Here we continue our “fair play comparisons” between the Nokia E71 and the BlackBerry products. This time we are going to compare the Nokia E71 to the BlackBerry Bold 9000. as you can see, both phones are very similar and you decide if this is a big difference or not namely that the Nokia E71 weights 127 grams while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 weights 133 grams.
I must say that this stunned me namely that as you should know, the Nokia E71 has been launched on June 2008 while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 has been launched on May 2008 so the Nokia E71 won being newer but just with one month which is not so important, you can say that it’s symbolic this win.
Anyway, here there is no doubt that the BlackBerry Bold 9000 has a bigger screen of 2.6 inches than the Nokia E71 that has a screen of just 2.36 inches. Also, the Nokia E71 display has 16M colors and 320x240 pixels while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 has a display of 65k colors and also 480x320 pixels.
I guess you already know that the Nokia E71 has the 2.5mm audio jack while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 has the famous 3.5mm audio jack.
Also, the Nokia E71 has an internal memory of 110 MB while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 has an internal memory of 1GB. Also, both phones are featuring a microSD slot card of 8 GB.
Both phones are also featuring Wi-Fi, 3G and also GPS connections so this may make your choice to be easier or harder, it depends on you.
Also, the Nokia E71 has an ARM 11 369 MHz processor while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with a bigger processor of 624 MHz. Also, both phones have 128 MB of RAM memory but the Nokia E71 comes with the Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with the regular BlackBerry OS.
Also, if you love to make photos with your phone, you may want to know that the Nokia E71 comes with a camera of 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus and LED flash while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with a weaker camera of 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels and LED flash. Anyway, I don’t think these are the perfect phones for making photos.
Also, the Nokia E71 comes with a standard battery of Li-Po 1500 mAh (BP-4L) while the BlackBerry Bold 9000 comes with a standard battery of Li-Ion 1500 mAh.
To make the final decision, you should know that the prices for a new unlocked Nokia E71 are starting from $250 while the prices for a new unlocked BlackBerry Bold 9000 are starting from $310 so there is a moderate difference talking about the prices.


