I have always had a thing for Nokias, they’re reliable, sturdy, and generally top of the range. Enter the brand spanking new Nokia 7270, now featuring in my pocket. I fell in love with its slick design and flippy status, and it was just screaming out to replace my 7250i.
---APPEARANCE---
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Advantages: Beautiful, dependable, colourful, decent camera Disadvantages: Expensive
...Enter the brand spanking new Nokia 7270, now featuring in my pocket. I fell in love with its slick design and flippy status, and it was just screaming out to replace my 7250i.
---APPEARANCE---
My new Nokia is indeed a flip phone, one of the first from Nokia, and the only one that’s managed to catch my wandering eye. Nokia actually refer to it as a ‘fold phone’ in an attempt to refrain from admitting that they had indeed ... ...am keen to stick with Nokia phones. I am terribly disorganised, but with a calendar, alarm clock and to-do-list available at the touch of a button, I can attempt to sort myself out! The calendar displays a month to view, including the days of the week, making it easy to check where dates fall. Each date can be individually marked. Birthdays can be recorded, and reminders can be set to remind you up to a week before hand. Meetings, memos and reminders ... more
I have always had a thing for Nokias, they’re reliable, sturdy, and generally top of the range. Enter the brand spanking new Nokia 7270, now featuring in my pocket. I fell in love with its slick design and flippy status, and it was just screaming out to replace my 7250i.
---APPEARANCE---
My new Nokia is indeed a flip phone, one of the first from Nokia, and the only one that’s managed to catch my wandering eye. Nokia actually refer to it as a ‘fold phone’ in an attempt to refrain from admitting that they had indeed made a mistake, when predicting that flip phones would never take off a few years ago.
When closed, the phone has a sleek stainless steel appearance with a subtle silver design and black frame, measuring a teensy 8 x 5cm. There’s a ‘mini screen’ on the front, as well as the camera lens. The mini screen has a 4.096 colour display, capable of displaying a screen saver, wallpaper and battery/signal status, as well as caller ID and message alerts.
When opening the phone, you are grabbed by an eye catching art décor inspired look, with red, black and silver. It sounds disgusting, but honestly, it’s gorgeous. The large 65,536 colour screen (measuring 4 x 3.5 cm) is perfect for taking photos, playing games and reading/writing text.
The buttons are flat on the bed, and measure 1cm square, so are massive compared to the fiddly Samsung models, or the impossible Sony Ericson. These buttons are fine for my fingers, the only problem is with the ‘navigator’ key, you do sometimes find that it is easy to press the wrong directional key as they’re pretty small. But those who are used to using flip phones such as the Motorolla for example, should be fine.
What is fairly original about this phone is the use of textiles. It combines metal, plastic and fabric to make this phone a delight to hold. The sales package includes two textile wraps, one black and one red, which easily clip onto the front of the phone to create a different look. The wraps do feel flimsy, but I’m told they are replaceable at a cheaper cost than the £20 odd that you’d pay for a plastic case for previous models.
The phone also comes with an adorable pouch, which is really soft. It’s black with a red tie, and it’s so cute! Perfect for popping in your bag, safe in the knowledge that your phone is unable to be scratched. Also included is a black and red wrist strap, which is ok, but kinda annoying, I don’t want to go round with my phone attached to my wrist, I’d drop it like that. But of course it’s fully removable so I can’t complain.
Themes are available to personalise your phone, including screensavers, wall papers, and ring tones to suit your style. They are easily selected from the settings or gallery menus. The actual menu itself, can be changed from list or grid formats, as with several previous models. The list option basically enables you to scroll downwards to find what you are looking for, while the grid displays options in an attractive grid, funnily enough, with just the icons showing, the menu title showing at the top left of the screen.
Now although this phone is primarily about appearance, I think we need to move on to…
---RINGTONES---
The phone arrives with 24 polyphonic tones. They're pretty impressive. I'm particualy liking the 'big band' sounds. There's no 'Chirpy Bird' crap here, each tone is sophisticated and varying in sound - waving goodbye to the mono tones of the past. When this phone calls out, you could be mistaken for thinking it's the radio on some tones. I'm impressed. Further MP3 tones can be downloaded.
