Exterior:

The phone looks good, albeit chunky – thicker and longer than normal phones. The dual steel and gray tones make this phone look very classy. If you hold this in your hand, you will look like a professional who has just arrived. However, if someone actually knew the phone intimately, you would be laughed at for buying it.

The front fascia is surrounded by a gigantic screen with a keypad just below it.

The reverse is again a combination of dual tones of steel and gray with a hint of muddy gold, which is a nice complimentary tone. The fact that the 1.3-megapixel camera, the flash and the speaker are all clubbed together in a surprisingly small area gives the phone a very clean look. This one is surely a looker.

Features:

The phone is tri-band compliant and comes with the best looking 65k screen we have ever seen. In fact, it’s tough to believe that the screen only supports 65k colors, thanks to the overall brightness, crispness and razor sharp quality.

For the software part, Nokia is using the Symbian OS 7.0 with UIQ 2.1 which basically ensures that the entire screen is a writable touchscreen.

Although Nokia's bundle is pretty Spartan, you do get a 128MB miniSD card with an SD adapter. Surprisingly, the phone has an SD, but not a miniSD slot. This could perhaps indicate that Nokia's future phones will come with miniSD and the economies of scale forced Nokia to purchase miniSD and supply it with an adapter. You can expand the memory by up to 2GB at best. We believe this is far more preferable than Nokia's N91 with the hard disk inside.

The phone has the usual features of GPRS, USB connectivity, Bluetooth and the like. The thing it does lack though is Wi-Fi. But to be fair, at the price point, we are yet to see a phone that offers Wi-Fi. Nokia could've led the race though, especially considering its philosophy of sharing and connecting people using m-blog. To be able to just scribble text and send it across using Wi-Fi would have been an excellent add on.

Of course you can add this capability by using an SD I/O card.

As for the UI, Nokia is using Symbian OS 7.0 with UIQ 2.1, which we pointed out earlier. This is similar to the integration we have seen on the erstwhile P910i, and needless to say, it works quite well. The screen and the stylus give the best feel we have gotten on any touchscreen phone we have used and that’s saying a lot considering we have tested quite a few in our lab.

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