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Nokia 5230 Nuron vs. Samsung Gravity T
- Thread starter ing.matt
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It all depends what you’re going to do with the phone. I have a nuron, and my wife just got the gravity T free with Tmobile’s back to school special going on right now. If you’re a hard-core texter than hands down I recommend the gravity. Texting on the nuron’s half screen is not all that accurate if u have pudgy fingers.
Keep in mind while reading that I am a true Nokia Fanboy. So in my eyes Nokia can do no wrong.
Lets start with the gravity. When my wife got the phone last weekend she asked me to set it up. Everything was quite easy to understand. Samsung has always made using their phone simple to use. What really impressed me was the gravity’s widgets and shortcuts that you can easily click and drag to one of 3 home screens. The Nuron limits you to 4 shortcuts on only 1 home screen. And setting up those shortcuts can be a little tricky.
Keep in mind that the gravity is a Java based phone. Meaning that there is no app store for you to install really cool apps. Yes there are 3rd party web sites that you can install games and “certain” apps, but there truly isn’t any worthwhile Java apps out there. Plenty of games though. T mobile has locked this phone down from running Java apps that require an internet connection. This means that you can’t install a 3rd party web browser like Opera mini. Which blows away the default Dolphin browser. But if simple browsing is all you need than your fine.
One thing I hate about the phone is making a phone call from your contact list. Once you get to your contact list. The scroll area window with your contacts only shows two contacts at a time. So when scrolling through your contacts its VERY easy to go shooting past the person your looking for. I find myself using voice dialing. It’s much faster and works very well. The Nuron also has voice dialing.
The gravity T is a very well built solid phone. It has a nice music player, but no headphone jack. You either have to buy an adapter to use your own headphones or buy Samsungs special ones. The Nuron lets you use any headphone or ear bud you want.
OK, now the Nuron. The first thing I will say is other than using it as a phone or texting, there is a learning curve to understand how Nokia does things. But once you learn the curve. The rewards are so worth it. For years Nokia has packed features and options into their phones, but yet never advertise them nor do they talk about them in any kind of direction manual. Its like an easter egg hunt.
What sets the Nuron apart from the Gravity is all the quality apps and game that you can install onto the phone. If not from nokia’s app store then 1000s of 3rd party sites most of which are free. We all hear about Apples huge app selection. Well it’s the same for nokia. You have to remember Nokia is the largest mobile phone maker in the world. Once you leave the US. The only phones you will see are Nokias
It has a much higher screen resolution. The GPS navigation works well. You can sync all your info to your personal computer. Email, maps, contacts, approximants, files, photos, music. You can plan a trip on your computer and have it sync to you phone.
I can stream music from sites like XM radio and stream movies from sites like Hulu. You can tether your Nuron to your laptop computer and use it like a Hot Spot connection surfing the net on your notebook, but using the phone internet excess.
The one thing I don’t like about the Nuron (other than a faster processor) is about once a week I have to reboot the phone. It starts to get a little flaky and slow. Like your home computer. A simple shut down and restart fixes all. I am using my nuron as a mobile computer. And having it do things it was never designed to do. Anything I can do on my home computer I can do on my Nuron. Or I can excess my home computer in remote desktop mode if I’m up for any hard core gaming on the go.
In closing. The nuron too is a well-built phone. Both phones have excellent sound quality. One thing I did notice about the Gravity T. It suffers from the “Grip of death” signal loss just like the iphone 4 when held with your left hand. Bluetooth range on the Nuron is terrible, but then again every Nokia phone has terrible bluetooth range. Motorola wins here.
You have to ask yourself. Do you want a tech base phone that does nearly everything and is a little harder to get use too? Or a great texting phone that very easy to use, but doesn’t have all the bells and whistles.
Keep in mind while reading that I am a true Nokia Fanboy. So in my eyes Nokia can do no wrong.
Lets start with the gravity. When my wife got the phone last weekend she asked me to set it up. Everything was quite easy to understand. Samsung has always made using their phone simple to use. What really impressed me was the gravity’s widgets and shortcuts that you can easily click and drag to one of 3 home screens. The Nuron limits you to 4 shortcuts on only 1 home screen. And setting up those shortcuts can be a little tricky.
