Nokia 7380 Review

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Nokia 7380 Review - Nokia 7380 is one of the more fashionable phones introduced in the market by Nokia. It looks like a fancy compact mirror at the first glance. It does not have an antenna or a keypad and in no way it looks like a mobile phone. The phone uses circular spinner for dialling and sending text messages. The phone has a mirror finish, with a copper brown and ivory look-like finish, which makes the phone very appealing. More-over, it has an orange L'Amour designer tag on the right side. The SIM card is held in a slot found at the left spine of the phone in a drawer like compartment. The mic, the charger and the headset ports, and a wrist-strap slot are found at the bottom part of the phone.

The camera lens and the flash in Nokia 7380 is located at the back of the phone, which has a resolution of 2.0 mega pixels. The camera takes good snapshots of landscapes in good sunlight, but it is not very impressive when it is used in a dark environment and in crowded scenes, such as, bars. Nokia 7380 has very few settings in the camera. The recorded video has high and low resolutions of 176x144 and 160x120 respectively The 4x zoom can be activated by turning on the main dial control of the phone.

The 700 mAh BL-8N battery of the phone is integrated into the phone itself. The manufacturer's specification mentions that it has a 240 hour stand-by time and has up to 3 hours of talk time. The 65K TFT display screen of Nokia 7380 measures 16x30 mm and has a resolution of 104x208 pixels. The display shows up to 4 texts and one information bar. Due to the position of the display, all soft keys are placed at the right of the phone in a vertical column.

Nokia 7380 has a simplified media player. On opening a media file, you can either listen from your ear phones or the in-built speaker of the phone. Names of the music played are not displayed. There is no track list available in the phone and a separate menu item contains the equaliser settings. The phone has an internal memory of 50 MB, shared by the call melody files, the photos, etc., and does not feature any external memory. Nokia 7380 features a FM radio and allow 20 FM stations to be saved along with text names for them. The radio can be played through the phone speaker, but is better heard with a headphone, which doubles as an antenna. A stereo headset is included in the package when you buy the phone.

Nokia 7380 features all the basic functions, such as, SMS, MMS, organiser, alarm clock, notes, etc. The phone supports GPRS and WAP-browser version 2.0 is used and allows XHTML pages. Nokia 7380 has a Dictaphone that allows 60 minutes of speech recording and also works in a talk mode. The number of records is limited by the memory available.

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