Design

Though this device belongs to the budget sector this does not mean that there are any objections to the quality or assembly.
The apparatus is a classic monoblock, but its size is somewhat less traditional: 103,0 x 46,0 x 13,5 mm. Its weigh is 83.5 g. You can easily put your phone even in a shirt pocket.
The entire front panel looks brilliant … until the first touch by hand. Then, on the surface appear numerous traces of fat fingers, and the attractiveness of the phone disappears until you’ll clean it with a soft cloth.

Keyboard

We can’t consider the keyboard convenient. There is no clear division between the dialing and navigation buttons.
At first, it is a bit confusing, but after half an hour with the phone you understand that the compact miniature keyboard is suitable both for fragile girls, and bigger people.
There is no exception and even weaker sex with long nails can easily use the phone, as there are small gaps between rows in order to prevent accidental pressing of the adjacent buttons.
There is no joystick. Instead of it there are four navigation buttons with the square confirmation key.
The existence of four additional navigation buttons helps you to work conveniently. The only weak spot here are dim white lights, illuminating, not all symbols.

Display

TFT-display with a diagonal of 1,9 inch, QVGA-resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and support for 260 thousand colors is very good. Color, image sharpness and the viewing angles are also good.
But the images fade in the sun, because of that the use of the telephone in a clear day is very hard.

Features

In addition to the unusual keyboard, the device has a number of other interesting features. For example, the speaker. It is located on the back surface and looks like a barely visible horizontal cracks extending from one edge of the shell to another. The external speaker’s sound is always loud and full.
There are two additional buttons – a swing volume button and a button for activating the camera. They are located on the right end of a narrow border corps.

The other end has a slot for Memory Stick Micro cards up to 4 GB.
Under the cover is hidden the battery compartment. However, the operation to install the card will take no more than five seconds and does not require a power outage.
G502’s battery is at 950 mA•h, and the charge is sufficient for three days (about 30 minutes a day, with an address book and the Internet), and two days of intensive work (listening to music, viewing photos).

User interface and communications capabilities

The menu is traditional for Sony Ericsson phones on the A200 platform. It is based on a classic 3×4 matrix format, which consists of stylish colorful icons. Well, all sub-menus are designed in the form of lists. There are five animated themes in the device, but they differ from each other very slightly – only the basic colors. Icons, menu items and additional trifles do not have any changes.
The manufacturer has paid much attention to the address book. Each contact consists of five-sheet information.
It is incorporated in the book “excellent” and not overloaded with unnecessary details, and thus it works very fast.

In addition, from the applications you have Google Maps to determine the location of mobile base stations. However, the accuracy is sometimes in the range of 400-500 meters, so this program is good only if after a good party you suddenly wake up in an unfamiliar area of the town and try to understand where you are, at least approximately. And, of course, the program can show you the way to the house.
By the way, the mobile communication … G502 supports not only the network GSM 900/1800/1900, but also UMTS / HSDPA 2100, making it a novelty in budget units that does not support network 3G. Internet connection is supported via GPRS / EDGE (Class10), so you will not feel lack of speed when surfing in the web.  As an internet browser there is the NetFront, which supports all standard protocols. It’s quite fast.  At present, you can find links to BBC news blocks, Google, and Sony Ericsson.
For communication with other devices, Sony Ericsson has a Bluetooth 2.0 module with support for EDR. The data transfer has perfectly acceptable speed – about 0.1 Mb/sec. Moreover, one can not help but note the support of the transfer via Bluetooth stereo, so that together with G502, you can use not just a headset, and stereo headphones for listening to music.

Multimedia

The manufacturer does not hold multimedia capabilities of G502, as particularly outstanding, and yet they are somewhat higher than would be expected from a simple phone. In addition to the opportunity of using Bluetooth-stereo headphones, the unit has a MegaBass function, which enhances the bass frequencies and makes the sound volume, as well as the availability of on-board FM-radio with support for RDS.
The shell, which is responsible for multimedia, is familiar to us from other models of Sony Ericsson. This stylish black-and-white animated interface with a user-friendly player in the music formats MP3 and AAC, videos and photos. There is even a photo album, which sorts pictures by date and topic.
From games you can find QuadraPop – the original kind of Tetris. G502 is equipped with a digital 2-MP camera without autofocus, mirror and flash.
It has traditional for the cameras functions: quality settings, white balance, the imposition of digital effects, shooting timer, etc. Maximum image resolution is 1600 x 1200, and the size obtained with the files ranged from 300 to 500 KB.
We can not say that the camera user will appreciate the high quality of images.