---MESSAGES---
A mobile phone just wouldn’t be a mobile phone without SMS text messaging. SMS enables you to send a written message of various lengths to another mobile. The 7270 combines Nokia’s distinctive messaging capabilities with new, up to the minute features to make communicating more discreet and easy than ever before. (wow, I could really write to sell these things, couldn’t I!) The 7270 enables you to write extra, extra long messages, concentrating six text messages into one, double the 7250I’s allowance.
Writing a text is just as easy as ever, with predictive text enabling you to customise the dictionary, being able to add your own words. I find this especially handy, as if you type ‘Kirsty’ into predictive text, it will come us as ‘Lipsty’. Hmmm. So just to give you an example, if I added my name to the dictionary, it would be saved as the chosen word for that combination of letters. If predictive text isn’t your thing, you can still type in the original way, as in tapping the key until you find your chosen letter.
Text messages can be sent either to a phone, or as an email. I find this really handy, as if I have an important email to send while I’m out, there’s no need to rush into an internet café. When sending as a text message, you can ‘send to many’, meaning you can choose all the contacts you want to send the message to, and send them all at the same time. I particularly like the fact that you can set the phone to automatically save sent messages in the appropriate folder – ideal to check if anyone’s been at my phone.
Templates are available to send if you’re in a hurry, with ready made phrases such as ‘I’m in a meeting, please call later’, or ‘I love you too’ – my personal favourite – how impersonal can you be?!!
Multimedia messages are becoming more and more easy to send and receive. They are brilliant for sharing photos and if you’re anything like me, random little pictures of socks. You can take a picture with the in-built camera, and immediately choose ‘send’, and add it to a message where you can send it to email or another phone.
---CONTACTS---
Managing your address book is dead easy with this little Nokia. Add contacts by entering their name and initial number, and continue with the ability to add a full home and email addresses, home, mobile and business numbers etc. So in other words, instead of having ‘Lyn mobile, Lyn home’ etc in your contacts list, you can have names and choose the appropriate detail – genius. Images can also be added to the contact name, which will flash up when that person calls.
Contacts can also be arranged in groups, such as friends, family, business, and assigned a different ringing tone for each. So if you’re skiving work you can be reminded to answer the phone in a croaky, on-the-brink-of-death voice, rather than the bright and breezy tone reserved for your best mate.
---MAKING A PHONE CALL---
Nokia’s a renowned the world over, for being as straightforward to use as possible, and this model is no exception. Making a phone call couldn’t be simpler. Just key in the number and press the ‘call’ button. Alternatively you can search through your contacts and press the call button when you’ve reached the relevant number. The sound is clear and crisp, with reception obviously depending on your network.
---THE CAMERA---
The 7270 uses a VGA camera, with a 640 x 480 pixel image… far greater quality than the poxy 7250i – a terrible camera! We must remember though, that unlike some camera phones on the market, the 7270 is primarily a phone, not a digital camera. I can, however, see a significant improvement compared to previous phones I have played with, and I’m happy with it. If you’re that worried about the camera then buy a digital camera for goodness sake!
Anyways, taking pictures is easy, just point and press, and a couple of seconds later, you have your automatically saved image. A nifty capability of the phone is being able to use the mini display as a view finder, so taking pictures of yourself no longer involves estimating your position and taking a pic of the door behind you instead.
The camera will arrive in your grubby mitts pre-set to the ‘normal’ image quality. Changing the setting to High or Basic, will mean either less, or more memory is used with each saved photo. I have mine set to ‘normal’ and it’s fine for me, so it’s worth experimenting and choosing your setting.
The video camera is brilliant, the quality really isn’t bad at all, though predictably is a little fuzzy around the edges. You can choose whether to mute or keep the audio when saving your video clip, which might be handy. Each clip lasts 15 seconds, although you can change the settings to allow you to record up to four minutes of footage.
Saved images will be saved into the gallery, where you can create additional folders to file your photos and clips how ever you please.
---THE RADIO---
The in-built FM radio lets you save up to twenty of your favourite stations on the pre-sets. These can then be flicked through using the button on the headphones, or on the handset itself. The actual headphones come with the phone, and plug into the bottom of the phone. The headphones I got are silver with back detail, and I’m still not convinced whether I like them or not. The ear buds are uncomfortable as they’re so big, but they do block outside noise which can be irritating – especially when those grannies on the bus are gossiping at full pelt.
