Nokia N97 Mini VS Samsung S3650 Corby

Samsung S3650 Corby

The Nokia N97 Mini is a brilliant gizmo and is simply unbeatable. On the other hand, Samsung S3650 Corby is a super attractive handset that is targeted at the young generation especially towards the teens.

Overall Presentation

Both these competitors come with touch screens. But as expected the Nokia N97 Mini is much more advanced from the other as it is loaded with a QWERTY keypad as well. The 3.2 inches QVGA touch screen of this phone renders 16.7 million colors at 640 x 360 pixels resolution. Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and handwriting recognition are its specialties. On the contrary, the Samsung S3650 Corby’s 2.8 inches TFT touch screen has got the ability to display 262K colors at 240 x 320 pixels resolution. Smart unlock and Cartoon UI are its exclusives. The casing of the first one carries 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm measurements with 138 grams of weight. Contrarily, the second one is much lighter to weigh only 92 grams with 103 x 57 x 13 mm physical dimensions.

In camera and music features also the Nokia N97 Mini renders much better features and functionalities than its challenger. The 2 mega pixel camera of the Samsung S3650 Corby with Zoom and Flash abilities can never dare to give competition to the other one’s 5 mega pixel camera that comes with Carl Zeiss Optics, Dual LED Flash, 14x Digital Zoom, Auto Focus, Dedicated Camera Key, Picture & Video Geo Tagging, CoverFlow Photo Viewer and many more functionalities.

MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC & eAAC+ music files and WMV, RealVideo, MP4 video files are acceptable by the Nokia N97 Mini through its music player and video player. Its music player comes with Music Display, Playlist, Dedicated Volume Control etc. Find Music recognition service is an exclusive feature of Samsung S3650 Corby’s music player that supports MP3, eAAC+ & WMA files and the video player is able to play H.263, H.264, MP4, WMV files.

Various Important Abilities

HSCSD, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB (Micro USB in case of N97 Mini), GPRS and EDGE are commonly found connectivity and data sharing techniques available in both the competitors. While Nokia N97 Mini, being an advanced one also sports 3G HSDPA and WLAN Wi-Fi with UPnP support as well. WAP 2.0, X-HTML and HTML browsers are also mutually available though RSS feeds attribute is additional on the N97 Mini. Document viewer is also a common feature. The Nokia N97 Mini comes with GPS navigation system with A-GPS support and also laden with Nokia Maps application and digital compass characteristics as well. These features are absent on the contender.