NOKIA N8 Vs APPLE iPHONE 4 HEAD TO HEAD

Nokia and apple recently announced their latest flagship mobile models – the powerful Nokia N8 and iPhone 4 respectively. These models will definitely rule the market in the near future. So here I present a comparison of the two in terms of technical specifications etc, so have a look and decide yourself:

Apple iPhone 4: This will appear in the market earlier than N8 (Perhaps from 24th of June in few countries like US and Germany). It succeeds the hugely popular iPhone 3G.
Looks and Build: Look wise almost same as iPhone 3G (And GS) but slimmer (Only 9.3 mm thick!!!)

SCREEN:
3.5 inches, TFT capacitive touch screen, with 16 Million colors, 640 x 960 pixels resolution (The highest in its class).
Unique “Retina” display – Perhaps the only new feature (USP) in iPhone 4!!
It’s called so because its 326 pixels/inch crosses the point at which pixels are noticeable to human eye (At around 300 pixels/inch). So it has 4 times as many pixels as iPone 3GS, and 78 percent of the pixels in an iPad (9.5-inch screen). So many pixels in a tiny screen make it simply AWESOME.
Scratch-resistant surface
Multi-touch input
Three-axis gyro sensor
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

MEMORY:
Call log – 100 received, dialed and missed
Phone’s Inbuilt – 16/32 GB
No memory card slot so no expansion possible

IMAGING AND VIDEO:
Primary camera – 5 Mega Pixel, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus with LED flash, touch focus and geo-tagging
Video recording – Records HD video (720p@30fps), continuous LED light, plus a capable video editor
Secondary camera – present for video call (Over Wi-Fi only)

CONNECTIVITY:
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G – HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
USB 2.0

OTHERS:
Operating System – New iOS 4 (Different from previous iPhones)
CPU – Apple’s A4 processor
Browser – Safari browser
No FM radio (What the Heck!!!)
Games – Supports motion-based games (That use gyro-sensor)
GPS – Present with A-GPS support
No Java support (So no Java apps and games!!!!)
MicroSIM card support only (No regular large sized SIM)
Scratch-resistant glass back panel
Active noise cancellation with extra dedicated mic
Li-Ion battery with talk time up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
Music play – Up to 40 h
Digital compass
iBooks app
TV-out

Now have a look at Nokia N8 specs sheet:

NETWORK, DATA AND CONNECTIVITY
2G Network bands – GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network bands – HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 2100 /1900
GPRS – Class 33
EDGE – Class 33
3G – HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology
Bluetooth v3.0!!! with A2DP (And many other Audio profiles)
MicroUSB v 2.0, USB On-the-go (OTG) support
On demand WebTV

SCREEN
3.5 inches, AMOLED (Wow!!) capacitive touch screen, 16M colors
360 x 640 pixels resolution,
Multi-touch input method
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
Scratch-resistant surface

MEMORY
Phone’s inbuilt – 16 GB, 256MB RAM
MicroSD card support (up to 32GB)

IMAGING AND VIDEO
Primary camera – 12 MP, 4000×3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus with Xenon flash, ND filter, geo-tagging, face and smile recognition
Video recording – HD (720p@25fps), LED light for video recording
Secondary camera – VGA for video call
Video/photo editor
DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite
Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI
2 Microphones

OTHER FEATURES
Operating System – The new Symbian^3 OS (Enhanced version of S60 5th Ed.)
CPU – ARM 11, 680 MHz processor (Fastest in symbian so far), 2D/3D Graphics HW acceleration
Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter
GPS present, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
Java support, MIDP 2.1
Qt 4.6.2 support
Flash Lite v 4.0 (Newest)
Digital compass (Magnetometer sensor)
Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
Battery – Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D), USB charging
Talk time – Up to 12 h (2G), Up to 5 h 40m (3G)
Video playback time – 7 hours
Music play – Up to 2 Days (48 hours) Wow!!!

THE VERDICT – No prizes to guess that among the two, Nokia N8 wins hands down. Except screen clarity, nothing is there in iPhone 4 that can even get it closer to N8. No memory expansion option, 5 MP camera (Obsolete according to latest industry norms), no FM radio, no Java/MIDP support (Even an entry level mobile support java apps today) and the list is endless. This “New” iPhone would have done better if it was launched 5 years earlier. Come on Mr. Steve Jobs, give us something ahead of time, a feature set that make us say WOW and buy your device…..let’s face it, the competition is really tough and the consumer is smarter than ever….you decide