Review Nokia X 7

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t.

Introduction:
the Nokia X 6 is one of the front runners of Anna Symbian, an important portrait QWERTY input, bringing improved browser and a refreshing design for Symbian ^ 3 platform. But the X 7 is also a media-centric device with a sense of premium and a 4-inch AMOLED screen. It is also one of the latest high-end Nokia devices running Symbian so it deserves some special attention. But worth your buck? We will guide you through innovations in the interface, to see if this 680 MHz processor 11-BRAChiONAS under the hood to duplicate the experience and look at the 8-megapixel fixed focus camera, but let's start with some history.

Nokia X 7 first leaked in November 2010, but then it was through a bumpy road in the market. In December, he appeared with at and t name and seemed set for a release centres, but only a month later, either the carrier or phone manufacturer decided to cancel this partnership so that the device does not appear subisdized to members, at least initially. Nokia X 7 However, eventually became official in April ushered in the new Symbian Anna, formerly known as PR 2.0.

Design:
But it is not only the new user interface – Nokia X 6 comes with a corner rather unique design with four grills in every one of the corners, but only the bottom two teams speakers. 4-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixel dominates the front. This does not come with improved Nokia ClearBlack nearly perfect blacks and better anti-reflection for outdoor visibility, but we saw the colors are very high, with black is still very deeply. Add to this scratch protection and seeking a gorilla glass screen, slightly damaged delectable only average sunlight readability. Oh, and we understand on Nokia desire to preserve the ecosystem is consistent, but this resolution 360 x 640 pixels nHD seems dated now.

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In front, you also have earspeaker on top and Central menu at the bottom, while the right side there is a volume rocker and a stylish, dedicated shutter speed key camera that will allow you to quickly Snap photos. To the left for a surprise – you are in a card slot microSD and is protected with a cover of the SIM card slot allows for hot swappable cards. However, being proved to be a challenge even the most expert smartphone. Engineers in Espoo have managed to arrive at a single open mechanism – eyelids they actually serves as the front doors of the small drawers where you can place your cards. Open them, you must first press one side of the lid, and then drag the entire chassis. After quickly fat mechanism works perfectly, but casual user with no Handbook in hand will find unintuitive at best.

Back is one of the most controversial elements of the Nokia X 6 is where fixed focus 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash. Fixed-focus, also known as full focus in Nokia, has the advantage to keep almost everything in focus. At the same time is extremely snappy as it takes time to adjust the focus for each shot, but always closer than 20 inches automatically get blurry, so you can forget all about macro shots.

Metal back cover seems very stable and adds to the premium feel of the handset, but is unfortunately not removable. At the top, there is a microUSB port for charging device, a headphone jack 3,5 mm and key locks, while the bottom is just simple.

The phone feels solid to 15 ounces (146 grams) of weight. It is not among the thinnest there with 0.02 inches region (11.9 mm) at its thickest point, but the oval profile contributes to a comfortable in the hand. So together, but this left us with mixed feelings, cannot be denied, the materials used in Nokia, leaving the impression that there is a premium quality.

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Nokia E6 review

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with T-Mobile, United States and at and t.

Getting Started:
When you open Nokia E6 Pack and organized from a high degree, feeling bittersweet industrial design. Device looks great, feels great in your hand and it seems to check all the boxes, but leaves us with a last trepidation when it comes to operating system. We already know that the combination of Symbian Anna and X 7 is missing, so why should experience is better for E6?

E6, represents, therefore, actually a completely different idea. With a keyboard QWERTY, but smaller and larger screen, as well as classic Nokia business order-form-factor, the handset can cause just nostalgic feelings amongst the audience, and eventually ends up in the pockets of a good number of people. The question is, can give rise to lodge above r row of other QWERTYs in the market.

Design:
As far as styling goes, is Nokia E6 a formidable opponent. He married a crisp, clean lines and classic styling with Nokia a distinctive appearance, Nokia's forte in delivering great material coming to light in this phone. With weight behind it, the Nokia E6 feels solid and durable, but may not be for everyone.

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The screen is without doubt a highpoint of the handset. Supply of 1 inch capacitive screen with VGA resolution, it is one of the more densely packed pixels book about, making for a super sharp view. Video quality looks fantastic on the handset, with excellent color and contrast levels, as well as very good viewing angles add only positive impression.

QWERTY form factor is a proven format for Nokia and us generally likes the design of E5, E6 builds and improves it. Under the screen is gorgeous call and end buttons, five-way d-pad and four shortcuts in the home, calendar, messaging and contacts. Activities further to four sliding QWERTY keyboard, with each key is created individually and curvaceously. Volume buttons are to the right along with the Lock slider and microUSB port, sitting to the left. Database is in the proprietary port while charging until the top is the power button, the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot. Verso Nokia E6 is 8MP camera, dual LED Flash, and speakers.

