Nokia and Sony Ericsson are two neck to neck rivals and both these brands are equally loved by the present day users. The Nokia N97 and Sony Ericsson Satio are two most efficient and spotless gadgets pulled out by these companies.
So let’s see how far the rivalry has gone and who had succeeded to beat whom this time.
1.Both these contenders have got somewhat similar characteristics in their displays. The Nokia N97 is loaded with a 3.2 inches QVGA touch screen supporting 16.7 million colors at 640 x 360 pixels resolution. On the other hand, 3.5 inches TFT resistive touch screen of Sony Ericsson Satio is also evenly alluring that supports 16 million colors at 640 x 360 pixels resolution as well. But Nokia N97 also carries a full three story QWERTY keypad which is absent in its competitor.
2.When it comes to camera feature, the Satio is a clear winner here as it sports a 12.1 mega pixel camera that get assistance from Dedicated Camera Key, Digital Zoom, Auto Focus, Xenon Flash, Geo Tagging, Face & Smile Detection etc attributes. Although the 5 mega pixel camera of N97 is far behind the competition but it is also powerful enough to sport Carl Zeiss Optics, Dual LED Flash, 14x Digital Zoom, auto Focus, Picture & Video Geo Tagging, CoverFlow Photo Viewer etc. and several others too.
3.Nokia N97 supports MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC+ music files and WMV, RealVideo, MP4 video files on its music player and video player. While MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC, M4A music files and WMV, RV, MP4, 3GP video files are easily acceptable on the music player and video player of Sony Ericsson Satio.
4.N97 sports a document viewer that allows to view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files on it and its contender is a bit advance in this context as it allows the users to edit them too.
5.GPS navigation along with A-GPS support is also commonly presented but the Sony Ericsson Satio comes with Google maps while the other one supports Nokia maps application.
6.3G HSDPA, HSCSD, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, WLAN Wi-Fi (along with UPnP support in N97), EDGE and GPRS are the connectivity and data sharing services given in these gadgets. While Modem and Synchronization PC are exceptions on Satio. And Nokia N97 comes with TV Out and 3.5mm Headphone support as well.
7.Both the phones will allow you to access the Internet with built-in WAP 2.0 and HTML browsers in them along with RSS reader technology. But the N97 additionally supports X-HTML browser also.