Nokia 7610 - Awesome !!!

If you have one for yours, you will say its awesome. Build with so perfection even from its exterior look, this is something which can stick all the eyes nearby as a magnet attracting pieces of iron.

The Nokia 7610 mobile phone is a high perfomance phone but made to fit medium sized pockets. When high perfomance comes with lower comparitive prices, who can miss it..?

The price range of Nokia 7610 started off at something arond Rs 25000 and has come very very low. Now a brand new one is available for Rs 10500 ( 1$ = 48 Rs approx. ). Second hand phones are much cheaper. You can even get one for Rs 6500 and may go up to Rs 9000.

When we come to the perfomance side of the phone, it comes with a large 65000 color display. The display is big enough to watch a movie with good details. The phone uses the same battery as in Nokia 1100 but due to higher processor speed and bigger display it runs out when fully charged in a day or 2 ( If u keep chatting with ur friends quite a lot, Else you can get 3 to 4 days of stand-by time. ). The battery recahrges in about an hour and this is pretty fast.

The phone supports Java games and Java softwares. Softwares build on symbian platform also run on this phone. This feature allows the phone to suit all the needs of the user as a lot of softwares are available on the internet free of cost from independent developers. You can also customise the phone with lots of freely downloadable themes.

The keypad of the phone looks cool but if u do a lot of sms-ing, you might feel that the keys are a bit closer. In fact with a large display on the top one cannot ask for a bigger keypad.

The phone comes with real player installed and lets u play all the videos and audios in the phone. Th phone supports major video formats and more formats can be played using specially designed software available on the internet. It plays Mp3 files with good sound quality in its in-built speaker, loud enough to fill a queit auditorium.

When you switch on the phone u get only 9MB of memory. But Nokia has provided this phone with a memory slot in which one can add Reduced size Multi Media Card or equivalent cards. The package also contains a 64 MB Reduce size multimedia card and a adapter for the card, so that u can use the Reduced sized card in gadgets where one has to use a full sized Multi Media Card. The phone works with cards upto 1 GB comfortably. When I tried with a 2 GB card the phone hung-up often and I had to restart over  and over. So that is not supported. The access time for a 1 GB card is pretty high, but you have to have more time to search a larger area than a 64 Mb card..right..?

The package comes with the phone, quick start guide, one year warranty, some offer vouchers depending on location, detailed phone guide, 64 MB Reduced Size Multimedia Card with adapter, Battery Charger, Wrist Strap, Data Cable, Software CD and details of included softwares.

The data cable lets the phone connet with a computer where you can acces the memmory card and phone memmory or even browse through the messages or contacts, once the phone is plugged through the cable to a PC and the Software on the provided CD is installed. You can also use to provided software to access the internet using the GPRS of the phone ( Network Feature ).

Besides these add-ons the phone has all the standard features like poly-phonic ring tones, calender, calculator and lot more.

Above all the Nokia 7610 has got a 1 Mega-pixel camera !!!. This is something very imortant for all. The images taken were of descent quality. When text was taken, it was really readable on the phone and also on a PC. But the phone do not have an in-built flash. It's available as an attachment and is sold separately.

When a lot of productivity can be so conviniently stored in ur pocket why dont you choose to have one..?

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