The biggest screens... the best phones!

When it comes to touchscreen phones, only the ones with the biggest screens stand a chance of being the best. Let's take a look at three that aim to be the best touchscreen phones ever made...

Toshiba TG01 - the new benchmark

For several months, the HTC Touch HD held the crown as having the biggest screen on a mobile phone, but that's not true any more, because the Toshiba TG01 tops it. Coming in at a massive 4.1 inches, it's almost half an inch bigger than screen on the HD, so for things like the internet, and videos, the Toshiba TG01 is really the king of the hill. It's not just about screen size, though, because the Toshiba TG01 also has processing power.

Lots of it.

Its chipset comes in at over 1GHz, taking into realms only previously available on laptops. And since it's a new generation of 'Snapdragon' processor, it's also incredibly efficient, meaning it won't drain your battery in minutes. The Toshiba TG01 is truly a wondrous device, and is quite simply (having stolen the crown from the Touch HD and the X1 Xperia from Sony Ericsson) the most powerful Windows Mobile phone ever made!

Palm Pre - new and unprecedented

With Windows Mobile growing in user-friendliness and raw power, it's down to a brand new operating system to really wow us. Say hello to WebOS, as found in the stunning Palm Pre. This takes phone interfaces to a whole new level, easily surpassing the supposed king of mobile phone interfaces, the iPhone. The Palm Pre does this by simple expedient of being at least as user friendly as the iPhone, but with vastly more power and potential.

Everything becomes interconnected and synergised, so that the contacts menu on the Palm Pre links into your maps, which links into the browser, which links into email and so on. Everything is interconnected and intuitive, and on top of that, the Palm Pre has one extra thing that the iPhone can't manage: true multitasking. The Pre is simply one of the most important phones ever to have been announced!

Sony Ericsson Idou - Entertainment Unlimited

As good as the Toshiba TG01 and the Palm Pre are, however, the real star of the show at this year's MWC has been a new touchscreen phone from Sony Ericsson, and it truly is a beast. The interface in the Sony Ericsson Idou is what will evolve into the Symbian Foundation software (effectively, it's Symbian S60 Touch, as used in the Nokia 5800), with a custom Sony Ericsson interface on top. And what an interface it is, with smooth, fluid finger controls, and instant access to your media and important apps. However, the Sony Ericsson Idou fuses that interface to much more power than the Palm Pre, as it's also the first 12 megapixel phone to be announced in Europe. In essence, the Idou combines a truly sumptuous operating system, with a truly magnificent camera... and if that isn't enough to make it the phone of the year, I don't know what is!