The Nokia 7610 imaging phone with its sleek, compact design stands out in any crowd. Cut a cleaner profile with a megapixel camera and 4x digital zoom. Quality prints are all the... more
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A review by angeelu on Nokia 7610 January 5th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Look & Feel
Excellent
Durability & Robustness
Very Strong
Battery standby time
Excellent
Value for money
Excellent
Range of features
Large selection
Advantages:
Good looking phone, X - Press On Covers available, High Quality, Built in megapixel digital camera / video recorder
Disadvantages:
Minor niggle with menu system (see review)
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
There's so many mobiles out there that it's often difficult to choose what to go for if you're upgrading, having a change or getting your first mobile. Since my first ever mobile I was always a Nokia girl, having had a 5510, 3310 and 7210... then I turned my back on Nokia in favour of the Sharp GX-30. This phone was impressive - it was the first to have a 1 mega-pixel digital camera built into it, as well as having digital video recording facility and an SD card. But it just wasn't a Nokia... It did everything I wanted, but there was something about the usability (is that a word?!) of Nokia phones that I missed. I got used to Sharp's way of texting for example, but it just wasn't 100% as good as I remembered Nokia's texting to be. It wasn't too long before I started my search for my next phone, and, having found the digital camera impressive and suprsingly useful on my Sharp I wanted a fairly decent camera on my new phone. The Sharp was a flip phone (the first time I'd had a flip phone too), but the finish on it scuffed slightly and it soon looked older than its 6 months - I wanted a phone that looked durable and would withstand occasionally being in my bag with other things or the odd accidental drop. My search lead me to...
The Nokia 7610 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Looks:
Slightly wider than many phones, the 7610 has a sleek rectangular shape where the top left and bottom right corners are curved. The reason for the wider shape is that the screen takes priority on this phone. The keypad also follows a curved theme, which although looks as though it would be hard to use it's suprisingly easy and if you're one of those people who text without looking you won't have a problem hitting the right keys after just a couple of practices! The phone comes in two colour combinations - a mainly silver/white combination and a black/red combination. Other X-Press On covers are available though, which can transform the look of your phone, give it that personal feel, or just tidy it up if you've dropped it one too many times! Whilst I'm on the subject, I've found all the Nokia phones I've had withstand a knock or two very well, and although the covers may scratch slightly they're hardly visible - unlike with my Sharp phone, that although seemed great at the start, soon started to become scuffed around the edges.
Navigation:
Nokia's menu systems always seem easy to get around in my opinion. With this phone, there's a dedicated button on the keypad that brings up the menu options - unlike most Nokias where you scroll through the menu options, in this phone they're displayed on the screen as small icons and you select the icon for the area you want to go to. This looks nice on the colour screen and is easy to use and to see what you need. The four-directional button lets you quickly shift to whatever icon you want and pressing the relevant option button on the phone or pressing the middle of the directional button takes you into the menu.
Texting:
As per usual with Nokia phones texting is easy. Having a larger colour display means that plenty of characters can be displayed on the screen at once, and unlike some of the simpler Nokias the texting screen is displayed like a lined notepad. It's clearly displayed how many characters there are left in your text which is also very useful.
Camera:
Perhaps the first thing that drew me to the phone was the fact that it had a built in 1 mega pixel digital camera. Whilst this is nothing compared to the digital cameras on the market, it's pretty good for a mobile. I have a digital camera, but don't you always find that when you're out and see something that catches your eye you end up thinking 'if only I had my camera'? Well, to me, the built in camera is the next best thing to having my proper digital camera with me. One of my previous Nokia phones had a camera, but it wasn't that impressive - pictures were grainy and it was hard to tell what they were, but at 1 mega pixel they're not too bad, and if you really want to improve them they're not too hard to make improvements to on your PC with the relevant software. The only real downside is no flash - this obviously affects your picture taking in poor light.
The digital camcorder is also a bonus. I've never been one for wanting a camcorder of any kind, but my old Sharp phone had one and I soon found myself recording mini clips to share with people, for example when I got my pup and took him to the park for the first time etc. The video recording facility on the 7610 is superior to the Sharp phone in that it can record up to 10 minutes of footage (the Sharp could only handle about 2 minutes). Again, you can't expect the same quality you'd get from a gadget specifially built for video recording, but for a phone it's impressive and sound quality really isn't bad.
Extras:
Having a camera and video recorder, Nokia have kindly thrown in an Integrated Movie Director application which can be used to edit your mini movies. I've not had much of a play with this myself yet, but its a nice touch to the phone.
The phone has an ample 8 MB internal dynamic memory with 64 MB Reduced Size MultiMediaCard (MMC). To give an idea of what this can give you, the phone will let you store 200 photos as well as a few video clips and the likes.
The phone has a built in 'Notes' feature, calculator, converter (converts things like cm to inches, pounds to kilos etc), a voice recorder, clock/alarm, 'wallet' feature (a password protected area that allows you to record your card numbers including loyalty cards and the likes), calendar, to-do list, chat feature, web access, RealPlayer and much more!
