Screen:1. Touch Diamond.
It has 640*480 pixel resolution and is 2.8" big, making the viewing super smooth.
2. iPhone.
Large 3.5" screen, but the resolution is a step down from the Diamond at 480*320 pixels.
3. E71.
Its has both the smallest screen at 2.36" and least pixels at 320*240.
Size:
1. Touch Diamond.
102*51*11.35 mm and 110 g.
2. E71.
114*57*10 mm and 127 g.
3. iPhone.
115.5*62.1*12.3 mm and 133 g.
The thinness is the most important factor when carrying phones in your pocket. The original iPhone was a brake trough in this regard.
Design and build quality:
1. E71.
The device has mostly metal casing and Is real solid. I have never seen a mobile with full QWERTY keyboard that I liked, but Nokia pulled it of.
2. iPhone.
The iPhone looks very elegant, but I'm not sure how much I like the rounded glossy backside. It definitely looks like a fingerprint and scratch magnet.
3. Touch Diamond
It looks nice, definitely a big step from earlier models, but the "Diamond" pattern on the back looks kind of tacky. It also has the glossy look that is supposedly a real grease magnet.
Design can be a little hard to review as people has different opinions, I have focused most on the build quality.
Battery:
1. E71.
With the biggest battery a Nokia phone has ever had with 1500mAh and the smallest screen this phone definitely has a great battery life. Some reports say they have used the device 5-7 days without recharging.
2. iPhone.
The original iPhone had a decent battery life as long as you didn't use the screen to much. Going to 3g haven't weakened the battery performance according to Apple, some of the reason can probably be accredited to the increase in its size.
3. Touch Diamond.
with the smallest casing the Touch Diamond had to sacrifice something, it seems to be the battery with only 900 mAh.
With little detail of the iPhone battery, I have to come back later to see if my assumptions that the iPhone battery is better then the Touch Diamond one.
Camera:1. E71.
3.2 Mega pixels with auto focus and a LED flash.
2. Touch Diamond.
3.2 Mega pixels with auto focus.
3. iPhone.
2 Mega pixels.
None of these handsets are typical camera phones, so it you want the best camera you should probably look elsewhere.
Operating system:
1. iPhone.
It has an elegant and intuitive OS that is build around touch input from the ground. They locked out the 3rd party applications in the beginning, but now developers are flocking for the new SDK.
2. E71.
It uses the well tried Symbian OS, with the S60 platform. It is stable and has lots of 3rd party applications ready for use, but it lacks some of the "flash" of it's competitors.
3. Touch Diamond.
The new TouchFLO 3D interface works nice, but its still the unintuitive Windows OS behind the scenes and the first models have reported to be a little slow at times. Personally I wish they could do without the stylus.
Mail/Messaging/Calendar:
1. E71.
With its designated buttons for mail and calendar and the nice keyboard will make adding events in the calendar and answering mail a breeze.
2. iPhone.
Many was sceptical to the screen keyboard, but that was until they tried it, it works great. It can never fully replace the real deal though. For a fee, MobileMe is going to be a good way to synchronise your mail, calendar and address book. MMS is left out thought, I guess they figured out that email would do.
3. Touch Diamond.
A good screen based keyboard here as well, but with a smaller screen the buttons are getting pretty small. Alternatively you can multi touch your letters like a regular phone.
Web browsing:1. iPhone.
The iPhone redefined web browsing for mobile phones. There are also many sites who have made tailor made web apps for the iPhone. With the new 3g version the surf speed is good without a wifi connection as well.
2. Touch Diamond.
Opera makes some great browsers and the resolution in this device gives you much detail. There are reported some bugs in the earliest versions, but they will probably be ironed out.
3. E71.
The smaller screen on this device make it inferior for surfing compared to the other two. But it still works pretty well.
Multimedia:
1. iPhone.
Being an extension of the iPod, the iPhone does the job even better. This is a music and movie powerhouse! Unlike the other phones this has a standard 3.5 mm headphones jack as well. You can listen to music a whole day without the need for a recharge.
2. Touch Diamond.
The 2.8 screen is still large in the mobile world, and will be good for movies. I still have my doubts about the battery though.
3. E71
Once again getting last because of the screen, but the music playback time is probably good.
Conclusion:
Lets give two points for first place and one for second and summarise:
iPhone 10 points.
Nokia E71 10 points.
Touch Diamond 7 points.
A draw between iPhone and Nokia E71. I think i prefer the E71 for its battery life, a thinner profile and the buttons, What do you think? I'm setting up a poll on the sidebar, you decide.
