Nokia 3720 Review – Built for the Rough and Tough

nokia is known for its build quality and reliability and this time Nokia has launched its Nokia 3270 pitting it directly aganist the samsung Marine, a phone built for rugged use. Nokia 3270 is shock proof, Water proof and dust proof. It can definitely take some beating, the phone is expected to launched in Europe,india,China and Rest of Asia in October 2009.

The 3720 has a good set of  features like A2DP stereo , 2mp camera, Opera Mini full web browser, Live messenger and a whole bunch free applications available online. The build quality is solid, the talk time and standby times are pretty good and have a powerful battery. The Music player is also standard and quality is pretty good. The phone has 16M colors as against Samsung B2100's 65k colors. nokia 3720 supports upto 8gb of memory (micro SD) card and comes with a 1 GB card in the package. The phone has only 20MB of phone memory for all these applications.

But for most of the users this phone is definitely a worthy buy and it is expected to be priced at 200$ (US)  or Rs 8000-10,000 in India.

The phone has a classic candy bar look and comes with the following features

• Symbian S40 with Java Support
• 16 Million Color TFT 2.2″ display
• 2 mp camera with led flash
• 115 x 47 x 15.3 mm, 69 cc
• bluetooth v2.1
• A2DP stereo over bluetooth headset
• IP54 certified – dust and water jets resistant
• GPRS, Multi slot class 11
• EDGE, Multi slot class 11
• Li-Ion 1050 mAh Battery – BL-5CT
• 7 Hour talk time and 408 hours standby time
• Music playback time: up to 14.5 h
• Music player
• Music playback file formats: .MP3, .MP4, .WMA, .aac, AAC+, eaac+
• stereo fm radio
• 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
• Micro-USB connector
• Available in-box colours:
• – Grey
• – Yellow
• Full Web Browser Opera Mini browser – HTML, XHTML, WML
• Supported protocols: HTTP, wap
• SMS,mms and Live Messenger
• Java™ MIDP 2.0
• Flash Lite 2.0
• Instant messaging:
• – Windows Live support (Windows Live Messenger pre-installed)
• – Instant messaging client (OMA)
• – Audio messaging
• Opera Mini browser
• OSS browser
• Nokia Maps 2.0
• Ovi Share
• Windows Live Messenger