Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite VS Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Samsung S5230

Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic are two mid ranged touch screen phone specially designed to allure general section of the mass. Their modest capabilities will surely attract the targeted buyers.

The new Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite’s 3 inches TFT resistive touch screen can display 262K colors at 240 x 400 pixels resolution. And on the other hand, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s TFT touch screen is slightly bigger than its competitor’s to measure 3.5 inches that allows 16 million colors at 640 x 320 pixels resolution. Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and handwriting recognition features are common in both of them while Nokia 5800 also renders proximity sensor for auto turn-off and Samsung S5230 comes with smart unlock attribute.

Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite is loaded with a 3 mega pixel camera whereas Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with a 3.2 mega pixel camera. Auto focus and flash (Dual LED flash in case of 5800) are few common features in them. But Nokia 5800’s camera is also laden with Carl Zeiss Optics, 3x Digital Zoom, Dedicated Camera Key, 4x Video Zoom, Video Clip Length up to 90 Minutes special features.

The music player of Samsung S5230 can play MP3, WMA, AAC files and doesn’t offer any special features as such. But being an XpressMusic phone, the Nokia 5800′s music player renders Album Graphics Display, Music Selection, Playlist, 8 Band Graphic Equalizer, Volume Key, Bass Booster, Stereo Widening, Loudness, Integrated Stereo Speakers, Media Bar Touch Screen etc. The music player supports MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A file formats.

The Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite supports only Bluetooth with A2DP, USB, GPRS and EDGE technologies while data sharing and connectivity has been made easy through 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP, HSCSD, WLAN Wi-Fi, Micro USB, EDGE and GPRS technologies on Nokia 5800. WAP 2.0, XHTML and HTML Internet surfing techniques are common on both the rivals but the Nokia 5800 additionally includes RSS feeds as well. Samsung S5230 doesn’t serve any navigation system at all whereas Nokia 5800 is loaded with GPS navigation system along with A-GPS support and Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch application.

The standard Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery of Samsung S5230 Tocco Lite provides 8 hours of talk time and 350 hours standby time. And the given Standard Li-Ion 1320 mAh(BL-5J) battery of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic can allow 8.8 hours of GSM & 5 hours of WCDMA talk time or 406 hours of GSM and 400 hours of WCDMA standby time. As well as 35 hours of non-stop music playback time is also expected.