18 comments:
I personal like the E71 since I owned an Ipod Touch already ( sort of like Iphone). And beside I like the hardware of the E71 and its running a powerful S60 OS. The question is whether White Steel, Grey Steel lol.
Best post to date Ivar.
But you have forgotten the phone I think is going to be my favorite: The Sony Ericsson X1.
I think I prefer the gray color on the E71.
The SE Xperia1 looks great, its screen looks like a stunner, its release is a little further off in the horizon though and I`m looking for a phone this summer.
Who has Bluetooth? Only Nokia?
They all have bluetooth.
can't wait the e71 come to my country..:D
Do they all have A2DP Bluetooth though?
Both the E71 and Touch Diamond has A2DP, making stereo sound over bluetooth possible. The iPhone however have not yet support for that, which may be a deal breaker for some.
The depth of the iphone isnt 10mm but 12.3 mm
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
Hi arturo, I think it already says that. It's the Nokia E71 that is listed as 10mm.
There's already other battery alternatives for the diamond at 1300 and 1800 mah. It will make it thicker though.
Great article! I'm really looking forward to the Nokia E71.
@ the first poster..
I'm really liking the white version alot
In case anyone is interested here are some side by side photos with Nokia E71 and the Blackjack II.
Size:
So, in your own words, "thinness is the most important factor" and still you don't pick the thinnest of the three (E71)?
Operating System:
You give the edge to the iPhone, the only one in this list without a multitasking O/S. Interesting... Is it all about the flash, swipe, wiggle and scroll? That could be a category in itself (which I too consider important), but O/S? Both Symbian and Windows Mobile have been around long enough and matured well enough to not even be placed in the same category as the iPhone "O/S".
Mail/Messaging/Calendar:
What you really seem to be comparing in this category is the keyboard and ease of typing, not mail, messaging and calendar capabilities. If you were to really compare those, I'd say Touch first, iPhone second and E71 last (the total opposite).
I agree for the most part with the rest of your comparison.
Hi Razor,
thanks for your feedback, interesting to hear your view, but I'm still sticking with mine.
I said thinness was the most important factor, not the only factor.
When it comes to the OS I think Apple made an deliberate decision when they left out multitasking, to keep the OS snappy. I think they made the right choice. You still have easy access to all you applications and the states are saved, so it kind of works like multitasking. The only thing I miss is a good messenger, which maybe should have lowered the iPhones score in the messaging category.
Text input is an important part of messaging to me, I think all the three models have decent mail, messaging and calendar capabilities. Maybe you could be a little more specific why you rated them as you did?
The iPhone O/S is not snappy because of sofware decisions (leaving multitasking out), but because of hardware (there is absolutely no other phone with a 600 MHz processor). THAT was the right decision here, not leaving multitasking out. I mean, maybe it was the right decision for the market they were aiming for, but not the right decision if you're trying to design something technologically above the rest.
Yes, states are saved, but that's not multitasking (which you do seem to understand). Applications aren't working in the background. You can't leave something downloading, an instant messenger (jailbroken iPhones, of couse) connected, etc. You will get no signs of life from the applications in the background because there simply are no applications in the background, except for the Phone and Music Player applications.
But again, this is not what 95% of iPhone owners go after. Many of them don't even understand the concept. So that being the case, I think Apple made the right decision.
As far as mail/messaging/calendar, I rated the Touch as #1 because it offers the best e-mail experience with Exchange support out of the box. But it could have been the E71 as well, since not only does it support Exchange, but also BlackBerry, SEVEN, GoodLink and Visto services, as well as IMAP IDLE, very important for a lot of people these days. However, it is well known that the S60 calendar application is not nearly as rich as that of Windows Mobile. Regardless, both the e-mail clients and PIM applications in the Touch and E71 are better than those in the iPhone. Not to mention what you just did: there is no instant messenger on the iPhone. #1? Hardly.
My view, of course.
I like the E71. The iPhone, at least in my opinion, is plainly annoying, but again, that's just my opinion.
I don't care at all for the HTC. Also in my opinion, it doesn't stand a chance against either the E71 and iPhone, but to each his own.
I'm planning to upgrade from my Nokia 6126 to an N95 8GB but since price dropping for that thing isn't going to happen until a little after the N96 is released (which might also take a while and I want a new phone before my vacation in August), I'm planning to get the E71.
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The three mobile phone is great. They have different features and unique capabilities. It depends on the users what they will choose according to what features they are satisfied.
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