Yet another Series 60 phone joins the crowd at CeBIT - and Editor-in-Chief Jørgen Sundgot shares his first impressions of the megapixel-boasting, slick-looking Nokia 7610.
You'd think they had enough Series 60 phones in the market to attract everyone, but Nokia thinks otherwise: the introduction of the 7610 brings with it a new level of style to the Finnish manufacturer's smartphone offering - and it doesn't skimp on features either, with a one megapixel camera, RS-MMC expansion.
Sporting an unarguably quirky design, the 7610 looks like a stretched-out 7600 - yet offers no 3G features: GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz and GPRS is all there is, although in the name of all fairness that'll likely suit the market this particular handset is aimed at just fine. The strangest part of the handset would be its keypad, which swerves left towards the bottom, giving off the initial impression that left-handed users would be particularly happy with its design. It is, however, quite comfortable, unlike some other recent keypad design mishaps found in recent Series 60 smarthones, with the possible exception of the navigational pad which doesn't offer the best tactile feedback.
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Naturally, the camera of the 7610 is placed on the back, joined by a mirror embedded in the cover of the phone - which, incidentally, will let users personalize the handset to their heart's extent as both the front and back covers are exchangeable. The camera provided excellent results, although the frame rate of the viewfinder did not surpass that found in previous Nokia smartphones. Worse is it then, that the overly simplistic icons in the default theme of the 7610 are outright ghastly, although a quick change of themes will of course remedy this; it's a good thing themes for Series 60 handsets are becoming available in increasing numbers.
With 8 MB of internal memory and a bundled 64 MB RS-MMC card, the 7610 should also be well equipped to store video, which it's capable of both recording and playing back. This is coupled with other interesting features such as Wireless Village-based instant messaging, and the usual full compliment of Series 60 applications. Overall performance seemed quite snappy, and and as a last bonus users also get USB connectivity in the 7610.
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