Samsung Galaxy Beam Versus Nokia 808 PureView

Samsung Galaxy Beam

Nokia 808 PureView

Samsung Galaxy Beam and Nokia 808 PureView are two great products from the Mobile World Congress 2012. The former is famous for its integration of a pico projector and the latter is featured for a massive 41-megapixel rear camera. Well, these two attributes are for the first time on some smartphones. Tech geeks were pretty excited to listen to the announcements of the new products from Samsung and Nokia, two leading mobile makers with the former recently topping the latter to become the top handset maker in world. Here, we compare specs and other features of the Galaxy Beam with the 808 PureView

Form factor

The Galaxy Beam is slimmer and lighter than the 808 PureView. It comes with a 12.5mm body that weighs at 145.3 grams, whereas the PureView has a 13.9mm body with 169 gram weight due to the massive camera sensor. But, when the length and height are concerned, the PureView (123.9 x 60.2) wins over the Beam that has the dimensions of 124 x 64.2 x 12.5mm.

Display screen

Both the Beam and PureView are to come with 4-inch displays. The Beam will have better screen resolution with 480 x 800 Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen over the PureView, which will sport a 360 x 640 AMOLED capacitive touchscreen.

Processor, RAM and OS

Samsung has implanted a 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor inside its projector handset plus a huge 6GB of RAM. Meanwhile, Nokia has placed a more powerful 1.3GHz ARM 11 processor for its camera phone, certainly the world’s highest camera phone. The device mounts 1GB of ROM and 512 MB of RAM for additional juice. When it comes to the OS, the Beam is to come with Android OS version 2.3 (Gingerbread) and Ice Cream Sandwich will soon be there. The PureView, on the other hand, runs on Nokia’s own MeeGo OS.

Storage

Samsung only avails 8GB of internal memory with the Galaxy Beam, while Nokia has placed 16GB of onboard memory inside its 808 PureView. However, users can expand the memory up to 32GB with external memory sticks thanks to microSD slots.

Camera

This is the area where the 808 PureView overrules not only the Galaxy Beam, but all smartphones on earth till to date. The PureView breaks all records with a 41-mepaixel (38-megapixel effective, 7152 x 5368 pixels) rear camera, which can shoot video at 1080p. In addition, there is a VGA front camera for video chatting on the device. On the other hand, the Beam is to come with 5-megapixel 2592 x 1944 rear camera capable of shooting video at 720p. 1.3-megapixel secondary camera enables video chatting on the Beam.

Connectivity

Both the Galaxy Beam and 808 PureView share most of common connectivity features. They include HSDPA (14.4 Mbps), HSUPA (5.76 Mbps), 802.11 b/g/n W-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 slots. But, the PureView has an additional support of UPnP technology.

Battery

The Beam packs in a Li-Ion 2000 mAh battery, when the PureView touts a Li-Ion 1400 mAh battery. Since both the devices have their own distinctive power savoring features, respectively a projector and a high res camera, we can’t tell anything about their possible battery performance until the devices are available in stores.

Special feature

Samsung has implemented an advanced pico projector on the top end (above the screen) of the Beam. This projector is capable to produce 15 lumen of brightness on any surface, whether it is your hand, wall, tabletop or ceiling. This feature will immensely help users show the contents in their phones to their friends and family in a nice way. Nokia, in the meantime, has embellished its phone with an unforeseen 41-megapixel sensor and resolution. The company has combined high-res sensors, Carl Zeiss optics and 4X lossless zoom to design this high performance rear camera.

Verdict

In fact, Galaxy Beam and 808 PureView don’t raise any challenge each other. They are only two high-end phones with different specialties; a projector and high-res camera. Customers will certainly be choosing any of these devices with an eye on their unique features, however.

Source: nvonews.com