Exterior
One of my inexperienced friends described 7070 that it’s as if “it had been brought from the Palace of Wonders”. Well, yeah, it’s really unique, but it’s by far not the first such handset, as the manufacturer had two prism handsets – even though none of them were clamshells. Sony Ericsson Z555i is a clamshell, however, and as a matter of fact this new Finnish phone resembles it quite a lot, but it’s no use discussing this. The phone is very small, we could say it fits a woman’s palm, it weighs 78 grams and its size is 87.5 x 44 x 15.8 mm. This has hindered me lots of times in performing some operations, but I’m not the targeted user, so I don’t mention this as a flaw.
The phone is available in black/blue and black/pink colors, I had the second one and I didn’t have the courage to use it on the street. The back is really spectacular; there is a small Nokia logo and lots of “prisms” (aka. triangles), part of these being shiny, while the others are matte. There is a huge pink triangle, which is not only decoration, but it’s also a status LED (or better said it’s just a status LED), in case of an incoming or missed call or new message it pulsates and as a matter of fact it looks quite cool.
It’s interesting that the back looks almost the same as the front, so if we never had the handset in our hands we will have no idea which is which. There is no pink plastic over here, but there is a speaker which got filled with dust in two days and I could get it out only with a needle – this happened in spite of not using the phone on the street. The plastics are low-quality ones, if I’d want to be cruel I’d say that they are appropriate for the assembly quality, as 7070 cracks and creaks, it has a large play when it’s closed, so it’s terrible.
It has no play, however, when it’s opened, as in this case the front and the back touch each other and the shiny prism pattern lines up, it looks as if the whole thing was one a single panel, it’s a really good solution. There is nothing on top, on the bottom and on the sides we can see the aforementioned colored stripe running around, while on the right we can see the connectors.
On the inside we can see exactly what we would expect after the exterior. There is the huge speaker on the top part with the TFT screen (1.8” diagonal, 128 x 160 pixels resolution) below it. By the way this reminds me of a low-quality cSTN screen. The view angle is minimal, practically it’s readable only from face-to-face, but only if we’re not standing in natural light, as sunrays make it unusable. The keypad is on the bottom and no matter it looks lame, it’s still easy to use, but really, the pressure point is okay.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