The Phone In Action:
Reception quality with this phone has been great for me, so long as I've been in an area with a signal! Ciao asks for a rating of reception quality, however I believe on the whole this depends on your service provider - if there's no signal or a poor signal then no matter what phone you've got there's going to be a poor reception. Sound quality when there is a signal is great - no distortion etc.
Battery life is also not a problem with this phone. I'm probably an average user with regards to making phone calls, and I leave my phone on at all times. The battery tends to last for about 5 days before I need to charge it again, and even then it's never actually completely died on me. Charging the battery from near enough empty only takes a couple of hours, and if you just need an emergency top up if you've forgotten to charge the phone and are about to go out then 10 or 15 minutes of charge will give you more than enough battery life to last for a few calls (obviously this isn't recommended on a regular basis as it can shorten the total battery life in the long run).
The Verdict ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's so much you can write about a mobile phone, but without realising you can find yourself regurgitating the spec as per the manufacturer's website and reading like an instruction manual. I've tried to avoid that in this review and give more of an overview of the phone and it's uses. It's much more than just something to chat on and I'm certainly impressed with the quality and ease of use of the phone.
Its plus points other than it functioning well as a mobile phone (i.e. for making phone calls on) have to be the camera features and the ease of texting (to pick out just a couple). The niggles? There's hardly any... though it does sometimes frustrate me that it remembers where you were within a menu and next time you go to that menu it takes you back to that place - to explain: imagine you searched through your contact list to find a certain person's phone number, then, rather than exiting through the address book to the menu then closing the menu etc you just clicked the 'red phone' button which basically cancels what you're doing and takes you back to the blank screen - next time you access the contacts the first thing it'll display is that last number you looked up. It's not a big deal, and it's obviously designed to be useful, but it's taken a bit of getting used to.
As you can see, the niggle I have isn't really worth even worrying about!
Overall I'm very impressed with this phone and will definitely be keeping it for some time! It's convinced me not to leave Nokia again the next time I look to upgrade my phone and it's certainly a phone I'd recommend! (I have not included prices as they vary so often and depend on factors such as trade-ins and contracts etc - prices can easily be found by looking at service providers websites such as www.orange.co.uk, www.vodafone.co.uk, www.o2.co.uk etc).
Advantages: Smart phone with blue tooth and video Disadvantages: Bulky compared to most phones on the current market
...purchased it. They were generic nokia games, which I soon deleted to make way for my own! I download games for free from Russian Wap sites. I currently have 12 games on there now and the huge screen makes gameplay even better! I personally recommend downloading a game caled Pang! It's addictive though, be warned!
Finally, the last item on the menu is HELP
which is basically the in-phone user guide. I find this tool excellent for the more basic ... ...is not like the previous nokia keypads and I am not sure even know that I am used to it, whether I like it. Secondly, the size. I prefer some of the smaller models on the current market. Thirdly, I find the battery time is not as high as quoted. From day one of having the handset, even just for perhaps one hour a day gaming, a few messages and a coupe of short calls, I found I was needing to charge the phone every day and a half.
All in all I think ...
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Advantages: Supremely Stylish, Good features, Availability of games/apps Disadvantages: unconventional keypad, mono sound
...the phone shortly.
UPDATE: Unfortunately Nokia did not see fit to put a flash on this phone. I'm not sure how important that is, in my experience the effect of a flash on a camera phone is negligible but it seems an important fact to point out.
- You can record up to 10 min of video too, which is more than enough for most uses. Let's face it anyone wanting more than that would really need a digital video camera.
- GAMES -
A big let down of the ... ...makes me ask "What were Nokia thinking?" The 6630 also has a higher price tag ~ £70 more expensive than my little friend.
The other real alternative is the D500 which has a lot of similar features. In the end I just thought the 7610 was more stylish (and a Nokia, which was something I wanted after a year and a half of using a non-Nokia phone).
- GETTING THE PHONE -
The phone is still available free on O2 Online and is now only £20 (possibly free, ...
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Advantages: Its Great Disadvantages: Few & Far Between
...good few months now, the Nokia 7610 has still as far as I can see not made its way into the mainstream mobile market. In fact I know of next to nobody who has one. Maybe this is because to the untrained eye, the 7610 can in fact appear somewhat bulky in what has fast become a “smaller is better” situation. Im still talking about mobile phones. This would be the first mistake and to quote soccer am “a schoolboy error” as contained within its slightly ... ...digi cam available) the nokia 7610 still boasts an impressive 1 megapixel camera, which I can testify takes a suprisingly clear shot in both day and night modes. The camera itself also boasts a zoom function, with 4 varying levels of zoom – so what you might say, but lets not forget the camera is not the main function of a mobile phone… as an added extra this has to be considered as “the good stuff”. The phone itself is almost a phone/pda hybrid… ...
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Advantages: Resistant and reliable Disadvantages: Camera, no more new
...an exception for this mobile, Nokia 7610.
It's been with me for about three years. Maybe I will have to change it soon, but I really like it and it's a pity.
Even if it's true that I fall in love with every mobile I own, this Nokia deeply conquerred me.
