Battery

A 720 mAh lithium-polymer battery (BLD-3) is used with the 7250. Nokia claims the battery will work for 5 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby, however those numbers are maximum times. Realistically the times are much lower.

Minimum Rated Standby Time: 175 hours
Minimum Rated Talk Time: 225 minutes

When reading our reviews, you should view the test results of mobile-phone battery talk time and standby time as relative information only. Many variables, including carrier signal strength at your location, signal consistency (including incoming and outgoing calls), display and ringer settings, and battery charging methods and history, will affect performance.

When handset manufacturers and mobile phone carriers list talk-time  and standby-time ratings, they usually include disclaimers about variable performance and often refer to the times they publish as maximum times.

Storage

The 7250 comes with an incredible 5 MB of internal memory for storing pictures, ring tones, text messages, and Java applications. Nokia has vastly expanded from the 725 kb memory of the 7210.

The internal memory lets you store up to 300 phone book entries, 150 text messages or 50 picture/concatenated messages, 250 calendar notes, and up to 30 To-do list entries.

Since the memory is dynamic, you can share memory between your ring tones, pictures, and games.

Connections

On the 7250 you'll find an infrared port for transferring files between your computer and phone. On the bottom is the outlet for charging your phone, and a system connector, Pop-port.

This is Nokia's next innovation. Pop-port can automatically identify accessories attached to the 7250. It also offers stereo sound with the use of headphones. Lastly, its also where you can charge your accessories with a single USB cable without the use of separate power sources. Pop-port transmits up to 230 kb/s.

Unfortunately the 7250 still doesn't come with Bluetooth technology, for most people this wont be a problem, since it has an infrared port. If wires on your headsets don't bother you, or you don't have a PDA to connect to, then you'll be fine with the Nokia 7250.

One thing that we would have liked to see was software shipped with the Nokia 7250. That's not to say there's no software included, just that you have to download the whopping 56 MB file from Nokia's website. The PC Suite has an excellent package of tools for the 7250. Definitely worth downloading. It includes:

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