Here is an early comparision of the HTC Magic with the Apple iPhone 3G. But the real competition will be with iPhone 3.0.

Here we go….

Touchscreens

• Both have capacitive touchscreens (As against the resistive used by Nokia). However this puts handwriting recognition using stylus out of the window.
• iPhone 3G is  3.5-inches and HTC Magic 3.2-inches
• Both at 480 x 320

Size

• The iPhone 3G (4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches) a little longer, wider and thinner than the Magic (4.45 x 2.17 x 0.54 inches)

Weight

• The Magic is lighter: 4.18oz versus the iPhone 4.7oz

Hardware

• The Magic is powered by a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201a chipset
• Apple feaures 3.5mm headphone jack
• HTC insist on you using an adapter dongle with their ExtUSB port
• The Magic has native miniUSB supports
• The iPhone 3G has proprietary connector

Home screen

• The HTC Magic has dedicated search, home, menu and back buttons directly under the touchscreen, then hardware send/end call keys and a trackball with enter button.
• There’s a volume control on the left hand side, but there’s no dedicated camera shortcut.
• Apple make do with one home button, volume controls, a lock button on the top and a physical ringer switch, which is certainly more useful when the phone is in your pocket or bag.

Connectivity

• iPhone 3G: HSDPA 3.6Mbps, WiFi  and Bluetooth for headset only without AD2P
• HTC Magic features 7.2Mbps HSDPA, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0, and full bluetooth features

Capacity

• iPhone 3G is available in 8GB or 16GB (No memory slot)
• The Magic has a mere 512MB ROM but a microSD slot with up to 16GB cards

Camera

• The iPhone 3G camera is just 2Mp with blurry shots and no Zoom. No flash
• The Android powred HTC Magic has a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus. No flash either