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Nokia N9 (Meego) Review and comparison

Nokia N9 is Nokia’s new smartphone, with 3G network of High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 5.7 Mbps and High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 14.4 Mbps, its dimensions are 116.45 * 61.2 * 12.1 mm, with a screen size of 3.9 inches, 16:9 FWVGA (854 * 480) pixels AMOLED display, capacitive touch screen, gorilla glass display, 16.7 million colors, and weighs 135 g. Its OS is MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan with 1 GHz Cortex A8 Processor.

Though much has been talked about the Meego OS, the phone itself is designed to perfection. Probably a Elop let Nokia team take one last gasp for the open source world. But if Meego does become more successful, there is always a chance Meego might appear in some of Nokia’s future devices.

The phone has 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss Optics, wide angle lens, dual LED flash, digital shutter, continuous auto focus, 4x digital zoom and video camera with 720 pixels resolution at 30 frames per second, stereo sound recording, and etc., The internal memory is of 16 or 64 GB, 1 GB RAM and no external card slot.The 8 MP camera is comparable to 2011 top notch smartphones and on the lines of Samsung Galaxy S2 and Apple’s soon to be released iPhone 5.

Its other features include NFC (Near Field Communication – for easy pairing and sharing), Wi-Fi WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR, GPRS, EDGE, High Speed USB 2.0 with micro USB connector for data transfer and charging, 3.5 mm Audio Video connector, messaging through SMS, MMS, IM, Push, Email, HTML 5 support for web applications and fast video playback, RSS reader, TCP/IP support, Live multitasking view, Java Script support, Share photos online through Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa, Video and photo editor, Document editor’s, MP3 and MP4 player, Key Applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Ovi store, Maps, Track and Protect, Nokia Link for easy synchronization of photos, videos, and music, Preloaded games like Angry Birds Magic with NFC support, Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011, and etc., The phone has 1450 mAh Li-Ion standard battery with talk time power of 7 h and standby time of 450 h, 4.5 h of video playback time and 50 h of music playback time. It comes in three colors such as Cyan, Black and Magenta

Nokia N9 Specifications :

3G Network :  High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 5.7 Mbps and High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 14.4 Mbps

Dimensions :

When compared to other top phones here is the dimension comparison

Nokia N9 – 116.45 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm
Iphone 4 – 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm
Samsung Galaxy S2 – 125.3 X 66.1 X 8.49 mm
Blackberry Torch – 111 x 62 x 14.6 mm

Display Screen : screen size is of 3.9 inches, 16:9 FWVGA (854 * 480) pixels AMOLED display, capacitive touch screen, gorilla glass display which also adorns iPhone 4 and Galaxy S2, 16.7 million colors

Weight : 135 g
The phone is much lighter than iPhone 4 which is 161 g and comparable to Galaxy S2.

OS and Processor : MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan with 1 GHz Cortex A8 Processor. Nokia might  have missed a trick by not going dual core here, but 1 GHZ is more than enough any of current Generation phone.

Camera : 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss Optics, wide angle lens, dual LED flash, digital shutter, continuous auto focus, 4x digital zoom and video camera with 720 pixels resolution at 30 frames per second, stereo sound recording, and etc.,

Memory : 16 or 64 GB, 1 GB RAM and no external card slot

Other Features : NFC (Near Field Communication – for easy pairing and sharing), Wi-Fi WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR, GPRS, EDGE, High Speed USB 2.0 with micro USB connector for data transfer and charging, 3.5 mm Audio Video connector, messaging through SMS, MMS, IM, Push, Email, HTML 5 support for web applications and fast video playback, RSS reader, TCP/IP support, Live multitasking view, Java Script support, Share photos online through Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa, Video and photo editor, Document editor’s, MP3 and MP4 player, Key Applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Ovi store, Maps, Track and Protect, Nokia Link for easy synchronization of photos, videos, and music, Preloaded games like Angry Birds Magic with NFC support, Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011, and etc.,

Battery : 1450 mAh Li-Ion standard battery with talk time power of 7 h and standby time of 450 h, 4.5 h of video playback time and 50 h of music playback time

Colors : Cyan, Black and Magenta. May not be the best choice in terms of colors other than black. But this also makes the phone unique among competition.

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Nokia E73 Mode Specifications, Review and Comparison

Nokia E73 Mode comes with an option of changing the mode of the phone from Work Mode to Personal Mode by touching the single button ie., we can switch between the business features and personal features within the single phone. It has QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad, five-way scroll key, with dimensions of 4.48 * 2.30 * 0.40 inches/ (113.8 * 58.4 * 10.2 mm), 16 million colors TFT active matrix display screen of size 2.4 inches and 320 * 240 (QVGA) pixels resolution, weighing 4.5 oz. 3G network with High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 2 Mbps and High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 10.2 Mbps.

The phone has 5 MP camera with 2592 * 1944 pixels resolution with autofocus and LED flash, 5x digital zoom, the video mode camera is of VGA with 15 frames per second, 10x video digital zoom, and the front camera is of 2x digital video zoom. It comes with 3.5 mm audio-video jack, Music player, Media player, stereo FM radio with RDS support. Internal memory of the phone is of 250 MB, 4 GB microSD external memory card, extendable upto 16 GB, and the Operating System of the phone is Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3.2.3.

