Smartphone industry keeps on buzzing with new additions. Smartphones offer advanced features as compared to regular unlocked prepaid cell phones and are usually compared with desktops or PCs. These 3G GSM unlocked prepaid or postpaid cell phones work like compact PCs and provide a typical desktop platform.

Blackberry Storm and Nokia N96 are great and competitive unlocked cell phones in the smart phone arena. The battlefield is often set up and these two smartphones are pitched against each other. If Blackberry is a pioneer, Nokia is an all time favorite. To get to the bottom line of this, let us compare the features of both of these relatively cheap GSM unlocked cell phones and see who takes the first prize.

Nokia N96 is a visually impressive unlocked cell phone, prepaid or postpaid, with a 5-megapixel camera unlike Blackberry Storm that has 3.2-megapixel resolution camera. This 5-megapixel camera in Nokia N96 3G phone comes with Carl Zeiss lens providing amazing picture quality. With such high resolution, the image comes out pretty good and clear. This means it is a cheap unlocked cell phone with camcorder functionality and with light setup for video. The camera comes with auto focus and dual LED flash. Nokia N96 - sitting right in the center of the 3G GSM arena - uses icon based camera setting controls, making it very easy to navigate and set the options.

Blackberry Storm is a touch screen unlocked cell phone that contributes to a good user experience. It has 3.25 inch bright and sharp display having 480*360 pixel resolution. The touch screen feature of Blackberry Storm as a Nokia 3G GSM comparative, uses SurePress just by pressing a button on the screen. It also uses Suretype keyboard that can change its mode at your single click. Finger tapping and swiping are also a part of navigation. Blackberry Storm reviews suggest that it takes a while to get used to the pressing down of icons on touch screen but it is nevertheless a favorable experience. The touch screen feature definitely makes Blackberry Storm worth a second look when entering the wireless Internet 3G GSM market to buy your unlocked cell phone.

Web Browsing with both these relatively cheap unlocked cell phones, prepaid or postpaid, is competitive. A Nokia N96 3G cell phone can connect to Internet though mobile web link as well as Wi-Fi. The web browsing experience is just as good as any other unlocked mobile phone in its class. Blackberry Storm has a web browser supporting IE and FireFox and you can easily navigate using different modes. The browser is far improved from its predecessors but still there is no wireless Internet or Wi-Fi. Unlocked GSM Nokia N96 themes are free to download and brighten it up. Blackberry themes are also available as free downloads and they literally beautify the 3G unlocked or locked handset.

The competitive edge goes to Nokia N96 unlocked cell phone: It is the amazing camera and video quality of the 3G GSM Nokia N96 that makes it a clear winner. The camera of Nokia N96 is perhaps the best in the industry. The video has a good resolution quality with 30 frames per second and has a number of editing choices. Video stabilization feature counters the shaking of hands while holding the camera. Dual LED flash allows better capturing and viewing of videos.

Nokia N96 in our view leads the field in the consumer markets for the best and latest cheap 3G GSM unlocked cell phones and is definitely aiming to take a big bite in the smart phone market, whichever way you look at it. 

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