The market of
smartphones is more active than ever and terminals as the protagonists of to this demonstrate it article. As our companions of MuyComputer tell us after the revolution that supposed
iPhone, the majority of manufacturing already has several telephones with touch screen and
hardware last generation
destined to conquer the users of average and advanced profile and that the
operators put in the market to
reasonable price, whenever we assume a contract of
permanence and tariff of data.
By price and benefits, the proposals of
Nokia and Samsung are located within the average range of the ample supply of
smartphones available.
The marks orient these terminals towards the user who, besides realising calls, wants a reliable
terminal with which to accede to Internet, to reproduce its contents
multimedia, to realise quality photographies or to sail thanks to the
built-in GPS but are not arranged to the payment that supposes a range top or are looking for first
smartphone simple and not too expensive.
In this article we both compared telephones on the basis of its engineering specifications and to our experience, the number of applications available,
connectivity, section multimedia, price (frees and subsidized) or the support that provide the manufacturer in the form of updates and services. In any case,
we recommended to consult the
complete analyses to more obtain detailed data on each model. That the duel begins.
Design and construction
The magnificent aluminum chassis that shines
Samsung Wave convinced to our experts of the laboratory in front of the plastic of high quality of
Nokia X6 Although the proposal of Nokia also shines a modern and original design (it breaks with the aesthetic one of previous models of the series) as much the quality of the assembly as the
aesthetic component (always necessarily subjective) is, in our opinion, superiors in the Korean terminal.
As far as dimensions and weight (to consult the attached table at the end of the article) both models are
similar and are within the standard for this category. Actually the smaller thickness of the
Wave (only 10 mm) is a point to its favor.
Screen, operating system and interface
The screen of
smartphone always is a fundamental element; not in vain it is the main tool of interaction of the user and key part of the section
multimedia. Both manufacturers have chosen to install panels of practically identical size with
capacitive technology
. In this section is right to praise evolution of
Nokia, that finally has left back the
screens resistivas that as much penalized to some of their models stars but, again, we remained with the
Samsung, that offers one of the best screens than we have seen in a movable device.
The effort and the investment that the Asian giant in technology AMOLED has put already are bearing its fruits. The screen of Samsung Wave is, without doubt, one of the strongpoints of the telephone. Substitute.
With respect to software Nokia it bets by
Symbian S60 5 edition with some interesting changes in the usabilidad section, like the improvement in now flowed and smooth the movement of
scroll, and without the annoying retardations that we saw in other models of the house. In spite of being a veteran operating system in the
analysis we emphasized its excellent operation and the great amount of applications available.
Samsung on the other hand resorts to a propietary solution, the new operating system Bada with the last version of the
TouchWiz interface
. Although the two options work with agility and are very intuitive we thought that the bet of
Nokia still is a point over the “novice” Bada.
Camera and multimedia
Nokia X6 shines an optics Carl Zeiss with five sensor of megapĂxeles autoenfoque and flash of double LED.
The Samung Wave counts on a camera of similar quality that, besides taking photos allows to record video in high resolution (720p, 30fps) by the
resolution VGA that offers Nokia. The quality that offers is similar, showing a fantastic
behavior when the conditions of light accompany.
In the land multimedia both apparatuses move with soltura and allow to reproduce without problems the more popular file formats. Examining with more detail this section and thinking about the advanced user, he is simple to find substantial differences of yield between the proposal of Nokia and Samsung Wave: the powerful hardware of terminal qualifies the Asian it to move with soltura practically any video and the support for archives DivX, XviD, MP4 and MKV until 720p without needing conversion is an important point to favor that is worth the trouble to value.
Both terminal they include a reproductive excellent multimedia with management of lists, favorites, title pages in screen, radio FM with RDS and all the extras that wait for the users who are decided by smartphone.
Connectivity, telephony, navigator, electronic mail
Both smartphones that we compared in this article offers
complete options of wireless connectivity, including the access to movable data networks of last generation, WiFi and Bluetooth. As far as
telephony, and as she were possible to hope at this point, both terminal they offer excellent quality of sound in calls, notable cover and all the options that the most advanced users even need.
In order
to sail by Internet the devices they include interesting propietary solutions, although below the experience that offers Safari in iPhone or terminals based on Android.
The clients of mail including come preformed with the most popular services and are fast, intuitive and easy to use. From an objective point of view, in this point we did not find differences substantial.
GPS and applications
In Nokia navigation one benefits from Ovi Maps, the shareware that the Nordic company/signature installs in its terminals. In order to resist this aspect and to compensate the lack of applications of navigation available for Bada, Samsung supplies its terminal next to NDrive Spain, a software that we can unload free from Samsung Apps and which we will analyze in detail in days.
The assortment of applications available is much greater in Nokia, where veteranĂa of Symbian and its community of developer prevails. In any case he is right to recognize the effort of Samsung with his own store of applications, where some can already be found really interesting.
Conclusions
The protagonists of this article are two of smartphones basic more interesting of the market.
Although the proposal of Nokia is remarkable we considered that Samsung surpasses it to Wave in key aspects like the construction, the quality of its screen, possibilities multimedia and camera.
The powerful processor of Samsung Wave next to the rapidity of Bada (the propietary operating system has turned out to be an pleasant surprise) allows him offers a fantastic experience to the user, to confront scenes multitask with soltura and to work at any moment with fluidity. Aspects like their solution in the reproduction of video, the efficient manager of tasks or the amount of software including of series have finished praising/pouring off the balance in favor of the Asian manufacturer.
To its favor, Nokia X6 includes an operating system of well-known solution, Ovi Maps, a fan of applications much more varied and a little more autonomy for a terminal that will convince the faithfuls of the mark and that improves previous proposals considerably.
As far as the prices, there is multitude of supplies available with several operators who allow to obtain the terminal from 0 Euros, following the conditions of the contract. The free price of Nokia X6 is of 359 Euros whereas the price of Samsung Wave surpasses the 400, following the distributor.
So what do you think of the review? What is your view? Which is better according to you? Samsung Wave or Nokia X6. Share your views through comments.
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