- Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 73 reviews Back to product review
- My rating: 0 stars
Full user review
-
8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"Nokia N75 - Great 1st Gen Smart Phone Replacement/Upgrade"
Pros: Call Quality, Reception, Screen, Memory Size, OS, Layout, MP3 Player, Build Quality, Video
Cons: Battery (Common for all phones), Early production bugs.
Summary: I recently purchased this phone. I have had it for approx 1 month. My prior phone is a Nokia 6620 Gen1 smart phone.
---
What this phone is: A Very Good Clamshell Smart Phone with a solid company backing it up. It as all the modern features to replace your gen 1 smart phone.
---
What this Phone is not: A super business machine QWERTY phone, with bleeding edge technology that hasn't even been implemented by cell companies yet.
---
Pros:
1. Clamshell. Symbian 60 3.1 smart phone. Very robust community and software support for many applications. All that I have tested have worked including anti-virus software.
2. MP3 Player on the front, works great w/bluetooth. No other phone really does this right now. All major formats supported and sound quality is very good with all encoding speeds.
3. OS is solid, relative fast loading even for large proggies. No crashes with hard reboots at this time.
4. Excellent reception (it is a phone you know), volume is great, speakers are great, handsfree works great. This is a critical feature, as a cool featured phone that sounds like crap in calls is useless.
5. Very good build quality, seems solid, keys very tactile, navigation keys a bit confusing early but quickly you will learn. No more complex than that new 9 button wireless mouse on your desk.
6. WOW - High Def Screen, best I've ever seen on a clamshell. Play Games!
7. Big memory with SD in convenient location.
---
Cons: (with comments)
1. Short battery life - higher volume batteries will be available soon I am sure. However it is better than the 2 year old battery in my 6620 right now. I get 1 hour talk time on that.
2. Not a N95 - ok, go spend $800 if you want an N95.
3. Limited high speed data transmission, Yes, but the new data formats (HSDPA) are not even available, 3G was just made available and when higher speed formats are available you will be ready for a new phone anyway. (2 years) Also GPS by dongle is available. Who actually uses WiFi on their phone? (Unless it is a full sized QWERTY smartphone for business.)
4. Propritary ports for headsets...What? You still plug your headset in? Look, the phone is designed to be used with Bluetooth. If you really want to plug it in, buy an adapter. NBD.
---
Neutral:
1. New phone, likely to have things needing to be fixed. Luckily the Symbian OS can be upgraded unlike many other phones where you are stuck with the problems. Patience grasshopper, workarounds and fixes are expected with new technology.
2. This isn't compatible, the stereo don't work, my old phone did this better, see #1.
---
The lowdown:
Look, if you are a moderate tech smartphone user that wants an MP3 player, video support in your phone, likes Nokia products and wants a clamshell, then this phone is for you. If you are a full sized smartphone/blackberry/business user, dont buy it, you will want more. If you want a good upgrade for your current 1st gen smart phone (or non smart), this is it. Just be realistic, no phone is perfect in early production, but at least you get the good hardware, very nice screen, excellent storage, good layout, good OS, very good community support, excellent call quality, and average battery life. I recommend a second battery for now. I do it on my current phone so what is the dif?Updated
I purchased a NEW battery and charged it to full, and surprisingly enough, it lasted for 2.5 days with regular use. I think that there is a possibility that the batteries shipped with the original phone might have been an old batch or that people used their phones prior to applying a full charge.
Nokia N75 (AT&T):
%20user%20review%20and%20rating%20-%20CNET%20Reviews&srcUrl=http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/nokia-n75-at-t/4864-6452_7-32085030-2.html){kind=small}