All-metal ultrathin machine! Nokia 6700C evaluation

Nokia 6700C: $352

Nokia has always good at in the manufacture of mass products, after all it has advantages in brand recognition , quality, easy of use. Like Nokia 6700C pretty stylish, good handle, S40 interface just as well , it even be more powerful when with GPS function. however, to be a popular phone ,the price is the biggest deciding factor.

All-metal Bar design

From the appearance we can see, Nokia 6500 and Nokia 6700C with the same material, using the same all-metal stainless steel, and the overall design is relatively similar , black and silver combining is very handsome and commericial. The biggest different to Nokia 6300 is that the body lines change to steamlined and a polished mirror design, so the shape is quite stylish.

Polished mirror is one of the greatest features to Nokia 6700C, the all-metal materials back can be directly use as a mirror. of course , there is a certain degree of curvature on Nokia 6700C's back, so the plane is still not completely mirror like

Body details

Nokia 6700C in addition to a metal mirror back, the keyboard also use the metal mirror design, because here is the etching of the keyboard as characters, it will be particularly obvious after fingerprint stained, have some difficulties in clean up. But the key is a lot enhance from Nokia 6300, after all, a number of key bits is large, especially the left and right function key press comfortable.

Nokia 6700C with a 5 millon pixel camera, compared to Nokia 6300 is a big upgrade, but did not catch the name Carl Zeiss. because the metal mirror back, the camera look abvious in the back, next the camera is a speeker.

There are a lanyard hole, micro USB data port, charger and a microphone hole at the bottom of Nokia 6700C, the design is very compact, but not interact.

There are some shortcuts at the side of Nokia 6700C, such as voice keys and the capture keys, but may be due to maintrain the integrity of phone, a few keys are very small , so painful to press.

standby capacity

Nokia S40 models is relatively strong in the standby capacity. Nokia 6700C with 970 ma battery. 300 hours standby time in GSM network is a moderate level.

S40 user interface

Nokia 6700C with the latest S40 platform, the sixth version of the interface, of course, there is not much change in the sixth edition, remains a familiar S40 interface,but more close to the S60, is very easy to use.Standby interface can add a variety of shortcuts,or display only the standby wallpaper.

The operation speed of Nokia 6700C SMS features is very fast ,just like othe S40 phones.Phone support card-style management, which can store multiple contact number, email .etc for a contact people.

though S40 is not intelligent system, but all setting are refined, such as font color setting, lamp efficiency, ring tones.

A-GPS navigation

GPS mobile phone navigation is becoming increasingly popular,and in addition to smart phones , the S40 phones also built with A-GPS navigation function, which is network-aided navigationthe basic navigation functions can be achieved, such as find the interest points, car route planning and so on.But the navigation is quite dependent on the auxiliary network, consume relatively large flow.

though Nokia 6700C cann't free to install all kinds of navigation software as smart phones. but the bult-in navigation is good enough to use.

5 million pixel camera

Nokia 6700C built-in a 5 million pixel camera, though Carl Zeiss certified, but but the pixel is from the 6300's 2 million pixels to upgrade to the 5 million level,that is a great raise.camera also has flash and AF functions.

On camera functions, Nokia 6700C is similar to other S40 phones, support horizontal screen viewing, with a variety of scene modes, timer shooting, flash and so on. Support MAX 2592 × 1944 pixels shooting, the camera speed is relatively fast, including store photo speed.

Music features

The music features of S40 phones are always good, Nokia 6700C is the same, it with similar to S60 phones music player, support the popular album-style management and can record their own cover for record. Of course, such as equalizer settings, random play and other functions are relatively complete. However Nokia 6700C has not 3.55mm headset jack,but by using the micro USB interface, it is too touble to replace headphones.Nokia 6700C also support FM radio feature, that is one of Nokia's tradition.

Nokia 6700C position is not very high, but it also built-in many games.Of course , Nokia 6700C supports JAVA extension, user can download more S40 compatible JAVA softwares and games.

In addition, Nokia 6700C in a number of commonly used tools are relatively abundant, such as calendar, memo, calculator, stopwatch, dictionary, etc.

strengths and weaknesses

Nokia 's strength in the low-end market is very strong, 6700C is now the backboneof the latest.It's shape, workmanship, functions are very well.the problem is more serious Bale fingerprints. But look at the current price, it is relatively easy for customer to accept.