Aug 05, 2004 09:40 PM
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(Updated Oct 05, 2004 10:15 PM)
At the personal insistence of the automatic email-circulator, I decided to write a review close to my heart in hope of pocketing some possible promised goodies ...a diary, a compass box and other cheap but practical stationary. Well the write-ups here seem to be straight out of a catalogue... and since the general info about the phone is already available i'll benefit the junta with some personal insights.
The Nokia 7200 is apparently Nokia's first attempt at a clam-shelled(flip) phone, and the phone is explanation enough for why they hadn't ventured into this arena earlier.
For one thing, to be sold a phone that claims to be ''sensuous'' is creepy enough, with all the various uses phones are being subjected to by enterprising young men and women these days(mostly personally but in unison as well).
The supposedly sensuous features of the phone are partial cloth/felt cover on both sides, scratched up symmetrically to look like there was some method to this madness. Further options allow you to mix and match the comparatively mellower phones with covers of a garish siding (think vomit yellow, pneumonia blue).
The phone is basically a little cube which is very uncomfortable to carry around being hard to grip and leaves a rather unbecoming bulge if left in your trouser pocket.
The phone comes along with a wrist strap, which only a very fruity person would actually think of using. For office-sprinters and their favored neck straps...this phone is quite a nightmare. The phone swings like a pendulum at every move and decides to catch some fresh air ever so often by opening up, leaving the display console laying dangling from your neck rather unceremoniously.
The phones priced at close to Rs 23000 depending on where you buy it from...and the fact that neck straps with the Nokia logo sold at Nokia priority dealer shops are actually made by a Jaspreet Kaur working for MeraBharat Inc. in Jalandhar is not very heartening to know. Every step is mired in fear of your precious malfunctioning phone making a very close acquiantance with Bharat ki dharti thanks to your rather suspect but patriotic lock mechanism on the strap.
Well I do understand the target market for this phone isn't a careless punk such as myself... but the fragility of this phone really puts holes in Nokias reputation as a phone maker that makes tough, enduring phones with exceptional quality.
Its not a phone for someone who needs to carry it around all day, in all weather conditions.
A common bane in all flip phones being the disconnect between the display console and the main operating console has not evaded this Nokia first timer. The phone has a mind of its own, switching off in middle of conversations and going dead if you open the flap in a rush. Missed calls aplenty on this phone.
Next up something that most younguns look at in the phone would be the games offered-i've grown up telephonically on a range of Nokias...and it saddens me that they discontinued an all time classic...Snakes that is :|- anyway this phone attempts at introducing new games with better graphics but awful play.I'd like to get Bounce back from the 6610 please... the game range includes Backgammon(which I still don't know how to play but end up winning somehow) Bowling(play it twice and you'll striking 300 everytime) and the worst possible game to ever cross a cellphones path....''Disco''... good grief what were they thinking.
Next up,the sound quality on the phone diminishes within a few months, the ringtones are not audible(as funky as they are), I still can't figure out how to keep the phone on silent-vibrator because in all probability Nokia overlooked that basic function. The MMS, FM radio and internet enabled functions are a waste if your service provider doesn't even have those services on your basic scheme.
The accesories to the phone are pretty steep as well... Data cables that cost 3gs and a headset that burns some more holes in your pocket. All in all a very costly investment.
But if you are a photo junkie like moi....this phone is a dream.
Ah changing colors you notice eh... the camera on this phone is out of the world.
exceptional clarity, great picture capture and resolution... better than most digicams i'd think. 50 second videos are good fun for taping cows stampeding towards you or being stuck in knee deep gutter water thanks to munificent rain gods. OH yeah and the voice tags are really cool if you want to show off...but then processing a voice command takes an excruciatingly long time.
All in all I'd say the camera is the only redeeming factor to this otherwise poor effort of a phone. But it turns heads for sure... carry the bill around and it'll turn 'em 360.
ps: btw do I get my free pen or coupon at Adani's supermarket now? do you have any job opening by any chance...us careerless internet intellectuals need some way to get our fix.
