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N70 Review |
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The Nokia N70 is the
first of the Nokia Nseries smartphones to be
released in the UK. The N70 is a 3G smartphone,
similar to the popular and successful 6680, but with
upgraded features.
Physically the N70 is similar in appearance to the
Nokia 6680, with a conventional boxy shape and a
functional (but small) keypad with a five-way scroll
key, two soft keys, an application key, and a
multimedia key. The N70 is slightly thicker than the
6680, but lighter. The screen is a good size and the
two cameras are well located. Overall, it's a good,
practical design for a smartphone, and the most
traditional-looking of the Nseries phones. The
surface does scratch however, so take good care of
it.
The N70 is a powerful imaging device with a high
quality camera with 2 megapixels. This is the first
Nokia phone to break the 2 megapixel barrier. The
camera has a very powerful 20x digital zoom, an
integrated flash and a choice of modes including
scenery, portrait, night and sports. It's possible
to control settings such as brightness, white
balance settings and colour tones. The camera,
whilst good, isn't as good as the 2 megapixel camera
on the Sony Ericsson K750i or W900i. There's a
dedicated camera button and a protective slide.
Nokia XpressPrint enables you to print photos
directly to a PictBridge-compliant printer. Video
recording is also possible (but not at the 2
megapixel resolution). A Movie Director application
is supplied for editing videos.
The N70 has the full range of 3G capabilities,
including video calling, video downloads and
video/music streaming. A second VGA resolution
camera is used for making video calls. Data transfer
via 3G is very fast, opening up the possibility of
media streaming and music or video downloads. The
display on the N70 is very good with 262k colours
and a bright active matrix display. It's a great
multimedia device.
The RealPlayer media player supports video playback
in MPEG4 format, plus audio in a choice of formats
including MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV and Nokia Ring
Tones. The Visual Radio lets you listen to songs
from radio stations, with information about the song
and artist. A stereo headset is supplied as part of
the sales package.
The internal memory of the device is 30 Mbytes, with
the addition of a 64 Mbyte MMC card which can be
hot-swapped. Connectivity is via Bluetooth or USB.
The N70 takes the 6680 and adds a few more features
such as the enhanced camera. In so many ways it's an
outstanding phone, but there are several things that
let it down. First of all, the effect of adding in
all these features has made the user interface very
slow. It's not an easy phone to use, takes a long
time to boot up, and does have a tendency to freeze
or shut down. The camera isn't as good as you'd
expect from a 2 megapixel device and the screen
isn't as good as you'd expect from its
specification. The keypad isn't easy to use if you
have large fingers and the overall build quality of
the N70 doesn't seem to be that great. In particular
the sliding camera cover always seems to be about to
fall off. Don't assume that the N70 is actually any
better than the 6680 that it replaced. The new N73
upgrades the N70 significantly and is a better
phone.
Features of the Nokia N70 include:
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 |
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