Well after a lot of brainstorming and some heavy thinking I have decided to at last get myself a contract mobile phone. I have purchased the Nokia N70 which I get for free from orange.co.uk and a contract which costs £30 a month. 200 anytime minutes and 500 Txt's a month which I shouldnt go above as dont use phone that much. Nokia N70 is a smartphone and Im really chuffed to bits as it means I can get all the stuff I wanted again. Phone Information The Nokia N70 is the first of the Nokia Nseries smartphones to be released in the UK. The N70 is a 3G smartphone, similar to the popular and successful 6680, but with upgraded features. Physically the N70 is similar in appearance to the Nokia 6680, with a conventional boxy shape and a functional (but small) keypad with a five-way scroll key, two soft keys, an application key, and a multimedia key. The N70 is slightly thicker than the 6680, but lighter. The screen is a good size and the two cameras are well located. Overall, it's a good, practical design for a smartphone, and the most traditional-looking of the Nseries phones. The surface does scratch however, so take good care of it. The N70 is a powerful imaging device with a high quality camera with 2 megapixels. This is the first Nokia phone to break the 2 megapixel barrier. The camera has a very powerful 20x digital zoom, an integrated flash and a choice of modes including scenery, portrait, night and sports. It's possible to control settings such as brightness, white balance settings and colour tones. The camera, whilst good, isn't as good as the 2 megapixel camera on the Sony Ericsson K750i or W900i. There's a dedicated camera button and a protective slide. Nokia XpressPrint enables you to print photos directly to a PictBridge-compliant printer. Video recording is also possible (but not at the 2 megapixel resolution). A Movie Director application is supplied for editing videos. The N70 has the full range of 3G capabilities, including video calling, video downloads and video/music streaming. A second VGA resolution camera is used for making video calls. Data transfer via 3G is very fast, opening up the possibility of media streaming and music or video downloads. The display on the N70 is very good with 262k colours and a bright active matrix display. It's a great multimedia device. The RealPlayer media player supports video playback in MPEG4 format, plus audio in a choice of formats including MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV and Nokia Ring Tones. The Visual Radio lets you listen to songs from radio stations, with information about the song and artist. A stereo headset is supplied as part of the sales package. The internal memory of the device is 30 Mbytes, with the addition of a 64 Mbyte MMC card which can be hot-swapped. Connectivity is via Bluetooth or USB. The N70 takes the 6680 and adds a few more features to make it one of the highest spec 3G smartphones ever released. In so many ways it's an outstanding phone, but there are several things that let it down. First of all, the effect of adding in all these features has made the user interface very slow. It's not an easy phone to use, takes a long time to boot up, and does have a tendency to freeze or shut down. The camera isn't as good as you'd expect from a 2 megapixel device and the screen isn't as good as you'd expect from its specification. The keypad isn't easy to use if you have large fingers and the overall build quality of the N70 doesn't seem to be that great. In particular the sliding camera cover always seems to be about to fall off. Don't assume that the N70 is actually any better than the 6680 which it replaced. You can find the best online deals for the Nokia N70 at Shopping.com. Features of the Nokia N70 include: * 2 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels) with 20x digital zoom and flash * Video recorder * Second VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels ) with 2x digital zoom for video calling * Display: active matrix, 176 x 208 pixels, 262,144 colours * Music player: MP3, AAC, RealAudio and other formats * Visual Radio * Downloadable Java & Symbian applications * Voice Features: voice dialing, voice commands, voice recorder * Integrated handsfree speaker * True Tones, polyphonic ringtones * Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, Email * Push To Talk * Conference calling * Advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry, also supports thumbnail pictures and groups * Personal Information Management (PIM) * WAP 2.0, GPRS class 10 * Fast WCDMA, EDGE and 3G connections for broadband-speed browsing - up to 384 kbps download / 128 kbps upload * XHTML/HTML multimode browser (supports image maps, background images, and frames) * Mobile Wallet * Memory: 30 Mbytes plus expandable 64 Mbyte MMC card * Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 * Triband & 3G (GSM 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 networks) * Size: 109 x 53 x 24 mm * Weight: 126g * Talktime: up to 3.5 hours * Battery standby: up to 11 days
The size is a bit :S and the shape is even weirder.. the rest of the features are sick specially if they're free Your deal is pretty nice, no one ever uses text though, well at least I don't (I live in North America)
Well I am getting this phone as my last samsung buggered up. I dont agree my samsung got dropped in a pile of snow for less than 5 - 7 seconds. After that it kept freezing after being left on a heater to dry out during the course of the night, hoping this would correct the problem. It was worse by morning as the keypad wouldnt input any commands into the phone. Although it did turn on it was useless and eventually didnt turn on all together was going to cost way to much to get fixed so I like Nokia they're strong and sturdy phones samsung I dont think are so strong.
Its not about a matter of caring or not its about a matter of me asking whether or not I made a right decision. I dont really mind if you do not care or not but that says a lot about your personality doesnt it. If you dont have a point of view on the phone (which was the point of the topic) let your fingers rest
My view on nokia phone's: They are good/solid phones,but they are to big + i had few "bad juju" cases with 'em...but if you like nokia phones,well i guess there's no changing your mind =/
"I just...hate all Nokias. Motorolas, Samsungs etc. are far better" that is just so wrong... There isnt a amnufactuer that only makse good phones I like models not labels. I have a SonyEricsson and I am very pleased
