Nokia N76

Nokia N76 Review – Makes Sure You Get Smarter

When you are looking at smartphones, you may not always think of Nokia in the same breath. However Nokia N76 will change that perception. This is a Symbian handset with a lot of features. The N76 has a serious focus on music and has an FM radio, music player and a 3.5mm headset jack for decent headphones. The sound quality is excellent with this phone. However, there are some problems such as not working on a 3G band network and with the A2DP Bluetooth. Battery life is also an issue here.
Plainly the European version of Nokia N97 is better qualified and American verson is missing out due to serious restrictions in the phone’s capacity. Overall, it is a good phone but users will want more from a phone of this particular type. Let’s take a look at the phone and its components.
Nokia N76 adopts the clamshell design which is stylish and fashionable. It also is a triband handset with support for GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and UMTS 2100. The screen is 240×320 pixels and measures 2.4 inches. The exterior screen is 256k colors with 128×160 pixels. It also has poly ringtones and Bluetooth technology. It measures 106.5x52x13.7mm and weighs 115g. The memory card can hold up to 2 GB. You can use multimedia video recording such as QVGA, MPEG-4 and VBR with an audio of AAC low complexity. You can also make video calls and use multimedia messaging with this particular phone. Messaging systems such as SMS, MMS, IM and other messaging types are fully supported with this phone.
You also have a 2.0 megapixel camera included with this particular phone. This comes with a 20 x digital zoom along with an LED flash and video capture in QVGA. You have the capacity for FM radio, Music player, Real Player and video streaming, storage, editing, downloading and sharing. The music player supports WMA, MR3, AAC and MIDI, eAAC, M4A and Wav formats.. You also have full connectivity with local and remote connectivity, USB 2.o support with a mini USB and Bluetooth technology. You also have data transfer such as WCDMA, WAP, EDGE and GPRS.
Included in this phone is a Nokia browser that has Mini Map included. You also have organizers such as contacts, phone books, converter, to do list and notes. For other features you have ring tones, games, screensavers and wallpapers. For Internet lovers, you can access information that you need with mobile search, download personalization for your phone and access the Internet. Battery life is also important here. For your talk time, you will have up to 120 minutes with the WCDMA network and 165 with GSM. Now for standby time you will have up to 8.5 days with either of the networks in question.
With that being said, this is a good phone but is with some design flaws and not enough battery time. The European market has the better deal, but with the design flaws and a poor battery, you would wish for something just a little bit better for paying for a premium phone such as this one. For the price, it does leave a bit wanting in several departments. So for an European phone it is good but there are much better options when it comes to phones of this size.
Specifications:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network	UMTS 2100
Announced	2007, January
Status	Available
Dimensions	106.5 x 52 x 13.7 mm, 70 cc
Weight	115 g
Display Type	TFT, 16M colors
Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches
	- Second external 256K colors display (160 x 128 pixels) - Downloadable themes
Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone	Yes
	- 3.5 mm headset jack
Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records	Detailed, max 30 days
Internal	26 MB storage, 96 MB RAM
Card slot	microSD, up to 2GB, hotswap, buy memory
GPRS	Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps
EDGE	Class 32, 296 / 177.6 kbits
3G	Yes, 384 kbps
WLAN	No
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP (latest firmware)
Infrared port	No
USB	Yes, v2.0, miniUSB
Camera Primary	2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, LED flash
Video	Yes, QVGA
Secondary	CIF videocall camera
OS Symbian	OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
CPU	ARM 11 369 MHz processor
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Radio	Stereo FM radio
Games	Yes + Java downloadable
Colors	Red, Black, White
GPS	No
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
	- Push to Talk - WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player - MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A music player - T9 - Voice command/dial - Organizer - Printing - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Photo/video editor
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 700 mAh (BL-4B)
Stand-by	Up to 200 h (2G) / 192 h (3G)
Talk time	Up to 2 h 45 min (2G) / 2 h (3G)