Diaries of a Nokia Fan Boy

Well here’s a video worth watching. Some Italian blog took 6 of the best devices of the year (except that Nokia seems to missing… grr…) and compared their displays under indoor, outdoor, and pitch black conditions. The iPhone does win out in outdoor legibility, and is very close to the top indoors, but when the lights go out, so does the impressiveness of the iPhone screen. I was, unsurprisingly, impressed with Samsung’s i8910 Omnia HD and i8000 Omnia II devices. They were at the very top indoors, and while they were a fair bit worse than the iPhone outdoors, they both fared very well. Nor did they disappoint in pitch black conditions, beating pretty much all of the others there.

Really, the clear winner of the whole comparison was the AMOLED technology. During any conditions it outperformed its LCD/TFT rival, displaying bright, more vivid colors, and giving excellent sunlight legibility. It would, however, be quite interesting how it fares against the Nokia N97, which I think is a big let down on the part of the blog, since Nokia’s are very well known for their excellent displays.

In the Apple iPhone vs. Samsung i8910 Omnia HD comparison photo you can also see how much of a difference a higher resolution plays on the display of the screen – 165 dpi vs 199 dpi, respectively. I first noticed this with my Nokia E60, where the pixel density was 260 dpi; images looked fantastic, text was easy to read, and best of all, I didn’t see any pixelation, it was like looking a high quality printout. I’m not sure if this effect is clearly visibly in the video, however the picture shows it quite clearly.

Another, although smaller, winner is the 16M color spectrum when compared to 65K color. You did notice the deficiency of the 65K color spectrum in color reproduction, however it was bearable, and I’m sure wouldn’t strongly impact most users. Surprisingly, this even affected the sunlight legibility, with the i8910 Omnia HD, for example, outperforming the i8000 Omnia II, even if just barely.

Personally, I felt that it was pairs of phones going up against each other:

• My personal battle of Symbian vs. iPhone: Samsung i8910 Omnia HD vs. Apple iPhone 3G S
• Windows Mobile devices: HTC Touch Pro2 vs. Samsung i8000 Omnia II
• Android devices: Samsung i7500 vs. HTC Hero

Of course you notice that the last two are also an HTC vs. Samsung battle, which Samsung does seem to win out using AMOLED and 16M color screens.

Well watch the video and tell me what you think. note: view in full screen to see in HD

-Nokia FanBoy

via: GSMArena (read)

Why is it that every time I get a phone it becomes outdated in less than a month? :’(
I got my E60, the E51 comes out a month later; I got my N95 8GB, and the N96 comes out! (although I prefer the N95 8GB to the N96 if you ask me); and now the Magic, and the Hero gets announced. It just never ends.

However, with the Hero, just as with the N96, I’m just not sure whether I would actually want to upgrade. I mean the specs are better:

• Multi-touch support
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Extra 96MB of RAM
• 5MP camera, but still no flash
• That fancy Sense UI
• Flash browser support out of the box

I mean don’t get me wrong, I would love to have all of those things on my Magic, but I would love to have them on the Magic! I don’t like that G1/Dream-style design, I like the curves of the magic, the way the trackball sits a little set into the face of it, like on the BB Pearl. At the same time, the Hero is heavier and thicker, and doesn’t even add a bigger screen or bigger battery to compensate!

I guess what I’m trying to say is that while the specs are nice, I would rather stick with my Magic, wait for someone to port Sense UI with the borwser support, and then load it onto the Magic. There would have to be a very lucrative proposition for me to consider upgrading to the Hero.

Read:
Engadget: HTC Hero hands-on
Engadget: HTC Hero … Leaks from HTC
GSM Arena: HTC Hero vs. Magic

-Nokia FanBoy