Nokia N96 vs Samsung I900 Omnia

Nokia N96 belongs to popularly known Nokia’s N- series and it is a dual slide opening 3G smartphone packed with lots of astonishing features. And Samsung I900 Omnia is also a sophisticated 3G phone embedded with superb business, imaging and communication features. There are various similarities as well as differences between these phones and to let you know about these we are going to compare these.

Physical Aspects

Nokia N96 comes with a dual opening slide mechanism. This phone comprised of a 2.8 inches QVGA LCD screen that is viewable in horizontal or vertical mode as well and displays up to 16 million colours with screen resolution of 240 by 320 pixels. It carries 125 grams weight and its dimensions are 103mm tall by 55mm wide by 18mm thick.

Comparatively Samsung I900 Omnia’s display is of 3.2 inches TFT resistive touchscreen supporting 65k colours (65K effective) at 240 x 400 Pixels resolution. Its overall weight is 127 grams and its physical dimensions are 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm. Touch Screen QWERTY Keyboard, Optical trackpad, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and Handwriting recognition are some additional features of it.

Business Features

Both of the devices provide broadband like Internet speed and high speed data transfer 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth® with A2DP, USB, GPRS, EDGE and WLAN Wi-Fi (UPnP Technology in case of Nokia N96). For office related tasks former device integrates Symbian operating system and comes with document viewer which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF formats and the latter one supports Microsoft® Office document viewing capabilities & a PDF viewer. To get step by step directions to desires locations both of these contenders comprised of GPS Navigation with A-GPS support but Nokia’s phone also features (150 Countries Maps) with Nokia Maps Application.

Users can enjoy Nokia Web Browser with Mini Maps, HTML browser and RSS Reader on Nokia N96 while Samsung I900 Omnia provides WAP 2.0 XHTML, HTML browser and RSS Feeds.

Other Attributes

Nokia N96 possesses 16 GB storage, 128 MB RAM and up to 8GB expandable memory and its contender brings along 8 GB/16 GB storage, 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM and up to 16GB is expansible here. Both of the phones are equipped with excellent music features and messaging services but in this regard Nokia’s widget is a clear winner.

Camera is 5 megapixel fitted on each of these but it has been given with different functions such as first one has Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar™ Lens, Dual LED Flash, Autofocus, Auto Exposure, Camera Key, Camera Setting, Video Settings, Video Streaming, Video Stabiliser, Video Light, As well as it has Live TV Broadcast (DVB H). Whereas second one proffers Auto Focus, Flash, Camera Settings, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range etc. Furthermore, both are containing music features, another video call camera, TV Out, Java™ Games etc.