I was looking for a new cell phone which had to have two best qualifications: great camera phone and great graphics. It was esential for me to be able to send high quality pictures. Also, I can't live without playing chess and chess program I had in my old Samsung T-429 had poor graphics and used to freeze up very often while playing.
PICTURE QUALITY with this Nokia is exceptional- I took with it a picture of a local park and you couldn't tell while viewing with Windows gallery on my pc- that the picture was taken with cell phone, not with high quality point-n-shoot camera. I like this feature also: when sending picture, if it takes too many KB's, it allows you automatically to make it smaller. Very minor thing is- it would have been nice for Nokia to put small mirror so one could see himself/herself while taking picture.
GRAPHICS are excellent! Very pleasant to the eye and NEVER freezes up on me while I am playing chess. Never!
PLAYER functionality and sound quality is very good. External buttons are easy to use. When you play a piece of downloaded music from Amazon on loudspeaker- high notes are sometimes too much to handle, but one cannot expect sound quality equal to high end stand alone sound systems; quality through earphones is fine. But overall, music player sound quality, again- is very good. My only complain is that when you play music and press cell phone red end button- music does not stop- you have to press stop/pause button for the player itself, otherwise if you play music and slide down phone or press red stop button or both- music will keep playing and you will have go back to player to stop the music.
CALL QUALITY is also very good. Sound is crisp and clear. The downside, I think, is when you slide up the phone to answer the call and and after the call is over (from either party) phone locks within three seconds and that means when you want to use phone again you have either to slide phone down and up again or press ok and star function. I think it is a mistake by Nokia. I think they should have left the choice to a customer- if they wanted to use the cell phone after the call- let them do so, if they wanted to lock- let them just slide it down. I'd say it is a medium grade anoyance.
LOUDSPEAKER is good, but not excelent. Samsung T429 had a slight advantage here.
APPEARANCE is superb. I am a slider cell phone guy and this one looks so so cool! It feels solid and well built, not a flimsy piece of plastic like so many other cell phones. Combination of red and black colors are blended very well and beautiful to look at. And those two 1mm high and 3mm wide lights at the mid-lower part of the front of the phone that come up slowly and then goes away slowly- it is so cool especially at night.
OVERALL i would definitely recommend to anyone especially who is looking for exceptional graphics, ability to take and send highest quality pictures. 5 stars. Definitely.
