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Jan 27 2009

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Mobile Review

A 2-inch QVGA screen, backlit keys, a 1,000mAh battery good for 4.5 hours of yappin’, EDGE data, inbuilt GPS, 128MB of RAM, a microSD card slot, USB / Bluetooth and Symbian S60 running the show. Expectation of launching it in European markets is coming April month for €220 ($289), though worldwide availability remains a mystery.

The only reason why they have thrown the Nokia 5730 into their music-minded line-up is that Nokia are trying to sell the same phone and form-factor in to two different flavors so as to win as big a share as possible. In fact, it wouldn’t be a mistake to say that they are forging a new segment of side-sliders with thumbboards, instead of assessing every Nokia-branded phone of this kind separately. So, if they’ll manage to reach some good numbers in terms of aggregated sales – the whole segment will get a green light.

While the Nokia 5730 won’t face any sort of direct competition, this fact alone doesn’t guarantee it will be sell in droves. In fact, its predecessor, the Nokia 5320 didn’t have any rivals either, but it never became a particularly popular offering. On top of that, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be hard to compete with, given that they will be only 60 Euro away from each other price-wise.

Design, Size, Controls
The phone will be available in two standard XpressMusic colors – blue and red. As you have already noticed, we got our hands on its blue edition. The top edge is metallic and really resembles that of the Nokia N810. But don’t let it deceive you – the rest of the phone is made of plastic. Its glossy front fascia sports a bog-standard keypad that is quite a fingerprint-magnet among all other things.

Perched on the left is the volume rocker along with the dedicated camera key. Sitting on the bottom edge of the phone is the 3.5 mm audio jack, while the 3.2 MP camera lens (Carl Zeiss) and a LED flash are mounted on the back side of the phone.

Display
The phone ships with a 2-inch QVGA display (240×320 pixels, 31×42 mm). This screen offers 16 million colors, along with a juicy and vibrant picture that is readable in various environments. All in all, it’s a likable display that won’t give you any trouble whatsoever. It accommodates up to 8 text and 3 service lines all written in a convenient font. Just like you’d expect, you can alter the font size in certain menus (like Messaging, where amplified fonts do much better) and reach 14 text lines as a result.

Keypad
The 5730 XpressMusic sports a sizable navigation cluster with medium-sized, yet soft-to-press buttons. All in all, it is a breeze to work with. The keys here are lit in relatively dim white. Also, the navigation pad houses a touch-sensitive pad.

The bundled QWERTY keyboard is comfortable to use as well; the best thing about it is that you can type using both hands and your fingers won’t bump into each other, since it’s spacious enough even for people with big fingers.

The 5730 deals with microSD memory cards (hot-swappable), the phone comes packaged with a 8 Gb unit. There are no restrictions as far as memory card’s size is concerned – our handset easily identified a 32Gb card.

USB, Bluetooth
USB. You pick one of these 3 connection modes in the USB settings of the 5730 XpressMusic:

Data Transfer (Mass Storage USB) – memory cards is available, no drivers required, as your OS identifies the handset automatically.
PC Suite – used for device management via Nokia PC Suite, enables all features of the phone, data backup etc.
Image Print – no explanation required.
Data transfer speeds top out at around 1 Mb/s.

Bluetooth. The phone comes with Bluetooth v2.0, with support for EDR. The following profiles are supported:

A2DP
AVCRP
BIP-ImagePush
DUN-GW
FT-Server
HandsFree-AG (1.0)
Headset-AG
OBEX
OPP-Client
OPP-Server
SIM Access-Server
The top speed you can get with the 5730’s Bluetooth connection is around 100 Kb/s.

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Jan 20 2009

Nokia 6275 CDMA Mobile Review

Nokia CDMA 6275 comes with an integrated 2 MegaPixel camera and 21MB memory expandable up to 2GB. Features like Java applications, Browsing, Multiple connectivity options, Storage, Dedicated keys for camera, volume and voice command, call management, voice management, Power saving etc. makes work fun for you. 

 The Nokia 6275 is a sleek and utility based phone competitively priced. This CDMA phone fulfills almost all the functions of a good all-round performance based phone. The display screen combines 262,144 colors to give you high colour definition viewing. It also unites a 2 mega pixel camera with an integrated flash and 4x zoom which gives out good quality pictures.

The phone also features an inbuilt FM radio and a music player which allows you to hear your favourite songs on the go. The player supports MP3/eAAC+/AAC+/AAC music file formats. It has a huge 21 MB internal memory to store your contacts and other documents and it has a microSD memory slot option which can be expanded upto 2 GB for the storage of your documents and music files.

Its other features include voice recording and has dedicated buttons for camera, volume control and voice command (the volume control scroll is a little stiff). The battery of the phone is the only downside. The battery drains out rapidly and over the time will require daily recharge even if used sparingly. Overall the phone mingles utility and style and recommended as a good buy.  The radio reception is good and the sound quality is decent. The phone speaker sound is good for phone use but not too good for playing music etc. especially if you are looking for something like the Sony Ericsson Walkman series sound. It is a mono speaker, not stereo. Headset sound quality is decent. However, buying a Nokia HS-23 headset will result in significant sound quality improvement.

The phone comes with a 256 MB Micro SD card but one should get a 1 GB card to get decent storage space for songs, videos etc.Overall this is an excellent phone offering good value for money. It has a good design, sturdy feel and offers good features. In CDMA segment this has to be one of the best in the market at present. 

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Jan 19 2009

Nokia N79 Mobile review

Nokia N79 has 2.4 inched display screen. The resolution of display screen is 320 x 240 (QVGA) with upto 116 million colours. Nokia N79 has 5 mega pixel camera that captures perfect photos. Nokia N79 is Full multimedia computer in your hands. It has already pre installed 3D games but you can install more games. You can connect Nokia N79 to your PC with Micro USB connector. It has GPS system so you can find your local points easily with Global Positioning System.

