Currently iPhone 4S is the top of Apple’s handsets. Nokia is betting its future on Microsoft’s mobile OS, and on Wednesday introduced its first Windows Phone 7 device, the Lumia 800. It is a tough choice iPhone or Lumia 800?
Design
1st: iPhone 4S : 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm, 140g
2nd : Nokia Lumia 800 : 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1mm, 142g
Most people the like the phone to be light and slimmer. Nokia can’t brag about how slim the Lumia 800 is. At 12.1 mm, it’s the thickest phone in the line-up. It’s also the heaviest, at 142 grams, a hair more than the iPhone 4S.
Display
1st: iPhone 4S : 3.5-inch, 960 x 4640px, 326ppi, LCD with IPS
2nd: Nokia Lumia 800 : 3.7 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 800 x 480 xpixels
Lumia’s display is slightly larger than the 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone 4S and Nokia’s phone also has the lowest display pixel density at 800 by 480 pixels, a far cry from the Retina display on the iPhone 4S, which has the highest pixel density in the comparison.
With the iPhone, you’ve got a 3.5-inch display covered with a single sheet of flat glass, glass on the back of the device as well, and an aluminum ring around the edges.
Engine Room
1st : Iphone 4S : Apple A5, (Dual-core 1GHz)
2nd: Nokia Lumia 800 :1.4GHz single-core processor with 512MB of RAM
Apple has played it battery safe and underclocked the 1GHz model to 800MHz. On the flipside, the state of the art PowerVR SGX 543 GPU in the Apple A5 absolutely wipes the floor with the PowerVR SGX 540 from 2007. running at 512MB .
On the other side inside, the Nokia Lumia does not feature a dual-core processor: it has a 1.4GHz single-core processor with 512MB of RAM.
RAM
Tie: Nokia Lumia 800: 512MB RAM
Tie: iPhone 4S : 512MB RAM
It is a tie.
Camera
1st: iPhone 4S : 8MP rear, VGA (0.9MP) front, 1080p video capture
2nd: Nokia Lumia 800: 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens on the back and LED flash
iPhone 4S camera is with its five glass elements, 74 per cent more light absorbed than the iPhone 4, temporal noise reduction and a maximum aperture of f/2.4. While the Lumia 800 is a mixed bag in the camera department. It has an 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens on the back, like the iPhone 4S, but unlike Apple’s phone, it doesn’t record 1080p HD video, only 720p. The Lumia 800 doesn’t feature a front-facing camera for video calls, which makes it the only phone in the comparison without one.
Connectivity
Tie: Nokia Lumia 800 : Wi-Fi, BT 3.0, GPS
Tie: iPhone 4S : 3G, GPS, BT, Wi-Fi, HSPA
Both phones has the basic connectivity, none of them have HDMI.
Battery Life
1st : iPhone 4S : up to 8 hours 3G talk time
2nd : Nokia Lumia 800 :1450mAh Talk time:
Phones 4S has up to 8 hours talktime on 3G, although alot of people have been complaining about battery life in iPhone 4S is so bad. nokia Lumia 800 has a small batter.
Software
1st: iPhone 4S : iOS 5 +Siri
2nd: Nokia Lumia 800 : Windows 7.5 Mango
iPhone has an app store with several hundred thousand apps in it, each of them hand-approved by Apple, the Windows Phone device has a tiny market in comparison – again the apps are well curated, but the point is of course that the Apple device has an undeniable gigantic following of developers while Microsoft has yet to find even a fraction of the support for their own platform.
iPhone 4S is loaded with iOS 5 and usual applications one can find on an iPhone, such as FaceTime. The newest addition to the uniquely designed applications on iPhone is ‘Siri’; a voice assistant which can understand certain keywords we speak and virtually do everything on the device. ‘Siri’ is capable of scheduling meetings, checking weather, setting timer, sending & reading messages and etc. While voice search and voice command assisted applications were available in the market ‘Siri’ is quite a unique approach and sounds more user-friendly. iPhone 4S comes with iCloud as well, enabling users to manage content across multiple devices. iCloud wirelessly pushes files across multiple devices managed together. Applications for iPhone 4 S will be available on Apple App Store; however it will take some time for the number of applications supporting iOS 5 to increase.
- the highly intriguing Siri personal organisation, voice recognition software that’s been hard wired in to the iPhone 4S
- iOS 5 has basically robbed all the best bits of Android and integrated them in to its own UI. This is not intended as a slur. Android has done plenty of robbing itself and, it’s all to the consumer’s benefit if such systems borrow from one another. Right now, though, iOS is just a little fresher but that could all change when Ice Cream Sandwicharrives on the scene
Storage
1st: iPhone 4S : 16/32/64 GB
2nd: Nokia Lumia 800 : 16GB and 25GB of cloud storage free via SkyDrive
iPhoone 4S has option of 16, 32 and 64GB of the internal storage while Lumia 800 has only 16GB internal storage with 25GB of cloud storage. The 16Gb is enough to store some music files etc but iPhone 4S is better as you can get the 32 or 64 if you need mor storage. Although Lumia 800 has cloud storage option of 25GB but you will need to be online to access the files.
Price
1st: iPhone 4S : £499 (16GB)
- 2nd: Nokia Lumia 800: $584(16GB)
Lumia 800 is more expensive than iPhone 4S
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Conclusion
- 1st: iPhone 4S
- 2nd: Nokia Lumia 800
- The Lumia 800 brings a few improvements over its relegated sibling, including a faster processor, but compared to the big boys, the iPhone 4S and the latest Android Galaxy Nexus and Droid RAZR, Nokia’s flagship is still falling behind.
- Nokia’s Lumia 800 could be an interesting proposal for those who want a smartphone that’s not an iPhone or Android, with solid guts and shiny looks. But when compared to its competitors, the Lumia 800 does not have anything extraordinary to offer: it’s not the thinnest or fastest of phone, nor has it the best camera or extra features (no expandable storage, no secondary camera, no HDMI, no NFC).
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