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Nokia Vs. Sony Ericsson – Nseries and Walkman in a Music Phone Showdown!
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Memory on November 28th, 2010
Today, I’m going to take a look at the two highest-spec music-oriented mobile phones, from the two biggest manufacturers in the UK: Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
The Nokia N95 8Gb – smartphone heaven?
Easily one of the best seller of 2008, the Nokia N95 8Gb is quite simply one of the most powerful mobile phones in the market, at the minute. Powered by Symbian Series 60, just like their other top-end mobile phones, the Nokia N95 8Gb packs in a 5 megapixel camera, built-in GPS and super-fast internet access, and then builds on top of that by adding a huge 8Gb of memory for you to store your stuff on. As part of the Nseries range of mobile phones, as well, the Nokia N95 8Gb is very definitely a smartphone, a mobile phone you can just pile on extra features to, until the cows come home. From office applications to games, from instant messaging to a virtual pet dog (which my mate has on his Nseries mobile phone), the only limit to what you can install on the Nokia N95 8Gb is what the programmers have made! It truly is a super-powered, high-end mobile phone.
But it’s not without competition… let’s take a look at Sony Ericsson’s highest spec Walkman phone no the market, the W960i.
Sony Ericsson W960i – a more touching option
Sony Ericsson have their own ideas about what a top-end music-oriented mobile phone should be, and those have come to fruition in the Sony Ericsson W960i a touchscreen wonder phone that uses a different version of Symbian to the Nokia. in this case, it’s UIQ, and that gives the Sony Ericsson W960i a crucial advantage over the Nokia. It has a touchscreen. And that is just brilliant. Mobile phones with touchscreens are always, in my experience, far nicer, and much more fun, to use. Of course, you get the same rage of options to add extra software to the Sony Ericsson W960i as you do with the Nokia, you get super-fast internet, and you get the same 8Gb of memory. In this mobile phone, however, you get a 3 megapixel camera (not 5) and you don’t get GPS, but despite that, the Sony Ericsson W960i is one of the best music mobile phones going.
Nokia vs. Sony Ericsson – which is the champion?
It’s kind of hard to decide between the two mobile phones, in this case. both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have really upped their game, and are on top form. Ok, sure, the Nokia N95 8Gb wins in terms of having a 5 megapixel camera and GPS, but then the Sony Ericsson W960i wins in terms of having a touchscreen and better (MUCH better) music, with the Walkman player (and on a side note, the Nokia music player tends to do stupid things like playing songs back at the wrong speed, so everything sounds like Alvin And The Chipmunks). So, if we’re judging them as being general mobile phones, then the Nokia just edges it. If, however, we’re judging them as being out and out music mobile phones, then the Sony Ericsson takes it.
The Market are too Advanced for Your Computer
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in computer on March 29th, 2010
To illustrate the importance of accessorizing, we like to use the “plain dough” analogy. Let’s say that a brand new computer is a batch of plain dough – waiting to be flavored and baked into something useful. If we want to use this dough to make a delicious batch of chocolate chip cookies, we would need to “accessorize” this dough with chocolate chips and a little brown sugar. If we want to use this dough into in a warm loaf of sesame seed bread on the other hand, we’d need to “accessorize” the dough with yeast and sesame seeds.
Like “plain dough,” the brand new computer isn’t very useful by itself. It needs accessorizing.
Depending on what’s needed, accessorizing doesn’t need to be expensive. In fact, you can get away with paying a minimal amount for extra software and hardware if these accessories are for children. It’s when these accessories are work requirements or when they’re needed to produce works of quality for any other reason that they can become rather expensive. And this expense applies to microphones, digital cameras, PDAs, scanners, video cams, and more.
Regardless of cost, it’s important to understand that accessories can become “necessities,” and that the best time to get them is the moment you buy a new computer. Waiting too long to accessorize can cause more problems than necessary because while you wait, manufacturers continuously develop new technologies – technologies that your computer won’t be able to accommodate in the future. Once you’re ready to accessorize, the new products on the market are too advanced for your computer and they just won’t work. This is a typical problem experienced by those who want to use hardware designed for Windows Vista on a Windows XP or Windows 2000 machine.
