What a disappointment!
Written: Feb 24 '03
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Pros: Neat, fresh new design. Light and portable. Colour Screen.
Cons: Appalling sound quality. Ridiculous hands-free. And very poor screen.
The Bottom Line: Sorry, Nokia you’ve got it wrong this time!
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| greatorex's Full Review: Nokia 7210 GSM / EGSM Cellular Phone |
I recently upgraded to the 7210 on the T-mobile network here in the UK. Its original launch on the network was delayed by about six months because, according to the guy in the shop, "T-mobile were not happy with the performance of the phone and wanted things put right". The phone was finally launched last week and so I went along and got myself one.
The first thing that strikes you is the rather futuristic design. The keys are arranged in a sort of semi-circular way. It looks good but in practice, it makes them a little difficult to use - you'll find yourself frequently hitting the wrong keys at first - so double check what you are texting before you send!
All in all, I’m not impressed. I’ve always had Nokia phones. Most have had bugs but were bearable. This one is one big unbearable bug.
It has fully replaceable covers - a really handy feature, if, like me, you keep your phone in your trouser pocket along with keys, change etc. - and so you can change the cover every few months to stop the phone from looking too wrecked.
It has a built in radio - the sound quality on this was surprisingly good - although it uses the headset cable as the antenna. It also has a built in speaker phone which is EXTREMELY useful.
The games are good, but, and you may want to sit down at this point; THERE IS NO SNAKE!!!!!!!! I don't know what Nokia were thinking of here - you can download it via GPRS from their site for a fee, but to me, a Nokia phone without snake is rather like a car without wheels.
Now, the sound quality, which frankly, is dreadful. If anyone calls you who has a reasonably loud voice, or is calling from a noisy area, then expect distortion the like of which you would hear only on a cheap transistor radio turned up to the max. It appears to affect women's voices the most. I don't know what the problem is, but it's driving me nuts. I'll keep you posted of any developments. .
Yes, the 7210 has a colour screen. Yes, it has over 4000 colours. Yes, the colour menu looks great but the moment that you either upload a picture or get one in a MMS it just looks awful. My wife has the Samsung T100 and photos that look great on there are barely legible on the 7210! The screen itself appears to have contrast problems - you can't adjust this - and the so-called 'screensaver' is supposed to be a clock on a black background but unless you view it from the side you can't see what on earth it is.
The hands free is the most ridiculous design I've ever seen - it's stereo - apparently for the radio - but you have to get the bits into your ears, undo a tiny popper-thing put part of the cable around the back of your neck. re-pop-up the popper-thing behind your neck. Then attempt to get the connector into the phone - which, trust me, is a feat in itself! Apart from making you look ridiculous, it feels as though you have a noose around your neck! Also, the whole operation of getting it on is so fiddly you need to be sitting down still and DEFINITELY not on the move. One of my main grumbles with Nokia was that every time you buy a new Nokia phone they change the hands free connectors and you have to buy a new hands free as you don't get one with the phone. Well, this time, yup, you guessed it, they've changed the connectors AGAIN, but they do give you this ridiculous device free - I whizzed off down to the shop to get a normal hands free that very day!
The phone does have the option of having a camera attachment which rather cleverly doubles up as a hands free. I tried the camera out - in fact, I bought one - but ended up taking it back for a refund as the picture quality was so poor - the guy in the shop told me that it was the third that he had had returned that day for the same reason.
All in all, I’m not impressed. I’ve always had Nokia phones. Most have had bugs but were bearable. This one is one big unbearable bug. Sorry, Nokia you’ve got it wrong this time!
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Amount Paid (US$): 100
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