First Impressions: The Nokia 7390
You can easily see this clamshell smartphone is for the fairer sex. You have some intricate designs on the casing, and even a cloth tag like the ones you find on designer brands.
The Nokia 7390 is also obviously about multimedia. Here's a secondary screen that's actually useful. It allows access to all the phone's multimedia functions without having to flip it open.
There are some responsiveness issues. No problems when texting; tapping buttons produce the desired characters immediately. But things slow down when navigating menus and threaten to grind to a halt when using the camera.
To be fair, the Nokia 7390 lent to me is from a first-run production. Meaning it's a test unit where not all the kinks have been worked out. Full review to follow. In the meantime all fine-looking gear heads out there can check Nokia's product page for full specs, or see below for a summary:
- GSM Triband (900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz), WCDMA (2100 Mhz) smartphone
- Portrait QVGA primary display
- 160 x 128 mini display
- 3 megapixel camera, FM radio, and media player built-in
- microSD slot that supports up to 2GB
- Secondary camera for video calls
Miguel
February 12th, 2007 at 5:16 am #
Hold on a second chief… Nokia doesn’t consider Series 40 phones to be smartphones, do they? That’s for S60, which is mostly Nseries and Eseries nowadays.
But, autofocus on a Series 40 phone? Argh my 6233 is getting old already..
Rico
February 13th, 2007 at 12:01 am #
The definition of “smartphone” continues to be hotly debated. For simplicity’s sake however, any phone that features even basic data functions is a smartphone for me.
The Nokia 7390 runs Java apps and is capable of video calls. So I consider it a smartphone. And I think the only difference between S40 and S60, S80, S90 is that the former only allows users to install relatively basic Java apps.
You can read what I wrote about the “difference” between a smartphone and a PDA phone: http://tinyurl.com/yu92ux
Miguel
February 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am #
I think S40 doesn’t qualify as a smartphone because you can’t multitask and task switch. There are no discrete applications running.
On another point… so, Nokia is moving the autofocus camera down to S40 phones! No longer the exclusive domain of the N73.
Maybe they will update the 6233 for autofocus…