Why hello there sexy
Written: Feb 24 '04
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Pros: Funky, sexy, easy to use
Cons: Camera detail isn't great
The Bottom Line: A fantastic phone with all the latest technology... although no BlueTooth.
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| belle_uk's Full Review: Nokia 7250 |
After many happy years together with my Nokia 3310, I decided to donate it to the ‘please Kirsty can I have your phone now’ fund otherwise known as my broke younger brother. I had also been having problems with my network - O2 I hope you’re taking note! - and to be entirely honest... just fancied a new phone.
I had been after the Motorola V300 for ages but hadn’t been able to get hold of it. I am not famed for my patience so when I trotted past the Orange shop I did a double take. The Nokia 7250i was calling out to me. It was on offer for GPB 199.99 on pay as you go with free text saver worth GPB 19.99, giving me 5 free messages a day.
Hurrah! ‘Buy me’ it called as I stepped into the store and obeyed.
After arriving home with my prized purchase, I was a prepared for a long wait as my old model took a good 16 hours for it’s first charge. But much to my amazement, one and a half hours later it was fully charged and ready for me to get my mitts on.
Right lets get on with it, shall we?!
What I love about my sexy new phone:
I can...
take, send and receive photo messages (multi media messaging)
talk hands free with the speaker phone and hands free kit supplied
download games with Java
listen to the radio on the move with the in-built FM stereo
download lots of trendy new polyphonic tones using wap and annoy everyone on the bus by showing them off... hehehe
I can also attempt to organise myself with the fantastic calendar which allows you to record birthdays, meetings, memos and general reminders.
The camera is located on the back of the phone and is really easy to use. You can
choose from standard photo (just a normal pic), night mode (for those times you’re in the dark and really just have to take a photo) and portrait for taking a slightly more elongated photo. You can attach photos to people in your phonebook so their face shows up when they call, as well as using them as wallpaper. I love the fact that it is so easy to personalise this phone, you can change the wallpaper, much like you can on
a computer, the tones can be altered as can the colour scheme. there are a few facias about now, but the amount available will increase as the phone becomes more popular,
or so I’m told by the bloke in the mobile accessory shop. So give it six months or so.
The speaker phone is a work of genius, it actually works really, really well. The hands free kit is also used to listen to the radio and is great. I always feel a little self conscious using it on the bus though, as it is the kind of bus where everyone sort of knows each other as we’re all on there everyday, and it causes a flurry of excitement when someone’s phone rings and EVERYONE turns and looks at the freak who’s talking to herself while looking out the window.
I have surprised myself by managing to download a couple of ring tones and quite a
few games. The phone came with two pretty pants games, Triple Pop and a ball related thing. Both of which were deleted to make room for my new Scooby-Doo Java game which is genius. You can buy quite a selection of Java games to download from most phone retailers, just be sure to check compatibility on the box, and ask if in any doubt.
What I can also do but haven’t quite worked out how to yet: connect to my computer using infrared or something called ‘wirefree’. Ok, I have to be honest and admit I haven’t got the faintest idea of how to go about doing this, but I am taking an educated guess and assuming it enables you to link the in-built calendar and the email facility??
The wap service is also really as simple as wap can be I suppose. It connects using
GPRS which means that you pay for the information accessed rather than the time
spent looking at it. I haven’t had any problems with it so far, although it takes longer than I would expect to connect sometimes.
As with all Nokias, the SMS messaging is easy to use, you can choose to type using predictive text or normal type, and it allows you to spread your text over three messages as with other Nokia models.
The actual look of the phone is very sleek, with two black strips down the front on either side, and is very light to hold. The buttons are smaller than others and more compact, but are not so small that you can’t actually get to them. The colour screen is
surprisingly large and incredibly sharp and clear.
So to summarise I’ll briefly go over the main features;
*Camera- easy to use, several settings available, good quality pictures
*Accessories include the usual calculator, but calendar and to-do list functions enable you to carry your life in your phone
*Good range of polyphonic tones in-built on the phone, and can download many more
*Games already on phone are a bit boring to say the least, but recent downloads include Freecell and Scooby-doo
*The memory on the phone is excellent, I can store 150 text messages and 200 contacts on the sim card and many more on the phone memory.
*Bonus features include the ability to access the full memory while having a particularly boring conversation on the phone perhaps.
*The battery life is really good, depending on how long you spend actually speaking on
the phone of course. Battery life is naturally also relative to the sheer amount of ‘fiddling’ with the functions.
To conclude, the Nokia 7250i is a trendy little number and is fantastic to personalise.
It is easy to use, although the buttons are sort of swapped over from the 3310 which is confusing at first but you soon get the hang of it. So what more can I say? Oh, apart from the fact that it's not a flip phone damn it!
Congratulations, Nokia, another superb little number and worth every penny/cent!
K xxxx
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 300
Recommended for: Stylish Trendsetters - Hip and Trendy
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Hi Everyone, I'm Belle, writing here in England.
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