Pros

· Great design and look. This phone is one of the best looking phones we've seen.

· Built-in camera. It does it job and is fun to play with. Take pictures of your friends and put attach it to their phone profiles.

· Cool downloadable games. Spend hours a day playing new games that you can download to your phone.

· Great sound quality. What makes the sounds so great for FM radio, games, and ring tones, is the speaker the sounds are played from instead of an ordinary buzzer.

· Built-in FM radio. Definitely a major plus. Stereo sound and the ability to save up to 20 radio channels. Also a headset that's functional and pretty cool. One of the best we've seen.

· Loudspeaker that's loud. At first we were afraid you would have to talk practically with your head next to the phone. However, that's not the case. Excellent range and clarity for a loudspeaker.

· Excellent reception. This phone can hold a signal and keep it. It doesn't get much better than this.

· Huge 5 MB of storage. Great for the pictures you'll be taking on the 7250.

· Great bundle of software for the Nokia 7250. Too bad it's not on CD. You'll have to download it from the Nokia website.

Cons

· No voice dialing or commands. It was a flaw in the 7210, and it's still lacking in the 7250.

· No Bluetooth. If you don't need it then its no big deal. I just like using my Bluetooth headset.

· 4 tone polyphonic ring tones. It might have been good last year, but the standards have been raised.

Conclusion

Compared to the 7210 the 7250 has definitely improved. Many of our gripes about the 7210 have been solved. The radical keypad has been changed back without taking style away from the phone, and increased memory from 725 kb to 5 MB. If we didn't know better, we'd think that the designers at Nokia were reading our 7210 review to make changes on the 7250.

While changing the weak points in the 7210, it has managed to keep the stronger qualities such as the FM radio, loudspeaker, and downloadable Java applications and games. This makes the 7250 a very well rounded phone inside and out.

If there was a disappointment in the 7250 it would have to come from the lack of voice commands. This seems to be a basic feature among cell phones nowadays. But Nokia has overlooked it in the 7250. Aside from that, the multimedia of the phone has stayed the same, while Samsung and Sony Ericsson have increased the resolution of its screens and increased the number of notes in its polyphonic ring tones.

Still, its not bad, just not the best. But everything else about the Nokia 7250 rounds out the phone quite well. Overall we give this phone a rating of:

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