A Comparison between Nokia N97 and HTC G17

Last month, Nokia returned to the American market with a fury to regain its position with Lumia 900. Due to the unprecedented support from AT&T, Lumia 900 was warmly welcomed. According to recent news, the demand for Lumia 900 has far exceeded its supply and many shops have run out of their stocks.

However, in Britain, Lumia 900 arouses no public interest. However, Nokia has no time to concern about it because the future of the outdated tycoon in America is tied to the fate of Lumia 900. Nokia finally seeks for incarnation with Windows Phone after being ruined by Symbian in recent years.

Fairly speaking, Symbian contributed a lot to the success of Nokia in the past. However, one must admit that Symbian mobile is totally incompetent for the market in recent years comparing to iPhone and Android mobile. To further prove my view, I will make a comparison between Nokia N97 and HTC G17.

1. Wi-Fi connection

As one of the most powerful Symbian mobiles released by Nokia, N97 cannot even match with HTC G17 in this field. I need to type the password of the Wi-Fi every time I use it. With HTC G17 you can do it once and for all. This is really annoying because when I get to my friend's home, I need to ask him the password again and again.

2. E-book viewing

Basically, with HTC G17 you will feel like reading a real book. A concern of the virtual page will be curled as you page down. Each page is made as the same size of the screen so that you just need to finish one page and turn to another. You always know you want to view the contents in the next page

However, as I use N97 to read e-books, I need to press the down button to skip to the next line. Sometimes I even need to find out what I want to read in the page because so many words in the page has dazzled my eyes.

3. Camera

To be honest, the camera of N97 is quite good and you can even make photographs at night. However, it is not that good comparing to HTC G17 which can help you to make 3D photos.Also known as HTC Evo 3D, a glass-free 3D mobile, the camera of HTC G17 is of great competiveness in the market.

4. Online video watching

It is easy for users to watch online videos with HTC G17 because there are relative apps to help it. However, there are no such apps for N97. In order to watch those online videos, Adobe Flash version above 10.0 is required. However, Nokia N97 can only support Flash Lite and there is no way for N97 to upgrade the Adobe Flash.

So even you have Wi-Fi connection, you can't enjoy online videos with N97. A feasible way for you is to download and convert YouTube videos to mp4 files for Nokia N97 with Moyea Flv Downloader if you really want to watch some YouTube videos via N97.

All in all, one can trace the great disadvantages of Nokia N97 comparing to HTC G17. Symbian is an important factor for the fall of Nokia in recent years. Luckily, Nokia realizes it and manages to make self-redemption with Windows Phone like Lumia 900.

Lumia 900 and Nokia 5230, Best Selling Smart Phones In History

Lumia 900, released in April 8, sees a promising future. It ranks first in Amazon's best-selling phones in just a few days under the condition that people's attention is paid to Easter Bunny. Symbian has proved its failure towards iOS and even Android and Windows Phone becomes the new challenger. It seems that Lumia 900 will to determine the fate of Nokia and Windows Phone in the USA.

Nokia has got a good chance to regain its market position in America with Lumia 900. Thanks to the unprecedented support of AT&T, one of the biggest carriers in America who has devoted to publicizing Lumia 900 at the largest scale ever, Lumia can be quickly known by people in America. What's more, the phone sees no competitors in recent time because neither Samsung nor Apple intends to release its latest products.

However, experts predict that Lumia 900 gets only 8 weeks to prove itself. After that, the latest Galaxy and HTC may share the market. If Lumia 900 can't impress people in this period, Nokia can stop dreaming to be one of the major phone sellers in America.

Good reputations as it gets, it now receives complains about its internet connection function and critizes about its call quality and minor design flaws. Anyway, Lumia 900 bears too much expectation that it can't lose this battle.

Nokia, once the tycoon in phone sell market has declined in recent years with downgrading reputation of Symbian. However, in a list of best-selling phones in history, Nokia phones occupy top seven places. Most of them are low-end phones, so what's the best-selling smart phone in history?

