Blackberry 9000 Bold and Nokia E71 are two of the best business phones available currently in the market. There is a tough fight between the two and users will surely face a great dilemma to choose one of them.
Both these challengers have got somewhat similar physical attributes as both of these are QWERTY keypad phones as well as display characteristics are also quite similar. Blackberry 9000 has got a 2.6 inches screen that allows 65K colors at 480 x 32- pixels resolution. The trackball navigation is an exclusive feature on it. 114 x 66 x 14 mm are its casing’s dimensions with 133 grams of weight. Comparatively, the Nokia E72’s QVGA screen is of 2.3 inches that displays 16 million colors at 320 x 240 pixels resolution. The phone comes with physical dimensions of 114 x 57 x 10 mm with 127 grams of weight.
The first one has got a 2 mega pixel camera while its contender comes with a 3.2 mega pixel camera. The LED flash attribute is common in both of these phones while the E72 is loaded with Digital Zoom, Flash Mode, Auto Focus, CMOS Sensor, White Balance Mode, Capture Mode, Video Streaming and several other alluring features.
The media player of the Blackberry 9000 supports MP3, WMA, AAC+ files and the given video player allows DivX, WMV, XviD, 3gp files. MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A music files and WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP video files are playable on the music player and video player of the E71.
3G HSDPA, USB, Bluetooth V2 with A2DP, WLAN Wi-Fi, GPRS and EDGE services are common in both the phones given for data sharing and connectivity. But HSCSD and Infrared are extra on latter one.
The Blackberry 9000 users will get HTML browser for Internet surfing only, the Nokia E71 users can enjoy WAP2.0, HTML & XHTML browsers as well as Nokia browser with Mini Maps application. Document editor, GPS navigation with A-GPS support (Google Maps for Blackberry 9000 and Nokia Maps for Nokia E71) and messaging services are also similar in both of these rivals.
8MB flash memory of Blackberry 9000 can be expanded up to 8GB through the given MicroSD card slot. On the other hand, the Nokia E71 comes with 110MB onboard memory plus MicroSD memory card slot supporting up to 8GB.