Forgive the 3-Lib plug, but with the Apple iPhone being talked about so much, I wanted to add it to the smartphone comparison grid, so that anybody can compare the iPhone directly to any of the current top smartphone contenders across the world. And yes, it's easy to 'make' the iPhone win, by plugging in specific preferences. Comments welcome!
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In my opinion the currently best symbian phone Nokia E70 because it has the higher screen resolution 352x416 and QWERTY keyboard but not size and price of E90 isn't in the table anymore.
You have 2 choices...
Remove iphone from the list.
or
Remove the word Smartphone from the grid name. (roflmao)
Well seeing that people are claiming its not a smartphone, i dont see any reason it should be in the list. :con?
Just leave it out. Let us enjoy what we like and let them enjoy what they like, no need to make more news for them.🙄
Slightly confused by the iPhone getting 10 for screen size/resolutin v the E90 ?
Zuber
Shouldn't the N73 have a 5 in screen size/resolution if the N93 has a five? Their screens are identical in both size & resolution...
I guess it's just a typo?
Thanks, both scores tweaked. The Grid is an ever-changing, constantly-iterating thing, as you'll appreciate! 8-)
Steve
Really decent review of iphone at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/iphone-review.ars
Is it a smartphone? Well it's smart enough for me. But shame it hasn't got Top Hits Solitaire like my excellent Nokia e61.
iphone Wordprocessor etc is 0 at moment but think you will have to change this in next couple of months with web-based sites eg moffice gofffice
I really like built in word in e61 but it is very frustrating as I receive a lot of documents with tables by email which are very difficult to read. How do you score these - is it ease of use on the device, complexity, sync without losing formatting? What weighting do you give it. (Important to me as also tempted by e90 as great fan of series 3, 3a, 3c, 5 and revo)
Good questions:
>>iphone Wordprocessor etc is 0 at moment but think you will have to change this in next couple of months with web-based sites eg moffice gofffice
Although it's a cool hack to run apps inside a web browser, they're an order of magnitude less convenient (and probably slower or less functional) than a native app. So, I'll add a few points here, but not many.
>>I really like built in word in e61 but it is very frustrating as I receive a lot of documents with tables by email which are very difficult to read. How do you score these - is it ease of use on the device, complexity, sync without losing formatting? What weighting do you give it. (Important to me as also tempted by e90 as great fan of series 3, 3a, 3c, 5 and revo)
I try to factor in all of this. Interestingly, Quickoffice 3.85 on the E61i is easier to use and has better round-tripping but has less functionality. Same old functions-versus-ease of use argument??
The E90 is pretty good but there are several software-related worries, see my review parts here on AAS for the caveats.
Web browsing... iPhone gets 9 while Nokia N95 gets as much as 8 points. Sorry guys, but if iPhone is 9 points the Nokia N95 should be about 2 or 3.
The other amusing part is the multitask/speed. iPhone gets only 9 points while the dead slow and memory starved Nokia 9300 gets 6 points. Have you ever used Nokia 9300? Not the same dimension guys, Nokia 9300 deservers only 1 or 2 points.
I suspect you're trolling, but....
>>Web browsing... iPhone gets 9 while Nokia N95 gets as much as 8 points. Sorry guys, but if iPhone is 9 points the Nokia N95 should be about 2 or 3.
Eh? The S60 Web browser is much better, with proper Flash support etc. The iPhone's version of Safari only gets a higher mark because you can see more of a page at once etc.
>>The other amusing part is the multitask/speed. iPhone gets only 9 points while the dead slow and memory starved Nokia 9300 gets 6 points. Have you ever used Nokia 9300? Not the same dimension guys, Nokia 9300 deservers only 1 or 2 points.
Eh? The 9500 and 9300 were fine. Maybe you never learned how to use the excellent multitasking properly? Maybe a little slow when launching an app for the first time or opening an email, but otherwise I was quite happy..... 6 points is about right.
slitchfield: browsing shows clearly why the future is the (stylus-free) touch screen (in my opinion). Be happy with the flash support on S60, I myself find the web browsing on an N95 real pain. It's not just the screen real estate but scroll, link selection, zoom. And free memory... How much is that? About 18MB? That amount of memory can be quite amusing with decent flash sites.
Real world is sometimes an inconvenient place for a phone that was designed entirely for the specification paper.
Nokia 9300... I've been developing for Symbian phones, and actually one or two of our products were tested here on AllAboutSymbian and received about 80%. I can confirm that I learned one or two things about Nokia 9300/9500 and all I can tell you is that these models are dead slow, memory starved and the user interface... what about that plain white screen for about 4 secs (not even a progress bar or at least a hour glass shown) when you start an app? KERN-EXEC messages because the apps constantly run out of memory? Sometimes one app did something wrong and the whole phone frozen. During the development we had to remove and place the battery back at least 10 times a day. What kind of operating system allows a misbehaving application to take down the whole system? It's just sort of multi-tasking. The bsd-based OS X is a completely other dimension.
great list...maybe also add preference for QUAD-BAND
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The other amusing part is the multitask/speed. iPhone gets only 9 points while the dead slow and memory starved Nokia 9300 gets 6 points. Have you ever used Nokia 9300? Not the same dimension guys, Nokia 9300 deservers only 1 or 2 points.
Not sure that the iPhone is multitasking. How do you switch between the applications which are running?
You set a fine table, yum. The taste test is still undecided on the apple pie, although Steve L. covered the iphone quite well in the smartphones show. Check it out! It�s also good food for thought.