Samsung is known for its touchscreen phones. They’ve created some of the best touchscreen and slider phones out there. They have recently announced a model called Samsung F490. This is a touchscreen mobile phone that has some quality features to appeal to all sections of people, from youngsters to tech-savvy seniors. Noe, this is a high-end phone with some great features. The question is to what extent this phone can compete with the N series phones that are packed with useful features for all genres. Let’s compare and find out. Here we make a comparison between the Samsung F490 and the Nokia N78.

The F490 phone has a 5 MP camera with amazing features to give photo enthusiasts a sense of acceleration. The full touch screen mode allows the user to access the applications without any problem. New technologies like touch sensitivity, track management and others will make usage convenient for everyone. They launched the phone through a press release and everyone was surprised by its early release. This is a 3G smartphone that supports GSM 900/1800/1900 and UMTS 210 network, as well as HSDPA 3.6 Mbps.

The screen of the phone is large enough to display videos and images of desirable resolution so that you do not have to open your eyes wide to view the videos. There is a cross interface and the wide screen allows the user to control with a single touch. Also, Samsung F490 has card slot, built-in mobile Google maps. GPRS, EDGE. The WAP browser allows you to access the Internet quite easily. Connectivity to other devices with USB port and Bluetooth is full of fun. The music player of Samsung F490 is powerful enough to play MP3 MP4 files and WMA files.

Nokia N78 is a quad band phone for GSM networks like GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and 3G HSDPA 2100/900 networks. The phone has a 2.4 TFT color screen with a resolution of 240X 320 pixels and can support 16 million colors. It has a card slot, 96 MB SDRAM memory, ARM 11 369 Mhz processor. Then you have Nokia N78 equipped with GPRS. EDGE, HSCSD, HSDPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology. In addition to the features mentioned above, there is WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds, a 3.15 MP camera with auto focus, flash, Carl Zeiss lens, 2048×1536 pixels and a secondary CIF video call camera. Built-in GPS receiver, media player, stereo FM radio, voice or dial command, document viewer, photo or video editor, and other features.

So it looks like Nokia N78 wins the game with just a little difference from Samsung F490. If Samsung had cared to load up its very pretty phone with a bit more attributes, it would have been a better device than the Nokia N78.