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iPhone 3G S faster than palm & Nokia N97

Wackao — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:43:58 +0000

Which is the fastest smartphone? As the competition among the smart phones increases by releasing of a new smartphone almost every month it has become tougher to decide this.Recently PCworld conducted a series of informal tests on three of these smartphones which top the list currently: iPhone 3G S,Palm Pre and the Nokia N97.Though Configuration of all three of them was matchable with Nokia N97 trailing but the performance results showed that their is a twist in the tail.

iPhone 3G S: 600 Mhz processor, 256 mb ram

Palm pre: 600 Mhz processor,256 Mb ram

Nokia N97: 434 Mhz processor,128 Mb ram.

The Following are the details of tests conducted along with the results of these tests ,(To watch the original video follow the link at the end of this article):

1.Power on Test: How quickly a Phone starts

Results: iPhone 3G S(22 seconds),Nokia N97(66s) & Palm Pre(96s)

2. Opening Email Inbox: How quickly you can check your email(Gmail for testing) account,N97 has live feed widgets which refresh realtime.

Results: Nokia N97(1.3seconds) ,iPhone 3G S(1.4s) & Palm Pre(7.5s)

3. Adding a Contact: Each phone requires 2 taps and how quickly you are able to add a contact.

Results: iPhone 3G S(2.4 seconds),Nokia N97(2.5s) & Palm Pre(5.9s)

4. Booted Associated press Application: This was a third party app on all three phones,Test tried to show how quickly a third party app starts and loads content.

Results: iPhone 3G S(3.8 seconds),Nokia N97(15.1s) & Palm Pre(15.4s)

The results showed that iPhone 3G S is clearly leading and Nokia 97 despite having a lower configuration closely followed the iPhone in many cases.Though there are many variables involved like 3G network, OS platform but the mandate was clear its iPhone 3G S the Fastest Smartphone available.However the Palm pre trailed in most of them but the interface and the net surfing was quite comfortable than other contenders.

Check out the video here

Though these are some of the informal tests but speed is an important parameter when you are deciding on buying smartphones.

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The Nokia N-97 Hands on!

Wackao — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:09:53 +0000

Nokia N-97 relesed this summer is a pretty cool mobile phone,and I came across this video which displays a full hands on
The “NOKIA N-97” .You can find the video at the end of this post, the hands on video is superb and describes almost everything in the Nokia N-97.
Features:
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 – American version
Announced 2008, November
Status Available. Released 2009, June
Size Dimensions 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm, 88 cc
Weight 150 g
Display Type TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Handwriting recognition
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes, with stereo speakers
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Internal 32 GB storage, 128 MB RAM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Class 32
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash, video light
Video Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA@15fps
Features OS Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
CPU ARM 11 434 MHz processor
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, Visual radio; FM transmitter
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors White, Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support; Nokia Maps
Java Yes, MIDP 2.1
- Digital compass
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+/MP4/M4V player
- MPEG4/WMV/3gp/Flash video player
- TV-out
- Voice command/dial
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF viewer)
- Video and photo editor
- Flash Lite 3
- T9
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
Stand-by Up to 432 h (2G) / 408 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 9 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)
Music play Up to 40 h
Price : Rs 34999 Only
The phone has all the features that one would ever require from a phone except that its a bit heavy and definitely the Cost Factor!
Here is the Video:

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HTC TOUCH DIAMOND2 : Gen X Mobile

Wackao — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:09:00 +0000

HTC LAUNCHES THE NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN INDIA – HTC TOUCH DIAMOND2™

This certainly is a mobile with amazing features and a marked improvement on its predecessor.HTC TOUCH DIAMOND 2 seems to be competing with the iPhone or the Blackberry.

Details:The HTC Touch Diamond2 is the next step in the evolution of the successful HTC Touch Diamond. Crafted to fit perfectly into the hand, the Touch Diamond2 evolves the compact design and iconic style of the original HTC Touch Diamond. It incorporates a larger 3.2-inch high-resolution wide-screen VGA display for a greater viewing area in a design just 13.7mm thick. The phone also includes a new touch sensitive zoom bar for even faster zooming of Web pages, emails, text messages, photos or documents.With a five mega-pixel auto focus camera, expandable memory, gravity sensor and an ambient light sensor the mobile seems a complete package.The HTC Touch Diamond2 incorporates HTC’s latest TouchFLO 3D interface. TouchFLO 3D has been more deeply integrated into a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.1 to deliver more consistency throughout Windows Mobile applications and menus.

HTC is now pushing the technology to make internet on mobiles easier, the amazing feature which I liked is the History Feature : a single contact view that displays the individual conversation history of contacts regardless of whether voice, text or email were used.This feature was used in Blackberry phones.

The price however is Rs. 29,990/- which is a bit disappointing as it almost goes out of the reach of common people.The only thing which Blackberry or the iPhone both lack in India.
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