Finland has a lot to thank Nokia for. It’s a candy bar style phone, with an angular top half, curved button area and a grey and silver two-tone finish. It has a smart business-like look and runs Nokia’s Series 60 operating system. Confusingly then its feature list contains some decidedly non-business applications, which left me a tad nonplussed on how to take this phone.
The handset is a standard 2.5G phone with Tri-band coverage at 900, 1800 and 1900 frequencies. It supports GPRS, but there’s no 3G shenanigans going on here. The long top half gives the impression that the screen in extra large but in fact the 176 x 208-pixel resolution display is no bigger than previous Series 60 phones.
The power button is at the very top of the phone. Indeed I’ve never actually owned a Nokia mobile phone myself, though I did get one for my better half to use once. Not only that but there’s a plastic feel to the keys that totally destroys the sense that this could be a classy choice of phone. Additionally, the labels on the keys aren’t directly positioned above the soft keys they apply to.
Below the soft keys are two dedicated keys for starting and ending calls – a doubling up that Sony Ericsson seems to manage without – with the soft keys used for the same function. The problem is that Nokia has insisted on the left soft key being used for the camera.
The right soft key however, accesses a list of programmable shortcuts to frequently used applications.
Pulling down on the joystick also brings up the contacts menu, while pushing up activates the camera. One odd key on the far right of the joystick is the labelled with a pen – the edit key.
The menu on the phone consists of fairly dull icons; I would have expected something a bit more jazzy for a new phone. Muvee is another fun application that automatically mixes images and videos on the phone to create mini movies complete with effects and music.
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