Nokia Review

Nokia N80 Review – Nokia N80 is a 3G smartphone, providing benefits to its users from a wide range of advanced software to excellent functionality and wireless connectivity. Testing has shown that the phone is somewhat slow in booting up and also in operation, however.

The N80 is a sliding phone like Nokia 6280 or Nokia 6111. It has been noticed that the phone slides open by itself when carried in a bag or in your pocket, which is highly undesirable. It measures 95 x 50 x 26 mm and weighs 134 g, making it one of the lightest smartphone handsets around It is a quad band plus 3G phone supporting GSM – 850 MHz, 900 MHz, and 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz and 3G WCDMA 1900 or 2100 MHz frequency bands.

Nokia N80 has one of the best LCD displays, with a resolution of 352 x 416 pixels and boasting 262,144 colours. The 3 mega-pixel camera in the phone takes good pictures and has a 20x digital zoom and flash. However, the quality of photographs is no where near to the ones taken by Nokia N90. The phone has an advanced music player, which allows you to pick your favourite music track from a displayed play list. The audio quality of Nokia n80 is considered to be very good and the package includes a stereo headset. The phone comes with a 128 MB memory card, which is enough a storage space for your music files. It plays, MP3, AAC, m4a, eAAC+ and WMA format music tracks.

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The battery has a talk time of 3 hours, with 8 days as stand-by. In actual experience it has been found that it is not worth expecting one or two days use from this phone and as such, any extensive use of music and smartphone features will be rather disappointing. The phone has all the basic features as desired in a mobile handset, such as, Voice recording, dialing and voice commands, MP3 ring-tones, Java applications, SMS, MMS, email, etc.

The other notable feature is the stereo FM radio with support for Visual Radio. In addition to Infrared and Bluetooth, the phone supports a wireless LAN, EDGE, EGPRS and a USB 2.0 mass storage. Nokia N80 has a document viewer for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

A multi-media rich phone, the Nokia N80 is the most highly anticipated phone from Nokia. It is also the one phone that fails to live up to the expectation that one has out of such a smartphone. But as per the Nokia specifications, it is the highest function packed smartphone ever released and that may be the cause for the disappointment.

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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.

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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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