Nokia 6730 Classic Review

The Nokia 6730 Classic is a midrange smartphone produce by Nokia exclusively for Vodafone. The 6730 Classic has some great features that may look tame compared to other phones but offer great value for a phone of this range. The 2.2” screen offers a sharp and detailed display and this is put to good use with the 3.2 megapixel camera that comes with FullFocus. The 6730 Classic is a 3.5G phone that also has supports HSDPA/HSUPA, Bluetooth and USB making it highly connectable. The standard package includes a 1GB microSD card and the 6730 Classic features an FM radio and integrated media player and should come with many more smartphone features as well. The Nokia 6730 Classic offers great value for money for a phone of this price range and is available exclusively on Vodafone.

Nokia 6720 Classic Review

The Nokia 6720 Classic is another phone in the line of Navigation devices released by Nokia. Sporting a nice sleek and slim curved design, the phone fits perfectly to your face and also sports a new feature known as active noise cancellation, whereby external noises are filtered out so that the person at the other end can hear you loud and clear. Assisted GPS with Nokia Maps 3.0 is present to ensure that you won’t get lost wherever you go. The presence of a 3.5mm headset jack is a relief to music lovers, as is the presence of 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA, which ensures that you get uninterrupted access to the maps and so that you can be in touch on the go. TV-out functionality is also present so that you can share the pictures and videos that you have captures with the autofocus, LED flash enabled 5 Megapixel camera!

Nokia 6710 Navigator Review

The Nokia 6710 Navigator is an effort by Nokia to create a new niche and, in this case, it is for phones which are dedicated exclusively for navigation purposes. Making use of Assisted GPS and the latest version of Nokia Maps 3.0, the phone also has a dedicated Navigation key which will take you through the latest maps and also includes walk navigation and real time drive. With a 3.5mm headset jack to plug your own headset in and support for upto 16 GB of external memory, you can be rest assured that music is pretty much in the mix. High speed internet and Wi-Fi is also onboard to ensure that you get uninterrupted navigation service. A digital compass is also included, as well as a 5 Megapixel camera, which makes use of the popular Carl Zeiss optics and also has autofocus and LED flash, which ensures that you don’t miss those memorable moments!

Nokia 5330 XpressMusic

The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic is one of the new 3G phones to be released to the market this year. The phone is quite heavy weighing a whopping 113g making it definitely not a phone that would feel comfortable in any user’s pocket. The phone has a nice 2.4 inch screen allowing up to 16 million colors at a 240 x 320 pixel resolution. The phone comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack which allows the user to use a wide array of headphones making this phone perfect for audiophiles. The onboard memory of 70 MB can be expanded up to 16GB using the microSD memory card slot. The phone allows class 32 GPRS connectivity, class 32 EDGE, HSCSD and 3G. The Bluetooth allows easy and quick data transfer. The 3.15 MP cameras on the phone are good to take photos and videos. The phone allows video calling though it does not have a secondary camera. A built in GPS receiver makes this phone even more attractive.

Nokia 6700 Classic Review

The new Nokia 6700 Classic boasts of an excellent feature/price ratio that is sure to endear itself to its intended markets. Positioned to target the mass markets like its hugely popular Nokia 6300, Nokia’s new classic phone comes in an elegant candybar form factor that is as slim as any fashion phone out there. With superb features behind its solid build, the new 6700 comes out under high market anticipation and promises to be another sure winner for Nokia.

Something from the past

The Nokia 6300 is already 2-years old – an antique by today’s past-paced developments in the mobile telecoms industry. Yet it continues to command a large market following that Nokia just can’t ignore. Unhappy 6300 users are rare and there are those who would gladly replace their old ones with exactly the same model. The secret? It’s the 6300’s solidly built body with near legendary durability that is rare these days. For Nokia, leveraging on the 6300’s loyal customers is well served with the new 6700 Classic that is just as solidly built, elegant and with features that upgrade it to 21st century expectations.

Highlights of its updated features

One can safely say that Nokia line of phones are packaged with hand-me-down features from its high enders from just a year back, To a large extent, that is a valid observation. The new 6700 sports features that stood out with flagship Nokia models about a year ago.

See if you can spot them here:

• It has a 2.2” QVGA LCD screen that supports 16 million colors.

• Adaptive brightness automatically adjusts the screen’s brightness ambient lighting.

• There’s Gesture Control. When a call comes in you don’t feel like answering, just turn the phone face down on the table and the call gets rejected.

• It’s got a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash. That LED is a useful feature supporting the phone as flash light when you have to grope your way in the unlit cinema house.

• Here’s GPS navigation with Nokia Maps

• There’s FM radio with RDS.

• Its uses the WebKit open source internet browser made popular in Nokia’s E and N series phones

• There’s high speed 3G and HSDPA support for fast internet surfing and downloads.

• There’s Windows Live Messenger application support

• The phone comes with a generous 170 Mb internal memory that can be expanded up to 8GB with a microSD expansion slot. This feature comes in quite handy when you have to handle large multimedia files for music and video on the road.

• Talk time is better compared to phones this size at 5 hours and a standby time of 12 hours. Continuous music playback when you’re on the road is up to 10 hours.

Conclusion

The Nokia 6700 classic promises to live up to its name and stand among the best pedigreed mobile phones out there. Value for the money stands out without peer.

The Nokia 6121 classic – A Great Mobile Performer

The Nokia 6121 Classic is a candybar Quad-band GMS and Dual-band WCDMA smartphone that supports high speed networks 3G, HSDPA and HSUPA. That puts it at par with most other smartphones and touchscreens to allow faster web surfing and downloading from the internet.

New Symbian Features

Nokia extends leading-edge technology on its classic line with its use of the new Symbian S60 OS technology found in Nokia’s high-enders. That’s just great for the less techno-savvy market as the new OS is a more stable now than when it was first released. The benefits of the S60 are quite clear, like:

• It’s as fast as any regular mobile phone.

• Its menu settings are now unified using one single menu icon

• There's an extensive how-to manuals that come alive from the main menu’s Tutorial icon.

• It supports all the cool applications optimized to run under the S60

• Multi-tasking is standard on all S60 mobile phones.

• It comes with a standard browser that supports Flash media and the latest java content.

Outstanding Features

While there’s a real problem with the diminutive 2/2” screen for people with less than 20-20 vision or for those with large stubby fingers for its small buttons, the 6121 Classic offers outstanding features to give the competition a run for the money. The phone carries most of the impressive feature set of the Nokia N95, but without the expense, weighing 25% less and is 25% smaller.

• It’s a quad band GSM and dual band WCDMA smartphone supporting high speed 3G HSDPA and HSUPA networks that let users browse and download data on the internet anywhere from 3mbps -14mbps.

• View vibrant images and video on its 2/2” LCD TFT screen that supports 16 million colors on QVGA resolution. That makes it at par with many from Samsung sporting similarly vibrant screens.

• It’s a 2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash that also captures QVGA video at 15fps.

• There’s Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP that enable you to use Bluetooth wireless stereo headphones.

• It sports the industry standards 2.5mm audio output jack for your favorite high fidelity stereo headsets.

• It supports the popular and cheap microSD memory card up to 8Gb for all your multimedia files.

Overall Outlook

The Nokia 6121 Classic is a great alternative for Nokia fans who are not about to splurge on large expensive touchscreen smartphones and prefer one that’s comfortable in the palm and light on the wallet. It brings together a full-featured smartphone and a regular phone into one.