Nokia N96 belongs to the popularly known Nokia N series and is a dual slider 3G smartphone packed with many amazing features. And the Samsung I900 Omnia is also a sophisticated 3G integrated phone with great business, imaging and communication features. There are several similarities and differences between these phones and to let you know, we are going to compare them.
physical aspects
Nokia N96 comes with a dual opening slider mechanism. This phone consists of a 2.8-inch QVGA LCD screen that can also be viewed in landscape or portrait mode and displays up to 16 million colors at a screen resolution of 240 by 320 pixels. It weighs 125 grams and its dimensions are 103 mm high by 55 mm wide by 18 mm thick.
Comparatively, the display on the Samsung I900 Omnia is a 3.2-inch TFT resistive touchscreen that supports 65k colors (65K effective) at a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. Its total weight is 127 grams and its physical dimensions are 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm. QWERTY keyboard with touch screen, optical trackpad, accelerometer sensor for automatic rotation and handwriting recognition are some of its additional features.
Business Features
Both 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 the case of Nokia N96). For office-related tasks, the former device integrates the Symbian operating system and comes with a document viewer that supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF formats, and the latter supports Microsoft® Office document viewing features and a PDF viewer. For turn-by-turn directions to desired locations, both contenders knew about GPS navigation with A-GPS support, but Nokia’s phone also features (150-country maps) with the Nokia Maps app.
Users can enjoy Nokia’s web browser with minimaps, HTML browser and RSS reader on the Nokia N96, while the Samsung I900 Omnia offers WAP 2.0 XHTML, HTML browser and RSS feeds.
Other attributes
Nokia N96 has 16GB storage, 128MB RAM and up to 8GB expandable memory and its competitor brings 8GB/16GB storage, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM and up to 16GB expandable here. Both phones are equipped with great music features and messaging services, but in this regard, Nokia’s widget is a clear winner.
The camera has 5 megapixels installed in each of these but it has been given different functions like the first one has Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar(TM) lens, dual LED flash, auto focus, auto exposure, camera key, camera settings , video settings, video streaming, video stabilizer, video light, as well as live TV streaming (DVB H). While the latter offers autofocus, flash, camera settings, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, image stabilization, wide dynamic range, etc. Also, both contain functions of music, another video call camera, TV-out, Java(TM) games, etc.