Nokia 7230 Slider review

Lookswise, Nokia 7230 Slider is a sleek and stylish phone with cool and chick features.Its hot pink colour is too gaudy but may appeal to the pink-loving gender, though graphite option is open for men as well. The 64cc large screen with 98 x 48 x 14.8 mm dimensions, tempting colours and economical price of the phone easily attracts people. Nokia 7230 Slider’s Mp3 and Mp4 player alongwith FM radio fulfills a music lover needs completely. It plays music files in
eAAC /WAV/WMA formats.



The Nokia 7230 Slider is endowed with a 3.2 MP camera that clicks pictures at 2048x1536 pixels resolution. The device enables video recording at 15fps, giving a superb quality both in context of video as well as the camera. The Nokia 7230 Slider internal memory is as less as 45MB but can be expanded via a microSD card upto 16GB, out of which 2GB card is already uploaded in it. This is a lot of space to store data viz. Music files, pictures, SMSes, contacts and videos.

The Nokia 7230 Slider battery is BL-4C Li-ion with 860mAh power. It performs well giving good talk time of upto 5h 24 min (2G) / Up to 3 h 40 min (3G). The battery life also facilitates listening to music for as long as 27 hours. This experience is accentuated due to a 3.5mm audio jack that gives superb sound quality through speakerphones.Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones are downloadable also. The Nokia 7230 Slider is 3G enabled and at speed of 384kbps and in the configuration of UMTS 900 / 2100 / 1900. Local connectivity is through Bluetooth v2.1, v2.0 microUSB and GPRS/EDGE Class 32. WAP 2.0/xHTML browsing is enabled in Nokia 7230 Slider.

Overall, Nokia 7230 Slider is an amazingly beautiful handset with good battery life. This feature packed phone, however, lacks any IM/Email facility and supports only basic messaging features like SMS and MMS. The Nokia 7230 Slider does not have Wi-Fi and secondary camera facility also. The Nokia 7230 Slider has four in built games viz Snake III, Bounce II, Sudoku II, Rally Start. The java features like Flickr/Ovi Upload, Nokia Life Tools and Nokia Maps, Widgets, Flash Lite 3.0 and T9 make this a premium device just as good as a PC.