Saturday, November 10, 2007

Symbian S60 vs Windows Mobile 6

I tested Nokia E65 running Symbian OS S60 3rd edition and HP iPAQ 512 running Windows Mobile 6 Standard. The selling point is that both support VoIP but Nokia E65 is clearly the winner after many months of usage.

Smartphone
Nokia E65
HP iPAQ 512
VoIP (pfingoTALK)
Excellent
Works intermittently
E-mail Retrieval Interval (POP3) - works like pushmail
Min every 30 mins
Min every 5 mins
Default Browser
S60 - supports Javascript & look similar to desktop browser. No flash & JRE support.
Pocket IE - supports Javascript but look different from desktop browser. No flash & JRE support.
Battery Life
2 days
1 day
WiFi
Supports WPA2 with static or dynamic IP address. Can auto reconnect after out of range.
Supports WPA2 with dynamic IP address. Cannot auto reconnect after out of range.
Phone Contacts
Need to copy from SIM to phone
Works directly from SIM. No need to backup when switching phone.
Camera 2.0MP
1.3MP
Incoming SMS
Cannot be saved in SIM Can be saved in SIM
Multitasking
Excellent
Poor. Need to terminate program resident in memory manually even after quiting program.
Currency Convertor
Built-in
No
eWallet Support
No
Yes

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