With smartphones increasingly reliant on multi-touch for web and app navigation, how well the touch sensors on the display perform matters more than ever. Every phone’s multi-touch performance will, as always, be measured against the benchmark iPhone. How does AT&T’s new HTC Aria fare? Find out from the video.

The Aria is a bit inconsistent, showing some of the cross-axis problems of the Nexus One but nowhere near as bad. Certainly, the Aria is far from the iPhone’s league and cannot keep up with the Motorola Droid either. However, Android 2.1 and Sense UI performance is extremely snappy, though with more demanding apps like games, the Aria exposes its Qualcomm MSM7227 weakness.