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Rameshjeee

Nokia 5800 vs Sony X1 vs HTC HD vs Omnia vs Storm

Here's a compare meter that evaluates Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Blackberry Storm, Sony Xperia, HTC Touch HD and Samsung Omnia on various yardsticks.


Nokia 5800: On the looks front Nokia 5800 has rounded corners and similar screen like iPhone. The screen size is 81mm (3.2-inch) diagonally,with 640x480-pixel touchscreen display that can play multiple types of video at a high resolution. Measuring 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, the phone weighs 109 grams. It is available in black, red, and blue variants.

Storm: Measuring 4.43 X 2.45 X 0.55 inches, storm weighs 155 grams. It has a QWERTY keyboard for a high-resolution 3.25-inch touchscreen. The phone's display supports 480x360 pixel resolution and 65,000 colours. The phone packs a ClickThrough feature, which means its touchscreen is not just touchable but clickable. This means that the Storm has two levels of input (touch and click) which has been used to advance the interface.

Xperia: Measuring 4.4 x 2.1 x 0.7 inches, Xperia weighs 158 grams. The phone's touchscreen display supports 800 X 480 pixel resolution and 65,536 color. It is available in Black and Steel Silver.

HTC HD Touch: With a 3.8-inch touchscreen display, Touch HD has a WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Measuring 115 mm (h) X 62.8 mm (w) X 12 mm, the phone weighs 146.4 grams.

Samsung Omina: Sporting a platinum look, the phone takes advantage of Samsung's TouchWiz user interface.It has a 3.2-inch LCD touchscreen display.



Nokia 5800: The phone has built-in surround stereo speakers, Nokia Maps, GPS, Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth and a top-mounted 3.5mm headphone socket. Unlike the Apple iPhone, the Nokia 5800 has Flash support, a programme used to power many online video services and websites. 5800 also has an accelerometer for display rotation.

The phone has a Media Bar, a drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment. Billed as a music phone, 5800 comes pre-loaded with a vast range of music collection.

Storm: BlackBerry first touch phone packs a host of multimedia capabilities including Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets, dial-up networking and GPS. The phone comes with Media Player with support for music and video formats including MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV, MPEG4 and H.264.

The phone also comes preloaded with instant messengers like Yahoo, Windows Live, AOL, and ICQ and social networking apps like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. The phone has BlackBerry Maps for text-based turn-by-turn directions.

Xperia: X1 has a standard headphone jack, aGPS, Bluetooth, Google Maps, Microsoft Office mobile, modem, synchronisation PC, USB support, navigator, WiFi, email, Exchange ActiveSync, Instant messaging and MMS (Multimedia Messaging). The phone includes Internet Explorer Mobile and Opera Mobile browsers.

HTC HD Touch: The handset features a 3.5mm headphone jack for audio-out. The jack lets users connect the mobile to any headset. Other features include 3.5G support, aGPS and WiFi. HTC Touch HD handset comes equipped with TouchFLO 3D user interface that offers quick and intuitive access to the people, messages and content. The phone is billed as an internet and multimedia device for personal as well as business use.

Samsung Omnia: The Samsung phone features a TV-Out feature to playback content from the phone directly on the television screen. DivX technology enables video content transfer from the PC to the mobile.

Camera

Nokia 5800: Nokia'S first touchscreen phone has 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a dual-LED flash with 30 fps video recording. It also has a second backward facing camera.

Storm: BlacBerry Storm is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording, auto focus and flash.

Xperia: Xperia has built-in 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording feature. The phone also has a video calling option.

HTC Touch HD: The phone packs 5 megapixel camera and offers video viewing and auto focus capabilities.

Samsung Omnia: The smartphone features a 5 megapixel camera. It support auto focus, image stabliser, geo tagging, auto-panorama shot, wide
dynamic range and face detection options. Also, it has option of video recording, video editing, audio dubbing and live dubbing.

Storage

Nokia 5800: Nokia's touch phone comes with 81MB internal memory, 8GB microSD memory card, capable of storing approximately 6,000 songs. The
memory can be further expanded to 16GB.

Storm: The phone comes with 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of onboard memory. The phone offers support for microSD/SDHC expansion slot up to 16GB cards.

Xperia: Sony Xperia packs 400 MB of internal memory and can be expanded via microSD cards.

HTC Touch HD: The phone has 528 MHz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB of flash memory, and 288 MB of RAM. The memory can b further expanded via
microSD cards.

