Mobile Phones

Business phones are gradually becoming more and more popular among the users day by day and the companies are also providing few outstanding choices to us as well. Blackberry is a well known name in business phone division while Nokia is also trying its hands in the area nowadays.

The new Blackberry 8900 and Nokia E72 are the two business phones pulled out by these rivals. Let’s check out which one can standout as a winner during competition.

1.The BlackBerry Curve 8900 is a T-Mobile exclusive mobile phone that comes with many great user friendly features. The handset is stylish with a solid design and it is also known as the Javelin. And shortly, the Nokia E72 is a 3G smartphone which offers the user an array of business & personal features with high speed technologies for a truly pleasurable mobile communication experience.
2.The Blackberry 8900 comes with a 2.4 inches TFT LCD screen that supports 65K colors at 480 x 360 pixels resolution. And the Nokia E72 is loaded with exactly similar display attributes as its contender.
3.The Nokia E72 has got superior camera features than the 8900 as its 5 mega pixel camera is far better than the 3.2 mega pixel of the former one. And the E72 also renders spectacular camera features while Auto Focus and LED Flash are commonly presented in both of them.
4.MP3, AAC,AAC+, WMA music files are supported by the music player of Blackberry 8900 while the Nokia E72 allows MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A music files on it. DivX, XviD, MP4, WMV are the supported video file formats on the video player of Blackberry 8900. The Nokia E72 is capable of supporting WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP video files.
5.The Nokia N72 is a better business phone than its competitor as it carries a document editor with it that supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files but this important feature in missing on the other.
6.GPS navigation system with A-GPS support is common in both of them but the minor difference is, the 8900 supports Blackberry Maps and Nokia E72 comes with Nokia Maps application.
7.Both the phones support MicroSD cards up to 16GB on their card slots but the Blackberry 8900 has got 256MB flash memory and the internal storage space of Nokia E72 is of 250MB.

Nokia N97 Mini is a perfect multimedia and business phone while the new Samsung M8910 Pixon12 is a high class camera phone. Although both of these are of completely different pattern, the battle between them will surely be interesting.

• Nokia N97 Mini and Samsung M8910, both are touch screen phones. But the slid out full QWERTY keypad is an additional on the N97 Mini. On the front of the Samsung M8910 there is a massive 3.1 inches AMOLED touch screen working at a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels with 16 million colors. And this smart looking camera phone is 108mm x 53mm x 13.8mm in size and weighs 120 grams. On the contrary, the Nokia N97 Mini’s TFT resistive QVGA touch screen measures 3.2 inches that allows 16.7 million colors at 640 x 360 pixels resolution. Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and handwriting recognition are the specialties of the phone.

• The Samsung M8910 Pixon12, as its name suggest, is a 12 mega pixel camera phone. The camera has been designed wisely to beat others and is loaded with few immaculate special options including wide 28mm lens, auto focus, xenon flash, LED flash functionalities and features like variable aperture, tracking touch auto focus, geo-tagging, face, smile and blink detection, wide dynamic range, smart auto mode, image stabilization, beauty shot etc. The camera of Nokia N97 Mini is only of 5 mega pixel which has been overshadowed by its competitor. However, Carl Zeiss optics, Auto Focus, Dual LED flash, Video Light, Geo-tagging etc. abilities are available on it.

• MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC+ music files on Nokia N97 Mini and MP3, eAAC+, WMA, AMR files on Samsung M8910 are acceptable through their music players. Like wise, video play back of WMV, RealVideo, MP4 files on N97 Mini and DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV, MP4 video files on M8910 are also easy to play.

• 3G HSDPA, WLAN Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, Micro USB, GPRS and EDGE are the technologies to be used for data sharing connectivity through the phones. But the N97 Mini additionally supports HSCSD, TV Out and 3.5mm headphone jack.

• WAP 2.0, X-HTML and HTML browsers are commonly presented in both of them but the Nokia N97 Mini comes with RSS feeds feature as well.

• Document viewer is also mutually available feature in both the contenders.

• Samsung M8910 and Nokia N97 Mini have got GPS navigation but the Nokia company has made the N97 Mini a better one by incorporating A-GPS receiver and Nokia Maps as well.

• TV out capability is commonly available in them while the Nokia N97 Mini also supports Flash Lite 3 application.

Samsung S8000 Jet & Sony Ericsson Satio, both are high end touch sensitive 3G smartphones. The first one is a cool multimedia tool while its rival brings a stupendous camera along with multimedia attributes as well.

On the front of the Samsung S8000 Jet there is a massive 3.1 inches AMOLED touch screen that shows 16 million colors on a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. This quality screen makes a great base for using the TouchWiz version 2.0 user interface, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Motion UI and proximity sensor for auto turn-off. On the other hand, Sony Ericsson Satio comprises of a large 3.5 inches TFT touch screen allowing 16 million colors a 640 x 360 pixels resolution. The Jet is 109.9 x 53.5 x 11.9mm in physical dimensions and weighs 93.5 grams but the Satio comes with measurements of 111mm x 54mm x 15mm and its weight is of 126 grams.

The massive 12.1 mega pixel camera of Sony Ericsson Satio brings along superb selection of easy imaging features and settings. Camera functions include a Xenon flash, auto focus, digital zoom, face & smile detection along with geo-tagging, picture album and a slide show feature. The competitor’s camera can never compete with the Satio but nevertheless its 5 mega pixel camera comes with Auto Focus, Wide Range, Flash, Face & Smile Detection, Picture Geo Tagging etc.

