Anyone who likes touchscreen phones should be excited; the most well known brand in the industry has waded in with not one, but TWO mobile phones: the sexy Nokia 5800 and the utterly jaw-dropping Nokia N97.
Phones we’d rather forget – Nokia’s early attempts at a touchscreen phone
Most people are under the false impression that the Nokia 5800 is the first touchscreen mobile phone Nokia have ever made. It’s not. Quite the opposite, in fact, there’s been several touchy-feely phones released under the Nokia brand. Starting with the 7700, there have been a few Nokia mobile phones which work by you pressing directly on the screen. They had a relatively big (for the time) touchscreen in common, but the other feature they had in common, unfortunately, was that they were unbearably rubbish. Just one of those handsets, the 6708, displayed a modicum promise, but it was made solely to be sold in China, and thus, it wasn’t meant for us in the UK. Unfortunately, that meant that the phones we got were total, and complete toss.
However, those bad mental images have now been exorcised because of the debut of two new Nokia mobile phones, both of which come with touchscreens, and both of which are much, much nicer…
Nokia 5800 – if music be the food of love…
The first phone up is a totally new member of Nokia’s Xpress range of music mobile phones, the mouth-watering Nokia 5800. This phone is quite obviously built for music and media, as it has a dedicated XpressMedia touch-key which opens a list of shortcuts to music, videos, the web, and so on. Then, of course, the Nokia 5800 has a 3.2 inch touch-sensitive display, to let you use those different media files. Essentially, the Nokia 5800 was created as a teeny portable entertainment centre, and as music phones go, this is easily one of the prettiest. The Nokia 5800 also has, built-in, a 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA internet access and sat-nav, making it a superb all-round mobile phone, as well as a brilliant media player. Oh, and it’s got a lanyard to fasten on a fake guitar plectrum. That’s pretty cool, that.
However, the Nokia 5800 is very definitely a mid-range device; it isn’t, nor was it ever meant to be, an absolute top-ender. That role belongs to a different mobile…
Nokia N97 – the single best phone EVER made?
With the Nokia 5800 on course to bring touchscreen mobile phones to the mid-range market, that leaves a huge, yawning gap at the absolute top-end, and yes, there IS a touchscreen mobile phone waiting to be unleashed to fill that gap: the frankly mind-blowing Nokia N97. This uses the same Symbian S60 Touch interface and packs it into the frame of a proper, full-on smartphone. Which means it has a bigger, 3.5 inch screen, a flip out QWERTY keypad, and the camera now weighs in at a meaty 5 megapixels. The Nokia N97 is, as should be glaringly obvious, destined to be the new flagship Nseries mobile phone, and it’s truly as powerful as the rumours had us believe, with HSDPA, GPS, digital compass, and integrated Flash, so that you get an internet experience like no other mobile phones! Put it like this: the Nokia N97 is simple incredible. It easily outdoes other mobile phones and while the Nokia 5800 aims firmly for the mid-range, I’m predicting that the Nokia N97 will completely DESTROY the competition next year!
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The Nokia 2610 is a solid looking and compact mobile phone, it is a user-friendly handset. The Nokia 2610 comes in three variant colours they are-silver, black and powder pink. One of the amazing facts of this mobile handset is that it is quite similar to the Nokia 2310 because both the handsets are highly easy-to-use handsets and offer different types of features.
The Nokia 2630 is a classic smooth finish handset which allows its user to communicate with the others easily. This mobile handset offers the user a slim and slender design which is easy to carry and its built-in features allow its users to enjoy fun with multimedia functionalities and communication features.
The Nokia 2630 has a 65,000-colour TFT screen which offers a resolution of 128 x 160 mega pixels; the Nokia 2610 is quite similar to Nokia 2630 but its image resolution is slightly different from the Nokia 2610 as it comes with a 65,000-colour screen with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels.
The Nokia 2610 has three messaging options, they are-SMS(Short Message Service) for text messages, MMS(Multimedia Messages) for illustrated messages and Nokia Xpress audio messaging. On the other hand, the Nokia 2630 has six different messaging options they are SMS (Short Message Service) for text messages, and MMS (Multimedia Messages) for illustrated messages after that it has email (POP3,IMP4 and SMTP), Nokia Xpress audio messaging, instant messaging and message distribution lists.
The Nokia 2630 has two variant types of entertainment options, they are-preloaded games means in- uilt games and Java games. Whereas, the Nokia 2610 also has two types of gaming options they are- coin flipping games and another one is downloadable games(a user can download games from any source).
The 2610 weighs just ninety one grams and its dimensions are-104 x 43 x 18 mm, on the other hand, the 2630 weighs much lighter than its Nokia counterpart. Nokia 2630 weighs just sixty six grams and its dimensions are-105 x 45 x 9.9 mm.Nokia 2630 connectivity option has two types of connectivity options, they are-Bluetooth and GPRS while the Nokia 2610 contain only one connectivity option, a flash connector.
Nokia 2610 has network option of dual band, it operates on the dual band network frequencies of GSM 900 and GSM 1800 whereas co-incidentally the 2630 also operates on the dual band technology, dual band technology with frequencies of GSM 900 and GSM 1800.Both the mobile phones support internet connectivity, Nokia 2630 has internet option via WAP 2.0/xHTML enabled browser whereas Nokia 2610 support internet connectivity of only WAP technology.
Nokia 2610 comes with a wide range of organiser specifications,-it has phone book which can store up to three hundred contacts at any time,any moment. The built-in power organiser feature is capable of keeping the user hundred percent organised at all times. On the other hand, the Nokia 2630 also comes with the magnificent organiser specifications, it has phone book which can store one thousand contacts,it also has a very unique kind of option called language support along with a converter option,expense manager, time tracker, advanced calculator, time (analogue and digital, alarm clock, calendar(where it can show weeks and months) etc.
These mobile phones belong to same brand and genre but have some differences in their outlook and specifications & features. Both of them are quite reasonable in their price. A user according to his needs and necessity can go for any one out of these two.