Live photos of Nokia 7210 Supernova
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Table of contents:
- Positioning
- Design, size, controls
- Display
- Keypad
- Battery
- Memory, memory cards
- Performance
- USB, Bluetooth
- Camera
- Menu, themes, applications, games
- Impressions
Sales package:
- Handset
- 860 mAh Li-Ion battery (BL-4CT)
- Charger (AC-3)
- Wired stereo-headset (WH-501)
- User Guide
Positioning
Apparently Nokia is marching towards the low-end of the market as every new collection it has churned out so far comes with a couple of budget solutions. The only exception in this sense is the 8000 series, which has retained its original focus. On the other hand, the manufacturer’s latest and greatest affordable line-up, the Supernova, starts with the Nokia 7210 – a 120 Euro phone with a very unsophisticated sales package and focus on women (although one of its trims will fit men too).
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Design, size, controls
The 7210 Supernova comes in bubble gum pink and vivid blue. The former trim is aimed at women; make no mistake about that – who else these pink inserts are supposed to appeal to otherwise? They are made of rubber and sometimes seem like a bunch of keys, but in fact all buttons are housed right next to then. The second color scheme is not so gaudy and is more of a versatile solution.
Display
The 7210’s display sports 2-inch diagonal and a resolution of 240×320 pixels (31×41 mm), showing up to 262K colors. Compared to the Nokia 5310 and Nokia 7310, this phone carries a cheaper screen, which still manages to output a bright and vivid picture (although senior models easily trump the 7210 on this front)
The display remains readable in the sun (TFT), which is mainly due to the tinted protective layer. However, even this screen starts glaring heavy on some occasions, so you will need to find the right angle. Regrettably, given the display’s relatively tiny diagonal, it is not very convenient to use outdoors, which is also true of other phones with 2-inch screens onboard.
Keypad
The 7210 houses a generic keypad for slim phones. It’s a flat metallic slab, pretty average as far as ergonomics goes, but we have no serious gripes with it; nor does it have any real advantages over other units of this breed. All keys are lit in an unobtrusive white.
Battery
The handset comes with a new battery type – the BL-4CT, which is a 860 mAh Li-Ion cell. As the maker claims, it is good for up to 2 hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby. In Moscow, our 7210 lasted around 3 days with 2 hours of music, 1,5 hours of calls and very few SMS. So most users may expect it to stay online about 2-3 days with their usage patterns. The longest music playback time we managed to squeeze out of it (native headphones, max volume settings was 18 hours 50 minutes (radio module enabled). It takes the 7210 1 hour and 40 minutes to charge from empty to full.
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Memory, memory cards
The handset ships with around 29 Mb of storage that can be managed by the user. The microSD memory expansion slot is housed under the battery compartment cover, and on top of that, it allows you to swap cards on the fly. The maximum memory card size supported by the device is unlimited – we plugged in our 8 Gb unit and experience absolutely no problems with it.
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Performance
JAR-file size limit – 1 Mb, heap size – up to 2 Mb. The 7210 is no different from its platform’s average results performance wise.
USB, Bluetooth
USB. The Nokia 7210 comes with the microUSB socket, housed on the top edge of the phone. This socket is used for plugging in a data cable (the phone starts charging up), headset or charger.
The vendor says that the handset supports USB 2.0, and it does indeed, in USB Mass Storage mode the connection via USB cable puts up medium data transfer speed which makes up about 500-600 Kb/s. This is slower than the Motorola RAZR2 V8, which also comes installed with microUSB-socket.
Upon successful connection you can pick one of the following modes: USB Mass Storage, PC Studio, or modem mode. The 7210 also supports the MTP mode.
Bluetooth. The handset comes with EDR-enabled Bluetooth 2.0. The following profiles are supported:
- Dial-Up Networking Profile
- Generic Access Profile
- Generic Object Exchange Profile
- Object Push Profile
- Serial Port Profile
- Handsfree Profile
- Headset Profile
- Synchronization Profile
- Basic Image Profile
- File Transfer Profile
- HID (host) Profile
- Stereo Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
- Advanced Audio/Video Remote Conference Profile
The Bluetooth implementation is, as always though, nothing to complain about, we encountered no issues with handling this type of connections. The stereo-headset also worked fine. The 7210’s Bluetooth speed tops out at around 170-180 Kb/s.
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Camera
This handset has 2mpx camera (CMOS) which is not that much by today’s standards, but it is still pretty much sufficient for a mid-tier offering. Nokia has decided not to bet on the camera part, it is more of an optional feature here. This is why camera’s module picked for 7210 is one of the cheapest units out there, and provides average quality.
The following resolutions are supported:
- 1600×1200
- 1280×1024
- 1280×960
- 800×600
- 640×480
- 320×240
- 160×120.
Two lower resolutions were added for creating photos that would fit as wallpapers for display. Three JPEG compression types are supported: basic, normal, high. Considering the fact that photos do not blow your imagination away, it is better to go for the top quality, it won’t get any worse after all.
The shutter sound can be disabled, also there is a 8x digital zoom, but there is no reason to use it. You can save photos in the internal memory or on the memory card.
Some effects can be applied to the already made photos, should they be used initially – it is up to you to decide. Such effects as False Colours, Greyscale, Sepia, Negative, Solarize are available.
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Menu, themes, applications, games
The handset boasts a number of themes that substantially vary its looks, seem to be well-elaborated, meshing with the handset’s overall image.
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Impressions
The 7210 Supernova isn’t a particularly loud phone, but it doesn’t differ from the Nokia 5310 on this front in any significant way - in many situations you will find its alert volume insufficient, which is our main gripe with this phone. In terms of reception quality it does just fine; the vibro alert is average strength-wise, but it won’t let you down.
The Nokia 5310 entered the market last October at the price point of 180 Euro. September 2008 will see the Nokia 7210 with a price tag of 120 Euro, while the 5310’s price will float down to the level of 140 Euro by then. While their designs are different, all things considered, the Nokia 7210 Supernova is a replica of the Nokia 5310. The only difference is that the newcomer is somewhat sluggish and doesn’t load applications as fast as the 5310. Although our Java performance tests don’t indicate any major shift on this front, a bit of sluggishness is definitely there. It seems that Nokia has decided to cut costs a little and halved the 7210 Supernova’s RAM size. On the other hand, it’s still quite passable – perhaps not blazing fast at times, but nothing you won’t be able to put up with.
Consumers seem to love Nokia’s affordable phones, and the 7210 Supernova won’t be an exception for sure. However its list of rivals is pretty massive – there is an horde of other relatively cheap solutions that have rolled down to this price bracket at the end of their life cycles. In other words, there are a lot of phones to choose from apart from the 7210 Supernova.
1 response so far ↓
1 nakulwalunj // Jun 4, 2009 at 8:14 am
hi i want 7210 super nova software
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