Nokia N96 vs Samsung I900 Omnia - Competitors By All Means

Nokia N96 and Samsung I900 Omnia both are high end 3G smartphones with mind blowing features and design. Though these mobile phones have been fitted with completely different operating system and there is a huge difference in shape and design but still there are various similarities.

Followings are some similarities and differences of the above said phones:-

The former one is outstanding dual slide opening 3G smartphone running over Symbian operating system with 2.8 inches QVGA LCD screen offering 16 million colours at resolution of 240 by 320 pixels. On the contrary, the latter one is a powerful widget works on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS and its wide 3.2-inches TFT resistive touchscreen gives a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and displays up to 256K colors.

Samsung I900 Omnia has been furnished with Touch Screen QWERTY Keyboard, Optical trackpad, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Handwriting recognition features which are missing on its rival.3G HSDPA, Bluetooth® with A2DP, USB, WLAN Wi-Fi (UPnP Technology & HSCSD in Nokia N96) GPRS and EDGE are some features of these phones for fast data transfer & highly efficient connectivity.Although both these are carrying 5MP camera but with different functionalities. Dual LED Flash, Autofocus are common features of these phones. Moreover, Nokia N96’s camera has Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar™ Lens, Auto Exposure, Camera Key, Camera Setting, Video Settings, Video Streaming, Video Stabiliser, Video Light, Live TV Broadcast (DVB H). While Samsung I900 Omnia’s camera features Auto Focus, Flash, Camera Settings, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range.

Front facing video call camera, TV Out, Java™ Games are some mutually available features on these widgets.By using these smartphones you can access high-speed Internet with WAP 2.0 browser which supports xHTML and HTML as well as both of these support RSS Feeds. But Nokia also has Nokia Web Browser with Mini Maps.Nokia N96’s music player supports MP3, AAC, eAAC+ & WMA formats and its music features include Album Art, Playlist, Sound Equaliser, Voice Commands. Its video player supports WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP files. MP3, WMA, OGG, AMR, AAC & AAC+ music files and MP4, WMV, XviD & DivX video files are acceptable through Samsung I900 Omnia’s music player and video player.

Stereo FM Radio with RDS is a common feature of these contenders but Nokia’s phone has something extra in this regard like Visual Radio, Nokia Internet Radio.GPS Navigation with A-GPS support can be seen on both these widgets but in Nokia N96 users will find it with 150 Countries Maps and Nokia Maps Application.urthermore, Nokia’s phone has Document viewer and Samsung’s one carries Pocket Office feature for fulfilling documental related tasks.