Nokia N96 Compared to LG KM900 Arena

Apr 18
20:45

2010

Yasin Resif

Yasin Resif

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The N96 is a beautiful 3G smartphone which has a cool dual-slide mechanism. It is compact and easy to hold with dimensions of 103 x 55 x 18 mm and weighs 125 grams which is quite light when compared to innumerable functions installed on it.

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The front of this phone is adorned by a stunning QVGA LCD TFT screen with a size of 2.8 inches along with a 16 million color display along with a high colour resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.

The LG KM900 Arena is also a 3G smartphone with superb imaging functions. It has a larger touchscreen at 3 inches which also displays 16M colours but at a higher resolution of 480 x 800 pixels which give the pictures eagle eye clarity. It's sleeker with dimensions of 105.9 x 55.3 x 12 mm and is lighter than the N96 weighing just 105 grams.

Each of them are 3G Smartphones and work on a quad band (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 ) and 3G HSPDA network,Nokia N96 Compared to LG KM900 Arena Articles and have similar connectivity features like GPRS, EDGE, 3G HSPDA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth technology and USB port.

All these features help the user to be a part of high speed data transfer and surf the net and visit their favourite sites while busy. The Nokia N96, unlike the LG Arena works on a Symbian operating system having a Dual ARM 9 264 MHz processor and 128 MB RAM which makes the functioning and function accessibility a lot smoother.

Both mobiles have state-of-the-art integrated cameras, both 5 Megapixel with Autofocus and LED flash and capture higher high quality pictures and videos. The N96 has Carl Zeiss optics whilst the Arena has Schneider-Kreuznach optics. The LG KM900 Arena has added functions like Geo-tagging, image stabilization ,etc. There exists a secondary camera about the front of both handsets which is often used for getting self portraits or for getting involved in interactive 3G video-calls with other such users.

The Nokia N96 has an excellent music player with good sound quality and is capable of playing various music formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC and M4A. The LG Arena can also be equipped with a music player which plays MP3, AAC, AAC and WMA formats and includes a Dolby Mobile sound enhancement feature which provides it superb music quality. Both have very interesting in-built games which the user can play for hours. The N96 has an choice of downloading games plus it is N-Gage compatible so the gamers might feel a bit biased towards it.

Each phones get this amazing memory space, but within the clash of Nokia N96 vs LG KM900 Arena the N96 is the winner with internal memory of 16 GB in comparison with 8Gb from the LG Arena. There's enough space in both mobiles to store loads of songs, videos, photos, even entire movies. The N96 is expandable by another 8 GB whilst the LG Arena is expandable by an immense 32 GB utilizing a MicroSd memory card.

Both the N96 and also the LG Arena are JAVA enabled phones with numerous features like TV-OUT, Document Viewer, Organiser, etc. Both of them have standard Li-Ion batteries, when fully charged the Nokia N96 provides a talktime of 3.5 hours, a standby time of 220 hours along with a music playback time of 14 several hours whilst the LG KM900 Arena provides a talktime of 3 hours 50 minutes, standby time of 300 hours and a music playback time of 30 hours.

Thus after comparing Nokia N96 vs LG KM900 Arena we come to the conclusion that although both are extremely efficient amazing gadgets with the latest technological features and loads of entertainment features, they have their own advantages and disadvantages along with a choice can only be made by the customer.