subject: Why Nokia Mobile Phones Beat Apples Iphone [print this page] Why Nokia phones beat Apples iPhone hands down
While Apples iPhone is a decent smart phone, it has many limitations. Nokia has several smart phones that offer far more smarts: the N series models, and the newest, comes with music 5800 Music Xpress.
Compare the features and benefits of Nokias 5800 against Apples iPhone and see why Nokia is the winner in smart phones.
Size
The iPhone is bigger (115.5 X 62.1 X 12.3 mm) and is hard to use one handed. Nokia 5800 is designed to fit well into your hand, and beiing narrower (111 X 51.7 X 15.5 mm), is easy to operate single handedly.
Weight
Nokia 5800 is 25g lighter at 109g than iPhones 133g.
Screen Resolution
Despite the iPhone having a slightly larger screen (3.5) to the Nokia 5800 (3.2), the 5800s screen resolution is superior: 640x360, compared to iPhones 480x320.
Storage
Nokia offers more flexible storage: a base 8GB with micro SD card expandable up to 16GB, as and when its needed. iPhone offers two straight options: 8GB & 16GB internal memory.
Input Methods
iPhone: Finger only.
Nokia 5800: iPhones touchscreen can be annoying for people who suffer frombig finger, Nokia gives a choice of finger, stylus, plectrum, handwriting recognition.
Features
iPhone lacks useful features like cut and paste function, saving email attachments, support for third party headphones, ringtones all of which Nokia 5800 offers as standard.
iPhone applications are expensive, and often have software bugs and other technical glitches.
Battery
Nokia 5800s removable battery provides up to 35 hours of music playing time against Apple iPhones fixed battery, which offers 24 hours.
Nokia 5800s overall battery power (8.8 hrs talk-time, 406 hrs standby) is about 30% more than iPhones (5 hrs talk-time, 300 hrs standby).
Camera
iPhone: 2 MP, no flash, no zoom, no additional camera.
Nokia 5800: 3.2 MP, Flash, 3x digital zoom with Carl Zeiss lens. A second camera in front is available for video calling/conferencing.
Music
iPhone: pay for and download music to your iPhone from Apple iTunes Store
Nokia 5800: Comes with music service is bundled with Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic phone, with one years unlimited free download.
Video Calling?
iPhone: No. Nokia 5800: Yes.
Video Recording?
iPhone: No. Nokia 5800: Yes.
Voice Dialing?
iPhone: No; Nokia 5800: Yes.
Voice Recording?
iPhone: No. Nokia 5800: Yes.
FM Radio?
iPhone: No. Nokia 5800: Yes.
Web Browser
iPhone: Webkit based Safari browser, does not support Flash.
Nokia 5800: Webkit based browser, supports Flash lite.
Bluetooth
iPhone: Bluetooth available just for handsfree; no file sharing.
Nokia 5800: Bluetooth available for handsfree and file sharing is possible. Plus the 5800 has better audio quality on Bluetooth with A2DP technology which iPhone lacks.
Messaging
iPhone: Does not support message forwarding, multiple SMS deletion, sending SMS to multiple recipients and multimedia messages (MMS).
Nokia 5800: Supports all of these; plus it has MMS version 1.3, message size upto 600kb, and automatic image resizing for MMS.
As an overall smart phone, the Nokia 5800 wins hands down against the Apple iPhone. If you are looking to buy a Nokia smart phone check out the range at Melbourne Mobiles.