You probably know the answer, yes, it is Nokia 5230. It is a high end smart phone with the price of low-end phone. Do you want to know how popular it is? 58 million units of iPhone 4 have been sold so far, about one third of that of Nokia 5230. Let's have a view at this amazing phone.

As you can see, Nokia 5230 owns almost the same appearance as that of Nokia 5800. What's more, their functions are almost the same as well. However, Nokia 5230 can't support Wi-Fi and it owns a camera of 2 million pixels while that of 5800 amounts to 320 million pixels.

The 3.2 capacitive touch screen can help you to enjoy videos better and the 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM are exactly the same as Nokia N97.

However, as a Symbian phone, Nokia 5230 owns the same defects as Nokia N97 such as fail to support large swf file with the inserted Flash Player. So you need to convert the swf file to mp4 file for your phone.

Anyway, Symbian is a fading old legend and Windows Phone is replacing its place to be the new legend. If Lumia 900 successes, it will exceed Nokia 5230 one day to be the best selling smart phone.

A General Comparison Between iPhone and Nokia N97

The battle between iPhone and Nokia has lasted for years. However, since the debut of iPhone, Nokia is starting a downhill journey. The popularization of iPhone has made Apple a tycoon in phone sale market. In order to get rid of their poor situation, many companies carry out their counterattacks.

Google stands together with Motorola to fight against Apple in the patent war. Microsoft unities with Nokia to produce mobiles with Windows Phone system, hence it makes Microsoft the enemy of Apple in both fields. The batter between iOS and Windows Phone will be another story. The once almighty Symbian is about to quit this war. Let's make a comparison between iPhone and Nokia N97, outstanding Symbian mobile.

1. Connection

I will praise neither of them. We can transfer and receive data with Nokia. However, it is not as that convenient as it is supposed to be. For example, as you receive a video with Bluetooth, you will find the video is received and recognized by N97 as a message. Hence, you can't move it, copy it or play it. You need to download software like X-plore to extract the video for you. To this extend, iPhone does better but you will be annoyed at it when you want to transfer data from your computer. You need to download iTunes to synchronize the file of iPhone and the computer. So either Nokia N97 or iPhone may irritate you in terms of connection function.

2. Media Player

Nokia N97 is inserted with RealPlayer, so you are capable of watching videos of various formats like rmvb/3gp/mp4/rm. However, iPhone can just support mp4 file. So if you get an rmvb file, you need to convert it to mp4 file with Video Converter. N97 is also inserted with Flash Player, so you can watch swf file easily. However, since many converters can't support swf file, it is a headache to find special software like Moyea SWF to iPhone Converter to convert swf to mp4 for iPhone. To this extent, Nokia N97 is much more powerful.

3. Resolution and Display

Obvious N97 lags far behind in this aspect. The display of iPhone is always the best in the world with the most advanced technology adapted. The latest iPhone is equipped with Retina Display with amazingly high resolution. Nokia N97 is equipped with electric touch screen while iPhone with capacitive touch screen. The screen and display are two largest advantages of iPhone. Comparing to it, the display of N97 sucks.

4. Influence and Popularity

We can easily draw the conclusion that iPhone is far more popular than Nokia 97. A fact will support my opinion: Nokia N97 has stopped its production while iPhone renews its generation to iPhone 4S. How popular can iPhone be? Every generation of iPhone breaks the sale record and becomes the new champion. Nokia N97 takes a week to sell 2 million phones while iPhone 4 manages it in two day. Now everyone is expecting the new generation of iPhone while no one cares about Nokia N97.

Ok, my discussion will end here because we all know this is an unfair match. Symbian can't even match with Android in recent years. As a N97 user, I am looking forward to the counterattack of Nokia with its new system, Windows Phone. Can Nokia be a dominance of the phone market again? We will see.