As you probably can tell, I really appreciate the great attention to detail Nokia handsets tend to demonstrate in the field of construction and E6 is no exception.

QWERTY keyboard actually performs very well with easily identifiable keys, a good amount of feedback and key click intuitive plug (despite us device containing international characters). Despite the good overall performance, E6 is a bit narrow, and so is the keyboard, therefore, may be a little tight for larger hands.

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Nokia E7 review

Nokia's last gasp Symbian smartphone, the E7, is here. Does it go out in a blaze of glory or is it a damp squib? Julian Prokaza finds out in our review.

Nokia has been having a bit of a hard time of late. The Finnish mobile phone giant recently ditched the ailing Symbian as its mobile operating system of choice (in favour of Windows Phone 7) and then announced 7,000 job losses in April as part of a €1 billion cost-cutting measure. So, with the future of both the company and Symbian still uncertain, now might not seem like an ideal time to invest in a new Symbian smartphone from Nokia, which is unfortunate, as that’s just what the E7 is.

To Nokia’s credit, the E7 is an extremely stylish smartphone. It has a sleek, all-aluminium shell with rounded edges and neatly capped-off ends, along with a 4in screen that fills the entire front of the handset. It sits nicely in the hand too, although the finish does make it rather slippy. At 176g, it isn’t too heavy to tote around in a jacket pocket.

All-screen it may be, but the E7 also packs a physical Qwerty keyboard — although it takes a short while to figure where this lurks. As with similar smartphones from other manufacturers, the keyboard is actually hidden beneath the screen, but the two halves of the case fit together so snugly that it isn’t immediately obvious how to get at it.

Flipping up the E7's screen to reveal the keyboard is a Herculean task.

Unfortunately, even when armed with the requisite knowledge, getting the case to open still isn’t easy. The E7’s smooth, rounded edges don’t give much purchase for a finger and it takes two hands — and two thumbs — to push the screen out of the way. With a firm shove though, the screen slides up (in landscape orientation) to sit at a 30-degree tilt that’s ideal for use while typing.

Sadly, the physical Qwerty keyboard itself isn’t so good. The keys are a reasonable size, but they’re very shallow and not particularly tactile. The keyboard’s width (it stretches across almost the whole case) also means two-thumb typing involves a lot of reaching back and forth, although we suspect this is a matter of personal preference rather than some kind of inherent design flaw.

Keyboard side, the Nokia E7 has a flush-fitting button on its top edge that provides the usual Symbian options for powering off and switching profiles, plus a metallic slider on the left for quickly locking and unlocking the screen. There’s a similar slider on the right for the volume control, plus a button that activates digital camera mode and then works as a shutter release. Lastly, a wide button below the screen returns the Symbian Home screen when pressed in any application, and brings up a list of installed apps when pressed at the Home screen itself.

The image quality of photos taken with camera is best described as average. The eight-megapixel photos look little better than those from lower resolution smartphone cameras.

The 4in AMOLED screen on the E7 looks great. It’s bright and vibrant, but the 640 x 360 pixel resolution seems a little meagre with 800 x 480 displays now commonplace, even if it still renders text relatively crisply. The capacitive glass screen feels fine under the finger, but the super-snappy response that’s a trademark of iOS and (to a lesser degree) Android is absent — and that’s where the E7’s problems really lie.

The shortcomings of Symbian for modern smartphone use are well known, of course – that’s why Nokia has decided to dump it, after all. The version of Symbian^3 used on the E7 has been reworked for touchscreen use and, superficially, it looks the part. Start to use it, however, and it soon becomes an exercise in frustration, with its counter-intuitive controls and cryptic settings squirrelled away in the menu system.

The web browser, for example, feels wholly inadequate and struggles to render some web pages accurately. The screen lacks the resolution to render text-based pages readable in full-page view, but double-tap to zoom in and rather than the main column of body text being enlarged to fit the screen width (a standard feature on other smartphone OSes), the whole page is simply magnified by some seemingly random amount.

Pinch the screen to get a better text fit and everything jerkily steps up and down in size, with embedded images still usually left half off-screen. It’s a similar annoying story with other apps — Maps doggedly refused to download any maps data, despite incessant prompts to do so, for instance. This kind of OS silliness simply has no place on a smartphone in this day and age.

As for other modern smartphone hardware features, the E7 packs them all — including a mini HDMI-out port — and call quality is commendable enough. The non-removable 1200mAh battery is rated by Nokia at up to 9 hours talk time and 430 hours standby, and ran for just over five and a half hours in a video playback test.

