Today mobile phone market is flooded with various brands. However Nokia and Sony Ericsson are two brands names that have a good reputation among the mass. Here we are going to compare two superb gadgets Nokia N97 and Sony Ericsson Satio (Idou) that will ultimately help the buyers to judge the capabilities of both these phones.

The former handset is attractive 3G smartphone containing abundance of business & entertainment features while the latter device is a 3G enabled phone packed with high quality multimedia & communication features.

Both of the gadgets are carrying exactly similar 3.5 inches TFT touchscreen with resolution of 360 x 640 Pixels and can display 16 Million colours. But as mentioned earlier Nokia N97 is an out and out business phone so it comes with full slide out QWERTY keyboard and other additional features are proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and handwriting recognition. The dimensional details are 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm and overall weight is 150 grams. On the contrary, Sony Ericsson Satio has only accelerometer sensor. It carries 126 grams and overall measures 111 x 54 x 15 mm.

Both of the devices are furnished with assisted GPS navigation feature but Nokia N97 has it Nokia Maps with digital Compass while its competitor has it with Google maps. Furthermore, both of the phones allow the users to enjoy speedy connectivity with the technologies like 3G HSDPA, WLAN Wi-Fi, HSCSD, Bluetooth, USB, GPRS and EDGE. For Web browsing both of these phones have WAP 2.0/HTML browser and RSS Feeds but Nokia N97 also has XHTML browser. Document Viewer can be used on both these phone but beside it Sony Ericsson Satio has document editor too.

So far as camera is concerned, Nokia N97 brings along 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar™ Lens, Dual LED Flash and many imaging and video features on the other hand, Sony Ericsson Satio brings 12.1 MP camera with wide range of features.

In terms of memory, Nokia has bestowed its phone with 32 GB internal memory plus up to 16 GB expansion through card slot while Sony Ericsson has bestowed its device with only 128 MB internal memory but here you can expand up to 32GB as well as 8GB card included. SMS, MMS, Email and Instant Messaging are available on both widgets but Nokia 9N7 also supports Email with Attachments and Push Email (SMTP, IMAP4 & POP3). Both of the phones provide excellent battery backup, music features, games and so on.