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Nokia N79
By: Shayne Rana   |   Jan 06, 2009
  • 4
Great battery life
Smooth interface and Navi-Wheel operation
Camera quality is ok
Audio player is loud and clear
FM radio pick up is decent
Plenty of media options
Audio clarity issue via FM transmitter
Video section takes time to open up
Menu and 'C' key are not well positioned

The Nokia N-Series range of handsets are essentially multimedia devices that are designed for that specific purpose with of course as much of anything else tossed in. The N79 is quite well equipped with plenty of media and other features but here’s how well it actually fared.

Form Factor
The N79 is a good looking handset with sleek lines and curves that give it a touch of refinement and class. The 2.4-inch TFT LCD sports a 240 x 320 pixel, 16 million color resolution. The keypad is large enough for fingers of any size to operate with ease. Its five way nav-pad employs Nokia’s touch sensitive Navi-Wheel feature that seems to be more refined than any of the other handsets that it features on. To activate the media menu, a designated button is neatly placed on the side. What I didn’t like was the placement of the Menu and Cancel keys. Having them in between keys that are raised made it a bit difficult to access sometimes, especially the Cancel key when it came to erasing while typing a message or mail. Bad move Nokia.

Nevertheless, I still liked the handset’s overall design. A ‘key-lock’ slider, Power button and 3.5mm standard earphone socket are located on the top of the handset. On one side is a concealed flap that houses both the micro USB port as well as the microSD card slot. A small charging port is located on the same side at the bottom. The volume/zoom keys, camera key and a set of stereo speakers are located on the opposite side with a 5MP camera (with a smooth lens cover) and the dual LED flash at the rear.

The handset is also bundled with a set of changeable rear panels to add some color. All cables, including that for TV Out are provided as well.

Features and Performance
The N79 is no different from any other Symbian OS device with a Series 60 UI. With its ARM 11 369 MHz processor there’s no lag when it comes to navigation, screen rotation with the accelerometer or use of the Navi-Wheel operation. There’s nothing new that the N79 has to offer if it’s compared to the N85 that I reviewed just a couple of weeks ago.


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its so coollllllllllllll compared ton85
Sanal haridas @ Jul 07, 2009
its so sexy that i can afford to f*** it but cant afford to buy it
shaggy @ Apr 11, 2009
its an damn good mobile but i cant purchase it
shaggy @ Apr 11, 2009
i bought it for 19800from kottayam, kerala
reuben @ Jan 18, 2009
Sexy Look and slim. Inform the price in India, Andhra Pradesh.
mani @ Jan 13, 2009
Sexy Look and slim. Inform the price in India, Andhra Pradesh.
mani @ Jan 13, 2009
Sexy Look and slim. Inform the price in India, Andhra Pradesh.
mani @ Jan 13, 2009
Sexy Look and slim. Inform the price in India, Andhra Pradesh.
mani @ Jan 13, 2009
AMAZING PHONE,IT COULD BE BETTER IN LOOKS
KAMAKSHI @ Jan 12, 2009
Amazing phone...been using dis phone fr over 2 weeks nw.... itz nyc....
Manmeet Singh Gill @ Jan 09, 2009
not bhought yet but willing 2 own 1 thanks 4 this review, but? can beat the n82.
imranbhai @ Jan 08, 2009
appears to be a good hand set
Sunil Bhandari @ Jan 08, 2009
Can't beat the N82's Xenon
jisse @ Jan 07, 2009
Lovely phone with ultimate features.
Atul @ Jan 07, 2009
There are thousands phones in the market in this price range and far better than this. I do not find nothing special in this phone
Amit bravo @ Jan 07, 2009
Nokia Price fall.........every.........after launch............... :-/
sams @ Jan 06, 2009
why nokia is messing up its known n-series,by launching almost similar kind of features, with just one or two features varied.
just giving an impression that they just wanted to take advantage of thier tagline"n- series" rather seriouslly working on features.
god, give them brains
abhishek singh @ Jan 06, 2009
WOW! This is my phone. I bought 1 month ago for 20k. it's very loyal and I just love IT!!!
Jaydeep @ Jan 06, 2009
I think N95 is the best phone launched by Nokia Corp. after that all the following phone has the same features and not attracted designs..Only difference is the megapixel and camera clearance..They should try to broaden new technology in phone making.N79 not my cup of tea.
Steve @ Jan 06, 2009
Is this with the latest firmware update?There's a new firmware out(not sure of the version no) which impacts almost all of the phone's features.You might wanna update your handset and check for any updates/fixed issues.
Ravi Shanker @ Jan 06, 2009
Nokia hasnt been delivering different types of phones for Nseries & the like. Almost all of them now come out with symbian 60 series OS & very similar features.

What they differ is only the form factor.
Mp3 player in a phone, camera in a phone, now whats next?
Arent we seeing a stagnation in this?
Rahul @ Jan 06, 2009
Nice, Never expected this phone would get a 4 stars.
Shreyas @ Jan 06, 2009
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