Nokia N97 is the Best Smartphone

Mirror, mirror on the wall which is more powerful of them all. Which is more powerful: Nokia N97 or iPhone 3GS.

Both are great phones and both boast of great and unbeatable features.

With Nokia N97 it was established that finally Nokia had a weapon to kill Apple iPhone. And that effortlessly too. But now Apple has also upgraded iPhone immensely with the recent launch of iPhone 3G S.

Here is a comparative study of the two great phones. Here we present the comparision courtesy gadgetophilia.com.

Touchscreen and Display

The displays are similar 3.5 inch in size but Nokia N97’s display looks clearer as it has higher resolution of 640 X 360 than iPhone’s 320 X 480 pixels display. The touchscreen technology used by the two devices are vastly different. The iPhone’s capacitive touchscreen has very good sensitivity than Nokia N97’s pressure sensitive resistive touchscreen which needs a little more pressure to ensure the touch action.

Storage Capacity

The Nokia N97 has the largest storage capacity for any mobile phone. It has internal storage of 32 GB and which is expandable by 16 GB more with additional micro SDHC card making a total of 48 GB. The iPhone 3GS is available in two varieties of 16GB and 32 GB internal memory.

Processor, RAM

The GPU used in both the devices are the same PowerVR SGX graphics supporting OPENGL ES 2.0. However N97 uses ARM 11 CPU which clocks at 434 MHz and 128 MB RAM compared to iPhone 3G S has ARM Cortex A8 processor clocking at 600 MHz and 256 MB RAM. This clearly states that iPhone 3G S packs more speed than N97.

Operating System

Nokia N97 runs the Symbian v9.4 Series 60 rel 5 OS whereas iPhone OS 3.0 is available for iPhone 3GS. The iPhone OS apart from being a stable multitasking platform with ease of software development, is more internet ready than the N97 which hasn’t even got a decent browser. Every aspect of the iPhone OS is designed keeping in mind that today people live on internet. Configuring a new e-mail account, e-mailing pictures and general web surfing is a breeze on iPhone. The N97 is also claimed to be internet ready but doing things is not that pleasurable experience as the iPhone. To defend for Nokia I would only say that N97 supports Java but the Apple iPhone 3G S does not. Also iPhone 3G S still lacks the support of Flash.