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Nokia N79
$420.00
Released October, 2008
The Pros:FM transmitter works with any radio, fast setup. Attractive styling, sleek enough to show off. Call quality is clear and never drops.
The Cons:Tends to start becoming unresponsive after a few months, takes awhile to process anything. Can't disable or adjust the auto-keyguard, gets in the way sometimes.
The Nokia N79 is a higher-end smartphone with very similar features to the Nokia N78. The N79 is 3G-enabled and has the same 2.4"-diagonal 16 million color display and navigation touch wheel that the N78 has.
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It has an accelerometer that rotates the screen automatically depending on the phone's position. Its camera is also upgrade from the N78's 3.15 megapixels, to 5.0-megapixels, with autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics, LED flash and video capture. There is an additional VGA camera for video calling as well. The N79 also has a photo/video editor, document viewer, and Bluetooth wireless technology. Liek the N78, the N79 has a GPS receiver and pre-loaded Nokia Maps. It also has an FM radio receiver, compatibility with Nokia N-Gage games, a 3.5mm audio jack, TV-out for external photo/video display, and the Symbian OS v9.3.
Features
- 3G HSDPA 900/2100
- 2G Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- Large 16-million color display, 2.4"
- 5.0-megapixel digital camera with LED flash and autofocus, Carl Zeiss optics
- mp3/MPEG4 player
- Secondary VGA camera for video calling
- FM radio receiver/transmitter
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Document viewer and editor
- Photo and video editor
- HTML browser
- N-Gage game compatibility
- Symbian OS v9.3
- 83MB on-board memory, microSD expansion slot
- Bluetooth v2.0
- Up to 5.5 hour talk time (2G), 3.5 hour talk time (3G) battery life
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FM transmitter works with any radio, fast setup
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attractive styling, sleek enough to show off
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call quality is clear and never drops
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navigation of the menus is quick and intuitive
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camera takes fairly sharp pictures, good amount of detail
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tends to start becoming unresponsive after a few months, takes awhile to process anything
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can't disable or adjust the auto-keyguard, gets in the way sometimes
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