Nokia 7610 Review

Overall Rating

Elegant design - Easy to use - Lots of features - 1 Megapixel camera - The ability to run Symbian applications.

Ring signal is medium - Mono music output - Some software bugs - Low speed - Battery life is not so good.

The Nokia 7610 is a great phone to be used for many purposes. Those who want almost everything from a handset, would be satisfied by just seeing this mobile phone. It is the first Nokia smartphone with a mega-pixel camera and also a newer version of Symbian 7.0 operating system.
At the same time, you would be able to upload several applications to your phone and use them all the time. There are enormous and various softwares for all your needs. For instance, softwares are available to see Word, Excel & Powerpoint, PDF, Flash & HTML files on your phone's screen. Or, you can easliy install softwares for editing your photos or automatic locking the keypad and so on.
Besides, you can upload Java games into your phone simultanously and play with them. A 5-way big joystick is too comfortable to play games with.
The camera is able to take pictures in 1152x864 pixels. The quality is acceptable for a phone. It mustn't be compared with a digital camera. Overall, it's a mobile phone and the main reason for equipping phones with camera is for sending them via MMS. The quality of the video is terrible. It's more like a toy, but the videos are not that bad on the phone's screen.
The TFT screen of the phone is a 65K display and is so vivid and bright. The information is readable in front of direct sun. The backlighting is so good and all in all, it's a superb display for a mobile phone.
The most strange thing about this phone is the keypad. Many people are satisfied when looking at the keypad. It has a round shape and the keys have a small rotate to the top-right. It's very good for left-handed people, but not bad for right-handed people. Totally, the keypad is not as good as the 6600's, but the joystick is bigger and much better, also the access to green and red keys (keys for starting and ending the calls) and also the Menu & Clear keys is better than 6600.
The phone's battery life is not so good. It can stay up to 3 days with minimal use and if you use the phone too much, specially by using Bluetooth, the battery will be empty by one day. It's typical for smartphones due to their large screen and complex processing schedules. Most of the time, it needs to be recharged after two ordinary days.
The bluetooth works well and it is compatible with most of the devices using bluetooth. I send some applications and files from my laptop to 7610 with Bluetooth and the speed was terrific. No error was found.
About the ring signals and sound quality, it's better to say that the quality of the ringing tones is not that good. It's not as strong as Korean phones, but the ring signals are elegant and beautiful. Also, you can upload an MP3 file to your phone and use it as a ring or message signal, but the quality is not as same as the MP3 file, because the phone's speaker plays the MP3 files in mono type. That's one of the bad points of this phone. The phone is equipped with an MP3 player, but the output is not stereo. It's a funny thing. The vibrating alert is medium, so sometimes it's possible to miss calls in streets, but otherwise the phone had a good job.
The aerial of the phone works well. Also with an additional application, you can use the phone as a radio. The quality of the incoming and outgoing sound is good and well-heard. The speakerphone is good to be used in a room, but not in a noisy place. It works similar to ordinary Nokia phones.
Finally, it's a good choice for people who would like to have a fashion smartphone, but for those who currently have other smartphones like 6600, it's not necessary to upgraded their phone. Also, people who want to use it just for mobile communication and also taking some photos or gaming, Nokia 6230 is a better choice. It's smaller, lighter, has more battery ?life and also the ability to play stereo MP3 files, but the camera's quality is worse. Nokia did a great job on 7610. It'll satisfy it's owners.