Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
Nokia and Sony are two of the most famous manufacturers in the Indian smartphone market. They have time and again come up with great technology to keep its consumers loyal to their brand. To compete in the smartphone market Nokia has gone with its Lumia range which offers various Windows OS smartphones coming at different price ranges.

On the other hand Sony has relied upon the Xperia range which again has a number of models to offer in all price ranges, this range works with the Android OS. Two budget phones of these manufacturers are the Nokia Lumia 520 and the Sony Xperia M.
Screen: Considering the price of both the phones let’s have a look at the features of both phones. The Nokia Lumia 520 has a 4 inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with a pixel ratio of 480 x 800 pixels. The Xperia M comes with similar 4 inch TFT capacitive touch screen with a display ratio of 480 x 854 pixels. The screen of both the phones is scratch resistant.
Ram and Storage Options: The Lumia sports a 1 GHz Dual core processor supported by 512 MB of RAM, while the Xperia M carries a similar speed processor the RAM is 1 GB making it a slightly faster phone. The internal storage in Lumia is 8 GB and the same can be extended by 64 GB with the help of an external memory card.
The Xperia M has only 4 GB of internal memory and expandable external storage capacity of 32 GB. Both phones have the capability to connect to 2G as well as 3G networks. Thus both phones can access to high speed data networks also. In addition the phones can connect to Wi-Fi, USB and Bluetooth connections. The Xperia has an advantage over the Lumia in the fact that it supports NFC feature while the Lumia doesn’t. This however isn’t important as there are very few phones in the Indian market that support NFC.
