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The Nokia N96 Vs the Iphone 3G (aka the Blackberry)

Making a comparison between the Nokia’s N96 and Apple’s phone 3G popularly known as the Blackberry is no easy task. Both these mobile phones/mini computers whilst being regarded as trail blazers in their fields, have their plus and minus points, and have obviously been designed to compete against each other for this incredibly popular and rapidly growing (to say the least) sector of the market.

Word on the street is that whilst the N96 is lacking the impressive interface that typifies the phone, it leads the way in ease of storage as well as in space. Competition to take the prize as the leader in this most sophisticated sector of the mobile phone market.

Running through the comparisons, the N96 comes with a screen that is 2.8 inches across while the iPhone’s is 20% wider at 3.5 inches. The Nokia is more orientated towards viewing videos and hence provides support to a much wider range of video formats including H264 Flash video from Adobe that allows for viewing of YouTube videos on the phone, a technology which has yet to arrive to the Blackberry.

Camera wise the iPhone’s has a mere two megapixel unit to boast about, and is totally outgunned by Nokia’s five megapixels with a powerful flash unit that takes great indoor as well as outdoor shots.
For game lovers the Nokia comes packaged with three of the top games currently available in a very high pixel density, while the iPhone provides a much larger choice of games but with a considerably reduced graphic quality.

For the geographically challenged, Nokia might just edge out the blackberry in terms of accuracy of their internal GPS system. The N96 is a tremendous improvement on its predecessor the N95, being much simpler to operate and containing more detail, even for the pedestrian, the iPhone makes great use of Google maps to offer pinpoint accuracy to discover locations. The experts who tested both of the machines’s agreed that the Nokia edged out the blackberry in the “help I’m lost” department.

Where the real demands are placed on both these mobile personal assistants is in contact with the outside world, either through internet or through e-mail. With wireless connections now available everywhere and anywhere you go, the desktop computer is being gradually edged out as the number one easy access to instant information for people on the move. The email options on the iPhone are a little non conventional. Emails can only be downloaded or “fetched” in batches set at least fifteen minutes apart. That means that your e-mails arrive instead of you looking for them. Not a disaster but potentially annoying.

In terms of mobile phone ability, both are well advanced and any glitches that did exist in previous models have long since been ironed out. The battery storage race between the two devices is also pretty close, with the Nokia offering six hours on average and the iPhone lagging behind at five hours plus. Interestingly enough, the same ratio applies when comparing prices on the two models, with the iPhone costing around 92.5% of what the Nokia retails at around the World.

Both Nokia’s N96 and Apple’s phone 3G Blackberry are excellent pieces of pocket size communication equipment. They have their pluses and their minuses with the Blackberry possibly edging the competition in terms of appearance and functionability, but the Nokia having slightly more power. A close one to call!

This article was written by  eCommerce Associates for Compare Mobile

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1. Neil (18:47, 24.02.2009)
"Apple’s phone 3G popularly known as the Blackberry" - erm, a blackberry is nothing to do with an iPhone, a blackberry is a range of phones made by a different manufacturer called RIM. How can you write such a long review and not know this?
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2. tom (12:49, 25.11.2008)
Thanks, great article and a great site to. I just bought myself an N96

Cheers!!
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3. Mack Berry (10:32, 26.02.2009)
I think your missing the point Neil, 'Blackberry' can and is used now to describe any phone that has the extra features like eMail and WAP, When we just started getting these devices Blackberry was the only manufacturer but now there is more choice people are still calling them 'my Blackberry'.

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