Conclusion

Sony Ericsson G502 is a good device for communication: voice communication, communication via the Internet, communication via wireless protocols. The address book will allow keeping all possible information about a person.
The manufacturer has chosen the other functions with taste and quality. Over 6,5 thousand rubles, and you’ll obtain one of the best phones which you can find on the shelves today.

When you first look at Nokia 7610, a flagship model from Supernova series, you’ll at once understand that this mobile phone is made especially for girls. For whom has the company made such a neat and compact slider? Of course, it is for women.

This is a brief overview of this novelty, because we paid attention only on the innovations and interesting features. Furthermore, during testing we had an unfinished sample, so it could work not so well.

Design

Brand-new Nokia 7610 slider is the flagship of the Supernova line. It is made from high quality plastic, to tell the truth, I was upset because of the lack of nowadays fashionable metal inserts, for example, on the front panel. But this is not a drawback.
The lid that covers all the back side is made of velvety plastic. It is very pleasant to touch it. This device has adequate size, so it is suitable for any user. Handbag, backpack or jeans pocket, 7610, can be placed everywhere.

Dialing on the keyboard is very convenient.
You can dial telephone numbers and communications on the fly, making almost no mistakes. Lights in white are not very bright, but it is enough to work comfortably in the dark.
You can easily open the device with one hand (the mechanism works fine).

Display and menu design

There is a little problem with the screen. If the matrix is very good with colors and everything is in order that is color display breaks all the raspberries. The image becomes more delicate, inexpressive, lacking brightness, and by tradition, nor the brightness or contrast, are not regulated.

Colors are much glare in the sun, and under fluorescent light. In such circumstances, it is very difficult to work with the device, but… The rest of the screen is quite standard for today’s mobile phones – for example, it can perfectly display images and photos.
The main function of Nokia 7610 Supernova can be called Theme Colorize. That is, the user himself/herself is involved in the visual presentation of his/her phone, with the help of the camera… This works well – push the right content key below the screen, then turn the camera and display on the half with 16 divisions. Next we need to capture in full view of the lens of an interesting color, then press “descent”, and see that the color that had prevailed in the frame, a couple of seconds is displayed in the semicircle. All this looks very interesting.

Multimedia

Call Tones are varied, fresh sounds; ringtones and volume are to the mark.
Such sound provides the speaker on the back side, but the main task of the owner is not accidentally close the slot, for example, when the apparatus is in the pocket.
There is a 3.2-MP camera with autofocus and LED flash in Nokia 7610, which is considered to be the standard for mid-level phones.
The quality of images is at an acceptable level. Video clips can be removed with the help of VGA-resolution, with an average image quality. Rather, in the commercial version of the camera is better (probably not the quality of images).
The device rather quickly opens “heavy” pictures made with the help of the camera, Canon, with a resolution of 5-7 lm and “weight” of 2-2,5 MB.

All content is stored in the internal memory of 64 MB, or expansion microSD cards (card of 4 GB is perceived without problems).
Since the model does not apply to a musical series, it should not be required from the player of divine sound. Also, we do not find in 7610 a standard connector for headphones, as the developers limited to only his younger brother – mini-jack (2,5 mm).

Music application has clear, understandable and easy to use interface, detailed grading compositions in the presence of several preset equalizers, plus three register under their own sound settings.

By the way, the quality is not so bad.

Although, the mobile phone is not suitable for serious music, but it is quite good for simple rock ‘n’ roll and pop music.

The battery of the device lasts three days with an average activity of the user who is not connected to the Internet for hours and does not listen to the player.

Conclusion

In terms of the design, it’s an interesting device. According to its functions, of course, it is good, and the majority of its buyers will be sufficient with the opportunities that lay in the Nokia 7610 Supernova. Judging from the test samples that we had, Nokia 7610 phone has turned to be cautious, designed especially for the weaker sex.

