Trendsetting, but nothing revolutionary!
Written: Dec 08 '02
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Pros: Great loudspeaker function, trendy, 128x128 pixels screen resolution
Cons: Can`t send MMS, no Bluetooth, weird keypad
The Bottom Line: It`s pretty! It`s got inner beauty! BUT lacks the functions and price of the top phones.
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| fancycrap's Full Review: Nokia 7210 GSM / EGSM Cellular Phone |
The Nokia 7210 is phone with a broad appeal. It suits both the businessman and the more trendy person. With a bright color screen, powerful polyphonic ringtones and a series of other advanced function, this phone is guaranteed to be a bestseller. The price is probably the only thing holding it back.
The 7210 doesn`t really have a revolutionary design. It has inherited most of its lines from its predecessors in the Nokia-family, even though the key-placement is brand new. It`s also a bout slimmer than it`s chubby relatives in the 33-, 34- and 35-series.
Nokia is experts in brand building, and the 7210 is a phone that most likely will increase the memberships in the Nokia fan club.
It`s a very good phone, it is functional, has a very good design, and is a high-quality phone. It`s also got good battery time, weight and volume. In other words there aren`t many weak areas on this phone. But I found something.....
I am not thrilled by the way the keys are placed. The keys 1-4-7 and 3-6-9 is placed as a integrated part of the classical Nokia-bow, while 2-5-8-0 is directly beneath one and other, with progressively smaller keys (ref: the picture). The result of this is that the gap between 1, 2 and 3 is big, while the keys around 0 is tight as a fishes a....
If you have an heavy addiction to SMS, it will be a test of thumb strength when you have to change techniques according to which keys you want to hit. If you, as me, don`t like the keys you can just buy yourself a new cover with normal key placement. The 7210 uses the same covers as the 6610, which by the way is the exact same phone under a different model name and with a more standardized keypad.
Nokia 7210 comes with a number of pre-programmed ringtones. The multiple-voiced ringtones is pretty much made so they sound like alarm signals, and not like regular music. The pro is that you can hear if someone is calling you, or if it`s just the discman of the guy next to you. The con is that it sound oh so awful.
The screen of the 7210 can show 4096 colors. It gives you a better color resolution then both Panasonic GD 67 and Sony Ericsson T68i. This works especially great when you receive messages with photos.
The phone`s got MMS, and it is surprisingly easy making an MMS. You can`t SEND any real MMS though, with sound, picture and text, only RECEIVE. 7210 hasn`t got a built in camera either, so you`ll have to download pictures to the phone through the Internet (WAP), or by a computer. You can also receive pictures via IR either directly from a camera or from another phone.
You can add several pictures into a message, but in the 7210 you can create a slide-show, and as said, NO sound.
The 7210 has got an address book which rooms 300 listings ( SIM). The memory is dynamic, so if you save more than one number to each contact there will be room for less contacts. It rooms a total of 725 kB, which is spread out between MMS-messages, saved pictures and ringtones, calendar appointments, notes, contactregister, Java-games/programs. The memory very quickly becomes a tad to little.
This is not a pure-breed professional user phone. It lacks voice commands, picture editing and the possibility of composing your own ringtones like the former Nokia models. It hasn`t even got Bluetooth, despite, Nokia having said they really believe in this technology.
In return this one got radio (stereo), and support for 1900 mHz (used in big parts of the USA and some of the Far East).
It`s also got a loudspeaker function that works very well.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 530
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