It’s raining smartphones in India. As the mobile market is awaiting the launch of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone in India next month, cellphone makers are scrambling to launch rivals to the smartphone.

While HTC just added Desire to its India lineup, Korean giant Samsung bolstered its smartphone portfolio with the launch of its Bada OS-powered Wave. Business phone maker BlackBerry too boosted its Storm line up with the addition of Storm2. Top cellphone maker Nokia too added its first Linux-based cellphone N900 to its lineup in the country.

Here’s how these big launches — BlackBerry Storm2, HTC Desire, Nokia N900, Samsung Wave, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 — compare on looks, OS, features, camera, connectivity and pricing.

Looks

BlackBerry Storm2:The successor to popular Storm, BlackBerry Storm2 features a 3.25-inch capacitive touchscreen with a 360 x 480 pixels resolution. Storm2 doesn’t have a physical keyboard. Instead, it simulates the click of buttons with an electrical pulse when users touch the screen.

HTC Desire: Sporting a 3.7-inch AMOLED display with 480 x 800 pixels, the phone measures 119 x 60 x 11.9 mm.

Nokia N900: Sporting a wide 3.5-inch touchscreen display, Nokia N900 packs a QWERTY keyboard.

Samsung Wave: The phone features a 3.3-inch WVGA (480800) AMOLED display.

Operating system

BlackBerry Storm2: The phone comes with BlackBerry OS 5, the latest version of the BlackBerry smartphone OS.

HTC Desire: Powered by 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the phone runs on Android OS v2.1.

Nokia N900:The phone packs a Maemo 5 operating system and is powered by ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz processor.

Samsung Wave: The phone is Samsung’s first smartphone based on its own operating system called Bada OS.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: X10 runs on Android 1.6 OS a is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor.

Storage

BlackBerry Storm2: The phone comes with 2GB of memory which can be extended to 32GB. The phone packsB 256M of Flash memory.

HTC Desire: Desire has 512MB of ROM and 576MB of RAM. The phone comes with 4GB MicroSD card and the memory can be expanded upto 32GB.

Nokia N900: As for memory, the phone comes with 32GB internal storage which can be expanded upto 45GB.

Samsung Wave: Wave comes with 1GB memory which can be expanded via microSD card.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: The phone has 1GB internal storage with 8GB card included.

Features

BlackBerry Storm2: The phone packs a 3.5mm headphone jack, as well as a media player for videos, pictures and music. The phone features a much faster Web browser than the previous Storm.

HTC Desire: The handset packs music player and FM radio and has both audio and video recording.

Nokia N900: Also called internet tablet, Nokia N900 offers full Adobe Flash 9.4 support.

Samsung Wave: Wave comes with audio and video playback feature, FM Radio, 3.5 mm headphone jack.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: Among key features, Xperia X10 has a Timescape functionality that lets users share content. The feature also lets users browse status updates from Facebook and Twitter, calls or text messages, email and recent music, photos, or videos.

Camera

BlackBerry Storm2: The phone packs a 3.2 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom, image stabilisation, autofocus, flash and video recording.

HTC Desire: Desire packs a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus, flash, face detection capability, widescreen photo capture and geotagging. The phone records videos at WVGA resolution (800*480) at 15 fps.

Nokia N900: The phone packs a 5 megapixel camera with 2576×1936 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, dual LED flash, video light and geotagging feature.

Samsung Wave: Wave sports a 5 megapixel camera with LED Flash, AF Face/Blink Detection, geotagging and image editor.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: The phone sports a 8 megapixel camera with upto 16x digital zoom, auto-focus, smile recognition, image stabilization and geo tagging.

Connectivity

BlackBerry Storm2: Storm2 offers support for GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and USB 2.0.

HTC Desire: The phone has 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, standard micro-USB and Bluetooth 2.1. Desire supports 3G, aGPS, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi.

Nokia N900: Connectivity features include Wi-Fi, 3G, FM transmitter and Bluetooth.

Samsung Wave: For connectivity, Wave packs Bluetooth, USB v2.0, Wi-Fi and aGPS.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: The phone offers support for Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, 3G, GPRS, EDGE, aGPS and USB 2.0.

Pricing

BlackBerry Storm2: The phone is priced at Rs 31,990 (approx).

HTC Desire: The phone retails for Rs 28,900.

Nokia N900: The phone is priced at Rs 30,639.

Samsung Wave: The handset is priced at Rs 19,100.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: X10 comes for Rs 35,795.

Tags: BlackBerry Storm2, HTC Desire, nokia n900, samsung wave, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

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