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Apple iPhone 3G S versus Nokia N86 8MP comparison chart
Edit this comparison chartApple iPhone 3G SNokia N86 8MP
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Weight 4.76 oz (135 g) 5.26 oz (149 g)
Games Yes Yes
Music Player Supported Formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible 2-4, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV Supported Formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ playlists
Calculator Yes Yes
Bluetooth Supported Profiles: HSP, HFP 1.5, PBA, A2DP version 2.1 + EDR Supported Profiles: HSP, HFP, OPP, FTP, DUN, A2DP, AVRC, BIP, SAP, PBA version 2.0+EDR
Operating System (proprietary) iPhone OS S60 (Symbian) 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (Symbian 9.3)
Hard Drive No No
Live TV No No
Headphone Jack (3.5mm) Yes Nokia AV connector
Memory card slot No microSD (TransFlash) up to at least 16 GB
Java support No Yes
Physical design Bar Internal Antenna Slide "dual-slide": slides up for numeric keys, down for media & gaming keys Internal Antenna
Screen Type LCD (Color TFT/TFD) OLED (Full-Color)
Browser Safari supports landscape mode, multi-touch zoom and pan, and multiple windows. WebKit-based browser with mini-map supports HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS, WAP
Picture messaging Yes No
Screen Colors 16.7 million (24-bit) 16.7 million (24-bit)
Video Capture VGA resolution, 30 fps Max. Length: 90 minutes VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels), 30 fps
Push-To-Talk No No
GPS A-GPS; photo, video geo-tagging A-GPS supports LBS, plus compass
MMS requires network support version 1.2
Stereo Speakers No Yes
Estimated Battery Life (Talk time) 5 hours max. (300 minutes) 3.9 hours max. (234 minutes)
Picture ID Yes Yes
Ruggedized No No
Auto-complete suggestions for text Yes Technology: T9
SyncML No No
Estimated Battery Life (Standby) 300 hours max. (12.5 days) 276 hours max. (11.5 days) 3G/WCDMA mode
Headset Jack (2.5 mm) No No
Ringer ID Yes Yes
Infrared No No
Languages supported English, French, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Ukranian, Arabic and more Multiple
E-mail client Protocols Supported: POP, IMAP, Exchange built-in attachment viewer (Microsoft Office, PDF) Protocols Supported: IMAP4, POP3, SMTP support for attachments (Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word, Zip), IMAP IDLE, OMA e-mail notification
Wi-Fi support Version(s): 802.11 b/g Version(s): 802.11 b,g supports UPnP / WEP, WPA, WPA2
Wireless Carrier AT&T, Verizon, Sprint T-Mobile
Polyphonic Ringtones No Chords: 64
Side buttons volume keys, ringer switch on left / sleep key on top Yes
BREW No No
Ringer Profiles No Yes
Speakerphone Yes Yes
Camera Resolution: 3+ megapixel auto-focus, with tap-to-focus control Resolution: 8+ megapixel Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, auto-focus, dual LED flash, macro mode, panorama mode, red-eye reduction, sliding lens cover
PictBridge No No
Vibrate mode Yes Yes
External Display No No
Screen size 3.5" diagonal 2.6" diagonal
Touch Screen Primary input method: Finger capacitive, multi-touch No
Alarm Yes Yes
Voice dialing Speaker-independent (automatic) Yes
Networks GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 1900 / WCDMA 2100 GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 1900 / WCDMA 2100 Americas version (versions for different regions support different network bands)
To-Do List No (free apps are available, however) Yes
Screen Resolution 320 x 480 pixels 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
FM Radio No Stereo: Yes supports RDS
Voice recorder Yes Yes
Dimensions 4.55" x 2.44" x 0.48" (116 x 62 x 12.3 mm) 4.07" x 2.02" x 0.65" (103 x 51 x 16.5 mm)
Streaming Video Protocol: H.264 / MPEG-4 (MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GPP) via Safari web browser / plus dedicated YouTube client Protocol: 3gp, rm
Digital TTY/TDD Yes No
Supports enlarging text Yes No
Flashlight No No
Calendar Yes Yes
CPU 600 MHz 434 MHz ARM 11
Built-in memory 32 GB (internal memory available to user for storage) or 16 GB 8 GB (internal memory available to user for storage)

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