Blackberry Storm 9500 vs. Samsung Pixon M8800

The Blackberry Storm 9500 is a typical Blackberry business tool with an attractive touch screen, while the Samsung Pixon M8800 is a masterful camera phone designed by Samsung.

Following are the similarities and differences of the two:-

1. The Storm is comprised of a huge 3.2-inch touchscreen displaying up to 65,000 colors with a screen resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Users will love the QWERTY keyboard that appears on the touch screen. The phone weighs 155 grams with physical measurements of 112.5mm x 62.2mm x 14mm. On the contrary, Pixon’s touch sensitive TFT screen is 3.2 inches displaying 262K colors at a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels and its physical dimensions are 108 x 54.6 x 13.8 mm with 121 grams of weight. Accelerometer sensor for auto rotation is a common feature on them.

2. Samsung Pixon M8800, being a camera-oriented phone is loaded with a whopping 8-megapixel camera. The 3.2 megapixel camera of the Blackberry Storm 9500 can’t even think of beating its competitor. Autofocus, LED flash, image stabilizer are some of the common features in them while the former also includes panorama shooting, face detection, simile and blink, image geotagging, wide dynamic range, etc. high-end features too.

3. MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WMA ProPlus music files and MP4, 3gp, H.264, WMV video files can be played on the Storm 9500. Roxio Media Manager is an add-on. On the Pixon M8800 you can easily play MP3, WMA, eAAC+ and AMR music files, as well as DivX, XviD, H.263, H.264, WMV, MP4 video files.

4. 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB (Micro USB in the case of Pixon), GPRS and EDGE are the connectivity and data exchange attributes available in these contenders.

5. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files are accessible on these phones while Storm will also allow you to edit them.

6. WAP 2.0, X-HTML and HTML are the camera-oriented phone’s browsing technologies, while the other carries an HTML browser along with the RIM Wireless Modem feature.

7. Both rivals have the same navigation feature that includes a GPS navigation system with A-GPS support, but the Storm 9500 also has the Blackberry Maps application.