Nokia 9500 Review

February 24, 2007 on 4:03 pm | In Nokia 9xxx Reviews | 1 Comment

Nokia 9500 Review - When Nokia brought out their first communicator mobile phone, it was the first smart phone that combined the laptops and other PDAs with the features of a cell phone. No words could describe those features, except the word 'awesome' coming close to the impression that it had made. With the introduction of Nokia 9500 the first impression did not strike off well because of its bulky size of 148 x 57 x 24 mm and weighing 230 g, which looked similar to its sibling Nokia 9300.

However, on closer look, Nokia 9500 offers some exciting new features, most notably its integrated Wi-Fi and a built-in VGA camera with a flash light. On examining the phone, on top you will find a comfortable and large numeric keypad just beneath a small display having a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels with 65K colours. A quick look at the back will reveal the 0.3 Mega-pixels camera, which is not much of a specification. The camera offers quite satisfactory image quality. There is a dedicated speaker phone at the top of the phone and the bottom part conceals the Nokia Pop-port and the battery charging jack.

On popping open the hood, we come across a 640 x 200 pixel trans-reflective display with 65K colours, which has adjustable brightness. Indoor performance of the display is impressive, but outside, it has outstanding viewing quality. The thumb-board has large keys and are easily navigated and provides a tactile reflex. There are eight dedicated buttons on top, which take the user directly to applications, as opposed to separate folders. These hot keys provide functions, such as, telephone, messaging, web access, contacts, documents (the Word Processor) and Calendar.

Nokia 9500 has a better battery than its predecessors, and as a demonstration, you can have ten or more applications open while you run the web browser, GPRS, and the Wi-Fi connectivity. The battery is of 1300 mAh, with a stand-by time of 300 hours and provides a talk time of 6 hours.

The Nokia 9500 features storing your contact list and a key, almost at the middle of the phone, lets you add in, edit and organise all your contacts names and addresses, multiple emails and the numerous phone numbers. It is possible to send contact cards over the phone, use email, SMS, MMS, and also use the infrared and Bluetooth effectively. While you can receive and read Email from the top cover mini-screen, to reply to it, you need to pop open the cover and reply it from the large keyboard available. The phone offers all the other basic features, such as, a FM radio, polyphonic ring tones, playing WAV, MP3, AMR files, etc. It offers both GPRS and EDGE features for high speed data transmission.

Nokia 9500 is a phone made for business and enterprise use. It is mostly geared towards emails, web browsing, editing documents when you are on the move. Nokia 9500 is not a leisure phone and more adapted to business people. Nokia 9500 is a phone and a device, that combines the purpose of a feature packed mobile phone and a high-end organiser.

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Nokia 9300 Review

December 13, 2006 on 7:25 pm | In Nokia 9xxx Reviews | No Comments

Nokia 9300 Review - With the help from partners like Cingular and BlackBerry RIM, the Nokia 9300 Communicator is shooting to be the phone of choice for businesses everywhere.There's two different versions of the Nokia 9300 available, depending on where you live. One is a triband phone that includes the well-accepted 850 band for U.S. customers (850/1800/1900). The other is more compatible with networks in Europe and Asia (900/1800/1900).

The ergonomical Nokia 9300 flips open to reveal a full computer-like keyboard. You'll find typing text on the keyboard relatively easy to get used to. Viewing everything on a 65k color screen is easy on the eyes, too. Once you really get going on the keyboard, you'll really appreciate it as it's much faster than other traditional ways of putting text into your phone.

You'll also find key calling features that make the Nokia 9300 perfect for business. There's 5-way conference calling ability and a simple to use speaker phone, among others. Standard Bluetooth connectivity is included, which is nice if you like the hands-free convenience of a Bluetooth headset. Infrared connectivity is also supported.

Support for e-mail clients isn't an issue with the Nokia 9300. There's support for IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, SyncML as well as optional BlackBerry Connect.

Data transfer and web browsing with the Nokia 9300 is a breeze on Cingular's EDGE network, known to be the largest and fastest wireless data network in the US. The 9300 boasts 80 MB of built-in memory to store downloaded files, music, and e-mail messages. If you need more, expand with the 2 GB optional MMC card.

View your important documents with pre-installed office applications that support spreadshees, PDF's, presentations, and more.

Nokia 9300 Smartphone (Cingular)For entertainment while you wait, the Nokia 9300 features an MP3 and multimedia player.

The Nokia 9300 is available in Cingular stores, authorized Cingular dealers, and at Cingular's website. You can currently get the phone at a retail price of $299.99 on a 2 year contract with a $50 mail in rebate. You also have the choice of hooking the Nokia 9300 up to the BlackBerry unlimited data plan, which is around $45.

Nokia 9300 Smartphone (Cingular)