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.

Five Necessary Apps For Nokia

Mobile phone is becoming more and more popular in the world. To some extent, it becomes a necessity for us. The popularization of mobile has promoted the development of phone applications. Along with those mobiles, they are also necessary for us.

Without apps, phones can't be as powerful as they are right now. Web browser like Opera can provides functions we can't get from default web browser. Mobile can take photos, make videos, browse websites and make phone calls. However, if we need an extra function like edit videos or refuse someone's call automatically, we need to install corresponding apps. So what are the commonly used apps for your Nokia?

1. SMS Guard

Privacy is very important to us but there are always those annoying guys who love to peep our personal messages. So with SMS Guard, we won't need to worry about our secrets being leaked.

2. UC Browser

Internet exists everywhere because people's need towards it exists everywhere. With a smartphone like N97, we need a good web browser for assistance. UC Browser is such a good choice for you. It is the world's fastest browser with advanced compression technology.

3. Ovi Maps

We will go to strange places someday. So in case you get lost, you need a map to assist you. What if you know nothing about maps? You can install Ovi Maps and then you can see your position and the surrounding buildings. It helps you to find a hotel or restaurant easily.

4. Facebook

Of course, we need to communicate with our friends. With Facebook, you can know the latest situations of your friends. I believe every Nokia user needs this app because Facebook is more than cool; it also becomes the trend of cyber community.

5. NetQin Antivirus

The security of our phones is very important. Since hackers are more and more likely to attack our mobiles, we need an antivirus app to help us. NetQin Antivirus is a utility that works like a traditional PC antivirus, scanning your phone's directories for malicious files or programs. You can stop scans and select specific places for NetQin Antivirus to scan.

So at present, you have a map, a web browser, a message guard and you can also communicate with friends on the mobile without the worry of being attacked by hackers. Something is missing? Oh, we don't have a player. I don't think we will need one since RealPlayer inserted in Nokia is quite powerful for local video viewing. What about online video watching? Sorry, it can't manage it and at present no app for Nokia can content you on this point. You can download UC Player, but it can't support YouTube videos too well.

So we can't watch YouTube videos with Nokia? At least at present, I haven't found a good solution to play YouTube videos smoothly on Nokia N97. However, you can download YouTube videos and convert them to mp4 files for Nokia. You may feel it quite complicated, but with good software like Moyea YouTube FLV Downloader Pro, you can save a lot of time. This seems to be the only way if you want to watch YouTube videos smoothly without quality loss. If this can't content you, you can buy a Nokia with Windows Phone like Lumia 800.

Disadvantages Of Nokia Comparing To Android Mobile

The prosperity of iPhone and Android mobile witnesses the decline of Nokia Empire. Before iPhone and Android mobile, Nokia dominated the phone sale market in the world. However, things changed, Symbian is no longer sexy and attractive comparing to Android. As a Nokia user, I am looking forward to the new system of Nokia: Windows Phone. Maybe it can help Nokia to remedy the situation.

To be honest, Symbian is far less attractive to me than Android in terms of data transfer. When transferring data with bluetooth, the file you received is sent to Nokia as a message. I received a MV with bluetooth but I couldn't trace it. Later I found it in my Inbox but I couldn't open it or transfer it to my SD card or other files of the phone. I sought Internet for help and was told to download X-plore to extract the video from Inbox. I did it but only to find the file was a swf file.

Luckily Nokia is inserted with flash player which is supposed to be able to support flash video. However, what I got was just a song playing in a black screen. OK, I have to admit that this player sucks because video larger than 4M isn't accessible. To this extent, Android mobile are much better. Android mobile is not inserted with flash player, so you know you need to download one from the very beginning. Due to this, there are many players for selection like SWF Player. Anyway, later I had to convert swf file to mp4 with Moyea SWF to Video Converter. The converted video was almost the same as the original one in quality. If I had known this method earlier, I wouldn't have wasted so much time.

Comparing to Android mobile, the Wi-Fi connection was another disadvantage. I once tried to connect Wi-Fi with my N97, but I just found that I need to type the shared key each time I connect Wi-Fi. However, Android mobile can remember the key and keep it in connection unless you disconnect it. If you can browse website with your SIM card while you have connected Wi-Fi, Nokia will ask you which mode you want to use for website browsing, SIM or Wi-Fi. However, Android mobile will select Wi-Fi mode by default.

There are other disadvantages of Nokia comparing to Android mobile. For example, in terms of online video watching, Android seems to be more powerful since Nokia could just support a few of them. Anyway, Symbian is not so attractive to us due to its own defects. So Nokia is changing it to Windows Phone. Can Windows Phone wipe out those disadvantages of Symbian and competing with Android? We will see.