The first of Nokia's new
generation of smartphones isn't
flashy and certainly isn't an
iPhone killer. But it's a nice
device, and at Rs 15,500 it's a
bargain.
Nokia and Microsoft, erstwhile
big players in the mobile market,
have joined forces to get back in
the game.
A little more than a year ago,
Microsoft launched a new mobile
operating system called Windows
Phone 7 to replace its aging
Windows Mobile software. Then
last February, the world's largest
phone manufacturer announced
that it would abandon Symbian,
its longtime smartphone-
operating system, and adopt
Windows Phone 7 in its place.
Windows Phone 7 devices have
drawn little interest from
consumers to date, but Microsoft
hopes Nokia can help change
that. The first Nokia Windows
Phone 7 devices started hitting
store shelves around the globe
last fall and hit American shores
earlier this month when T-Mobile
began selling the Lumia 710.
I got an early glimpse at the
Lumia 710 in October and wasn't
impressed. But after getting to
play with it over the past several
weeks, I've warmed up to it. It's
an easy-to-use, quick and light
smartphone.
The first thing you'll notice about
the Lumia 710 is that, in an age
of jumbo-sized screens and
elegant designs, it's a modest
device. It's about the same size
and shape as Apple's 2-year-old
iPhone 3GS, with a similarly
curved back and a plastic case.
I'm a big fan of phones of this
size. They're easy to fit in a
pocket or hold in your hand.
While the Lumia 710's plastic
case feels a bit cheap, it makes
the device lighter.
At first glance, the Lumia's 710
technical specs don't match up
well with the latest and greatest
phones from Apple or Google's
Android partners. It only has a
single-core processor, with 512
megabytes of memory, just 8
gigabytes of storage and no
memory card slot that would
allow users to supplement its
storage. By comparison, the
latest Android smartphones have
dual and even quad-core
processors and the iPhone 4S
has as much as 64-gigabytes of
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