BlackBerry 9500 Storm VS Samsung G600 – Comparison of Two Competitive Handsets

The two handsets BlackBerry 9500 Storm VS Samsung G600 are very difficult to be compared with both being highly advanced and both having similarly advanced features.

As all the brands are trying to be the best in the eyes of the users, they all bring new gadgets with advanced features and competent service for their mobile phones. Blackberry and Samsung are two of the largest sellers of mobile phones in the world market and comparison of their respective handsets BlackBerry 9500 Storm VS Samsung G600 has been tried here.

While the BlackBerry 9500 Storm is a much stronger appearing handset with dimensional measurement of 112.5 x 62.2 x 14 mm, the Samsung G600 appears much sleeker with the same of 101 x 47.8 x 14.9 mm. The two devices differ even in their weight and the Blackberry one weighs a total of 155 gm while the other weighs a total of just 105 gm. Size and weight is the first aspect of their difference and they further differ in many more.

The Blackberry phone has a TFT capacitive touchscreen of size 3.25 inches and uses 65K colors for a good quality display. One the other hand, the Samsung gadget has a TFT screen of 2.2 inches and brings a nice attractive display with 16M colours. The former also has an accelerometer sensor for auto rotation in it which is not there in the latter.

With an internal memory of 1 GB and a way to expand this available memory through the microSD card of upto 16 GB, the BlackBerry 9500 Storm differs from the Samsung G600 as the other one has an internal memory of 55 MB and it too has an extra slot for a microSD card. The two phones also differ in their network support with the former supporting both 2G as well as the 3G networks while the latter offers support only to the 2G network.

Camera of the Storm comes with a higher resolution capacity of 3.15 MP while the G600's camera has a resolution of 5 MP. Geotaging, the special feature through which the user can tag his snaps with the location information where snaps were taken, is available only in the Blackberry 9500 Storm.

Messaging features supported by both the gadgets also are different. Where the Blackberry handset supports SMS, MMS, Email and Instant Messaging, the other one supports all except the Instant Messaging through which one can chat with his online friends and relatives. Though the messaging features are more in the Blackberry phone, FM radio feature is absent here but is present in the Samsung phone. It can offer round the clock exciting entertainment to you. Blackberry maps, as the name suggests is present only in the Blackberry Storm while the G600 has no such maps.

Standard battery, Li-Ion 880 mAh of the Samsung G600 offers a talktime support for upto 3 hours 30 minutes and a standby support for upto 300 hours. The same battery feature of the Blackberry 9500 Storm is that it has a Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh offering a talktime support for upto 360 hours and a standby support for upto 5 hours 30 minutes.

With these many differences found on thinking of BlackBerry 9500 Storm VS Samsung G600, it may now be easier for you to choose one of the two phones. You should think keenly as to what features you need and what you don't and make a decision as to which phone to buy and which not to.