The other features of the phone include GPRS, EDGE, WLAN 802.11 b/g, GPS, Bluetooth v2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, A2DP, Messaging through Email, Push Email, SMS, MMS, IM, Flash Lite v3.0, PDF viewer, Nokia Office Tools, Digital Compass, Push to Talk,  ZIP manager, Quick Office viewers and editors, voice commands, games and etc., and it comes in only one color Titanium. The battery is of BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion standard battery with talk time power of 6 hours, standby time power of 22 days, video recording time of 6 1/2 hours, video playback time of 13 hours, music playback time of 38 hours, and video call time of 4 hours

Specifications of Nokia E73 Mode and Comparison with Nokia E72 :

Mode : Work/ Personal Mode

3G : High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 2 Mbps and High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 10.2 Mbps

QWERTY keyboard

Optical trackpad, five-way scroll key

Dimensions : Nokia E73 Mode : 113.8 * 58.4 * 10.2 mm

Nokia E72 : 114 * 58 * 10 mm

Display Screen : Nokia E73 Mode : 16 million colors, TFT active matrix screen of size 2.4 inches, resolution 320 * 240 pixels

Nokia E72 : 16 million colors, TFT screen of size 2.36 inches, resolution 320 * 240 pixels

Weight : Nokia E73 Mode and Nokia E72 : 4.5 oz

Camera : 5 MP camera with 2592 * 1944 pixels resolution with autofocus and LED flash, 5x digital zoom, the video mode camera is of VGA with 15 frames per second, 10x video digital zoom, and the front camera is of 2x digital video zoom

3.5 mm audio-video jack, Music player, Media player, stereo FM radio with RDS support

Memory : Nokia E73 Mode : Internal memory of the phone is of 250 MB, 4 GB microSD external memory card, extendable upto 16 GB

Nokia E72 : Internal memory of the phone is 250 MB, 128 MB RAM, microSD extendable upto 16 GB

OS : Symbian OS v9.3 S60 3.2.3

GPRS

EDGE

WLAN 802.11 b/g

GPS

Bluetooth v2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate, A2DP

Messaging through Email, Push Email, SMS, MMS, IM

Flash Lite v3.0

PDF viewer

Nokia Office Tools

Digital Compass

Push to Talk

ZIP manager

Quick Office viewers and editors

voice commands

games

Color : Titanium

Battery : Nokia E73 Mode : BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion standard battery with talk time power of 6 hours and standby time power of 22 days

video recording time of 6 1/2 hours, video playback time of 13 hours, music playback time of 38 hours, and video call time of 4 hours

Nokia E72 : BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Ion standard battery with talk time power of 6 hours and standby time power of 24 days

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Nokia C3-01 Review and Specifications

Nokia C3-01 is a touchscreen phone with 3G of 10.2 Mbps of High Speed Downlink Packet Access and 2 Mbps High Speed Uplink Packet Access, the screen size is of 2.4 inches with a resolution of 240 * 320, with 262k colors, TFT resistive touchscreen, its dimensions are 111 * 47.5 * 11 mm, 100 g in weight. The phone has a memory of 30 MB which is further extendable to 32 GB using microSD card.

The phone has 5 MP camera with zoom up to 4x (digital), Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF), LED flash, with JPEG as still image format, you can also upload your image on facebook using WLAN and 3.5G. It captures video in QVGA (Quarter Video Graphics Array) with 30 frames per second, with 15 frames per second using VGA and has 3gp video file format.

The other features of the phone include Stereo FM Radio with RDS, customisable radio theme, media player, has music codecs like MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, it is a speaker phone with 3.5 mm audio jack, voice commands, Wi-Fi with IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, dual transfer mode GPRS, EDGE, Stereo Bluetooth v2.1 with enhanced data rate, Flight mode, has full web browsing using touchscreen control, access to facebook and twitter, nokia mobile search, Adobe Flash Lite 3.0, RSS Reader, messaging using MMS, SMS, SMTP, Email, IMAP4, POP3, nokia express audio messaging, flash messaging and etc.,

The battery of the phone is of 1050 mAh Li-Ion battery with talk-time power of 4 h, stand-by power of 440 h, 20 h of music playback. The phone comes in three colors such as silver, khaki gold and warm grey. The expected price of Nokia C3-01 is $110.

Nokia C3-01 Specifications :

3G : 10.2 Mbps of High Speed Downlink Packet Access and 2 Mbps High Speed Uplink Packet Access

Dimensions : 111 * 47.5 * 11 mm

Weight : 100 g

Screen size : 2.4 inches

Resolution : 240 * 320, with 262k colors, TFT resistive touchscreen

Memory : 30 MB which is further extendable to 32 GB using microSD card

Camera : 5 MP camera with zoom up to 4x (digital), Extended Depth of Focus (EDOF), LED flash, with JPEG as still image format, It captures video in QVGA (Quarter Video Graphics Array) with 30 frames per second, with 15 frames per second using VGA and has 3gp video file format

Stereo FM Radio with RDS, customisable radio theme

Media player, has music codecs like MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, speaker phone with 3.5 mm audio jack

Voice commands

Wi-Fi with IEEE 802.11 b/g/n

Dual transfer mode GPRS

EDGE

Stereo Bluetooth v2.1 with enhanced data rate

Flight mode

Full web browsing using touchscreen control

Access to facebook and twitter, nokia mobile search

Adobe Flash Lite 3.0

RSS Reader

Messaging using MMS, SMS, SMTP, Email, IMAP4, POP3, nokia express audio messaging, flash messaging and etc.,

Battery : 1050 mAh Li-Ion battery with talk-time power of 4 h, stand-by power of 440 h, 20 h of music playback

Color : silver, khaki gold and warm grey