Samsung Omnia: The mobile comes in two versions -- with 24 GB memory (internal memory of 8 GB and an extendible memory of 16 GB) and with 32 GB memory (internal memory of 16 GB and an external memory of 16 GB).

Cost

Nokia 5800: Priced at Rs 21,839, Nokia's touchscreen phone is the cheapest touchscreen option available for now.

Storm: Priced at Rs 27,990, the smartphone is available across select Vodafone stores.

Xperia: This one is the highly priced touchscreen among all. It is priced at Rs 44,500.

HTC Touch HD: HTC is closely priced along Sony Xperia. It is available for Rs 42,990,

Samsung Omnia: It is priced at Rs 39,999 for 32 GB and Rs 37,999 for 24 GB phone.

Operating System

Nokia 5800: The phone is equipped with the Symbian S60 interface which Nokia showed off last year.

Storm: BlackBerry Storm runs on the latest BlackBerry operating system (version 4.7). The phone will support multiple email accounts: BlackBerry Enterprise, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, POP3, IMAP4 and more.

Xperia: The X1 uses Windows Mobile 6.1 as its operating system, but Sony Ericsson developed a variety of customised enhancements that run on top of it. Most notable is the panel interface, which consists of up to nine small rectangles that can customise and use to view different applications or media on the device in different ways.

HTC Touch HD: Touch HD runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1. Touch HD uses TouchFLO 3D interface that brings all needed functions in one place.

Samsung Omnia: The phone uses Windows Mobile Professional 6.1.

Operator lock

Nokia 5800: In India Nokia sell phones with no operator lock, unlike Apple iPhone with Bharti and Airtel.

Storm: Storm is available across select Vodafone stores.

Xperia: No operator lock.

HTC Touch HD: HTC Touch has no operator lock.

Samsung Omnia: Omia too is service provider-agnostic. Users can run it on any service provider's network.

Miscellaneous

Nokia 5800: Nokia touch phone has a new Contacts Bar that lets users highlight four favorite contacts on their homescreen. There is also an option to track digital history of recent text messages, email, phone logs, photos and blog updates. The phone offers support for 3G which enables faster Web browsing and downloading. The handset is a GSM/EDGE/HSDPA 3G device along with 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (with stereo audio) and USB 2.0 connectivity. It also has A-GPS and Nokia Maps for voice-guided navigation.

Storm: With a battery life of up to 15 days (standby time) and up to 5.5 hours (talktime), the smartphone offers support for MMS (Multimedia messaging), video recording and voice dialing features. However, it lacks Wi-Fi.

Xperia: Business users can synchronise the phone with their PCs and get email from their Microsoft Outlook account pushed straight to the phone. There is assortment of 11 buttons on the X1's face, including a center button that can select items or work as an optical joystick, which scrolls with a finger swipe.

HTC Touch HD: The device sports a standard 3.5mm audio jack that supports high-performing headphones. The in-built TouchFLO 3D user interface enhances the device usability by quickly accessing to any of the urgently required messages, contact and content.

Samsung Omnia: It has an optical mouse for easy navigation.

Source: IndiaTimes InfoTech

vikramjb

Good article man . Would be good if you can provide a pic or two, it would be a feast for the eyes especially storm.

Robdale

Really a good job, Rameshjeee.
It will be very much helpful for the people who always looks for the comparison of the mobile phones. This will solve their problem.

The Sorcerer

I rather buy an ordinary phone and get something like a cowon s9 or import an archos 5.

BorisAro

Hello!

Really good article!!

I'm going to buy a phone. Most important features : small, light, radio, GPS as a walker possibility to get software for satellite GPS not A-GPS,Wi-Fi, just speak and listen (camera and others not important), easy interface.

Please advice!!!

money_ms

buy nokia 5800 all the feathers you want are there.

nokia map are good.

18lama

@Boris: I bought the 5800 recently...it has all the features that you are looking for and then some.

money_ms

amal can you tell how nokia maps are they good or not

18lama

Nokia Maps is useful only if you are living in a major city in India.

Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Banglore, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad and any other that I may have forgotten.

As far as landmarks around my locations are concerned...its covers most of the major landmarks around the city of Ahmedabad. I have even seen some restaurants and lounges as locations on the mas, whose names were familiar to me but not the exact location, but on Nokia maps I was able to quickly search for it and find out exactly where they were located.

There is one another nifty feature which this phone has is the ability to save youtube videos to your phone directly. You don't even need to install any additional software or plugin for it. I use it a lot...a combination of my Wifi and 5800 works out great.

money_ms

thanks for such a good reply.