NOKIA N96 vs APPLE Iphone3G...!

Apple, Vodafone and Airtel have broken a lot of hearts with their iPhone 3G pricing plans for India. Rich kids, Baabus with a lot of under-the-table money, Bollywood film stars and Paris Hilton clones in India would be the only few who’ll be buying the iPhone 3G in India initially. The common man is scared of the iPhone 3G. The price might come down when the moron honchos up there realize the gravity of the situation but I am seriously unhappy with Apple. Apple is supposed to be closely monitoring and guiding both Vodafone and Airtel on the pricing. I’m so freaked out that I have decided to never buy an Apple product ever.

iPhone 3G killer phone is the latest buzz around. Every major mobile phone manufacturer is busy bringing their own version to the market as soon as possible. These specially work in markets where people are not able to afford the iPhone 3G or when it hasn’t been launched there. LG and Samsung have already launched iPhone look alike phones in the market. So far none of them have come closer to the standards Apple set with their first mobile phone iPhone.

Nokia is bringing on the heat to the exploding iPhone killer market with their latest entrant N96. It’s a part of their range of NSeries smart phones. A first look at N96 reveals a really cool phone. A smart alternative to the Apple iPhone 3G. In fact I find it much better than Apple iPhone 3G as far as features are concerned. Of course functionality will matter and we’ll know about it only once the N96 comes out. Nokia’s NSeries phones are known to have software issues and a crappy degradation over a small time.

N96 features some really cool features. Some of them people needed desperately on Apple iPhone 3G.

OS Symbian OS 9.3, S60 rel. 3.2
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader
Games Downloadable
Colors Black
Camera 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary VGA videocall camera
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- DVB-H TV broadcast receiver
- Dual slide design
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- TV out
- Stereo FM Radio with RDS
- Organizer
- Office document viewer
- T9
- Push to talk
- Voice dial/memo
- Built-in handsfree

With 16GB of internal memory, N96 is a complete package an iPhone 3G killer must have. Now comes the question of pricing. Online sources claim it could be anywhere between Rs. 25000-30000. The pricing could be a major factor considering the iPhone 3G launch in India. I expect Nokia will price N96 close to the iPhone 3G price in India.

Come on Nokia! Kill the iPhone 3G!