Nokia 2710 Navigation Review

The Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition is aimed at offering GPS feature at an affordable cost. The Nokia 2710 comes preloaded with Nokia Maps app. Another noticeable feature is the Nokia maps service is free of cost. Once you buy this phone, you don’t need to pay subscription charges. Though this phone is considered as entry level phone, it features 2 megapixel camera, decent multimedia player and good battery.

Nokia 2710 has nice candy bar design and looks decent. It measures 111.2mm tall, 45.7mm wide and 13.7mm thick. It is relatively slim phone. It comes in three colors: Jet Black, Warm Silver and White Silver. The design of the keyboard is pretty similar to most of the Nokia entry level phones. There are 2 softkeys just below display, the send, end/power key and a four way navigational key with a middle select key. It has a dedicated shortcut key to access navigational features. The keyboard offers faster texting and dialing. A microUSB port, microSD card are present on the left spine. A camera key is present on the right spine. A camera lens without flash is placed on the backside of the mobile. A 3.5mm audio port is present at the top. The Nokia 2710 sports a 2.2 inch TFT screen which has resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and supports 256K colors. The screen is bright and crisp with vibrant colors. The screen also displays the maps in full detail and they are clearly visible.

Nokia 2710 has 1000 entries Phonebook with a room for 5 contact entries, photo, email and notes for each entry. You can pair the contacts with ringtones, polyringtones and MP3 tones. It also supports photocall. A 2GB microSD card has been included. You can extend the external memory up to 16 GB in the form of microSD. It has internal memory of 64MB. The essential features includes a notepad, a speaker phone, to-do tasks, a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, a stopwatch, a speaker phone, voice dialing, a world clock an alarm clock, and a calculator. It also includes Car mount and car charger as accessories (available in selected stores only).

The Nokia 2710 as a navigation phone, it includes built-in GPS receiver with advance features. Nokia provides a free Nokia Map 2.1 subscription for life time. You will get the information about nearby landmarks, restaurants and other point of interest. Nokia Map has huge POI database. Nokia map is available in 76 countries. There is a dedicated key to provide quick access to Nokia Maps. It provides turn by turn navigation.

The Nokia 2710 runs on the S40 operating system; Nokia uses this OS in its most of the midrange and entry level mobiles. The S40 is fast, reliable intuitive and responsive. The S40 is easy and convenient to operate. You can download themes, wallpapers, games, software updates from Nokia’s Ovi Store.

As the 2710 is considered as the entry level phone, so the connectivity features are pretty limited. The Nokia 2710 supports Quad band GSM, GPRS, USB v2.0, EDGE and Bluetooth with A2DP No infra-red support, 3G, and Wi-fi. The Full Web browser has Flash lite 3.0 support; this means you can watches online videos on the mobile. It supports email, Push email and instant messaging. It supports all the email formats: SMTP, IMAP4, POP3.

The 2710 has a decent multimedia player which supports audio formats like WAV, AMR, MP3, AAC, eAAC+, AAC+ files and video formats such as MPEG4, H.264, H.263, and WMV. The music interface is pretty simple. You can edit and create playlists. The player controls include shuffle, skip, forward and backward. It also features a FM radio with RDS feature.

The 2710 is has 2 megapixel camera that captures the images at 1600×1200 pixels resolution. You can also record videos at 15fps. You will get some basic editing options and 4x digital zoom. There is no Autofocus and flash.

The Nokia 2710 has Lithium-Ion (1020mAh) battery. It is expected to deliver battery life of 432hours on standby and 4 hours 24 min of talktime.  The call quality is very good with minimal distortion.

Price in Indonesia: Rp. 1,200,000  -  Second Rp. 950,000