Video Player of Samsung S8000 Jet allows MPEG4, WMV, H263, H264, DivX & XviD files. And WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP video files are playable on the video player of the Satio. For music playback the Samsung S8000 Jet supports MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV files through its music player. And MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A music files are acceptable on the Sony Ericsson Satio’s music player.

Data sharing and connectivity technologies are exactly same in both of the phones that include 3G HSDPA, HSCSD, WLAN Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB, GPRS and EDGE. WAP 2.0, X-HTML and HTML browsers are also commonly presented in both the contenders while the Satio also comes with RSS reader attribute. GPS navigation system with A-GPS support is a mutually available attribute whereas the Samsung Jet has got 3D Navigation Map application and the Satio comes with Google Maps application.

The Samsung S8000 Jet is available in 2GB, 8GB & 16GB internal memory and its MicroSD memory card slot supports up to 16GB expansion. On the contrary, the Sony Ericsson Satio brings along an 8GB MicroSD card in its package and it allows up to 32GB expansion of storage space.

Nokia X6 and HTC Touch Pro2 are two totally different genres of mobile phones. Nokia X6 is a dedicated music phone while the new HTC Touch Pro2 is an out and out high end multimedia and business solution gadget.

The Nokia X6 is a superbly attractive music phone that sports a 3.2 inches TFT capacitive touch screen with 16 million colors and the resolution is 360 x 640 pixels. Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, handwriting recognition and scratch-resistant glass surface are additional on it. The HTC Touch Pro2, being a contender is also a worthy device that carries 3.6 inches TFT LCD touch sensitive screen 65K colors at 480 x 800 pixels resolution. This is an adjustable tilt screen and gives comfort while using its full slide out QWERTY keypad. TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation, touch sensitive zoom bar, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and handwriting recognition are few specialties available on it.

The 3.2 mega pixel camera of the HTC Touch Pro2 that comes with auto focus facility can’t really beat the massive 5 mega pixel camera of X6 as it brings along several immaculate attributes like Carl Zeiss Optics, Auto Focus, 4x Digital Zoom, Dual LED Flash, Dedicated Camera Key, Capture Mode, Flash Mode, Scene Mode, Video Streaming etc.

The music player of Nokia X6 carries Playlist, Music Search (Artist, Album & Genre), Graphic Equalizer, Album Graphics, Bass Booster etc traits. It supports MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A music files. While its contender also has got a music player as well but the features are nowhere near to it.

The HTC Touch Pro2 is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system while Nokia X6 runs over Symbian 9.4 operating system along with Series S60 5th Edition software. Both these phones have got GPS navigation attribute but the X6 is more powerful as it comes with A-GPS support as well as Ovi Maps 3.0 application. Document viewing is possible in both of them through the document viewer of X6 and Pocket Office of Touch Pro2. 3G HSDPA, HSCSD, WLAN Wi-Fi, Micro USB, Bluetooth with A2DP, GPRS and EDGE are commonly available data sharing and connectivity features. The Touch Pro2 is loaded with HTML browser only while Nokia X6 comes with over whelming browsing technologies including HTML, WML, XHTML and Nokia browsers and the special RSS Feeds attribute.

The HTC Touch Pro2 has been contrived with 288 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM plus the MicroSD memory card slot will allow further expansion of the storage capacity. On the contrary, Nokia X6 comes with 32MB of onboard memory with no expansion facility.

The Blackberry 9000 is also known as the Blackberry Bold and the Nokia E71 is an obvious competitor of this smartphone that does look, feel, and function very much alike. Both of these devices are equally sized, at 114 mm x 66 mm x 14 mm measures for the Blackberry 9000 and 114 mm x 57 mm x 10 mm for the Nokia E71. And the weight of these phones is not much different as the Blackberry’s product weighing in at 133 grams and Nokia’s product is of 127 grams.

These devices occupy QWERTY keypad which is the bottom half of the face of these devices. The Blackberry has better resolution, at 480 x 320 pixels than Nokia E71 that has 320 x 240 pixels but also the Nokia E71 embeds more colors at 16 million to its rival that merged 65,000. As a matter of simple preference, the Blackberry 9000 owns Trackball navigation feature whereas the Nokia E71 uses a 5-way scroll key. In terms of window performance the Blackberry 9000 runs over the Blackberry OS and contains 624 MHz processor, while the Nokia E71 runs over the Symbian OS and have ARM 11 369 MHz processor.

Furthermore, the other similarities of these two popular contenders are their built-in GPS navigation feature with their mapping capabilities. As well as voice dialing, photo calling, video calling, Wi-Fi, USB, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, and speakerphone are provided by these performers. They are also operated on AT&T’s EDGE network and support HSDPA and 3G technologies.

Also, both of these devices sport MicroSD memory card slots that offer 8GB, though the Blackberry has more 1GB of internal memory and the Nokia’s 110 MB & both of the devices are having 128 MB of RAM. In terms of multimedia features, both are having built-in digital cameras, but the Blackberry 9000 Bold’s camera is only 2 mega pixels whereas the Nokia E71’s is 3.15 mega pixels. However, they are having LED flash and video recording capabilities. Equally, the devices also have a built-in MP3 player.

You can easily edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on both devices with the help of document editor feature on the Blackberry 9000. The battery on the Bold provides up to 5 hours of talk time and 310 hours of standby time. And the Nokia E71 renders 10 1/2 hours of talk time in 2G or 4 1/2 hours in 3G, and 410 hours of standby time in 2G or 480 hours in 3G.