Which of these smartphone is the ideal purchase for consumers? We pit the Nokia Lumia 930 against Apple's iPhone 5S to see which device is worth the purchase.
In terms of design and dipslay, The Nokia Lumia 930 has a 5 inches ClearBlack OLED display that can render a resolution of 1920x1080pixels and supports 441ppi. It has the following features such as a high brightness mode, sunlight readability enhancements, orientation sensor, refresh rate 60 hz, wide viewing angle, Lumia color profile, sculpted glass which is easy to clean, and it’s protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3.It measures 137x71x9.8 mm and has a thickness of 167grams. Plus, Its back covers are bright and glossy and can be replaced with many color options to choose from
As for the iPhone 5S, it has as smaller screen that measures 4 inches and it supports a resolution of 1136x640pixels and 326ppi. It features a fingerprint-resistant oleopphobic coating for the front and more languages and types of characters available for the display. It has the following dimensions: 123.8×58.6×7.6 mm and it weighs 112 grams.
For the hardware and OS, The Nokia Lumia 930 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, which is clocked at 2.2GHz. It has 32GB of internal memory which is expandable for up to 128GB and it runs on the Windows 8.1 OS with 2GB of RAM.
Apple's iPhone 5S has a Apple A6 chipset with 1.3GHz dual-core Swift ARM v7-based. It has three variants of internal storage – 16, 32 and 64GB which is unexpandable and it runs on the iOS 6 (upgradable to the iOS 7.1.1, which will be upgraded to the iOS very soon).
For the battery usage and camera specs, the Nokia Lumia 930’s battery has a 2420mAh capacity that allows users to talk 21.7 hours and lasts 75 hours when listening to music. Plus, it can be charged via wireless. The iPhone 5S’s battery on the other hand allows users to talk for about 8 hours, and when listening to music, it lasts 40 hours.
The Nokia smartphones has a rear Pure View camera of 20MP (LED flash and four directional microphones with Surround-Sound), while the Apple unit has only an 8MP rear camera (LED flash, face detection, panorama, tap to focus, autofocus and photo geotagging.
The iPhone 5S 16GB variant costs $500 in amazon.com, while the Nokia Lumia 930 is around $729.
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