Excellent! Nokia gets better all the time.
Written: Nov 14 '02
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Pros: Usability, Design, Colour Screen, Good Reception, Connectivity, Fun Features.
Cons: Keys are very small. Awkward at first due to irregular placement.
The Bottom Line: Good-looking, lightweight, reliable, easy and fun to use... what else will you ever ask for? Go and buy it.
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| nmor's Full Review: Nokia 7210 GSM / EGSM Cellular Phone |
The 7210 incorporates all the good things of successful models such as the 6210 into a funky new design adding lots of innovative usability, utility and fun features. It is a good-looking, reliable, usable and fun phone. I own it, I enjoy using it and I strongly recommend it.
Products like Nokia's 7210 show a company that applies innovation not as an ad hoc procedure, but as a continuous improvement and optimisation of successful designs. I have owned many Nokia phones, and every new model adds excellent innovative features without affecting the powerful and well-design elements of the previous one. This may sound common sense, but this sort of common sense is not *that* common with most electronics products today.
Aesthetics
A highly subjective matter so I won't try to convince anyone why I like the looks of the phone. See the pictures and judge for yourself. One thing is for sure, the phone stands out with unusual keypad organisation - key placement serves to define the shaping of the phone.
Form Factor
The phone is tiny and ultra-light. It doesn't just fit into your pocket, it can get lost in it - I literally have to fumble in my jacket's large pockets to get hold of it.
Battery
Battery charges in less than two hours and lasts for 3-5 days at a talking rate of 1 hour per day. Multimedia features and radio will consume slightly more power if extensively used.
Reception
Clear sound, received even in tricky spots where my older Nokia would not have a good signal.
Features
Powerful phone book, great polyphonic sounds (much better quality than the sound of other polyphonic mobiles) super-cool colour graphics. (you can put your own photos as a wallpaper) I've made a lot of use of the FM radio receiver feature even though I thought it was silly when I bought it.
SMS / MMS
Great completion dictionary. Auto-split of long messages comes very handy. Multimedia messaging looks great even though I don't have enough friends with MMS phones to make any serious use of it.
Connectivity, software, extensibility
Cennected to my laptop via infrared in no time. The software to synchronise addresses and calendar is just great and very easy. Image and sound exchange between computer and phone is very easy using the software utilities provided. The ability to download and install java programs on the phone adds a whole new level of versatility. The pre-installed unit conversion application is a typical and very useful example. The memory is limited though, I'd like a little more space.
Internet access / Wap
Haven't used the new features yet, but I see that all the useful features of my old 6210 are still there.
Usability
The phone makes simple things easy and complex things reasonably feasible. In all states, every button does what you expect it to do. Every feature that you'd need is right there as an option when you need it. The awkward key placement takes a little to get used to and the keys are too small, but again you get a handle of it in no time. (I can't blame the design for key size, the phone is tiny itself and the big screen leaves little space for the keypad) Usability of mobile devices has a long way to go, but Nokia is always a mile ahead of other manufacturers in this area. The big colour screen allows for better representations and more information, so each task needs less clicking and transitions to accomplish.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 530
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