Nokia N70 (Nokia N70)

Member Name: Gangsta-ash

Product:	Nokia N70
Date:	02/01/08 (283 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use, Loads of available software to download and install

Disadvantages: BIG!!

Introduction:

The Nokia N70 is available in 3 main packages - The Standard N70, The Music Edition & The Internet Edition and is fully 3G capable & easy to use. The main differences between these packages are as follows:
*The Music Edition: This package comes complete with a dedicated music key which gives you instant access to your music player when pressed and when held down takes you to the built in radio, A fully funtioning in-line remote adapter for your headphone which allows basic control of the mp3 player & a 1Gb memory card with a selection of new themes.

*The Internet Edition: This package replaces the music key with a dedicated Internet key giving you faster access to the internet services, You also get Opera installed as the standard browser & again some new themes at your disposal.
I purchased the Nokia N70 Music Edition 11 Months ago and have yet to experience any real problems with it, Admitedly its a little larger than some of Nokia's other available offerings and occasionally it would take a while to load the gallery items but its capabilities more than make up for this.

All of the main functions of this phone such as the SMS editor and contacts menu seem familiar and as such are easy to use. The menu is again is pretty similar to that of earlier models so you will have no difficulty in arranging the layout to one that suits you, the gallery is the same as on the 6600 and shows thumbnails of all of its contents making it easier to identify which pictures or videos you want to view. The rear camera starts up on its own when you slide down the cover making for quicker access for those spare of the moment photo's and is easily switchable to the front camera for pictures of yourself!

Applications:

All of the standard applications that Nokia users have come acustomed to such as the notepad, currency converter, to-do list, calender, instant messaging, calculator and voice recorder come preloaded on this phone it also comes with an easy to use movie making program which allows you to join together various video clips and apply text & music to them, a bluetooth printing application and in addition to this you are able to install such programs as Divx, Opera, MS Mobile Office and your favourite antivirus software.

Battery Life:

This is one of the few this that will let this phone down especially if like me you use the MP3 player alot or just like to talk on the phone for hours, However with extended life batteries available for as little as £6 including P&P on E-Bay this should by no means be any reason not to buy an N70.

Memory:

With a built in memory of 30 Mb and support for upto a 2 GB RSMMC card which can be hot-swapped you should have ample storage for Music, Applications and Games.

Games:

This phone supports completely 3D Games which will draw you in and having you playing again and again, it also supports java games so you could play most games that are available on other phones so no more boring journeys!

Music Player:

The built in music player only supports mp3 content from a memory card but luckily it also has Real player installed which supports MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV and Nokia Ring Tone formats from either the phone memory or the memory card.

Radio:

The N70 has the standard built in radio feature that users would have seen on early models such as 6210 which is really easy to use and of course allows you to store all your favourite stations in its memory also availble is the Visual Radio service which lets you listen to the radio whilst displaying various information about the song and artist.

Specifications:

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

Price:

You will be able to get an N70 online from E-Bay for as lttle as £75 which makes this phone extremely good value for money and well worth buying.

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Summary: Really good easy to use phone

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