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Nokia 5250-A Basic Smartphone, at Affordable Price for the Common User

Nov 26th, 2011
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Nokia 5250 is a cool phone with a very reasonable price. It won’t be wrong to say that it is one of the low cost Smartphone in the pricing ladder. A Symbian base platform with some basic features makes this a bottom placed Symbian Smartphone. The low price has been kept so definitely the ranges of features are going to be Spartan.

Now the question is who can afford the loss of a load of features for some bucks is what the challenge for this Smartphone is. There are also few other mobile and Smartphones that are going around for low cost but still Nokia 5250 is the least bidder by far.

Some of the key features of this mobile are Quad-band, GSM and EDGE support.

It has VGA, Stereo Bluetooth, 2MP fixed focus camera, micro USB port and micro SD slot for the convenience of users.

RDS and FM radio are the basics that this mobile posses. So you won’t be disappointed by absence of any radio or FM feature. Due to its speakers its performance in loudspeaker mode is quite good. Overall a good quality audio can be expected with this mobile device. Accelerometer and proximity sensor are also available in this handset.

Don’t worry you can access internet and web browser too which supports Flash video.

Of course due to its low price it has some disadvantages too, which can bring the market on the downward side for this Symbian supporting Smartphone.

We were not happy with the screen display and resolution it offered, non-availability of Wi-Fi, and GPS receiver struck once again on negative cord.

No preloaded Office document viewer and no support for files with XviD videos. As the memory space fills the phone tends to become slow and sluggish. There is no USB cable or memory card that comes in the package. Except a few points that a business Smartphone would possess, this does not comes par with them.

What we can say is that the prime focus of launching this Smartphone has definitely not been to compete with the wide range of Smartphone already in the rat race. Being affordable is the main positive point for this one. So being affordable is the main attribute for this mobile phone. This is a great choice for those who do not want to get confused with many features or need fancy features in their phone. All the basic features are embedded in this mobile that will solve the main purpose of any suitable mobile device. So, many people will still pitch in to buy this mobile and will be glad to invest in a cheap Smartphone. As Wi Fi, 3G is missing it losses some major share of buyers here but still bare minimum is covered. You get GSM support that fulfills the basic requirements.

Nokia E73 – An Insight Into Some of its Specs and Highlight Features

Sep 30th, 2011
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Though it’s been almost two years after the launch of Nokia E71, still the memory of people is clear and fresh saying that it is one of the finest smartphones that Nokia had launched until now. For a while Nokia captured the market, after the introduction of E71 and E72 for a considerable amount of time. But customers faced a bit of problem in buying E72, because there was no carrier for American public. Here is where Nokia E73 Mode pitches in and plays its role smoothly with T-Mobile branding. A reworked version of E72 is what we can call E73.

When we take Nokia E73 in our hand we feel right at home since the first time as it reminded of the comfort feel that E71 gave. Definitely Nokia would preserve its magic trick and efforts to put E73 as close to E71 body and hardware that stole so many customers heart. If allowed to wax poet then it would be nice to say that this new version has 10 millimeters thickness, but when taken for real feel in hands it feels much sleeker. This feature has been made by some creative curves on the side and back of the handset.

The battery is safeguarded by a metallic cover, quite a solid piece of metal that protects the phones delicate areas that needs some durable shield. What we have observed though there is enough protection given to the battery cover but it tends to smudge and become sticky and oily.

The key design is quite similar to E71; the rows are straight across where it should have been a bit curved. We definitely think that not having a clear and well-designed QWERT keyboard could bring its momentum a bit on downside, thoughit’s not sad enough to break the deal. So we expected that Nokia would have worked on the keyboard a bit more before launching it for the users.

Even the navigation keys that are above the keyboard are not as comfortable as expected. The center area is dominated by the D pad, a four way ring with an optical; pad in the center. Actually it seems Nokia got over ambitious, where they have provided the rocker and optical pad together in this handset which is creating a bit of hassle. The pad is a bit uncomfortable to swipe when the ring surrounds it, but tackling this was not much of a problem as switching off the optical pad solved this issue. Critics say that either an optical pad or a rocker ring would have sufficed instead of both in the single handset. Overall we can say those who are Nokia fans and love handling earlier E series would probably invest in this smartphone.

Nokia E73

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