Nokia 6131

6131 Nokia picture The Nokia 6131 is a mid-range clamshell mobile phone with a simple design. Fortunately, it's not too simple: the 6131 has an expandable microSD slot, EDGE connectivity and FM radio among other features. There's also a button on the right side of the hinge that lets you flip the phone open, in case you find opening clamshells difficult with only one hand. Above the keypad is the main screen, but unlike the screen on the outside, the internal screen is QVGA and displays up to 16.7 million colours. It's bright and easy to read, but the font size on the main page and menu could be a little larger. Fortunately, you can adjust the size of the font in messages, contacts and the Web browser. You can use the both the internal and external screens as a viewfinder for the camera. Nokia 6131 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia 6131 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia 6131 Games Free Nokia Games download There's a 1.3-megapixel camera that can be activated through the phone's menu or using the shutter button on the right side of the phone. You can shoot still pictures or video with it and there's a night mode function, a timer, and several effect options and quality settings. We found that there was about a 3-second lag after taking a picture and that without an LED or flash night shots were impossible without some ambient light. Turning now to the needs of the business user, the 6131 is reasonably well configured for a mid-range phone. There's full email support, with support for attachments. Push to Talk is available. All kinds of connectivity are supported - Bluetooth, USB and IrDa. EDGE provides download speeds of up to 236.8 kbps. Memory is adequate, with an expandable memory card of up to 2 Gbytes. Audio quality on calls was at times quieter than we would have liked, but you could hear the person on the other end clearly and vice versa. The Nokia 6131 looks like a nice phone, but has several serious drawbacks and doesn't really cut it as a camera phone, a music-player phone, or as a business phone. It's a jack of all trades, but master of none. Nokia 6131: 1.3megapixel camera with 8-x digital zoom Voice recorder Internal display: TFT, 16million True colours, 320x240 pixels External display: TFT, 262,144 colours, 128 x 160 pixels MP3 player FM stereo radio with Visual Radio MP3 ringtones Speaker-independent voice dialling Handsfree speaker Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email with attachments Xpress audio messaging: Record your own voice message and send to compatible devices XHTML browser Java games: 3 D Soccer and Snake included Push to Talk Memory: 11 Mbytes plus optional MicroSD memory card (up to 2 Gbytes) USB, Bluetooth, IrDa WAP, GPRS Class10, EDGE - download up to 236.8 kbps Quadband Size: 92 x 48 x 20mm Weight: 112 g Talktime: 3.4 hours Music playback up to 12 hours Battery standby up to 10 days

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