Nokia 1208 vs Nokia 2730 classic - Choose a cheap basic phone or a multimedia handset

Nokia is the only mobile phone manufacturer in the market, delivering high end phones as well as very efficient basic phones. The policy of the company always has been ringing a phone for everyone, hence having a phone for every need. This brand has kept on the research and analysis on the basics handsets in order to make them more efficient and more cheap. Today's basic phones by Nokia have better battery back-ups, better signal reception and less weight.

Most important of all, the company have tried its best to get the prices of these phones to as low as possible so that anyone could afford such phone.To have a better idea of how Nokia is excelling in elementary phones as well as models of other categories, lets have a comparison of Nokia 1208 vs Nokia 2730 classic. The former one of them is a very elementary handset with very slim dimensions of 102 x 44.1 x 17.5 mm and a mere weight of 77 grams.

The display is a bit small with diagonal length of 1.5 inches, but due to the reason of having a CSTN display, the screen is equally bright and clear in sunlight too. The 3 embedded games keep he user busy and the flash-light comes handy when in dull or dark environment.On the other hand we have the Nokia 2730 classic which is a bit heavier with a weight of 87.7 grams and dimensions of 109.6 x 46.9 x 14.4 mm. The display is a large 2.0 inches TFT which gives a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The five way navigation key helps you to work easily with this phone.

It has a decent 2 megapixel camera which results in pictures of resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. Class 32 GPRS and EDGE and the 384 kbps 3G, internet browsing is quite a fun. Stereo FM radio with RDS and music player playing MP3, WAV, WMV and eAAC+ formats this is a nice music phone as well.Coming to the economical point of view, Nokia 1208 Pay As You Go offers are available for very cheap by service providers like T Mobile who are offering this phone at a low price of £4.99.

With this a large number of incentives are also offered. While on the other hand Nokia 2730 classic Pay As You Go offers are provide by all leading network providers like Three, Vodafone, Orange, T Mobile and O2. The best and the cheapest offer is from Three which is giving this phone for the cheapest rate of £35.95. With lightly higher prices Vodafone, T Mobile and Orange are closely following.