA batteries as backup. This is certainly useful for those times when you forgot to charge the device's Li-Ion batteries.

There are no clear info on the launch dates and prices of these devices. I guess we all have to wait for further info on these Phillips touchscreen devices.