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10 August 2011
The Astound It's the first Symbian^3 phone sold through a US mobile operat
The Astound is a very attractive phone with a broad chrome bezel around the screen that's tastefully engraved with the T-Mobile logo. The phone's back is dominated by a stainless steel battery door and a chrome panel that carries the dual stereo speakers, camera lens and dual LED flash. The main body made from a quality satin silver finished plastic. The top of the phone houses a micro-USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack, and power button. The right side has up and down volume rockers flanking the voice command key along with the lock slider and a dedicated camera button. A couple of these keys do double duty; the voice command key also mutes the microphone when pressed during a call and holding down the lock slider turns on the phone's flashlight (torch). Curiously, the flashlight only works if the phone display is showing the home screen. The left side has the Nokia 2mm charging port (the Astound can also be charged with USB). The bottom of the phone has an eyelet for attaching a strap or charm. The Astound has 256 MB RAM, 512 MB of C: drive phone memory for installing apps, an 8 GB internal SD. A micro-SD card slot under the battery accepts cards up to 32 GB.
The 3.5 inch Super AMOLED screen (same diagonal dimension as the iPhone) has a resolution of 640 x 360 px. Although the C7 doesn't use Nokia's Clear Black technology, I'm very pleased with the way it looks in normal light where it delivers excellent sharpness, contrast and color saturation In bright sunlight the screen washes out a bit but is still generally readable if you shield it a bit with your hand.
The 8 MP camera is an Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) unit. EDoF uses a fixed focus lens together with sophisticated post processing that achieves sharp focus from about 30 inches to infinity. While Nokia's gotten a lot of criticism over the use of EDoF on the flagship E7, I think it's a good choice for an entry level smartphone like the Astound.
I would recommend this Cellphone!!
10 August 2011
Nokia E7 – a powerful Symbian^3 device that features an 8-megapixel camera
1 of 2 found this helpful Business as usual for the Eseries is a cliché – thank you very much. But the kind that makes the world feel right. The Nokia E7 could’ve been just another Eseries phone. Oh well, that wasn’t meant to be. The latest is implicitly the greatest but, in the case of the E7, the latest may simply be the last.
Key features
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
Penta-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA
Anodized aluminum unibody
4" 16M-color ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
8 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
720p video recording @ 25fps
Symbian^3 OS
680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB RAM
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
microHDMI port 720p TV-out functionality
GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
Digital compass
16GB of on-board storage
Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
DivX and XviD video support
Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Stereo FM Radio with RDS
microUSB port with USB On-the-go
Flash and Java support for the web browser
Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
Good quality audio
Smart and voice dialing
Office document editor preinstalled
On top of the E7 is a MicroUSB port, HDMI port, the power button and a 3.5mm jack input. The battery, like on the Nokia N8, is non-removable so users now have to slot the SIM card into a little iPhone-esque pop-out tray that’s located on the right-hand side of the device. A bit further down the right side is the device’s dedicated camera button, which activates the camera with a single press.
There is a single menu hard key on the E7, which sits on the device’s slidable display. One press of this and you’re taken to a familiar Nokia menu. Because of the location of the hard key, it’s easy to access in both Qwerty and non-Qwerty modes.