Saturday, February 16, 2008

Nokia N95 8GB vs Apple iPhone

Mobile phones are the great inventions of the 20th century. Now days they are not only the medium of communication but they also become the medium of Entertainment. With your latest mobile phone, you can listen good music, watch your favorite videos, capture beautiful images, use internet to view your mails and even play high graphics games.The two famous phones which attracts most of the buyers are Apple iPhones and Nokia N95 8GB.

As we know that Nokia is one of the leading mobile company in the market. By using advance technology in their devices, they provide us some advance feature phones. By launching Nokia N-Series mobile phones they once again show that they are one of the best in this business. N95 8GB is one of the phone in this series. This phone has some great feature which attracts most of the mobile phone buyers.

N95 8GB features

Form factor
It is a slider phone, 2.8" screen, fair outdoor contrast, 25 buttons, including traditional look phone keypad

OS
Operating System of Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1

Battery
Battery of N95 8GB is Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200mAH (BL-6F) with Stand-by time Up to 280 h and Talk time Up to 6 h.

Connectivity
GPRS, EDGE, plus high speed 3G, and ultra-high speed HSDPA, and Wi-Fi .

RAM
RAM of N95 8GB is very quick due to the demand paged version of Symbian OS, with full multitasking. N95 8GB has 128 MB SDRAM

In-Built Applications
There are various in built mini-applications, are provided inside this phone.

Browser
It support Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML. Flash and Java support, though not yet working with Flash video.

Text entry
With no touch screen or keyboard, their is some inconveniency in text entry, using predictive text on the keypad, and mostly impossible when the N95 8GB is in 'landscape' mode

Camera
Its Camera includes 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus,
video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary CIF video call camera

Music
Its support various types of format like MP3, AAC and WMA.

Memory and expansion
We can say that phone book memory of the phone is very large as they can store large number of entries and fields. It can store, detailed call records maximum upto 30 days. Internal memory of N95 8G is 8GB. It has ARM 11 332 MHz processor and it does not support external memory slot. 8GB flash memory capacity, non-expandable. A2DP also supported, for wireless listening.

Durability
Pretty durable, with a hard plastic covering over the screen.

Real world experience
Almost all operations are easy to accomplish one-handed.

Office work
Quickoffice 3.8m, Adobe Reader LE 1.5.

Navigation
It includes Built in GPS, native Nokia Maps with ad-hoc upgrades for voice guided navigation. Google Maps is free and a native GPS-aware S60 application, as an alternative.

Other applications
It includes many type of S60 applications and games, with thousands of Java apps/games.

Extra connectivity
3.5mm headphone socket, also with integrated TV-out

Desktop integration
Full functioned but messy integration with PC Suite and other tools on PC, Nokia Multimedia Transfer, iCal/iSync on Mac, etc.

If we see the above features then may be we think that Apple iPhone will not stand in front of N95 8GB but Apple I phone also have some advance feature which makes it a high profile device It's more elegant look, a larger screen, great text input method and more foolproof desktop connectivity makes it a great phone

Apple iPhone features

Form factor
It is a glass-topped tablet, 3.5" touchscreen, fair outdoor contrast, four physical buttons/switches

OS
Apple's desktop OS X

Battery life
Good battery life, but it has integral and non-removable battery, 1230mAh.

Connectivity
EDGE, GPRS, Wi-Fi, also available.

RAM
Full multitasking mobile phone, with all applications selected from home screen.

Built-in Applications
It contain not much application, but graphical and hyper-intuitive.

Browser
A good touch-driven experience. No Flash or Java support at all though.

Text entry
Text entry via fingers using an on-screen keyboard. Word prediction software helps to enlarge screen touch-sensitive hotspots for likely followup letters, improving typing accuracy a lot. No option for Bluetooth keyboard, at present, sadly.

Camera
It includes 2MP camera, fixed focus, no flash, no video recording.

Music and expansion
Very slick mobile phone and with browsable cover, MP3 and AAC formats supported.

Memory
8GB flash memory capacity, non-expandable.

Durability
Pouched/cased by necessity, to protect the touch-screen from damage.

Real world experience
It generally, requires two hands to accomplish the task most of the time.

Office work
Word/Excel/PDF viewers built into the email client. No editing options, although workarounds using Ajax applications on web sites are possible.

Navigation
Native version of Google Maps, but no GPS support.

Extra applications
Officially extensible using Widgets and Web applications in the Safari web browser - there's an active unlocking and hacking community, but Apple keeps raising the bar and locking third party native applications out.

Extra connectivity
It include 3.5mm headphone socket only works with Apple headset and TV out accessory

Desktop integration
Seamless integration with iTunes on Mac or Windows desktops


Both phones have its own pros and cons. It will completely depend on your choice that which phone you want to buy.


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