The Hardware
Nokia’s latest, top of the line phone (or should I say a tablet cum phone ?) is equipped with a 3.5 inch resistive touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 5MP AF cam. Construction is good. Something we may not associate Nokia with (at least not take it for granted thats for sure) but this one surpasses decent in terms of quality of materials and its fusion.
The three line QWERTY is aptly implemented with the keys being big enough to use. As far as the construction goes the slide out keyboard is extremely well implemented keeping in mind the length and breadth of the device in order to incorporate all the keys in 3 rows so that the device wouldn’t require an extra row, having to elongate the keyboard to incorporate a fourth row (making it bigger somehow ?). On the other hand the keys’ size has been kept up to a pretty decent size. Just a coincidence perhaps… ? Either way me liked/s it. Thumbs UP!
The phone comes with an average 5MP camera. Average by the laymans standard. An astute photographer has the eye, not to forget the know how, of taking a picture… giving him the advantage of being able to take some outstanding pictures using an ordinary camera. However, a person who is not as well versed in photography as a photographer will have a hard time at taking quality pics. So you need a cam that does it for you. Like the N82. Just set it on Auto and keep shooting. N900 is not that great. Just decent. For the moment- tentatively. The screen- (resolution, color saturation, contrast, pixel density) Is possibly the best I have seen. You have to see it to believe it. I didn’t expect what I came across when I saw it for the first time. It is just amazing.
Visibility under the sun is excellent. There is absolutely no problem what so ever. BIG thumbs up on this one actually.
Battery: The phone is equipped with a 1320mAh battery. Arguably, small for such a device. I might have agreed upon usage as well. But, given my moderate usage, I’m getting a pretty decent 2 days usage now. Which is a lot batter than what my N82 gives. One could say it would have done no harm in putting a bigger battery, but I think that would have just increased the weight of the device, which is already at the limit level.
Coming to the size of the device. It is big. Not unbearably big. But the thickness is a concern for those someone like me who usually wears denims and does not carry his phone in a case one his waist belt. The weight too is quite considerable. 181 grams for a phone cannot be considered as a “mere” 181 grams.
(+) Good Build. No wobbles in slider, no squeaks, no moving keys, nothing falling apart.
(+) Keyboard is well implemented. May be many won’t like it but I find it to be good enough.
(-) Size and Weight. However, if we keep in mind that this device is actually a tablet first then a phone, thats how it has been made out to be, one might feel that the functionality of the device has a much bigger scope than that of a normal phone.
Software part coming up.
