Nokia 7100 Supernova - wobbling?

Menu, basic functions

After turning on the phone the user is greeted by a nice surprise, the screen resolution is 320 x 240 pixels, while the diagonal is 2”. This would all be nice and fine if we wouldn’t see the plain Series40 platform running on it. I somehow felt that they’ve tried to fill out the space on the screen, but they didn’t manage to. Instead of this menu with nine icons, it would be more logical to see twelve, but given the phone’s features there would be other problems then. I am very happy that a rather good screen is used in this category, but the system is somehow not complete, I feel that something’s missing.

A positive aspect is speed, fortunately they’ve used some hardware that can handle the job. Of course this job is not too complicated, but we again have to mention 2680, where they didn’t manage to solve this.

The phonebook can store the usual number of 1000 contacts. I can’t report of anything special, the structure is the usual: a contact can have many information, like photo, ringtone, email address and anything that could even make the phone a mid-range handset. The handset basically prefers the internal memory rather than the SIM card, but it can display the contents of the two memories at the same time, so we can get rid of the obligatory copying (this is an especially noble gesture for us, testers). The system is very mature, lots of manufacturers can be envious of Nokia for putting this together.

Messaging is also complete, we have everything we might need. SMS, MMS, e-mail are all supported. It’s a great thing that when editing messages we first start out with an SMS, and as soon as we attach an image, a sound or a video clip, it switches to MMS. The size limit for multimedia messages is 300 KB. T9 is here to help typing, I’ve always preferred the Motorola way, but unfortunately the American company is currently in a very bad situation, so I don’t think that their system could take over T9 anytime soon. Of course there’s no problem with T9 either, the software can learn quickly and it’s easy to use. The e-mail client is rather basic, but it supports SMTP servers with authentication and we can use attachments too, although we might have problems with the low amount of memory.

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