The reception is clear and easy to adjust, with manual and automatic tuning at a touch of a button. The radio even works abroad – well, in Denmark at least, as I discovered on the 7250i. Volume controls are on the side of the handset, making it easy to reach into your pocket and turn it down or when required.
The radio can either be played through the ear-bud headphones, or you can change the setting to ‘loudspeaker’ meaning you can listen to the radio, as a radio, if that makes sense. The sound is clearly from a small speaker, don’t expect surround sound – but it is far better than my cheapo portable radio even. Can’t be bad. It has a pretty good volume on it too. Plus it will mute automatically when someone calls.
---APPLICATIONS---
It’s not just the general style of the phone, coupled with the free accessories that makes me think of a female target group… The phone comes with two Java games and two applications.
Applications first. Under the ‘Collection’ folder, you will find ‘Size Converter’ and ‘Translator’. The Size Converter is pretty nifty actually. It opens to reveal a page with pictures of clothes on it, including a dress, skirt, trousers, jacket, shoes etc. You can choose an option, we’ll take shoes. You are then asked to enter the numerical value of the size, so I’ll put in ‘8’. It will then ask you to choose between several options, including UK male and female, Australian, US and Japanese. Choosing the relevant option then gives you your converted sizes. So for my big feet, I need to look for a 9 ½ in Australia, and a 39 in Russia. At the bottom, you even get a conversion in Inches and Centimetres.
The translator is pretty much as it sounds. In-putting a word in English, Spanish, German, French or Italian will give you the relevant translations. Fantastic! I think this is a brilliant little device, which will come in handy when abroad.
The games are actually pretty good. Long gone are the days of Snake and Space Invaders. The 7270 comes equipped with ‘Chic Pinball’ and ‘Disco’. Disco is pretty good though I haven’t got the hang of it yet. The idea is to run a night club and make as much money as possible doing so. You have to buy DJ sets, a DJ (generally helps), lights etc, all to make a profit and complete the relevant challenge. I have to admit I’m terrible at it, but considering I only got the phone yesterday, I will have to update when I get the hang of it!
‘Chic Pinball’ is much the same as regular pinball, except you get a snazzy pink design and pictures of models on the pinball machine… as you do… Playing is easy, just using the relevant number keys, you can shoot the ball, and flick it back up etc to get high scores. It is kinda frustrating though, and very, very addictive. I just played a game for research purposes only, and ten minutes later I’ve managed to return…
---OTHER FEATURES---
With the media player, you can download and play files such as images, audio and video from different sources. MP3s can be downloaded in this manner, though I’d imagine they’d use a heck of a lot of your phone’s memory up.
Push to Talk is a feature which acts like a kind of radio system. This only works with other compatible devices, and of course will involve a cost from your network. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, though I think it might be better when participants are out of the office or something, rather than using it instead of a regular phone call. Pressing a designated key enables you to make a call out to participants, although u like a phone call, there is no guarantee it has been received.
Another media feature is the voice recorder. You can record up to three minutes, including current phone calls. These can then even be used as ring tones – so I’m gonna experiment and see if I can record my favourite songs and use it as my ring tone. I shall update asap!
The organiser is one of the reasons I am keen to stick with Nokia phones. I am terribly disorganised, but with a calendar, alarm clock and to-do-list available at the touch of a button, I can attempt to sort myself out! The calendar displays a month to view, including the days of the week, making it easy to check where dates fall. Each date can be individually marked. Birthdays can be recorded, and reminders can be set to remind you up to a week before hand. Meetings, memos and reminders are included options.
The To-do-List is a brilliant little device which enables you to note all tasks along with their deadlines. Alarms can also be set to correspond with your list.
Notes are a nifty little area where you can write up to 3000 characters, to either save or send. Other features of the organiser include a stop watch, count down timer and calculator.
Quite possibly one of my favourite features has to be the infrared function. I have just transferred all of my contacts from my old phone onto my new one, by activating the infrared port on the 7270, and sending my contacts as a business card via infrared. Just point the two infrared ports together, and we’re sorted – fantastic!
To begin to conclude, I have to say that with the range of features coupled with the latest in mobile technology, this little phone is more than welcome to stay in my pocket. Weighing in at 121 grams, it is not the lightest, or smallest phone ever made. But I love it.
