| What can you buy with EUR100 these days? Still a lot. | | | | accept just about all the headphones on the market. |
| One of them is the Nokia 7230. Expect it to fetch | | | | - It has a modest 2.4-inch LCD TFT screen with |
| much lower with carrier discounts with a good chance | | | | QVGA resolution and just 256k color support. Imaging |
| you can get it for free on a short contract. Nokia took | | | | is supported by an entry-level 3.2 megapixel fixed |
| out many of the frills we've come to expect from a | | | | focus camera that does the job without flash. But you |
| full-featured mobile phone to bring this handset to a | | | | get QVGA video recording at a good-enough 15 |
| wider market. | | | | frames per second for that sudden urge to capture a |
| Does it offer value for the money? Well, if you don't | | | | video of a fleeting moment. |
| frequent hotspots for internet surfing, then you won't | | | | - There's no GPS but your handset gets preloaded |
| mind it not having a WiFi. If you don't do a lot of | | | | with Nokia Maps 3.0 so you can navigate manually. |
| internet browsing and just be content with a | | | | Internal memory is not much at 70 MB but you get |
| good-enough 2 mbps downloading speeds on the 3G | | | | microSD expandability for up to 16 GB. There's a 2GB |
| minus HSDPA/HSUPA, then this entry-level Nokia | | | | microSD card that comes with the sales package. |
| mobile phone offers a lot for the price. | | | | - Its 860 mAh lithium ion battery will get you 27 hours |
| Not only does it perform the basic tasks of a | | | | of musical listening, 5.4 hours of talk time and 15 hours |
| competent mobile phone, it's quite pretty on your | | | | of standby time on 2G networks, 3.7 hours of talk time |
| hands. With a choice of two colors - graphite and hot | | | | and 16 hours standby times on 3G. |
| pink, you have an elegantly compact phone measuring | | | | Software Features |
| just 98 x 46 x 14.75mm and weighing just 100g. It's got | | | | Running on an older Symbian S40 OS, you get an |
| a fashion sense to be easy on the eyes and easy on | | | | Opera Mini browser, WebSearch Midlet, Google Talk, |
| you hands. At its EUR100 price without taxes and | | | | Windows Live support and Nokia messaging. Its |
| subsidies, it's easy on the wallet as well. | | | | multimedia players support the popular image, audio |
| Hardware Features at a Glance | | | | and video file formats and supports video streaming |
| - The Nokia 7230 mobile phone is a basic quad band | | | | as well. You can have access to the Nokia Music |
| GSM/GPRS/EDGE and a tri band 3G/UMTS. There's | | | | store and get to upload your videos to Ovi Share. |
| no 3.5G HSPA data connectivity or WiFi. But there's | | | | There's an FM radio and games like Snake III, Bounce II, |
| high speed Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR. There's no A2DP | | | | Sudoku II and Rally Start which should perk you up in |
| support but you get a 3.5mm headphone jack that | | | | boring moments.. |