Nokia 5800 v/s iPhone 3G

Nokia 5800, the latest entrant in the touch-screen war, is the first product by Nokia. While others rolled out touch-screen products almost immediately after iPhone, Nokia has been more reserved and it appears it has succeeded in making a real rival for the iPhone. With Nokia 5800, Nokia has produced a device almost as good or even better in every aspect than the iPhone 3G.

Delivering on Nokia’s vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia’s groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog.

Among the many features it offers some of the most prominent ones are the variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). You can use the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available. You can also find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Also the phone introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, web and online sharing all at once.

	Nokia 5800	Apple iPhone 3G
Dimensions	111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm	115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm
Display	3.2 ” touchscreen, TFT , 16M colors	3.5″ touchscreen, 16M colors
Navigation	Touch screen, 3 butttons SEND, END , MENU	Touch screen, Home button.
Multitouch	No	Yes
Camera(MP)	3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus Video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera	2.0
Connectivity	Quad-band GSM3G USB 2.0 EDGE,GPRS Wi-Fi.	3GQuad-band GSM Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA USB 2.0 EDGE,GPRS Wi-Fi.
Bluetooth	Yes	Yes
GPS	Yes	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes	Yes
Battery	Removable.8 hours TalkTime 400 hours Standby	Non-Removable.5 hours TalkTime (3G) 10 hours TalkTime (2G) 300 hours Standby 24 hours Audio
Memory	81 MB internal memory 128 MB SDRAM memory8 GB included , MicroSD-card slot support (upto 16GB)	8/16 GB, no expansion slot
OS	Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5	OS X
Messaging	Email: POP3, IMAPSMS/MMS IM support for AIM, Yahoo, and MSN	POP3, IMAP, Exchange supportNo MMS / IM
Syncing	Nokia PC Suite support. Through Bluetooth or USB cable	PC synchronization. Over-the-air sync for Web mail and online calendars.
Browser	Full-HTML browser	Safari
Maps	Yes.Nokia Maps 2.0	Recently Added Google MapsOnly Satellite and Traffic View
Application Store	All Nokia s60v5 applications and Java games	iTunes Application Store. Only Apple approved applications.
Copy and Paste	Yes	No
Voice dial	Yes	No
3.5mm headset jack	Yes	Yes
Price	300-350 EUR . About Rs.20,000 in India	$199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB with 2 year contract
Availability	Already available or Soon to be available in Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland etc.	iPhone is available in many countries. To check whether it’s available in yours, go to http://www.apple.com/iphone/countries/