Keep in mind that the gravity is a Java based phone. Meaning that there is no app store for you to install really cool apps. Yes there are 3rd party web sites that you can install games and “certain” apps, but there truly isn’t any worthwhile Java apps out there. Plenty of games though. T mobile has locked this phone down from running Java apps that require an internet connection. This means that you can’t install a 3rd party web browser like Opera mini. Which blows away the default Dolphin browser. But if simple browsing is all you need than your fine.
One thing I hate about the phone is making a phone call from your contact list. Once you get to your contact list. The scroll area window with your contacts only shows two contacts at a time. So when scrolling through your contacts its VERY easy to go shooting past the person your looking for. I find myself using voice dialing. It’s much faster and works very well. The Nuron also has voice dialing.
The gravity T is a very well built solid phone. It has a nice music player, but no headphone jack. You either have to buy an adapter to use your own headphones or buy Samsungs special ones. The Nuron lets you use any headphone or ear bud you want.
OK, now the Nuron. The first thing I will say is other than using it as a phone or texting, there is a learning curve to understand how Nokia does things. But once you learn the curve. The rewards are so worth it. For years Nokia has packed features and options into their phones, but yet never advertise them nor do they talk about them in any kind of direction manual. Its like an easter egg hunt.
What sets the Nuron apart from the Gravity is all the quality apps and game that you can install onto the phone. If not from nokia’s app store then 1000s of 3rd party sites most of which are free. We all hear about Apples huge app selection. Well it’s the same for nokia. You have to remember Nokia is the largest mobile phone maker in the world. Once you leave the US. The only phones you will see are Nokias
It has a much higher screen resolution. The GPS navigation works well. You can sync all your info to your personal computer. Email, maps, contacts, approximants, files, photos, music. You can plan a trip on your computer and have it sync to you phone.
I can stream music from sites like XM radio and stream movies from sites like Hulu. You can tether your Nuron to your laptop computer and use it like a Hot Spot connection surfing the net on your notebook, but using the phone internet excess.
The one thing I don’t like about the Nuron (other than a faster processor) is about once a week I have to reboot the phone. It starts to get a little flaky and slow. Like your home computer. A simple shut down and restart fixes all. I am using my nuron as a mobile computer. And having it do things it was never designed to do. Anything I can do on my home computer I can do on my Nuron. Or I can excess my home computer in remote desktop mode if I’m up for any hard core gaming on the go.
In closing. The nuron too is a well-built phone. Both phones have excellent sound quality. One thing I did notice about the Gravity T. It suffers from the “Grip of death” signal loss just like the iphone 4 when held with your left hand. Bluetooth range on the Nuron is terrible, but then again every Nokia phone has terrible bluetooth range. Motorola wins here.
You have to ask yourself. Do you want a tech base phone that does nearly everything and is a little harder to get use too? Or a great texting phone that very easy to use, but doesn’t have all the bells and whistles.
The Nuron is a real smartphone. If you plan to do apps, this is it. But you need data and the Nuron doesn't have wifi. You need a data contract or look elsewhere.
The Samsung Gravity is but a featurephone and a very nice one. Between the two, this one should be a lot nicer to text with, given the slide out qwerty keyboard vs. a portrait T9 touchscreen keyboard the Nuron has.
The Samsung Gravity is but a featurephone and a very nice one. Between the two, this one should be a lot nicer to text with, given the slide out qwerty keyboard vs. a portrait T9 touchscreen keyboard the Nuron has.
The Nuron does have a landscape mode virtual keyboard, but man, those keys are small! I don't know if I'm good with any virtual k-board, as I tend to want someplace to rest my thumbs as I type, which of course, messes everything up! I don't have any problems with overt flakeyness, although I power off my phone at night. I've seen weird things on the dispay a few times when the phone was asleep in locked mode, and I attempted to power it off from that mode. A series of running vertical lines would appear along the right side of the display, from top to bottom. I would have to cycle power to clear that up. I've learned not to do that anymore! But it's a nicely made, solid little chunk, and I like the Symbian OS and included features. Some very comprehensive stuff in there, especially for the price (got mine last August from Costco for $99). Good audio, both ways. The only thing I wish it had was the ability to manually select 2G over 3G, as there are places where the switching threshold of the phone that determines which signal to latch onto, is less than ideal, and holds onto a bad 3G signal when there is a whopper 2G signal available. But I like it overall.