AMPS/DAMPS - Nokia 7160 (analog GSM -Nokia 7110).
Written: Jun 02 '01
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Pros: Most advanced model in standard, a voice set, cable and earphone in a package
Cons: Absence built-in vibrocall, high price
The Bottom Line: This is convenient phone having practically all functions of modern mobile telephones.
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| 200067's Full Review: Nokia 7160 Cell Phone |
I with impatience waited for emerging this phone in internet-shops with impatience and among the first buyers have issued the order.
By opening mail packing, I have seen a small box, which was made out in the constant style Nokia.
The standard package includes: phone Nokia 7160, lithium - ionic 900 mA*h battery (BLS-2S), charge system (ACP-7U), cable DLR-3P (for connection with the PC through 9-pin COM-port), earphone with a microphone (HDC-9P), CD with the software, user's guide of the telephone, instruction on connection to the PC and still whole heap of the every possible prospectuses, visual posters on operation etc.
Design of the telephone is very nice. Outwardly telephone differs from Nokia 7110 only warm black color of body and absence of a back button for fast discovery of a slider with the help of of spring mechanism. Probably, the often breakage's of the mechanism have forced the manufacturer to refuse this construction. At first to open a slider by one hand there is enough complicatedly, but in one week get used.
In AMPS/DAMPS the standard SIM-maps are not used, therefore connection of the telephone is made by an operator of the cellular company by means of input in the telephone of a code containing number of an operator, and entering ESN of a code of the telephone into a data base of an operator (the process is named as "creation of a pair"). Thus, in the telephone it is possible to register up to three different numbers (NAM) and to be switched between them through the menu of the telephone, the truth to work there will be number, only selected in the given moment.
When turn on the telephone instead of customary logo with an image of symbolical handshake demonstrates effective animated picture "NOKIA Connecting People", which can be replaced by a salutatory line on one from 6 built-in languages.
On a screen are mapped 7 divisions of a level of a signal and charge of the accumulator, time and signs "Menu" and "Names" .If you work in DAMPS the display signals about work in a digital mode by "D", it absence means connection to AMPS.
Nokia 7160 works in TDMA 800 (DAMPS, IS136), TDMA 1800 (PCS), and also in AMPS. It is necessary to notice, that the analog block at modern digital models Nokia is rather weak, and it is by a negative manner has an effect for work in the mixed nets AMPS/DAMPS: during switching the telephone with analog on a digital signal (and back) the device becomes temporarily inaccessible to entering bells.
The sensitivity of this model noticeably is higher than DAMPS-models Nokia (6120, 6160, 8860, 8260), but on quality of work in AMPS it slightly concedes to analog telephones Nokia 252, 282 and Motorola slightly. Behind city when availability digital (DAMPS) signal the telephone perfectly keeps a connection, in regions with uncertain analog (AMPS) reception Nokia 7160 frequently passes entering calls, but to call allows down to full loss of a signal.
Quality of a sound is very good. The successful disposition of a microphone at the moment of talk just against a mouth has an effect, and technology AMPS/DAMPS ensures very natural and pure sounding.
The stated operating time from a standard lithium - ionic 900 mA*h battery till 2,5 hours in a mode of talk and till 50 hours in a waiting mode in an analog mode and till 4,5 hours in a mode of talk and till 10 days in a waiting mode in a digital mode. When I (as a average) talk till 15-20 of minutes per day in mixed AMPS/DAMPS mode, the telephone has held on more than three day without turn off for night.
A lot of energy is spent for a re-registration in a system AMPS/DAMPS, which happens much more often, than in GSM.
Connection to the PC was easy. Windows 2000 through has defined it as "Nokia 7160 Data Fax PnP via Cable" and has installed) offered drivers from CD. The maximum data rate in AMPS/DAMPS - 9,6K, connection the telephone keeps confidently, that allows in marching conditions to use Internet. And here the synchronization with the PC has caused small difficulties: the program FoneSync 4.0 of CD refused to connect with the telephone. The problem managed to be decided with the help of download from site NokiaUSA of the new version of the program.
Nokia FoneSync 4.0 allows synchronizing the telephone book of the telephone with a calendar of data's of such programs, as: Microsoft Outlook, Symantec ACT! And Lotus Organizer.
The connection through infrared-port with notebook has passed smoothly, after installation of drivers the telephone has appeared in the list of modems as "Nokia 7160 IR on Virtual COM4".
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 290
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