Monday, December 19, 2011

Nokia 500 Full Features Specifications Review

Monday, December 19, 2011 Cah Pacing No comments


The new Nokia 700 claims to be the smallest smartphone ever. A mid-range Symbian based smartphone from Finnish Mobile Giant Nokia. With has an exceptionally well built and has classy Gorilla Display. In a world where several top phones aren't much thicker than 8mm, this is a pretty bold claim. Much more important than its size, though, is its price. It competes with mid-range smartphones, not those that tend to be able to make superlative claims about their specs and abilities. The big question mark is whether its Symbian 3 operating system (OS) and has NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities is enough to take the fight to the mid-range Androids of this world.

While the Nokia 700's tagline of being the "smallest smartphone ever" sounds impressive, it's something that goes against the current trend in smartphones. The "bigger is better" motto has been rejected by Apple's iPhone 4S, but Android makers like HTC and Samsung have taken it to heart. It's in the disregarding of this ideal that the Nokia 700 has become so teensy.
Its 3.2inch CLEARBack AMOLED display will feel like a compromise for some users, but it is what let the 110x50.7x9.7mm body become so compact. It's a tiny bit thicker than the iPhone 4, but is undeniably slim. Using a Gorilla Glass-fronted touchscreen and metal backplate, it feels similar to the Samsung Wave in-hand. It's exceptionally well-made, dense and reasonably stylish - much more so than the drab-looking Nokia C7.



The Nokia 700 has a metallic battery cover, which comes in different colors, always matching the variety of colors the phone chassis is offered in. The chrome-like lock button, volume rocker and camera key on the right  also add some pizzazz, but are too smallish and flush with the surface to be found comfortably, and their travel is pretty shallow, especially the lock key. Below the Gorilla Glass screen protection in the front we also have three physical buttons - call, end and menu - positioned on a plastic bar. They have a good travel and click to them, but again come smallish for larger digits. The loudspeaker grill is frontal and recessed, making the phone look like a slider.

Its one bold design move, aside from shaving down those dimensions enough to wave a banner about how small it is, is the step at the bottom of the handset. Looking like part of a slider mechanism, this "chin" is deceptive. It doesn't move, slide or extend - it's a speaker output and little else. However, it doesn't extend the bottom of the phone too far and, finished with metal effect plastic, doesn't spoil the look. Remove it and you'd have the very archetype of a modern smartphone - shiny, black and anonymous - so perhaps it's a good thing it's here to differentiate it from other bigger rivals.

Although the Nokia 700 looks and feels nicer than previous affordable Nokias like the C5 and C6, its maker hasn't decided to let the look smother functionality; its sides aren't bare. Several seams are clearly visible and there's even a little lanyard loop on its bottom edge. 
It features two buttons on its right edge that would be left off many mid-range smartphones. There's a physical camera button and a dedicated lock button, to take the phone in and out of standby. They're slim and subtle enough not to make the body seem cluttered.
There is a fixed-focus 5MP shooter with LED flash on the Nokia 700, which means you can forget about macro shots. The Nokia 700 doesn't break away from these norms. Photos offer very limited clarity and a glazed look that further diminishes the impression of detail. The LED flash is a welcome addition, but image quality is poor. Then again, it is about typical for a phone of this price. The interface doesn't offer many features save for face recognition and contrast/exposure/sharpness adjustments. There are also a few affects you can apply, like Sepia or Black&White, as well as the handy Vivid mode, which bumps up the contrast, making them jollier to look at.

The pictures turned to be way too out of focus for our liking, thus lacking detail and some sharpness. The overly blurry results ruined most shots, not only close-ups as we would've expected from a fixed-focus cam. Otherwise color representation is accurate, and the phone doesn't over or underexpose. Video is captured at 720p with 30fps, and, while fluid, it exhibits a lot of artifacts, got underexposed and darker than the actual scene, and just decimated detail.
Borrowing its camera app interface from the Nokia N8, the level of control you're given over your photos is, conversely, pretty good. On top of mobile camera staples like colour tone, timer, white balance and exposure settings, the Nokia 700 lets you fiddle with ISO, contrast, sharpness, and offers face detection. 

We can forgive some neglecting of a phone camera in favour of getting the basics right, but the effort that the Nokia 700 puts into pushing NFC (Near Field Communication) loses it some of this goodwill. NFC lets one device communicate with another over short distances, most famously for use in things like contactless payment systems. It's the latest buzz word in smartphones so Nokia is shouting particularly loud about it with this handset. 
Using NFC, you can pair the 700 with another compatible device and share photos or music. Just like Bluetooth. There's also an NFC-capable game available from Nokia Store, enabling NFC multiplayer. As has been done for years, using Bluetooth. How many people use Bluetooth for this sort of stuff these days? Not many. Until NFC wins itself some significant positioning within the real world, as a payment method or similar, it's still only a tickbox 'nice to have' feature.
The new Nokia 700 claims to be the smallest smartphone ever. A mid-range Symbian based smartphone from Finnish Mobile Giant Nokia. With has an exceptionally well built and has classy Gorilla Display. In a world where several top phones aren't much thicker than 8mm, this is a pretty bold claim. Much more important than its size, though, is its price. It competes with mid-range smartphones, not those that tend to be able to make superlative claims about their specs and abilities. The big question mark is whether its Symbian 3 operating system (OS) and has NFC (Near Field Communication) capabilities is enough to take the fight to the mid-range Androids of this world.

