Nokia N76 review

N76 Nokia picture Nokia N76 will fascinate you! Not only will you fancy its slim clamshell body, but you will also like its rich functional portfolio based on Symbian S60. You wouldn't be mistaken for thinking there were similarities between the N76 and the Razr V3. Both the N76 and V3 feature flat keypads, large colour screens and mini-USB ports, but the N76 runs on Nokia's Series 60 3rd edition user interface. It comes in black or red. But this is much more than just a thin phone: this is a smart phone and you can use it to synchronise your Outlook calendar, contacts, to-do lists and notes. There's also a Web browser and the ability to install third-party applications, such as dictionaries and A-Z-type maps. For a start, that mirrored outer screen is a beauty, though of course it's a smudge magnet. The colour screen within the mirror is actually much smaller - the 160x128 pixel screen measures 22x28mm to the mirror's 36x51mm. Nokia N76 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia N76 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia N76 Games Free Nokia Games download With 262,000 colours though, plus an ambient light detector to establish just how bright it needs to get, it's certainly no afterthought and is great for viewing pics as wallpapers or when you're using the music player with the phone closed. But more of that later. Nokia N76 has a 2 megapixel camera (maximum image size is 1600 x 1200 pixels) with the lens occupying an unusual place for a clamshell - on the back of the phone. The lens is not protected and lacks auto focus. It is accompanied by a fairly powerful LED flash offering the following modes: automatic, always, with red-eye effect correction, and off. The flash LED cannot be used as a flashlight. The N76 runs on the Symbian 60 operating system and has all the usual accoutrements, including POP3 and IMAP4 email and Nokia's own, pretty decent full web browser with 3G connection, though there's no Wi-Fi built in to this model. It's got the mapping software last seen on the N95, which makes it easy to find your way from A to B, but without built-in GPS you'll need to know where you're going, or use a Bluetooth GPS add-on. To sum up, Nokia N76 can be considered an interesting purchasing option mainly by people who refer to their phone as to a stylish fashionable accessory and do not care about its functional abilities too much. On the other hand, exactly such clientele will remain disappointed with the cheap looking plastic covers and the fingerprint smudges. The cons become even more visible when combined with the high price of the phone. As you can see, sales records are the last Nokia N76 is expected to achieve.

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