With the mobile phone market offering a wide range of phones, acing in looks as well as in functionality, choosing one among them can be quite brain rattling. There are many phones that sport similar form-factors, like the Nokia E63 Mobile Phone and the Blackberry Niagara  9030 Mobile Phone. Only a close introspection of their specifications can help decide a winner. They are both monoblock structured with almost similar dimensions. A brief comparison between these smartphones is presented here.

Either of these mobile phones sport full QWERTY keyboards, which also incorporate the numeric keypads. The Nokia E63 measures 113mm in length, 59mm in width and 13mm in thickness. The Blackberry Niagara 9030 offers similar measurements with a length of 113.5mm, a width of 63mm and a thickness of 14mm. Thus the Blackberry cellphone is a little bigger than the Nokia cellphone.

Coming to the screens of the phones, the Nokia model has a 2.36" monitor with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, while the Blackberry model has a 2.6" display offering a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels. Although the latter has a slightly larger screen with a higher resolution, the former can display a larger palette of colours - almost 16 million as opposed to 65k colours of the Blackberry phone.

Turning our attention to the technical details of both hand-sets - the Nokia smartphone comes with the Symbian 9.2 operating system and the ARM 369MHz processor. On the other hand , the Blackberry smartphone features the Blackberry 4.7 OS and the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor. The Blackberry's processor is the faster one, between the two.

On the memory front, the Blackberry phone has a large 1GB in-built memory with microSD memory expansion option. The Nokia phone on the other hand has a relatively smaller in-phone memory of 110MB, while it also offers the microSD slot that can support cards of up to 8GB capacity.

Throwing a glance over the networking abilities of these mobile phones - the Blackberry Niagara 9030 phone supports GSM and CDMA technologies. It allows connecting to the internet with its WiFi capability. This phone supports high speed 3G technology too, making your internet browsing, downloading and uploading of files happen within a jiffy. Wireless data transfer is possible with the Bluetooth connectivity as well. GPS facilities for getting information on location and other such services are also offered. Coming to the Nokia E63 phone, this device supports EGSM, WCDMA, GPRS and EDGE technologies. WiFi internet connectivity is offered too. GPS capability, wireless Bluetooth and 3G connectivity are all supported by this phone as well.

Considering the other connections and ports offered by the mobile phones, the Nokia phone houses a micro-USB connector and an AV connector. The Blackberry phone sports a USB port and a headphone jack.

Another major difference between these phones is the cameras they possess. While the Nokia E63 smartphone has a 2 Megapixel camera, the Blackberry Niagara 9030 smartphone has a 3.2MP camera integrated into it. Either of the cellphones have music players built into them. They both offer satisfactory battery lives too. Price-wise, the Nokia mobile phone costs about £230, while the pricing of the Blackberry phone is not out yet. Considering the fact, that the latter offers features that are a step above the former, one can expect it to be the costlier phone.

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