| There are many territories that mobile phones fight | | | | you could install your own software, and get this |
| their wars on. Camera phones, music phones, fashion | | | | awesome Nokia to do things its creators had never |
| phones... But the big guns really come out to play when | | | | even dreamed of. It was, and is, a true smartphone. |
| you look at smartphones. Let's check out two of the | | | | Sony Ericsson P1 - the smartphone king |
| best in the field, the Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson P1. | | | | But then, of course, the Nokia has to contend with the |
| Nokia N95 - the king of Nokia (for a bit, anyway) | | | | Sony Ericsson secret weapon; the P1. Based around a |
| Arguably one of the most important mobile phones of | | | | similar Symbian operating system (UIQ in the case of |
| 2007, the Nokia N95 sold by the bucket-load. And to | | | | the P1), it brings you all the open-endedness and |
| be honest, it's not hard to see why, as that unique | | | | flexibility of Symbian. However, in my personal |
| dual-slide body contained a veritable cornucopia of | | | | experience of both mobile phones, I found the Sony |
| cool features. It was also the first mobile phone in the | | | | Ericsson P1 to be nicer, and with a quicker operating |
| UK to feature a 5 megapixel camera, a fact that | | | | system, as UIQ is a bit nicer, and a bit more |
| undoubtedly helped Nokia sell | | | | streamlined, while the Nokia offering felt a bit... well, the |
| thooooooooooooooooooooousands of units. But it | | | | only word for it is clunky. |
| wasn't just the camera. If anything, that camera was | | | | In all honesty, if it came down to raw specs, the Nokia |
| the just the starting point, and they built the N95 up | | | | would win, as the N95 is vastly higher-spec’d than |
| from there! | | | | the P1, which only has a 3 megapixel camera and |
| The Nokia N95 also featured, in what would become a | | | | doesn't have GPS. But it's not just about features, the |
| massive selling point, built-in GPS and sat-nav. Not | | | | experience of using it is the important thing. The N95 |
| many (if there were even any at all) mobile phones | | | | feels clunky, while the Sony Ericsson feels... sleek and |
| were including that at the time, and the ability to use | | | | poised. If you're trying to decide between these two |
| your phone as a sat-nav... well, it rocked. Since the N95 | | | | mobile phones, then the smart choice of smartphone is |
| was built around Symbian Series 60, as well, meaning | | | | going to be the awesome Sony Ericsson P1. |