iPhone 3G Over Nokia N96

Nokia released its new model N96 in India yesterday with high media coverage. There has been a big time comparison of Nokia N96 Vs iPhone 3G. The journalists call the N96 the “iPhone killer”. To figure out more information, I did a bit of search on net and this is what I found.

Dimensions

Nokia N96: 103mm high, 55mm wide and 20mm thick, weighs 125g.

iPhone 3G: 115.5mm high, 62.1mm wide and 12.3mm thick, weighs 133g.

Winner: Apple iPhone 3G

Display

Nokia N96: 2.8″ QVGA non-touch display.

iPhone 3G: 3.5″ multi-touch display.

Winner: Apple iPhone 3G

Operating System

Nokia N96: S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2.

iPhone 3G: Apple OS X

Winner: Draw

Storage Capacity

Nokia N96: 16GB, plus a hot swappable microSD memory card slot.

iPhone 3G: 8GB and 16GB

Winner: Nokia N96

Camera

Nokia N96: 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and inbuilt flash, video is shot at 30fs at a 640 x 480 resolution.

iPhone 3G: 2.0-megapixel camera, with geo-tagging and third-party application integration.

Winner: Nokia N96

Media Player

Nokia N96: MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA audio formats, MPEG-4 and WMV9 video formats, and DVB-H

iPhone 3G: iPod functionality, AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, m4v, mp4, and .mov.

Winner: Nokia N96

Connectivity

Nokia N96: 3G HSDPA, plus integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

iPhone 3G: 3G HSDPA, plus integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Winner: Even

GPS

Nokia N96: A-GPS, plus Nokia Maps application.

iPhone 3G: A-GPS

Winner: Nokia N96




Battery Life

Nokia N96: Close to four hours’ talk time, stand-by is 220 hours, video playback is five hours, music playback 14 hours.

iPhone 3G: Up to five hours of talk time using 3G, or 10 hours using 2G, standby is 300 hours, five hours of 3G internet use and six hours of Wi-Fi internet use, seven hours of video playback and up to 24 hours of audio playback.

Winner: iPhone 3G

As you know, N96 is the first ever mobile device to offer a memory size of 16GB expandable to 32 GB through an external micro SD card (Hot Swap Supported!). You could store more than 60 hours of videos and movies with high quality.

You may be amazed at iPhone’s trendy looks and features. But think if you really need to go for one as it doesn’t support Bluetooth(see above). t only connect to a Bluetooth hands-free headset, so no A2DP stereo Bluetooth, file transfers or internet sharing. Pictures you take can be emailed to friends, but not sent directly to another mobile device. Similarly, there is no video capture and FM radio. Coming to price, both are priced crazy! On top of this, there will be data subscription charges from the telecom service providers.. Do you really need one of these?