Display and 3D
* Size: 2.4”
* Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
* Up to 16 million colours with light sensor
* Active matrix technology

Software platform and user interface
* 60 3rd edition, Feature Pack 2
* Symbian OS version 9.3
* Active standby
* Voice commands
* FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)

Music and audio playback
* Nokia Nseries digital music player - Playlists - Equaliser - Selection by artist, album and genre - Album graphics display - Skins
* Music playback file formats: MP3, WMA9, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+
* Audio streaming
* UPnP music streaming
* Dedicated volume keys
* FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support
* FM transmitter 88.1 - 108 MHz

Gaming
* Included try and buy games, full licence for one of the list :
- Asphalt 3
- Hooked On: Creatures of the deep
- Worlds series of poker
- Block breaker deluxe
- Tetris
- Space impact
- System Rush
- Brain Challenge
- Mile High Pinball
- Snakes Subsonic
- Sims 2: Pets
- FIFA 08
- Midnight pool
- Reset generation
- Bounce

Recently Nokia announced their N79 Active edition and now they’ve announced another variant of the N79 called the Eco. The handset is available in Petrol Black and is sold without the charger to reduce space that will in turn reduce boxing material, create more space to ship more and so on and so forth.

As of now the N79 Eco is available on pre order from Nokia’s UK website for a price of Rs. 22, 868 (319 Pounds). Go Green!

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Jan 18 2009

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Review

The Nokia N800 is the company’s follow-up to the 770 Internet Tablet, somewhat of a pioneering device that brought web browsing away from the computer and into the lounge room, or indeed anywhere you can get a data connection. The Nokia N800 is not a phone, nor does it have PDA functionality, yet it is an interesting device

The Most beautiful well designed Internet Mobile from Nokia.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Mobile with High-resolution widescreen display with improved viewing angle is the right solution for your mobile internet and entertainment.
It has 65k colors 4.13” QVGA 800 x 480 pixels display. Internet Radio feature entertains you outside from your city.

Now listen to music more loudly with Nokia N800 Internet Tablet with high quality Stereo Speakers Feature.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has 128 MB built in memory. You can extend memory with mini sd memory card.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet supports 16 input languages. It looks great Mobile Phones.

On Screen Keyboard makes this mobile phone more luxury.

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Key features
* Access the web on a portable internet tablet
o High-resolution widescreen display with improved viewing angle
o Opera 8
o Flash 7
* Internet communications
o Internet calling with integrated web camera
o Instant messaging
o Email client
o Full-screen finger keyboard
* Access to internet media at home and on-the-go
o High quality stereo speakers

User Interface
* Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release
* Display functions include zooming, full-screen, and panning functionality
* Ergnomic keys for internet usage
* Full screen finger keyboard

Internet
Imaging
* Opera 8 web browser with Flash Player (v9)
* Internet calling with e.g. Skype and Google Talk
* Instant Messaging with e.g. Skype and Google Talk
* RSS feed reader
* Internet Radio

Multimedia
* Image viewer
* Image Formats Support: BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMV, SVG-tiny
* Integrated VGA webcamera
* Internet Radio
* Internet radio playlists: M3U, PLS
* Digital Music supported for the following media type: MP2/MP3/AAC/AMR/RA(RealAudio)/WAV/WMA
* Playback for the following video formats: 3GP, AVI, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RV (RealVideo)
* RealPlayer Media Player

Connectivity
* WLAN (IEEE802.11 standard, g/b compliant) with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support (RM-156 only)
* Flash player (v9)
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Dial-up Networking, File Transfer, Generic Access, SIM Access, Object Push Profile, Human Interface Profile, and Serial Port profiles
* USB 2.0 high speed device mode for PC connectivity
* Auto-connection to saved Wi-Fi hotspots or through Bluetooth compatible phone

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Jan 08 2009

Nokia E71 Mobile Review

Introduction
The new phone from the house of Nokia has connectivity features like Infrared, Bluetooth, USB, GPRS and EDGE. If you are looking for a phone with all these functions go ahead and buy Nokia E71.

Screen:
There’s a 320×240 screen on the E71 and it looks very sharp. It’s not as bright as the N95, but it’s very clear and easy on the eyes. Screen real estate isn’t a problem at all as we find it more pleasurable to use than an N95. Pictures and video look very detailed and clean.

Email
What good would an E-Series device be without email? Besides the normal POP3/IMAP supported protocols, Nokia’s Mail For Exchange comes with the device out of the box and is incredibly easy to setup. The handset supports BlackBerry Connect (though we didn’t actually try it) and we’d imagine Goodlink as well. The messaging application had a little bit of a visual makeover, and it’s for the better. Text is extremely readable and emails look great.

Keyboard:
If there had to be one negative to the E71 it’s going to be the keyboard. Again, not a huge deal, but if we had to pick one thing to single out it’s the keyboard and it quite possibly won’t bother you. It did annoy us, though. Think of the physical keys on the E71 the same as the E61, just a lot smaller. They’re also not as squishy which is nice, and they’re pretty easy to press once you get it down. Our issue is, again, Nokia has not learned the basic keyboard layout and we personally can’t stand it. On a normal QWERTY keyboard the letter “z” is not directly under the letter “a”. It’s either under the letter “s” or somewhere in between the two. This makes typing a royal bitch if you’re not looking directly at the keyboard and is totally unnecessary.

Conclusion
Nokia E71 comes in colors that go well with the refined personality. Keeping apart the drawbacks due to a wider dimension, Nokia E71 otherwise proves to be a worthy grab!

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