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View Best Sellers   Release Date: Q2 2006 An elegantly designed compact fold with a high-definition 2.4-inch QVGA display, the Nokia N71 enhances the user experience by providing versatile entertainment and enhanced Web browsing capabilities. Accentuated by its huge high resolution color display, the N71 supports the new Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map. Featuring a semi-transparent zoomed-out overall view of the Web page, users can quickly orient themselves and intuitively navigate to all corners of the site as well as see the Web page as it was originally designed.

• Bright and colorful 262K-color 2.4-inch (320 x 240 px) main display and 65K-color 1.36-inch (96 x 68 px) external display
• Dual cameras including a main 2.0-megapixel camera with 20x zoom, flash, advanced camera modes (such as still, sequence, and video), and a secondary VGA camera
• Print digital photos directly from the device to compatible printers using Nokia XpressPrint
• Built-in MP3 audio player supporting common digital music standards including WMA, MP3, eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, RealAudio Voice, RealAudio7, and RealAudio8
• Stereo FM radio with Visual Radio support to interact with radio stations to find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information while listening to broadcast music
• Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free conversations and infrared port for synchronization
• Broadband speed with WCDMA and EDGE technology for high-speed internet surfing through W3C standards including WAP 2.0, XHTML, XHTML MP, HTML 4.01, CSS, ECMAScript, and JavaScript
• Up to 10 MB of internal dynamic memory for images, contacts, text messages, multimedia messages, ringing tones, images, video and music clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications with expandable memory through miniSD cards

Technical Specifications
Network:	GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 2100
Form Factor:	Clamshell / Symbian OS 9.1
Dimensions:	99 x 51 x 26 mm
Weight:	139 g
Antenna:	Internal
Navigation:	5-Way Keypad
Battery Type:	970 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	4.00
Standby Time:	216
Memory:	10 MB
Expandable Memory:	miniSD
Imaging
Main Screen:	262000 colors (TFT) 320 x 240 px
External Screen:	65000 colors (TFT) 96 x 68 px
Camera:	Dual Cameras / 2.0 MP / 0.3 MP / 1600 x 1200 px / 20X Zoom / Flash / Video Recorder
Audio
MP3 Player:	MP3 / AAC / eAAC+ / M4A
FM Radio:	Visual Radio
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	320 x 240 px
Screen Savers:	320 x 240 px
Ring Tones:	64 chord / MP3
Themes:
Games:	J2ME
Streaming Multimedia:	RealPlayer / 3GPP / H.263 Video / MPEG-4 / AMR
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP
Chat:
Predictive Text:	T9
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:
Calendar:
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0 / Nokia Web Browser
Voice Commands:
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	GPRS (Class 10) / EDGE / WCDMA
Wi-Fi:
GPS:
PC Sync:	Nokia PC Suite / USB
More Information
Website:	Nokia N71 Website
Discussion:	Nokia Forum

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A sturdy flip cell phone...

N71
Pros: Good size memory, great screen views, ability to edit contact labels, plenty (albeit irrelevant) extras, double camera, many of the features and controls aren’t too different from past Nokia phones, very solid – doesn’t fall apart/break when dropped hard or into water,

Cons: Too big and bulky – we’re in the 21st century, hello?; Freezes up when a text message is going out, process of switching to a waiting call is different from past Nokia’s making it confusing for long time customers (esp as there isn’t a need for this change), phone freezes for no apparent reason for an unlimited time, and switch button doesn’t work- the remedy is to take out the battery, hard to get rid of a missed call icon—one has to go to the actual missed call page again to get rid of it even though you already read the missed call message. The memory card slot opens too easily.

Review:
It’s a great phone if you don’t care about the size and weight. As always, Nokia is brilliant when it comes to user-friendliness so it’s possible for anyone of any age to use. However, Nokia needs to work on text message freezing; it’s the most annoying thing about the phone.

FIRST IMPRESSION & PROBLEMS
The background looks like a computer screen, which is very nice – it accepts external images very well and displays your calendar on the front. So even if you don’t put an alarm on an item, seeing it reminds you already. The camera (at the back) is very good, and there’s also a camera at the front, so that you can’t see what you look like before you take a picture. You can also adjust the type of picture you want taken, however, the camera on the front of the phone takes very dark & pixilated pictures.
There’s a radio and music download station, and it seems the text message holding space is almost unlimited.

I don’t use a lot of the extra features and I think Nokia should eliminate a lot of them and work more on general operation of the phone eg more memory space to avoid the freezes, a longer list of sent messages, dialed/received/missed calls, automatic daily alarm so that I don’t need to re-set my alarm every night before I go to bed. Also in older Nokia phones, I had the ability to manage a personal dictionary, although now I can add words to my dictionary, I don’t have the ability to eliminate others any longer– which can make predictive text difficult to control for words I use everyday.

Also, the keys on this phone are so small it makes texting very difficult and the numbers/letters are colored by the light of the phone = very difficult to see them in a bright room. The earpiece is also on a weird string that goes around one’s neck – what’s up with that?

I’ve had no problems with battery life, it charges very quickly and the accuracy of number of battery life bars to the actual battery life remaining appears to work very well.


CONCLUSIONS
As always, Nokia has delivered a product that is very easy to use; and the transition from one application to another is very smooth and intuitive despite all the unique or “complex” features embedded in the phone.

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