Design

At first sight Sony Ericsson c903 is a usual slider. The apparatus is represented in white color in combination with lilac. Have you ever seen such phones? Probably, not. An amusing element is the protective shutter of the camera. It not only closes the camera but “slides” across the back side. Looks fun.
Another element is corrugated surface on the back of the slider. To the decorations also we can add the insertion of metal, “spread” all over the shell. In general, Sony Ericsson C903 looks pleasant with prepossess appearance. We will not say anything bad about the quality of the assembly. However, the back cover was hard and with such a crash that scared of the latch.

The universal connector is located on the left end, a single 3.5-mm connector is not a musical (it is only in W995), and therefore, the headphone connector will at least interfere in your pocket.
The camera button, volume swings, camera swings and photo gallery has been placed in the right end.

Display and keyboard

The screen of C903 is 2.4-inch, which is already familiar from the previous models. However, the display is good, bright color passes accurate and has great viewing angles. Through the illumination of the sensor (located on the left side of the conversational speakers), the brightness of the display is automatically regulated by a small band, which provides some energy savings.
Touch control buttons are well expressed and speaking in plain language – grope easy, convenient to work with them as owners of heroic palms, and delicate girls. For example, two contextual buttons “receive” and “off”, as well as the central navigation button is raised above the surface of the front panel.
Regarding the dialing, there isn’t any problem with fast dial or SMS. However, those who quickly get accustomed to the new cell phone, certainly, will not have any problems.

Menu and Functions

The menu is the same as with all relatively new Sony Ericcsons, without any changes. We have nothing to say about menu. However, we think that developers needed to change something, for example add new features, but there are no differences.
Call Tones ring loudly in the streets and in public transport, the phone is well heard. But the vibration is very weak.

Positioning can be carried out both in BC, and with the help of GPS-receiver. Again, nothing new, but there is the existence of the latter pleases. Among navigation applications are Google Maps and Wayfinder Navigator. Well, about the sensitivity of GPS-receiver, one can say that it is lower than that of WM-communicators.

Games are amusing (Treasure Tower and Bubble Town).

Music

Playback volume is not very high, for example, in the subway sometimes it is not enough. Preset equalizers are only four jokes, but you can manually adjust the sound to your own taste. There is an expanded stereo mode, but it is better not to turn on.
With regard to design of the player, it is old-fashioned, as once it was in great phone K850i. A breakdown of the content is easy, without any problems.
The icon of FM-tuner is included in the main menu, as radio is a quite popular application. Like MP3-player, radio interface, is very familiar from previous models. The city functions “autosearch” can be trusted to score 20 memory locations, if you’re on the countryside, it is better to enter the frequency manually.

Camera

Sony Ericsson C903 is a series of Cyber-shot. As we already know, the camera switches after opening the lid and on the sides of the lens, with blue decorative LEDs.

The manufacturer and the model have advanced Smile Shutter function, i.e. smile recognition. In fact, you are not to smile in a frame to the camera. When automation catches the subject a yellow box appears around the face. There is also a mode detection which works on the same principle. There are regimes of infinity, macro, and automatic.

Settings of images are sufficient for both the ordinary and the advanced shooting. Someone will have to rely on its strength and skill, and somebody, for example, use one of the six (could be more) pre-scenes.

The browser of photographs and other graphics, as in previous models, is in style a la PSP, can change its orientation (vertical / horizontal), depending on how you hold the phone. There is a breakdown by month; you can run a slideshow of different music with various special effects. Looks nice!

Conclusions

A little downloading (only 15 minutes a day devoted to talks), which includes the camera, a rare GPS-navigation, 30-minute listening to the player at full volume, frequent digging in the menu, the apparatus worked for three days.
In general, the buyers will like it, mainly because of attractive appearance and ease of administration. We haven’t seen something fundamentally new in it. Another drawback may be the price, which against the backdrop of a lack of technological innovation in the C903, seems excessive.

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Following the model , the company revealed its continuation in the face of a miniature Nokia 5530, also musical and also calculated for the youth audience. It is worth paying attention to this article for everyone who wants something modern.

