I have previously discussed the availability of iPhone in Pakistan, emergence of 3G iPhone and its craze that we have been witnessing in Pakistani consumers, now i thought of presenting a comparison 3G iPhone and Nokia N95.
As we know well that 3G iPhone or even its earlier version are good enough when it comes to data services, but a gadget lover in Pakistan can not wholly rely on the data features that 3G iPhone offers while compromising with other features such as GPS, 5 MP Camera, Video Capturing etc.
Check out below table that compares the features of 3G iPhone and Nokia N95
| Operating system | Mac OS X | Symbian S60 |
| 3G | No | Yes (HSDPA-enhanced) |
| Camera resolution | 2 megapixels | 5 megapixels |
| Browser | Safari | Nokia Web Browser with Mini map |
| Displays HTML-rich; Push IMAP (Yahoo); IMAP/POP3 |
POP3/SMTP/IMAP | |
| Music player | iTunes | RealPlayer / Nokia Media Player |
| GPS | Yes | Yes |
| Touchscreen | Yes (multi-touch sensors) | No |
| Screen | 8.9cm (320×480 pixels) | 6.4cm (240×320 pixels) |
| Weight | 133g | 120g |
| Memory | 8GB/16GB | 160MB |
| Processor speed | Unknown | 330MHz |
| Expansion slot | None | microSD (Maximum 2GB) |
| Replaceable battery | No | Yes |
| MMS (for sending pictures and video) | No | Yes |
| IM (instant messaging) | No | Yes |
| Video calling | Yes | Yes |
| Video capture | No | 640 x 480 (30 frames per second) |
| VoIP | No | Yes |
| YouTube | Yes | Yes |
| User can install 3rd-party apps | No | Yes |
| Accelerometer changes screen orientation when rotated |
Yes | No |
| Spell checker | Yes | Yes |
| Ambient light sensor (dims screen in low light) |
Yes | Yes |
| Proximity sensor (turns screen off when put up to your ear) |
Yes | No |
| Video output to TV | Yes | Yes |
| Visual voicemail | Yes | No |
| Threaded SMS | Yes | No |
| Browse music by album covers | Yes | No |
| Flickr integration | No | Yes |
| Supports stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) | Headset Support Only | Yes |
| Locked to carrier | Yes | No |
| Prices | Rs. 50,000 plus (expected) | Rs. 35,000 |
Clearly visible that N95 can be a better phone in Pakistan than of 3G iPhone with 5MP Camera, Bluetooth, third party application, MMS, many audio and video supported formats and so on. But if you are addicted to touchscreen and navigation ease that 3G iPhone offers, then 3G iPhone is your certani choice.
Mr. Asim who used iPhone for some time, states in his blog that he has come back to Nokia N95. He has collection of reasons for doing so, which are as following
- With N95 you can send/receive files on N95
- DVD like video Recording
- 5 MegaPixel Camera
- Internal GPS and Nokia excellent Sports Tracker Application
- Bluetooth A2DP Profile (Stereo)
- Copy and Paste (Major Bummer)
- I can view www.bbcurdu.com (Not possible on iphone)
- I can stream into realplayer
- I can now use blacklist program
- Voice Recoder which records telephone calls too.
- Caller Name Playback when you receive call (Excellent Feature! Without picking the phone I know who is calling me)
- Voice Activated Calling ( Simply Speak; the phone will identify the contact and call)
- Picture Slide show (Pan and Zoom) with Music (Why iphone does not have this feature)
- Picture Editor
- Easy transfer of Pictures and Songs (Not through complicated iTunes)
- and finally lots n lots of good software and 3D games!!!
You may also look at following video that compares iPhone and Nokia N95. The video actually backs me that Nokia N95 can be a better option for basic telephony features
The screen rotation feature that you rightly mentioned here is missing in N95, but they’ve added it by default in N95 (8gb). News is that the next firmware may feature this in N95 as well. For now RotateMe works, just another advantage of 3rd party software installation capability in N95.
Few corrections in the info:
iPhone 3G has 3G!
Push email from MS Exchange servers and sort of push email from me.com (previously known as mac.com)
IM is available using free apps – like AIM and Palringo (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.)
Video Calling – No
Till the iPhone is jailbroken to accept 3rd party sim cards it’ll be quite expensive to own and use in any other than the authorised country with authorised carriers.
I have iphone 3g 16gb(4m australia) & nokia n73. for iphone i jail breaked and unlocked it now it has far better softwares & games then nokia u can find thousands of cracked applications. i believe that iphone is very much overpriced it have really poor camera & exteremly unwanted limitations(if not hacked). while n73 is awesome lots of games especially n-gage 2 games & 100s of softwares but u have 2 hack n73 to install most of cracked applications. overall nokia is cheap and have really good cameras
@Rizwan Asif, mr Asif could u help me thst how and from where can i get cracked iphone softwears.thanx
does the iphone have msn?
and if you buy a iphone in pakistan and bring it to sweden will it work?
and i think nokia n95 and the iphone are pretty the same but iphone is more popular and more good looking
but if it was up to me i would take both of them!!
but if i had to choice one of the it would be the iphone!!
Some more details on iphone 3G. It has 625MHz ARM processor and 512MB of on board RAM. The graphics has no equivalent, and above all the big screen with high end graphics make it the most amazing ipod ever.
I have over 50 high-end 3D graphics games running on iphone 3G from AppStore for free. Which can never run on N95. There is no match to the third party applications as they are in millions. GPS with realtime updates for traffic, your location and any restaurants around you.
Works like a charm if you happen to use terminal and control your linux server from your phone. No comparisons to http webserver, sftp server, ssh, torrent downloading etc etc. (list goes on…)
This is not an ordinary phone and not for ordinary ppl. It is stylish, powerful (twice as fast of N95) and has superior browsing and email service.
A lot of these specs have no basis for comparison. For example, 3G and HSPDA…these are both esentially 3G operator based functionalities and cannot be used in Pakistan at the moment. Visual Voicemail is also an operator based function, therefore should not be in the comparison. A lot of other functions such as video recording, IM, MMS, flicker integration, etc are available via apps and are much better on the iPhone than the N95. A lot of the information here is incorrect…for example 3rd party apps….there are more than 50,000 authorized apps on Apples App store and thousands more on 3rd party repositories. In comparision Nokia only has about a thousand apps…there is no comparison when it comes to 3rd party apps. A2DP is a bluetooth standard for stereo bluetooth…the only application is headsets!
In conclusion, the iPhone is a much superior device than the N95, especially after the 3.0 software which will add over a hundred new featurs. The Touch screen vs Physical keys debate is simply a matter of preference.
Very useful information, always good to learn more.
we have a N95 and this a so nice and H ?
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