Top 10 reasons to buy Nokia 5230 over iPhone 3GS
IPhone has brought revolution in the field of touchscreen smartphones. Previously, the touch phones used to be mostly business oriented with resistive display. Apple is the first smartphone maker which succeeded in making a full fledged multimedia touchscreen smartphone, thanks to its capacitive display with multitouch.Today every smartphone maker is trying to compete with iPhone. Developers are also most interested in developing applications and games for iPhone because of its wide user base. But your most dearful iphone isn’t without flaws. In few areas it gets beaten by even the cheapest entry level Nokia touchscreen, 5230. I will give you 10 good reasons to choose Nokia 5230 over iPhone.
Nokia 5230 |
Apple iPhone 3gs |
Nokia 5230 vs iPhone 3GS -
1. Screen Resolution – Nokia 5230 has higher resolution (360×640 pixels) display than iPhone 3GS (320×480 p).
2. Bluetooth File Transfer – These days Bluetooth file transfer is a must have feature for sharing multimedia files with you friends on the go. iPhone don’t let you use Bluetooth for this purpose. It can be used only for making calls and listening to music over stereo Bluetooth headset.
3. Multitasking – If you have used a smartphone with multitasking then you will feel handicapped using iPhone 3GS. Multitasking lets you use lot of applications simultaneously and you can easily switch between them or close any application as per your wish.
4. Flash in web Browser – We all know that iPhone has the highly rated Safari web browser. But are you aware that it lacks Flash support. These days most of the sites use flash which can be accessed with Nokia 5230’s S60 web browser.
5. Overheating – iPhone 3GS has a powerful hardware, may be thats the cause behind overheating reported by many users.
6. File Manager – Just like Windows Explorer a File Manager is a must for every smartphone to browse through all you files at one place. iPhone 3GS lacks file manager.
7. FM Radio – Even an entry level basic cellphone offers Radio, and this high end multimedia device lacks FM. Nokia 5230 has Stereo FM with RDS.
8. Expandable Memory – iPhone offers sufficient storage space for multimedia files but support for memory card is always a good thing. Moreover, you cannot use iPhone’s huge memory as USB mass storage device in Windows.
9. Battery – The iPhone hardware keeps on improving which is good thing, but whats the use if it affects the battery life so much. If you want to keep you iPhone awake for long hours you are bound to limited usage of other phone features.
10. Price – iPhone 3GS $199 price sounds good to hear, but along with that comes the monthly plan which pushes iPhone 3GS price to around $1000. Unlocked Nokia 5230 is expected to launch for just $199.


December 11th, 2009 at 8:34 am
wn will it be available in HYD?
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:15 am
wow i never thought that nokia’s 5230 has a lot more features than an iphone 3gs, nice review dude.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
dude c’mon. i have both but to be honest there are way more software options on the iphone. + the games on iphone are way better… i know you are a 5230 freak but get serious
March 1st, 2010 at 3:21 am
i ve just had a new 5230 after havig an i phone which i ve kept 4days because this phone is very ¨fragile¨ and for the moment i´m very happy of my phone cheers.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:43 pm
nokia has a better resolution but the Iphone screen is much better and bigger.
March 8th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
its really a nice comparision ….i reaaly don’t even think of that///nice presentation….