Nokia's N70 can still carry itself head held high (Nokia N70)

Member Name: tlmartin

Product:	Nokia N70
Date:	26/05/09 (6 review reads)
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Advantages: Multimedia, colour screen, 2 cameras, Noikias menu structure

Disadvantages: WAP internet, EMail sucks

I got this phone a number of years ago on Orange Contract. Since then I have kept it even though I have renewed contract until my latest renew where I got my Blackberry Bold (see that review)

This phone I found was very hardy and useful for most of my needs. For starters the menu is the new Nokia multimedia iconic menu. This is easy to use. It has a normal key pad on the phone which needs the many button presses for letters.

The phone can hald a MicroSD card for additional storage of multimedia.

The contacts like most Nokias can be stored on the phone instead of the memory card which allows you to store more details, and it also has the built in functionaility to allow you access to these details and your phone without a SIM card installed (i.e. for detail transfer.)

The phone has 2 cameras, a highish quality one in the back and a low quality one on the front for video chat (not that i ever had anyone to video chat with)

The phone can use the internet albeit by WAP to connct to the internet for basic browsing and getting e-mails, however the e-mail system is terrible as you have to delete items from the handheld and server to get them out of your inbox, meanisng that if you actually want to keep an e-mail but its useless on the go you need to download it to the main PC first. (This is one of the reasons I wanted a Blackberry.)

Texts are simple to write and retrieve and use. The contact list too is simple. The one thing I lvoe about nokias is the fact with txts you can select the recipient by name and select multiple of them to bring in, rather than one at a time.

The phone uses nokias small connector for power which was annoying for me as all my previous nokias sued the slightly larger one, however what I did like was the box came with an adapter as well as the power cable, so I could still use my old Car Nokia Charger.

I have been using this phone now for easily 3 years, and the battery life is still fantastic, I still get a good 3 days with basic use out of it before it starts to go low, and it recharges fully easily over night.

All aspects still work, although a few of the buttons are starting to smudge from long term usage.

There is still even more functionality on this phone than I have even had the opportunity to use, but i;ve never needed it, as it was either to annoying to use, wouldn;t do the exact job I wanted, or I didn;t know it existed.

This phone also has bluetooth with a built in data modem,, very useful for connecting ona data dialup call at 115k for uplaoding the odd tweaked web page, although orange need to tack on a data dialup service, so your not using ther £5 per MB service

This is a good smallish size (well compared to some PDA mobiles) phone with a lot of multimedia attributes to make it a goo quality phone worth having. If your afgter something that maybe a bit old now, but can still hold its own weight against many newer models coming out then this is definately one to consider, especially as you should be able to get one for next to nothing on Ebay.

Overall a very good phone, if it meets all of your needs.

Summary: A very good phone to have to try out new phone features

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