Nokia to bring out its first touchscreen phone

Nokia’s answer to the iPhone was shown the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference in California earlier this week. The Finnish handset maker’s first touch screen phone is uncannily reminiscent of the Apple device.

Although it still hasn’t been launched, the phone made its first appearance already last summer at Nokia’s GoPlay event in August 2007.

The device will be named Nokia Tube 5800. However, the discussion surrounding the device has dubbed it ‘Nokia’s iPhone killer’.

Nokia’sTube has some advantages over the Apple device. It has a 3.3 mega pixel camera, while the iPhone only has 2 mega pixels. It also comes with 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a TV output port, but only has a disappointing 140MB of memory.

Although the Nokia version beats the iPhone in some features, such as 3G functionality, the phone will only be launched later on this year, by which time the 3G iPhone will probably be out already.