Thursday, November 15, 2007

Smartphones showdown

any of you read Wired magazine? well... neither do I. well on occasion. but its probably the best known technology magazine, specially in terms of culture and economics.

Anyway! The good old Wired magazine had a smartphone show down last week. To be frank I would not really have guessed who came on top, with so many models coming out nowadays and its not so easy to pick a "winner". But from the best of the lot, Wired Mag has picked Nokia E61i. most notably for its fast and effiecient Symbian OS, which according to the mag "puts Windows Mobile to shame by loading apps almost instantly". Actually the phone comes on top in terms of internet connectivity, collection of business and media apps, and 11 hours, thats right ELEVEN hours of talk time!... on a smartphone!



There is some interesing stuff to read about the other smarphones too, and why they didnt take the spot from Nokia, including BlackBerry. My favourite quote from all the reviews there would be "All work and no play makes a phone a BlackBerry", haha! you said it Rick!

Interestingly but not surprisingly, the magazine has noted Windows Mobile 6 and its sluggishness, and cumbersomeness wherever used.

Bilal Zaheer
http://elanist.com/bilal/

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you please also post the price as well. I think The good comparison is always one which show all aspects.

Buzz Word! said...

yes my friend you can see their retail prices also at Wired Mag, but firstly its more about value for money, secondly actual prices would of course depend on who you're buying it from and what package

naveeda said...

Thats big for Nokia IMO, mainly because i think their marketing sucks, as compared M$ or Apple so i this is going to give them a good kick. Wired is pretty popular, no doubt about that. E61i should start wearing that busted tee that says "you probably don't know me but i'm sort of a big deal" :)