Exterior
7100 is not a dedicated ladies’ phone anymore. Neither the black, and probably nor the blue, suggests a highly metrosexual look for a guy. Keeping in mind that this is a cheap model, I’ve been prepared that no premium quality materials will be used. Add Nokia’s legendarily low-quality materials and we have Nokia 7100. Just like other low-end models, it’s made of cheap, Comecon-plastics. Of course it shows more than it is in fact: on front the call handling- and the softkeys are united and look metallic. Well, that’s all the quality feeling we’ll have. The positive thing is that at least the handset won’t crack under pressure.
We hold a completely average slider in our hand, the cover has the display, the d-pad and the previously mentioned metallic-looking keys on it. When opened we get to see a classical keyboard, which is good as usual for a Nokia, the buttons are well separated and the pressure point is all right. Which is not all right is the sliding mechanism. The Finnish guys have managed to create a good opening mechanism. But what’s awful is that the whole handset blabs and wobbles. I don’t understand why couldn’t they seduce an engineer from Samsung or at least take a Korean phone apart. This wobbling reduces user experience to zero.
On the left there are no buttons at all, we can only see a “Nokia” logo, but that’s no key. It’s like the dummy buttons on cars with a basic setup – it’s good to create a feeling that something’s missing. On the right there is the connector we’ve seen on 2680, I still consider this a mean thing. Underneath we can see the camera’s shoot key.
On the back there are two things we can discover: the camera’s silver frame and the speaker. This latter is rather large and it’s basically quite loud, and the camera’s frame tries to look serious, but we can see no flash or mirror near the lens. There is nothing on the bottom, while on top there’s a key with a spring – this is used to take the back off. The hook of the neckband is also here on top. The overall image is rather nice, even in spite of the lot of plastic, until we open the phone and the wobbling starts.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
