Nokia N96 Vs Apple iPhone – Indians are the lucky lot this season!
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The latest debate is whether the newly launched Nokia N96 is any competition to the Apple iPhone.
While the two handsets are very competitively priced Nokia will be in the range of Rs 32,000 – 36,000 and iPhone through Vodafone will cost Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,000), we think that Nokia N96 wins hands down. Nokia has a proven ability that makes it the market leader in cell phones. And not without reason. Nokia phones are viewed as “reliable, long lasting and technologically advanced.”
The iPhone on the other hand has a technical saleability, but lacks in features especially in comparison with the N96.
The only major difference between the two handsets we see is the lack of a touch screen in the N96. Else, N96 scores over the iPhone on several counts.
At Fonearena we gave a low-down on why you should perhaps ‘not’ buy the iPhone. Read it here.
But don’t believe us. Read the features of the N96, and we leave it to you to decide where you’d like to put your Rs 35,000 (gulp!)
Utility
• Common view for SIM & Phonebook Contacts
• To overcome a common problem of forgetting to change the profile once your meeting is over, timed profile is the solution. Simply define the time when you want a particular profile to change.
• Push Mail Compatible
• Load any of the push mail clients be it Mail for Exchange or provided by operators & access your corporate e-mail
• High Speed USB
• Convenient PC to N96 Device connections for media transfer
• Speed up to 480Mbs
• My Nokia
Interactivity
• Common Composer for Messages
• Automatic recognition of a text or a Multimedia message
Entertainment
• Music Player and access to a online Music store
• FM radio
• Dual speakers for the best in class audio quality
• Play the music as per the Artist, Album, Genres & Composers
• 5 Mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss Optics Lens
• Share them online from the phone directly
• Upload a post location tagging, so that you remember the exact place where the photograph has been clicked
• Nokia PC Suite lets you transfer all your photos with a single click
• View photos on a Rotary Gallery
Multitasking
Run more than two applications at any given point of time. For e.g. open a PowerPoint, playing a game, surfing the internet & typing a SMS!
S60 Browser
1. Easy Read: The text of the news article gets adapted to the mobile screen
2. Auto Bookmarks: No need to enter the web address again if you have opened the web browser once.
3. Page Overview: Displays the complete web page on your mobile screen & makes navigation lot easier
4. Visual History: Easy navigation to the page you have already visited & want to re-open the same page
5. Find: Find any text on the entire web page.
Internet
• Access Point Differentiation – No need to ask the operator for GPRS settings. Just insert your SIM & phone would do the rest.
Pre-loaded Applications
• Wave Secure: Protecting your phone and data by locking your phone remotely via Internet, Tracking your phone whenever a SIM is changed, Creating a backup of your data (Contacts, SMS, Call Logs & Calendar entries)
• Oxford Dictionary
• Mobiola Screen Capture: Enables you to view your phone’s screen onto your PC by establishing a connection via USB or Bluetooth
• Indi SMS – Type in English & it will translate into local languages
We never said that choosing between the N96 and the iPhone would be easy. But we have given you food for thought.
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n96 Completely OWNS Iphone!
yet, not clear about the features of n 96 & iphone
I think this is a completely one sided view expressed here. How can you say that N96 is better than iphone because of its music player?? iPhone has IPOD remember?? You can actually watch a movie on iPod..forget about music.
Applications?? Please take a walk through apps store..you shall be surprised by the number of applications there.
You forgot to mention the curiosity and exclusivity factor as well. A N96 looks just like anyother phone. No other phone looks like an iPhone.
I have always looked upto fonearena for the detailed posts. Please do not ruin the respect by writing such one sided views.
I dont share the view that iphone could ever be like or even something to be compared to n96….
Ha Ha
This is so funny if you are comparing the stupid iphone with the Great N96. LOOKS ARE NOT ALL. There are phones that looks similar and feels better for iphone to be compared with. Like samsung Omnia, HTC Diamond etc. Even when compared to those phones, the poor iphone is nowhere. What does it have? (as the list of features it does not have is numerous)….
I appreciate US Citizens or such people who had priced the iphone correctly….below 200 USD. If you are paying more than 10 k for it in india, you would call yourself a fool soon.
dear friends, as far as applications are concerned no doubt that Iphone has a great compatibility, speed of accessing the internet, playing game, video or managing your dailly routine things are really better then other phone in different manners but as far as user friendly thing is concerned i guess nokia is best even if compared with lower class phones of nokia and iphone. the biggest draw backs are you can not forward the msg you received from your friend if using Iphone. i guess most of us are fond of this. but ya the comparision is totally incomplete, a pure list is must to compare both the giants
dear friends, as far as applications are concerned no doubt that Iphone has a great compatibility, speed of accessing the internet, playing game, video or managing your dailly routine things are really better then other phone in different manners but as far as user friendly thing is concerned i guess nokia is best even if compared with lower class phones of nokia and iphone. the biggest draw backs are you can not forward the msg you received from your friend if using Iphone. i guess most of us are fond of this. but ya the comparision is totally incomplete, a pure list is must to compare both the giants
dear friends, do you know you r not able to set a song as a ringtone in iphone. it has inbuilt battery i.e. if u want to change the battery then you have to submit your iphone in service centre. in india it available only in network lock condition i.e. if you unlock it warranty void. Even our superstar Shahrukh khan got a pathetic experience by using iphone……..
dear friends, do you know you r not able to set a song as a ringtone in iphone. it has inbuilt battery i.e. if u want to change the battery then you have to submit your iphone in service centre. in india it available only in network lock condition i.e. if you unlock it warranty void. Even our superstar Shahrukh khan got a pathetic experience by using iphone……..
dear friends, do you know you r not able to set a song as a ringtone in iphone. it has inbuilt battery i.e. if u want to change the battery then you have to submit your iphone in service centre. in india it available only in network lock condition i.e. if you unlock it warranty void. Even our superstar Shahrukh khan got a pathetic experience by using iphone……..
dear friends, what is the use of a phone which having a mp camera without recording facility,then most of us ,college students communicating each other wth SMSes so what is the use if u cant frwd a msg
dear friends i own both n96 and iphone 3g, and i can say that iphone is 1000 times better than the n96. Forget about pictures taken with n96 they might be 5mp, but they look like shit, and n96 is extremly slow even with software version 12, its keyboard isn’t usable if you have large fingers, it is made out of cheap plastic, and games for symbian are the worst. If n96 software is replaced with something that like works properly it would be much, much better device
@nick
i see that u hve fallen in love with your iphone 3g
i know its a special device .. But you have to agree that N96 is a more powerful phone.
Try updating the firmware if you are facing software issues
I already updated firmware to v12 and it’s still slow. I’m just saying that if n96 had better software it would be superior to iphone 3g
NOKIA N96 is the best one.
i-phone only has good look and touch screen,
but it is like a waste cardboard.