Blackberry Curve 8310 vs Sony Ericsson W960i
The mobile phones, Blackberry Curve 8310 and Sony Ericsson W960i are differentiated on the basis of their mode and wide features. You can buy Blackberry Curve 8310 at around Rs. 23,500 ($560) and Sony Ericsson W960i comes at around Rs. 28000 ($667)
- Mobile Type
Blackberry Curve 8310 is a Bar type cell phone which is a user friendly design and has QWERTY as input type. On the other hand, Sony Ericsson W960i which is a Bar type phone and has Keypad & Touchscreen as input parameter.
- Display Properties
Blackberry Curve 8310 has a display resolution of 320 x 240 and 65K colours. This is in contrast to Sony Ericsson W960i has a display resolution of 240 x 320 and contains 262K colours. Many mainstream Sony Ericsson phones are 262K colour makes.
- Battery Talk Time / Standby Time
Blackberry Curve 8310 is supported by Lithium Ion batteries and has a talk time of 240 minutes against a 408 hours of standby time. While, Sony Ericsson W960i’s talk time is 540 minutes and a standby time of 370 hours. Sony Ericsson W960i works on Lithium Polymer battery.
- Memory / Expandable Memory
Sony Ericsson W960i has a Inbuilt memory of 8192 MB and expandable memory is not available. This is in contrast to, Blackberry Curve 8310 has a Inbuilt memory of 64 MB and memory expansion is supported.
- Camera / Flash
Blackberry Curve 8310 has 2 MP camera with flash, On the other hand Sony Ericsson W960i supports 3.2 MP camera and has flash for image ready pictures. A minimum of 3.2 MP camera with flash is required to have a clear pirntable picture, digital zooms are not that effective.
- Connectivity / Network Details
| Feature | Curve 8310 | W960i |
| WiFi | No | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared | No | No |
| EDGE | Yes | No |
| USB | Yes | Yes |
| GPRS | Yes | No |
| WAP | Yes | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Dual Band | Yes | Yes |
| Tri Band | Yes | Yes |
- Music / FM Radio Details
Sony Ericsson W960i supports FM Radio, Blackberry Curve 8310 does not support FM Radio. Both the models support Music player and multiple format play.
- Mobile Dimensions / Weight
Blackberry Curve 8310 – 60x15x107 (WxDxL) – 112 grams
Sony Ericsson W960i – 55x16x109 (WxDxL) – 119 grams.
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