Labs

Compact and with a cool LCD touch screen, the T20 looks like a bargain at £250, but is it any good as a camera?

Image Quality

The Toshiba's image quality is OK, but disappointingly, it has only half the pixels of some of the better cameras on test. We couldn't wring images out of it that bore comparison with the Fujifilm's, but they were better than those of the HP. Indoor shots were patchy, with the dog appearing

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fine and well, while the kids were blurry.

Features

This camera doesn't do video, audio or anything other than take plain, still images. That would be fine if its images were superior to the others, but they're not. You can change the lighting adjustment, ISO and image resolution settings - and, rather originally, you can draw on your images. Drag a plastic stylus across the touch screen and you can add basic annotations. Which would be really useful for, err...

Design

The T20 is slim, shiny and comes with a joypad for menu navigation and zoom control. You'll either love the touch screen or you'll hate it, and once we got used to it we started to come around to Toshiba's way of thinking. There's no escaping the fact that you need to access the menu to change any setting at all, as the number of available buttons is scarce.

Overall

Not bad as a camera for still images, but less than ideal, and at this price you should expect to be able to take small video clips too.