Alongside the release of the Nokia 6700 Slide is another slider phone, the slicker Nokia 7230. At first look, I kinda like the 7230 more than the 6700. Although it’s only available in two colours graphite and pink, it have a regal feel to it which is due to its metallic elements and colour combination.
With the Nokia 7230 you can take photo using its 3.2 Megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and enjoy them on its 2.4 inch screen or upload and share them on Ovi, Flickr, Vox, YouTube, Facebook, or share via Bluetooth instantly. This slider phone natively supports google talk and windows live so you can chat on-the-go. Social netwoking via Facebook and twitter or other networking sites could be done directly from the home screen. With support of all popular email services such as Gmail, Haotmail and yahoo Mail, you can read your email straight from your phone or you can use Nokia Messeging to create your own email, or use a free Ovi Mail account.
The Nokia 7230 supports quad-band GSM and two versions of tri-band 3G. Music lovers will love the 3.5mm audio jack which they can listen up to 27 hours of music. It comes with a 2GB microSD card and will be available early 2010 at around $150 US, 100 EURO, 92 UK pound or 165 Australian Dollars. Looks cheap eh?
It seems like an OKAY phone, but for a budget challenged person like me, a built in wi-fi could have been great. That way you need not to use data plans.
Data network
- WCDMA max. 2 Mbp/s / 384 kbit/s
- GPRS MSC32, 100 kbit/s / 60kbit/s
- EDGE MSC32, 296 kbit/s / 177.6 kbit/s
- DTM MSC11
Dimensions
- Form Factor: slide
- Size: 98 x 48 x 14.75 mm
- Weight (with battery): 100 g
- Volume: 64 cc
Operating Frequency
- WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (rest of the world)
- Automatic switching between GSM bands
- Flight mode
- Quad band GSM EDGE 850/900/1900/2100
- WCDMA 850/1900/2100 (Latin America, North America, Australia and Israel)
Interface and Connectivity
- USB 2.0 (micro USB )
- 3.5 mm AV port
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Local and remote SyncML synchronisation
Display
- Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
- Size: 2.4″
- colours: 262,000 colours (TFT)
Memory
- MicroSD up to 16 GB
- built-in: 70 MB (45MB available)
GPS and navigation
- Nokia Maps 3.0 enabled
Camera
- 3.2 megapixel (2048 x 1536 px)
- Digital Auto focus
- JPEG
- 4x digital zoom
Camera Functions
- White balance: automatic, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent
- Capture mode: still, self-timer, sequence, video
- Colour effects: normal, greyscale, negative, solarise, false colours, sepia
- Photo Editor on device
- Direct to compatible printer printing
- Dedicated shutter button
Power Management Information
- BL-4C 860 mAh Li-Ion battery
- Video recording : 172 mins mac
- Music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 27 h
- Talk time (maximum): WCDMA 220 mins (95%)
- Standby time (maximum): GSM 370 h (90%) WCDMA 395 h (95%)
- GSM 324 mins (71%)
- Video playback: 381 mins max
Buttons and Input Methods
- Call and end keys, and soft keys
- Alpha numeric keypad
- Dedicated image capture key
- 5 way Navi™ key
Customisation
- Custom profiles
- Video ringtones
- Ringtones: MP3, eAAC+, WMA, .mid, AAC, and eAAC
- Themes: wallpapers, screensavers, ringtones, pre-installed themes, changeable colour themes
Email and messaging
- Email clients: native, OZ, Windows Live
- Audio Messaging (AMS)
- Reminder light for message alerts
- IM clients (native, Google Talk, OZ, Windows Live)
- SMS, MMS 1.3
- Multiple SMS deletion
- SMS with support for concatenated long SMS
- Voice messages
- SMS and MMS Common inbox
Browsing and internet
- Supported protocols and markup languages: HTML, XHTML,WAP 2.0, TCP/IP
- OSS browser
- WM DRM 10, OMA DRM 2.0
- Nokia Download! to support to discover, download, and install add-on applications and widgets
- Ovi Share connection to popular sharing services
- Video streaming support
- WebSearch Midlet
Call management
- Dialled, received and missed call logging
- Contacts with images
- Vibrating alert
- Call waiting, call hold, call divert
- Call timer
Music features
- Music Player: Nokia Music Store support
- Nokia Music Manager (PC application)*
- Audio file formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, NB AMR, WB AMR, MIDI, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+
- DRM support: WM DRM 10, OMA DRM 2.0
- Ringtones: up to 64 voice polyphony MIDI ringtones, video ringtones
- Formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA
Video camera
- 3.2 megapixel video camera
- 4x digital zoom
- Maximum clip length depends on available free memory
- White balance modes: daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, automatic
- Colour Effects: normal, false colours, greyscale, sepia, negative, solarise
- Video codecs & formats: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) at 15 fps
- Video recording file formats: MP4 (default), 3GP (for MMS); codecs: H.263, MPEG-4
- Audio recording file formats: AMR-NB
- Video playback file formats: MP4, 3GP; codecs H.263, H.264
- DRM support: OMA DRM 2 video, Windows DRM-10, WMV
- Video sharing and playback via Share on Ovi
- Share Online connectivity to popular sharing services with support for video streaming
Included games
- Snake III
- Bounce II
- Sudoku II
- Rally Start
Software platform & user interface
- S40 user interface
- Active Idle
- Voice commands
- FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
Applications
- Photo Gallery
- Ovi Store
- Nokia Maps 2.0
- Nokia Life Tools
- Nokia Search 2.0
- Flickr Image Upload
- English-Chinese dictionary (China, APAC only)
- Lunar calendar (China only)
- Facebook client
- Share on Ovi
- Contacts on Ovi
- Add more applications via over-the-air (OTA) downloads
- Nokia Download!
- My Nokia
- Opera Mini Browser
- Widets suppor
- OSS
- Java™ MIDP 2.1Radio Player
- Music Player
- Nokia Messaging
- Nokia Email
Personal Information Management (PIM)
- Size converter
- Calculator 2
- Converter 2
- Maps
- Voice recorder
- To-do list
- Stop watch
- Count down
- Phone book for 2000 entries
- World clock
- Organiser
Standard Sales Package
- Nokia 7230 unit
- Nokia Stereo Headset WH-102
- User guide
- Nokia 2 GB microSD Card MU-37
- Nokia Compact Charger AC-3
- Nokia Battery BL-4CT
Recommended accessories
- Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-105
- Nokia Stereo Headset WH-500
- Nokia 16 GB MicroSD Card MU-44
- More compatible accessories here
Available colours
- Graphite
- Hot Pink
Photos of the Nokia 7230
More information about the 7230 on Nokia Europe
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