There's a reason if I want to write about it, but I'll tell you later...
THE PHONE
When I received it as a gift, its cost was about 400 euros (in Italy).
I saw it and I liked its innovative ... ...Suite) that allows to manage Nokia 7610 through your computer and to exchange data ■ Good battery capacity: I've never changed it, I send and receive many sms every day, I talk for many hours and it lasts more than 1 day and a half
■ In 1,5 hours battery is fully charged
■ Good speakerphone
■ Possibility to write chained SMS... I don't know exactly how many, but I wrote even 10: the phone will separate and send them... ...
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Nokia 7610
For the past 3 years I have always had the latest Samsung phone, but before this I always had a Nokia and swore I would never have anything else but a Nokia but Samsung seemed to be beating them in latest technology. My partner has a Nokia 7610 I thought it looked really smart and wanted to copy him, so for my birthday in July he bought the Nokia 7610. I've now had the phone nearly 5 months and from my experience from the phone I am going ... ...PC. This also comes with Nokia PC suite software which is easy to load up. So if you want to put your photos or you video recordings onto your PC you use the USB lead. You can also use this if you have songs on your PC that you want as your ring tone. ~~~Call Management~~~ #Contacts: Advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and email details per entry, also supports thumbnail picture and groups #Speed dialling #Logs: Keeps lists ...
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Advantages: Very stylish Disadvantages: hard to read in bright sunlight.
...I recently upgraded my phone as my old one was going on the blink all the time. I went into the 02 shop and decided on this model as it looked like a stylish phone.
When you slide the phone down it fades and becomes a mirrored surface. It has a built in radio, and it has the familiar nokia menu display. The main criticism is that it can be hard to hear the caller speaking, it has voice dialling, and an MP3 player, and it comes with a usb lead that plugs into the phone so you can easily transfer music, video and photo files. The camera is 3.2 megapixels and takes very good pictures, as yet I haven't taken any videos so I can't comment on the quality, it also has a fm radio, which the headphones come. This is one criticism I have of all nokia phones with radio, you have to the headphones plugged in for the radio to work, yet you can...
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Advantages: cool, impress your freinds Disadvantages: totally impractical in a car
...there is a serious problem with these kits you ought to be aware of.
i installed route 66 mobile 7 symbian (nokia) this week and found to my horror:
1. there is no way on theior symbian versions of getting speed trap data into it.
2. on my nokia7610, i cant use the bluetooth headset i have at the same time as the GPS bluetooth transceiver unit.
its also got a cumbersome cradle you wouldnt want in a tidy car, and would attract theives unlike a compact unit you can sucker off into your pocket.
Nice idea, but definitely not a satnav for speeders or businessmen unless you got a multi-bloototh channeling phone.
cheaper to buy a garmin i say
another issue, is by putting their tiny 256mb MMC card into your phone, you just lost all your pics and vids etc, so its not so simple, i bought a 2GB MMC and copied old and their data onto...
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Route 66 Mobile Britain 2005 (Bluetooth) GPS kit for Nokia N-Gage QD, Nokia 6600, Sendo X, Nokia 7610, Nokia 6620, Nokia 3650, Samsung SGH-D710, Nokia N-Gage, Siemens SX1, Nokia 3660, Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620
Instant Messaging Services: MMS, Nokia Smart Messaging
Organiser
Calculator: Basic
Messaging & data services
Mobile Email Client: Built-in
Supported Email Protocols: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP
Data/Fax Capability: Built-in
Max Data Transfer Rate: 40.3 Kbps
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service): Built-in
Internet Browser: Built-in
WAP Protocol Supported: WAP 2.0
JAVA applications: Built-in
Messaging / Data Features: XHTML Browser
Platforms Supported: Java MIDP 2.0
Manufacturer's product description
The Nokia 7610 imaging phone with its sleek, compact design stands out in any crowd. Cut a cleaner profile with a megapixel camera and 4x digital zoom. Quality prints are all the proof you need of your cutting edge savvy. Score a perfect 10 with up to 10 minutes of video. Edit and shape your vision with the Movie Director application. Your time is precious. Get a quick introduction to your Nokia 7610 imaging phone with the integrated Welcome Demo. Show some style with Nokia Xpress-on Style Packs' coordinated covers with keymats and wrist straps with matching wallpapers and screensavers.
Security features
Phone Lock: Yes
Keypad Lock: Yes
SIM Card Lock: Built-in
Restrict Access to Phone Book: Built-in
Organiser
Alarm Clock: Yes
Calendar / Event Reminder: Built-in
Reminder: Built-in
Digital player (recorder)
Supported Digital Audio Standards: WAV, AAC, Real Audio, MP3
Connections
Connector Type: Data port - Pop-Port
Battery
Technology: Lithium Ion
Capacity: 900 mAh
Talk Time: Up to 180 min
Standby Time: Up to 250 h
Multimedia features
Downloadable Content: Audio files, video files, games, ring tones, screensavers, wallpapers
Playback Digital Video Formats: RealVideo and RealAudio (RealMedia), MPEG-4, 3gp, H.263 video and AMR audio
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