While the Nokia 700's tagline of being the "smallest smartphone ever" sounds impressive, it's something that goes against the current trend in smartphones. The "bigger is better" motto has been rejected by Apple's iPhone 4S, but Android makers like HTC and Samsung have taken it to heart. It's in the disregarding of this ideal that the Nokia 700 has become so teensy.
Its 3.2inch CLEARBack AMOLED display will feel like a compromise for some users, but it is what let the 110x50.7x9.7mm body become so compact. It's a tiny bit thicker than the iPhone 4, but is undeniably slim. Using a Gorilla Glass-fronted touchscreen and metal backplate, it feels similar to the Samsung Wave in-hand. It's exceptionally well-made, dense and reasonably stylish - much more so than the drab-looking Nokia C7.

The Nokia 700 has a metallic battery cover, which comes in different colors, always matching the variety of colors the phone chassis is offered in. The chrome-like lock button, volume rocker and camera key on the right  also add some pizzazz, but are too smallish and flush with the surface to be found comfortably, and their travel is pretty shallow, especially the lock key. Below the Gorilla Glass screen protection in the front we also have three physical buttons - call, end and menu - positioned on a plastic bar. They have a good travel and click to them, but again come smallish for larger digits. The loudspeaker grill is frontal and recessed, making the phone look like a slider.

Its one bold design move, aside from shaving down those dimensions enough to wave a banner about how small it is, is the step at the bottom of the handset. Looking like part of a slider mechanism, this "chin" is deceptive. It doesn't move, slide or extend - it's a speaker output and little else. However, it doesn't extend the bottom of the phone too far and, finished with metal effect plastic, doesn't spoil the look. Remove it and you'd have the very archetype of a modern smartphone - shiny, black and anonymous - so perhaps it's a good thing it's here to differentiate it from other bigger rivals.

Although the Nokia 700 looks and feels nicer than previous affordable Nokias like the C5 and C6, its maker hasn't decided to let the look smother functionality; its sides aren't bare. Several seams are clearly visible and there's even a little lanyard loop on its bottom edge. 
It features two buttons on its right edge that would be left off many mid-range smartphones. There's a physical camera button and a dedicated lock button, to take the phone in and out of standby. They're slim and subtle enough not to make the body seem cluttered.
There is a fixed-focus 5MP shooter with LED flash on the Nokia 700, which means you can forget about macro shots. The Nokia 700 doesn't break away from these norms. Photos offer very limited clarity and a glazed look that further diminishes the impression of detail. The LED flash is a welcome addition, but image quality is poor. Then again, it is about typical for a phone of this price. The interface doesn't offer many features save for face recognition and contrast/exposure/sharpness adjustments. There are also a few affects you can apply, like Sepia or Black&White, as well as the handy Vivid mode, which bumps up the contrast, making them jollier to look at.

The pictures turned to be way too out of focus for our liking, thus lacking detail and some sharpness. The overly blurry results ruined most shots, not only close-ups as we would've expected from a fixed-focus cam. Otherwise color representation is accurate, and the phone doesn't over or underexpose. Video is captured at 720p with 30fps, and, while fluid, it exhibits a lot of artifacts, got underexposed and darker than the actual scene, and just decimated detail.
Borrowing its camera app interface from the Nokia N8, the level of control you're given over your photos is, conversely, pretty good. On top of mobile camera staples like colour tone, timer, white balance and exposure settings, the Nokia 700 lets you fiddle with ISO, contrast, sharpness, and offers face detection. 

We can forgive some neglecting of a phone camera in favour of getting the basics right, but the effort that the Nokia 700 puts into pushing NFC (Near Field Communication) loses it some of this goodwill. NFC lets one device communicate with another over short distances, most famously for use in things like contactless payment systems. It's the latest buzz word in smartphones so Nokia is shouting particularly loud about it with this handset. 

Using NFC, you can pair the 700 with another compatible device and share photos or music. Just like Bluetooth. There's also an NFC-capable game available from Nokia Store, enabling NFC multiplayer. As has been done for years, using Bluetooth. How many people use Bluetooth for this sort of stuff these days? Not many. Until NFC wins itself some significant positioning within the real world, as a payment method or similar, it's still only a tickbox 'nice to have' feature.

Nokia 500 Full Features and Specifications


Type
Candybar
Processor
1 GHz processor
Network
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
Operating system
Symbian Belle OS
Memory
2 GB storage
microSD (up to 32GB)
Screen Size
3.2 inches, 360 x 640 pixels
AMOLED touchscreen, 16M colors
Messaging
SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Camera
5.0 Megapixel, 2592х1944 Max. Resolution
Geo-tagging, fixed focus, LED flash
Connectivity
HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
3G
GPS
EDGE Class 33
GPRS Class 33
Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, EDR (A2DP)
USB Port
Data Cable v2.0 microUSB
Dimension
110 x 50.7 x 9.7 (mm)
Weight
96g
Available colours
Cool Grey, Silver/White, Coral Red, Peacock Blue and Purple
Battery Type
Li-Ion 1080 mAh

Standby: Up to 465 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 7 h 10 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)


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