It looks gorgeous, and has everything you could possible need. With Java compatible downloads, GPRS and elegant designs, with the ability to easily customise, I personally couldn’t ask for more. This is my first flip phone, and I’m impressed, it’s great. The media features are particlary impressive - there are an amazing number of applications allowing you to capture the world around you. Just remember, boys and girls, voyerism isn't very nice.
The sales package is complete with the charger. The first charge must be for 10-12 hours to start the battery off. The user manual states the battery has a life of 270 hours when on stand-by, and 4 hours talk-time. With my useage, I find it will last me just under a week.
If you bought this phone network free, it would cost you £700! I got mine for free, on a Vodafone Anytime 200 contract, this offer is available at the Link at the moment. Also, check out http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,62366,00.html for more information.
I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my very long review, but hopefully it’s enabled you to make up your mind whether the next generation of Nokia phones are for you or not.
The value for money section below just has to be excellent, as I didn't pay a penny for this phone. However, if you are planning to buy it sim-free, I'm not sure I could justify the £700 bill.
Advantages: Good looking phone Disadvantages: Occasional freezing and no bluetooth
...had a look on the nokia website and when I saw the Nokia 7270 I thought I want that phone. It didn't have bluetooth but it came with an FM radio which really wanted so I couldn't listen to my Chris MOyles on the way to work.
When the phone came I was delighted it looks fantastic and no-one else I knew had this phone so it got a lot of impressed looks. It has your basic functions such as phonebook, MMS, Camera, Video, GPRS and Calendar functions.
... ...it does the job it is intended do the video is of an OK quality.
Now 6-7 months on I can say the phone is still great, the battery has weakened but only needs charging every couple days and the only problems I have had is that the FM headset stopped working and every now and again the the GPRS will freeze but if you just leave the phone for a moment it will sort itself out.
The signal quality of the phone is always very good and I usually find ...
Happychap 16.11.2005
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Advantages: Slick, Small, Light, Smater Disadvantages: a bit girly (if you are a bloke) no Bluetooth
...nice speaker for handsfree a colour front screen etc etc etc...
i have basically given you a small bit of detail about this phone. hopefully some info that nokia wouldnt tell you and so if you requiring the full specifications you can simply find them out from their website. ...
olly_peel 28.09.2005
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Advantages: looks gorgeous, colour screen on outside, lots of memory for all those pictures/vids :) Disadvantages: battery life could be longer
...I rang my service provider multiple times and each time the settings didn't work. If this happens to you, contact Nokia directly and they will send you the right ones.
In short, this is a wonderful phone whose disadvantages are far outweighed by its sheer beauty and style :) ...
auburnette 15.08.2005
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Advantages: looks cool, 2 displays, mp3 player, nice buton layout Disadvantages: no bluetooth, small memory which isnt expandable
Well this is a good phone at a low price, perfect for a pay and go user. For features its not bad, all the usual: large 65k Colour Screen more than enough for normal use, Vibration, GPRS/GSM, Polyphonic and mp3 ringtones, Infrared, Java enabled, Email / Web, MMS enabled. But no bluethooth, which is a let down. The question is, do the few more special features make up for it? MP3 Player, a good VGA camera with a 640 x 480 image size, Streaming video, ... ...may be handy in certain situations and of course the flip. But in my oppinion the web browser is the redeeming feature of this little style phone, its hard to find a good full browser for this price but this phones got it. You'll have full web access, all be it slower than dail up, and the ability to download themes and videos without paying the premium rate numbers which is a welcome feature that i've made great use off.
The phone also features ...
rix181088 24.05.2006 (27.06.2006)
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Advantages: Very good Disadvantages: None to mention
...camera is good for a nokia and the screen is huge! Nice and loud speaker on the phone, i've been enjoying chopping up songs to make ringtones. Can get it free on many cheap contracts in the UK, and well worth it in my opinion espeically if you want something different - everyone who has a nokia has a 6230 these days and this is something a little different. Shame about the lack of bluetooth, but apart from that this is an awesome phone with one of ...
johnieboy999 08.09.2005
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Sexy or sweet, naughty or nice... let your impulsive and spirited side come out with the delightful Nokia 7270 phone. It will awaken your passion for all things beautiful as it teasingly unfolds, to reveal its bold art deco elegance. Delight in its exquisite form and dramatic colors as you dress it up with coordinated textile wraps.