Design
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is the younger sister of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, but its size is more modest. In the pocket of jeans the 5800 may cause some inconvenience, but Nokia 5530 fits anywhere. The design of the device (color, color) is much more preferable than the brutal face of 5800. Of course, it is due to the white color of the back cover and sides and a metal frame of the front panel. At the top is the on/off button, like 5800, but all the connectors are moved to the bottom.
It has an extremely neat and elegant cap, hiding SIM-card connectors and memory cards. Well, the camera button, the slider of the screen lock and the swing of the volume control are on the right side.
Plastic stylus is white and is located on the left side of the shell.
In general, the unit looks stylish and fresh…

Display and Control
In contrast to the popular Nokia 5800 the screen is slightly smaller. That is, two apparatuses have the same resolution (640 x 360) only the diagonal of 2.9inches in 5530 and 3.2 in 5800. You can read electronic books in the transport and contemplate striking photographs without straining eyes.
Of course, thanks to the sensor the position of the image on the display overturns – horizontal or vertical. The device makes it quickly, sometimes thinking, but after a mild shaking everything comes to its place.
The control is the same as in the predecessor – you can use finger input or use the stylus. After five minutes of use you’ll understand how to push the buttons.
Like the model 5800, in the upper right corner of new items there is available area for shortcuts of five applications, including player, multimedia gallery, and web browser. But in a series of XpressMusic the most important is, probably, the rapid launch to a music application.

Player and Radio

The music phone has five equalizers. But we’d like to remind you that “singing” phones from Samsung has 12 presets, including sound effects.
Another software, which slightly increases the volume is used in 5530 and you can use stereo in the expended mode. That’s all.
The quality of the sound seems a little worse than in 5800, but perhaps it depends on a specific test model.
A breakdown of the musical content is typical for devices Nokia S60, nothing new. But you can see the information about Audio Library. Trifle, but it might be useful.
The sensitivity of FM-tuner is good; auto scanning easily finds 20 stations.
The unit itself provides the names of stations to receive the information via RDS. Radio runs in the background as the player. You can record from the air, but you can bring the sound to external speakers. One of them is located at the upper end of the display, the other – in the lower end. The sound is rather loud, rattle and extraneous sounds are not heard. For example, in a room, you can put the phone on the table and listen to music.

Camera
The Nokia 5530 is equipped with a quite simple 3-MP camera with autofocus and LED flash. The interface of the camera is convenient – large icons, which you can get a finger, even on the go, convenient and logical control, a sufficient number of settings, which in one way or another, affect the final result.
In short, everything is very convenient. Autofocus works well, drawbacks are rare.
Talking about the quality of images it should be mentioned that it depends on the lighting and the photographer.

Functions

With its functionality the model is close to 5800, which is not surprising. Therefore, something can be learned from the reviews of older models.
What we see here? Convenient file manager, clients for popular services, simple program to determine the coordinates, if “tie” external GPS-receiver via Bluetooth to 5530. By the way, there is no navigation software, but nothing prevents you from downloading yandex maps in Java.
Alarm clocks are also available. It is convenient that the user can program several alarm cloaks, as it is sometimes required.
Calculator is as usual, without the engineering version. There is a dictionary, with an explanation of the meaning and the opportunity to hear the translation.

Conclusions

If we consider the Nokia 5530 as a simple music phone with an excellent touch screen, the proposal is worthwhile. Sound of course is not outstanding, but with decent headphones – more than acceptable. I think young people will appreciate this.

Appearance Nothing special about the exterior can be said about Samsung S5230. The device is so neutral that fit both men and women. And those girls that have long used Samsung WiTu, thought that the new device is a continuation of last year’s leader.

So, the model is relatively thin (11.9 mm), size is not heroic, weight (92 grams) more than acceptable for most users. In width it is one to one with a Nokia N96, so I personally do not feel comfortable, as accustomed to such size. It is clear that the front panel decently polluted after 15 minutes working with the tube, so the device must be frequently wipe with a cloth, so that the surrounding does not thought that you are a slut.

