The Times compares the new iPhone 3G to five of its touchscreen competitors, and finds that the LG Secret KF750 is just as good.

The article awards 5 stars to both the iPhone 3G and the Secret. Runner-ups include the Samsung Tocco and the HTC Touch Diamond with 4 stars, with the Palm Centro and Sony Ericsson W960i far behind.

We’re puzzled by the fact that the Times rated the LG Secret on par with the iPhone 3G. It seems that Secret’s numeric keypad, 5 megapixel camera, front-facing video camera, lighter weight and FM radio more than made up for the Secret’s smaller resolution screen (240×320 vs 480×320 for the iPhone), smaller memory (100MB on-board vs 8GB for the iPhone) and use of Java as an operating system vs Mac OS X v10.4…go figure.

Test bench: iPhone vs touchscreen rivals - The Times, June 15, 2008

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