Nokia N78 – for a SUV

Basic functions

The phonebook didn’t change a lot, but the changes that were made are really great and needed. We can still attach all kinds of information to names, and if there would be something that N78 doesn’t know by default, than we can instantly create a new type of record. So if we’d like to store someone’s bust and someone else’s financial situation (dual-stereotype ON), than there’s no problem doing so. We can also achieve the same result by modifying an already existing, unused field, for example we can change “company” to something else. The most important is that the designers have finally overcome a problem that has been present since the first Symbian-based Nokia phones: now pictures assigned to contacts are not displayed at 10 x 10 pixels at calls, but at full-screen.

We can also find changes at messaging. The most important feature of the menu with the conventional layout is that we can edit SMS and MMS messages through the same interface, and as soon as we attach a picture/sound/video to a message, it is immediately converted to an MMS and we are also informed about this. There is only one exception, the so-called audio message, which is of course nothing special, just an MMS with a dictaphone, but Nokia somehow though to handle these separately.

Emailing has also improved a bit, now there is again a wizard to help us setting up an account. Now we can send and receive files that are in a format unknown for the phone. Another new feature is that now we can set the priority of mails (Low, Normal, High) and we can change font size in the messaging menu, which can come in handy during editing.

The calendar is the one that changed the least. It has month, week and day views, entries can be of four types: meeting, task, anniversary and memo. All of these can be repetitive and all can be private, which means that they won’t be synced with the PC. The alarm clock is the usual, it handles many time points and repetitions, while we can add cities to the world clock if we want, but it unfortunately has no map view.

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