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When iPhone was launched on the market no one though there can be another gadget to beat it up. Well speculations have been made that the powerful and elegant Nokia n97 is going to be the one. Even after years, iPhone remains one of the best phones one could own and many have tried to beat it, but no one succeeded. So let’s see now the fight of Nokia n97 vs iPhone.

Let’s take the touchscreen and the display as the starting point. Both of them are similar and they measure 3.5”, but if you take a closer look, you will see that Nokia 97 display is clearer and what is more it features a higher resolution of 640x360, while the iPhone has a resolution of 320x480 pixels. Technologies regarding touchscreen are differently used in both cases, the iPhone has a very high sensitivity, whereas on the Nokia n97 you will have to put a bit more pressure into it, so the command has been acknowledge. We have cleared the story until now, Nokia wins at clarity, but the iPhone has a better sensitivity point.



Let’s move on to storage capacity. Nokia n97 has the bigger storage capacity among all phones on the market, the internal capacity is of 32GB and you can even add an extra 16GB using the microSDHC card. In this way you will have a total of 48GB. The iPhone 3GS comes in two varieties, the 16GB one and the 32GB.

Furthermore, in regards of processor an RAM, both phones use PowerVR SGX graphics, which supports OPENGL ES 2.0. but Nokia uses ARM 11 CPU which can go up to 434 MHz and has 128 MB of RAM, whereas the iPhone 3GS has ARM Cortex A8 processor at 600MHz and 256MB of RAM. Obviously we can state that the iPhone packs more speed in this case. The operating system is clearly different, as Apple has its own operating system especially designed for multimedia use.



Nokia n97 runs on Symbian v9.4 Series 60 rel 5 OS and the iPhone OS 3.0 is the one chosen for the iPhone 3GS. The operating systems for the iPhone is especially designed for multitasking and easy software development, it is internet ready and surfing around is done faster and easier. In the case of the Nokia n97 things are slower, as the internet browser isn’t that good either. iPhone is especially designed for internet users, as the internet is both the present and the future.



Connecting your e-mail, sending pictures is done without any problems and even a pleasure actually. We can’t say that Nokia isn’t internet ready, but surfing around isn’t that pleasant. But we will give Nokia some extra credits for supporting Java and Flash. Both are missing in the case of the iPhone. Let’s analyze also the applications availability. App Store is available for the iPhone and you have loads of fun and interactive ones to choose from, but it is the only place you can get them. When we talk about Nokia we have both Ovi store and internet, as apps for Nokia are easily available anywhere you look.

In conclusion, you can put them in a tie, as the competition Nokia n97 vs iPhone has two winners. Both are popular and both are loved.