Should You Buy Nokia Lumia 900 or Wait for Samsung's Next Galaxy?

Nokia's Lumia 900 comes with a ClearBlack glass touchscreen that reportedly offers the best possible viewing experience for users. With a one-piece polycarbonate body, the device should provide excellent signal reception and performance. In addition, the Live Tile functionality is supposed to enable a faster way to connect with friends and families.

Nokia's rivals - Samsung - are now expected to take the wraps of the hugely anticipated successor to the best-selling Galaxy S2 - the Galaxy S3. The new phone should be released, after the company sent out invitations to a media event, on 3 May.

Check out how the Lumia 900 does against the rumoured features of the Galaxy S3

Display:

The Nokia Lumia 900 flaunts an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels at 217 pixels per inch (ppi) and Corning Gorilla Glass to protect the screen from damages.

According to rumours, the Galaxy S3 is expected to feature a 4.7-inch screen with a whopping resolution of 1280x800 pixels.

Processor:

The Lumia 900 is powered by a 1.4 GHz Scorpion CPU Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon chipset. The APQ8055 is a second-generation Snapdragon CPU processor which should increase system performance as well as extend battery life. The device includes the Adreno 205 GPU which improves mobile web experiences by accelerating WebGL as well as Flash 10 Web content. Additionally, it offers 3D graphics performance which provides a richer gaming experience.

The Samsung smartphone is expected to come with an Exynos chipset and a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU. According to Korea Times, the company did say it would use the Exynos quad-core in Galaxy S2's successor. The new processor with the model number "4412" will reportedly have a top-ten clock speed of 1.5 GHz, including four ARM Mali graphics cores. It will be made by 32 nm technology which offers better performance and overall quality without consuming too much power.

Interestingly, it has long been rumoured the Exynos A9 chipset would make its debut with the S3. However, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer announced on 16 April that it would release a new model powered by the quad-core Exynos A9.

Operating System:

The Nokia smartphone runs on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system. It features Dynamic Live Tile information, Twitter and LinkedIn integration, visual voicemail and more.

The Galaxy S3 is expected to run on the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). The new ICS features include multitasking, customised home screens and widgets, enhanced text input and spell-check functionality.

Camera:

The Lumia 900 boasts of an eight megapixel rear-facing camera with a resolution of 3264x2448 pixels. It has features like AutoFocus, dual LED flash, geo-tagging and Carl Zeiss optics. It offers a secondary camera of 1.3 megapixels as well as video recording of 720p with video stabilisation.

The Galaxy S3, meanwhile, is expected to offer a significantly larger camera - a 12 megapixel rear-facing unit with support for full HD video recording at 1080p. In addition, it could include a two megapixel front-facing camera for video chats.

Storage:

The Nokia Lumia 900 has 16GB of internal storage and lacks support for a microSD card. The Galaxy S3, meanwhile, could come in two models - with 16GB and 32GB of storage space - with a microSD card slot.