Thursday, March 5, 2009

Mobile Phone Review - Nokia 6720 Classic - Classic Convenience



Here is the Nokia 6720 classic mobile phone with a classic design but with smooth curved edging for a more comfortable feel. The 6720 has been designed to be incorporated with our busy lifestyles and yet with simplicity. There are two great coloured options for the 6720 Classic which include an Iron Grey and a Chestnut Brown colour. In terms of style and colours the 6720 Classic is very similar looking to the Nokia 6710 Navigator mobile phone. What we like about the Nokia 6720 Classic mobile phone is that it has been packed full of fantastic quality technologies but not overly packed, thus making this handset a little less complicated unlike the Nokia E55 mobile phone which is more geared towards the business user. The screen on the 6720 is slightly smaller than the 6710 Navigator. It is a 2.2 inch QVGA TFT screen displaying up to 16.7 million colours with screen resolutions of 320 x 240 pixels. You cannot knock the size of the 6720 handset, with dimensions of 110mm x 45mm x 14mm it's a great practical size for usability complimented with a weight of a respectable 110g. With a full charge up of the battery the Nokia 6720 Classic mobile phone offers its users up to 8.5 hours of GSM talk time and up to 500 hours of GSM stand-by time, the WCDMA offers up to 5 hours of talk time and up to 500 hours of stand-by time. On the other hand the user can fully enjoy up to 9 hours of video play-back time or up to a huge 27 hours of music play-back time.

Nokia 6720 Classic - Camera & Imaging

Taking crisp clear photo's on the Nokia 6720 is easy with the built-in 5 mega-pixel camera feature. With the CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar Lens, 4x digital zoom, Dual LED Flash and Auto-focus Nokia are ensuring the user can a super photo with fantastic quality. The dedicated camera key ensures for ease of operation and manageability. There are a number of Flash, Capture and Scene modes to enable the user to their camera function to all kinds of environments and setting to guarantee the best possible picture can be captured. Why not print your snap shots s the Nokia 6720 enables the user to print directly to compatible picture printers.

Instead of capturing still shots why not record those special and spontaneous moments with the built-in video recording facility. There are a selection of Scene Modes which include automatic, night, portrait, landscape, close-up and sport depending on the environment and the user is surrounded by. Enjoy a face-to-face phone call with the video calling feature, this facility can only be used with other users with the same capabilities.

Nokia 6720 Classic - Internet & Connectivity

Accessing the internet has so many purposes these days and more and more are using the web from their mobile phones. To surf the web via your Nokia 6720 mobile phone is simple and speedy as the handset supports built-in HTML, XHTML, WML,HTTP and WAP web browsing technologies. The Nokia Web Browser offers JavaScript version 1.3 & 1.5, ECMAScript, CSS and Mini Maps. For full use of the 6720 Classic the roaming capability is required, this is possible as the handset is operated on a Quad-band network which covers GSM - 850/900/1800/1900. Enjoy speedy data transfers and a fantastic quality of service with the HSCSD, GPRS/EGPRS class B, GSM/EDGE class A, WCDMA , HSDPA and TCP/IP plus the support for MS Outlook technologies that are all present on the Nokia 6720 Classic mobile phone. Connecting to other compatible devices is also a simple process with the Bluetooth 2.0, Mini USB, USB 2.0 and 3.5mm AV connector technologies. The user can also enjoy and benefit from the on-board software which include S60 3rd edition, Symbian OS version 9.3, Active Stand-by and the FOTA.

Nokia 6720 Classic - Music Entertainment

Kick back, chill out and listen to your favourite tunes via the built-in music player on the Nokia 6720 Classic mobile phone. Supported music file formats include MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA. There is a dedicated volume key to make controlling the level of sound with ease. The FM Radio with RDS technology ensures the user can keep up to speed with all the latest news, weather and travel information as well as listening to their favourite radio stations and DJ's. Downloading a track is simple with the assistance of the Nokia Music Store and Nokia Music Manager features. Why not categorise your tracks and albums with the selection of options which include Artists, Albums, All Song, Play-lists, Genres, Composers and even Podcasts. There is 45MB of internal dynamic user memory along with 128MB of internal NAN flash memory with the inclusion of a 1Gb memory card which is expandable to a massive 8GB. This will offer so much more storage space for all the users downloads, music files, video clips and photo's.

Nokia 6720 Classic - Gaming & Applications

If you like playing games for a past time then you like the built-in Java MIDP 2.0 games selection along with the N-Gage application to take the gaming experience to a whole different level. There are try and buy to give you a sample of a selection games, if you like them then purchase then they are always there at your leisure.

To keep on track and organised why not call upon the assistance of the PIM (personal information management) tools. They are all very useful applications that we probably all use in our day-to-day busy lives. Some of the tools presented on the 6720 Classic include Active Notes, reminders, Alarm Clock with ring-tones, Converter, Calendar and a To-do-List to name of a few.

Nokia 6720 Classic - Summary

Well, what a superb classic mobile phone designed by Nokia. There isn't a lot we can fault with this handset apart from the lack of music technologies and on-board memory. It does have style and oozes some fantastic high quality technologies, yet with subtlety and simplicity. The 6720 Classic is not too complicated to get to grips with and really is for the day-to-day conveniences of life with some great entertainment features and functions more geared towards the middle market of users. A great little all-rounder handset from Nokia.