Take any mobile phone with a touchscreen and it will inevitably be compared to the iPhone. So it is with the recently announced Nokia Tube, which several sites have now gleaned provisional specs for.
First up, it'll be called the Nokia Tube 5800 (you knew it had to have a number attached to it, it's a Nokia), and though it could be an iPhone killer, it will apparently not be one of the company's flagship models.
Nevertheless, it'll sport a nearly-as-big-as-the-iPhone 3.2-inch wide colour touchscreen capable of displaying 16 million colours, a current-iPhone-beating 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, quad band operation, 3G, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, real GPS, TV output port, and 140MB of onboard storage.
The Tube is also likely to feature some kind of vibration (haptic) feedback, which many feel that purely touchscreen phones need to have. What it won't have is the iPhone operating system. It's unlikely to have such an advanced multitouch system, either.
So, it wins on some areas, loses on others, and when you consider that it's not coming out until the back end of 2008, by which time we all expect a iPhone 3G to be with us, it may not be the killer iPhone haters expect it to be.
It's highly likely that those grainy photos we've been seeing recently are just a prototype, with refinements being made all the time. If Apple is at all bothered about the threat of phones like this, it will need to beef up some of the other specs on the next iPhone as well as adding 3G.
(Via iPhone Codes / Into Mobile -- image from Symbian Freak)
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