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Nokia X7 arrives at FCC

Americans may soon have the option of buying an unlocked version of the Nokia X7 smartphone in the US. Nokia appears to be moving forward with plans to bring the X7 to this market. The company has submitted photos, drawings and specifications to the FCC required to obtain the needed regulatory approvals. The phone was officially announced in Europe in April.

The X7 features a four-inch AMOLED 16:9 (640 x 360) capacitive touch screen, an eight-megapixel camera, GPS, FM stereo radeo, and runs Nokia's Symbian release Anna. The browser supports Java and Flash Lite.

At one time, AT&T had planned to pick up the X7. However, the carrier's interested faded and Nokia's plans for a US introduction were dropped.

In Europe, the X7 carries a list price of approximately $540 USD.

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Nokia exec backs multiple Windows Phone devices in 2011

Nokia's first Windows Phone devices could not only make the end of 2011 but include multiple devices, the company's Smart Devices VP Jo Harlow said in a new talk on Tuesday. She wasn't ready to say for certain that Nokia would make 2011 but told Forbes that the target was "absolutely still this year" and that it "looks good." Harlow also fueled rumors of multiple devices at once" with word that it would start with a "smart portfolio" of devices, not just one.

Earlier hints have suggested that the two first phones, the W7 and W8, would be direct conversions of the X7 and N8 with Windows Phone and new hardware. Since Qualcomm has another Snapdragon exclusive on the platform with the Windows Phone 7.1 update, Nokia will have to switch to the new processors. It's already due to start with the new OS.

Harlow went on to validate rumors and said Nokia was exploring NFC on Windows Phone along with its outgoing Symbian platform. The company was helping carriers make NFC readers along with creating phones to use them.

CDMA was also becoming important. Nokia has had phones in recent years like the Twist, but for the most part has kept it away from its smartphone mix. Harlow explained that Nokia was "working in that direction" to expand the company's reach.

The VP reiterated a cautious approach to tablets and was clear that the company would only get involved if it could have truly unique models.

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Nokia C2-01 revision

This is a global GSM phone. Can be used with the at and t and T-Mobile, United States (2 G).

Getting Started:
Nokia C2-01 is a phone feature occasional Web crawler. With traditional styling and Alcatel Nokia car on board, aimed at the casual user might want to get online music player feature, via the 3.5 mm jack or radio and odd camera here and there.

Design:
Nokia C2-01 is an all natural plastic car handset keypad. It is a revision of the marking of the latest handsets, so the design is safe and functional, even if there is a band chrome-effect around the optical unit works well.

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The screen is 2 "with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. While the pixel density is decent and the colors appear good with mind view angles, is beyond doubt that the screen is on the short side.
Our way round phone (work), and there is a microSD slot to the left, while the right side is a microUSB slot, both contained in plastic flap. Below is a screen dpad, two softkeys, a small chiclet type send and end buttons with a numeric keypad to enter T9 underneath them. number keys raised individually and bulbous, and a toilet is flushed with another is easily distinct, but even if a small tad. Until the top is the headphone jack 3,5 mm and 2 mm proprietary port collection.

Overall design and functionality and therefore inspires neither understands. With a few dumb, such as lack of volume rocker and small screen, there is also a "bonus" in the form of a microSD slot and 3.5 mm hotswappable headphone jack

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IDC: Apple close to passing Nokia in smartphone share

Apple is now a large enough smartphone maker that it could soon overtake Nokia for the top spot, IDC said Wednesday. The 18.65 million iPhones it shipped in the winter were enough to give it 18.7 percent of the smartphone sphere just as Nokia's relatively stale growth, to 24.2 million, saw its share drop down to 24.3 percent from a much higher 38.8 percent just a year ago. RIM's quarters don't overlap with most of the industry, but IDC believed that RIM shipped 13.9 million BlackBerrys, leading to a drop from 19.1 percent of the field in early 2010 to just 14 percent.

Almost all of Android's gains were concentrated in Samsung, whose Galaxy S line kicked up from 4.3 percent to 10.8 percent, and in HTC, which moved from 4.9 percent to 5.9 percent.

Senior researcher Kevin Restivo was confident that the market would be relatively splintered given that several phone makers were succeeding based on Android. He warned that Nokia's transition to Windows Phone could cost it valuable share in the interim. RIM was also at risk since its phone mix was increasingly moving towards budget phones like the Curve and might get worse in the spring.

At the current pace, the shift could fulfill predictions of Apple overtaking Nokia as the world's largest phone designer before the end of 2011. Such a swap could be unprecedented in the phone world as Apple only entered the category about four years ago, at a time when Nokia regularly shipped more than half of all smartphones in the world.

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