Nokia 7600 Early 3G Phone

Technically, Nokia 7600 is the company's first two-system handset (2G/3G) that can work in GSM 900/1800 and WCDMA. The model also supports standard 3G services, such as streaming audio and video playback, and has a 29-MB built-in memory.
Design and Construction

Nokia 7600 looks quite uncommon, as can be easily seen from the photos. It is not minute, but not huge either: it measures and weighs about the same as Nokia 6600. The handset is supposed to be worn as a pendant, and it has a little hole for a neck band. Although it seems a bit too big for a pendant, it looks more like a pocket-size device. Its body is made of a usual plastic which is not exactly bad but looks nothing grand either.

The keypad is divided into two rows each placed along the side of the display, and should be handled with both hands. A similar solution was used in the Siemens SX1 smartphone, but in our opinion, it is better realised in Nokia 7600. Apart from the numeric unit, the front panel also has call and cancel keys, two soft buttons and a 5-way joystick. The keys are easily discernible by touch, but their uncommon arrangement makes "blind handling" virtually impossible. .

The 7600 display has a 128x160 resolution, unusual for Nokia Series 40 (128x128 being a standard one). This is a TFT display, and it supports 65,535 colours. It has little difference from most similar screens; its brightness, contrast, and richness are standard, and the display has relatively large pixels.

Nokia 7600 is based on the latest edition of the Series 40 platform. The user interface, despite being traditional for Nokia, also has a number of innovations. For instance, the main menu can now be shown as an array of icons (without captions). The array consists of three columns and six lines, only three of which can be displayed at a time. Confirmation is now done by pressing the joystick. In some cases it duplicates a traditional soft key function, in other cases it is the only way to execute a command. The context menu is invoked with the left soft key.

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