Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

I have two Nokias that look exactly the same. However, when you look closely at them, you will see that they are completely different.

In the photos below, the dark one on the right is the 6230 and the silver one is the 6230i.



The first thing you can see on them, is the different LCD screen. The older model (6230) is from 2003 has just 121ppi, and the newer (6230i) from 2005 has 192ppi. And it makes really big difference, even thought the sice of the screens is exactly the same.

The older model comes with internal memory, and the "i" model comes with 32MB. However both of them can be extended by MMC up to 512MB. Also the camera on the phone is better, however none of them you would use to take anything other than blur.



The rest of the hardware is almost identical. Bluetooth has been upgraded from version 1.1 to 1.2, and the battery has increased by 50 mAh, but neither of these changes will make any difference.

It is the screen that makes the difference. The older screen is significantly more pixelated than the newer one. Based on that, even the system/firmware looks much better. However, I still have no idea if the difference is just the UI or if it comes with a different version of the firmware.

I am also not really sure if I can install any more games on these phones. I know it was possible through WAP connections, as the older phone's menu offers the option to 'get games', but I don't know if there's any way to sideload. For now, though, I don't have a charger for them and I'm too lazy to recharge them by connecting them directly to the battery in the laboratory so often. So I will wait for a suitable power source and try installing some games.



The pre-installed games look very similar graphically, even though the screen resolution is different. It is possible that there is a limitation in the hardware capabilities of the chipset.