Very interestingly a few of the brisk selling iPhone clones on the market today don't look much like the iPhone at all.

Chinese manufacturers have started to realize that while most people absolutely love the finger touch interface and the all of the features stuffed into the original, there is a significant subset of people who don't enjoy texting or messaging on a flat screen.

Additionally, still more customers have free, real time analog TV on their wish lists. For these guys, the N99i (sometimes called a Nokia, though it's a clone) and the PT400 are popular choices. This article will compare these two phones to help you decide which may work best for you.

Similarities: These phones share many more similarities than differences. Both are dual sim, contract free, loaded mobile phones with standard features like web browsing, email and messaging, MP3 / MP4, Bluetooth, and high resolution, high quality 3.0 mega pixel digital cameras with web cam.

Both are TV phones (this is not the "TV out" feature on some phones which means that you can hook the phone up to your TV to show video taken or from the phone.) These phones have real time analog television which means that you can watch your local news, sports, and sitcom shows etc. on the built in antenna. There is also an FM radio, voice recorder, handwriting recognition and streaming video.

Both phones support up to 2GB of expandable memory. Both are dual sim standby which means that you can have two phone numbers or networks working at one time.

Both mobile phones have full keyboards and scroll bars that make them very popular with texters or consumers that would rather not enter a lot of data onto a flat screen.

Slight Differences: As you can see, these phones are quite a bit alike, but there are a few small ways that they differ slightly.

First, the PT400 has dual Bluetooth (including A2DP.)

And, the size is a bit different. The 400 is 117.7 X 64.2 X 17.6 mm and weights about 115 grams.

The 99i is a bit larger and measures 120 X 60 X 18 mm and weighs 145 grams.

The PT400 is a quad band, supporting GSM 850 / 900 /1800 / 1900MHz.

Most Nokia N99i's are tri band. However, it often comes in two GSM models: ((850 / 1800 / 1900) and 900 / 1800 / 1900, depending on where you live and where you will be using the phone.)

Price wise, the N model is usually the cheaper of the two (only slightly - by an average of $10 - $20). However, both of these most always run under $150 (sometimes in the low $100s depending on memory.) Both are very nice, very popular texting finger touch clones with superb, high resolution cameras and TV.

I don't think you can go wrong with either. It really just depends on if you need the quad band or want a smaller phone.