It is gratifying that the back cover is made of perforated plastic. The bad news is that it is thin and easily scratched. It seems that after months of active use of the tube, it will look shabby. In general, many beloved metal is not seen, and therefore not cheap-looking device has some plastic effect. The volume controller, a universal connector, key lock of the display, camera button, eyelet for the strap are placed in their usuall locations. It is convenient for everything, of course.

There are three keys at the front of the device – “receive”, “off” and button to return. In the photo you see that they are a decent size, but they are not highlighted.

Interesting is the memory card slot – it’s a slot for SIM cards, but all this is not replaced without removing the battery. Of course it is not very comfortable.

Display

Samsung S5230 is equipped with a screen with a resolution of 240 x 400, executed on TFT-technology, which is quite good, at least in the context of this phone. The significant viewing angles, natural colors and, of course, high brightness, which can be adjusted are also worth to mention.

The phone has an appropriate response to touching the screen – even unexperianced users are easily moved from setting to setting, switch the working tables, working with widgets.

Menu

Menu is the simple samsunge version for the touch screen phones, without any updates.

It has support for three desktops and convenient switching between them – move your finger across the screento left-right, and switch between them.

A separate icon provides links to popular resources such as Facebook or Flickr, so the owner will be able to easily load pictures of the camera tube, at least to the same Flickr. A set of widgets is the same as on the model Samsung S8300 Ultra Touch. For example, theer are two weather forecasts from Gismeteo and AccuWeather.

Of course, there is a widget for Yandex news RBC, unchanging calendar, etc. Like S8300, S5230 can also download new widgets, for the benefit of the case the phone has special application where there is a thematic breakdown.

Sound settings are “hidden” in the profiles, where the adjustment of the unit is very convenient – the settings are not dumped in a heap, and caused the screen to the number of multiple units through the horizontal tab. With respect to ringtones, the choice of tunes is quite respectable. The songs sound interesting, and most importantly they have high volume. It is gratifying that the vibration can also be sensitive to configure, i.e. the owner can choose one of five types of vibration.

The company added an interesting feature to the phone called “Intellectual Unlock”. Use it to unlock the phone, run one of the five applications or pre-programmed to dial the number. Now you just need to hold your finger on the screen to do this. So you must choose a letter, which would mean any action, and its style on the screen and encourage staff to certain activities. For example, to unlock the device draw on the screen of capital “A” or “with”.

Dial by using the virtual keyboard, due to a single click. As you can see the numbers are large and errors in the recruitment are virtually eliminated.

Also S5230 adequately responds to the press. There is another very remarkable feature – called “photo contacts”, which is in the main menu. It allows to display seven, where you can put a photo of one of your contacts. Move a finger up and down on the screen, select the appropriate person, click on its icon and there is a tiny submenu offering: call a friend, SMS toa friend, to remove a friend from this list. Incidentally, the numbers are added directly from the call list automatically. So everything is easy and convenient.

Camera

This model does not have a camera with the capacity of 5 or 8 MP. The phone will be equipped with 3.2 MP, with the lack of autofocus and flash. The interface is very familiar from the previous models. As usual, there are several scenes in the stock, including four white balance filter, four color effects, timer, multiple shooting modes. There is a so-called “smiles recognizer”, which works correctly.

Interestingly, besides the size of photos in 3 MP, you can choose the wide version, with the amount of 2000 x 1200.

Music The interface device is similar to what we have seen in previous models, which does not detract from its merits, since it is quite convenient. It supports album art, one click on the screen to change the current sound setting (EQ), repeat mode, or go to the list of songs. It is also very easy (again, directly from the player) you can assign the current song as ringtones, alarms, or personal ringtone to a contact. The phone sounds clear, assertive, without extraneous noise. Bass is also quite significant. Radio is nicely designed as well. It automatically skips some stations with weak signals, but it is quite natural. The radio is supported by scrolling RDS. It shows, of course, not the entire display, but you can read the name of the station. One click on the icon and you can add an external speaker, and output sound to it. It is also convenient to see a list of stations with one click on the screen.

Conclusion

The mobile phone is worth the money you pay for it. It is also important that Samsung S5230 is equipped with high-quality display, also that using the phone, you can easily listen to music and enjoy it. Of course, the camera is not the best, but the new device does not claim to the title of a powerful camera.

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