User Reviews for Nokia 710

A much awaited price cut has given Nokia Lumia 710 a prospect to be one of the best sellers. A 1.4ghz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 512 mb ram, 3.7” screen with WVGA resolution, the list goes on. Lumia 710 has many offerings to surprise you with a price tag of around 15.5k. On the Software side, Windows Phone Mango may win many hearts with its simplistic interface, which may not be as versatile as, say, Android, but is ridiculously fluid, and stays that at all times. nnPros:n1. 1.4ghz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset coupled with 512 mb ram provide a buttery smooth experience. It is very close to what you will get even on the costliest windows phone.n2. 3.7” LCD ClearBlack display with WVGA resolution provides crisp bright colors. The overall contrast is good.n3. Video Recording offers good resolution and colors, bit rate is quite high.n4. 8gb on board storage (At this price, it is excellent).n5. Free life-time voice guided navigation.nnCons:n1. Disappointing battery life. Turning off multi-tasking may improve the battery life, but it isn’t the most pleasing option. With moderate usage, it may not even last a full day.n2. Disastrous audio quality. The frequency response is way off (something you simply can’t associate with modern day phones), intermodulation distortion is too high.n3. The other cons include the limitations of Windows Phone OS. No expandable storage, no Bluetooth file transfer, no DivX/XviD support out of the box, over-dependence on Zune.nnCompetition:nYes, some shortcomings are a little too much to be ignored (What was wrong with the audio quality). But battery life may not be comparatively very good in some competing android devices either. What you definitely get with Nokia Lumia 710 is a total commitment by Nokia-Microsoft to make this ecosystem as strong as possible. And what used to come at an appalling 20k, is now available at three-fourths the price. Considering that, Lumia 710 may be a very tempting package at this point of time. nnSamsung Omnia W I8350 is a close competitor, with similar hardware. It even brings a SuperAMOLED screen and metallic back, all at a very slight increase in price. But you will be giving up on SatNav and Nokia Drive.nHTC radar is all about good finish, but it comes with “only” 1 ghz processor and a higher price. If price is not an issue, you can go all the way up to Nokia Lumia 800 which flaunts a very hot polycarbonate uni-body, better battery and camera. nHowever, there is ample competition outside Windows Phone. Sony Ericcson Xperia Ray and Xperia Neo V are very tempting android alternatives with 1 ghz processors, 512 mb ram and planned upgrades to ICS. A better camera or a bigger screen should tilt your preferences to the former or later.nNokia offers some Symbian phones too. Nokia 701 and 700 come with very similar hardware. More importantly, Nokia Belle has been in news for good things.nHowever all phones mentioned do have a higher price than Nokia 710 which could well be the defining factor when many young people finalize on a model to buy.

I'm sure you are aware that for this price tag, the specs seem like a bargain. But I am sorry to say I have been shortchanged in that department because despite several weeks with this phone, I still crave the Nokia music express phone I had before this, which at 5000 had more heart and soul than this phone. 1. Battery Life: One thing you expect from any phone, is that it lasts at least a full day given moderate usage. Well guess what, it dies out in 5 hours!! 2. End call: I'm sure you have heard about the end call bug that Nokia is desperately trying to fix. I have to reboot my phone because it hangs every time I make a call and this is fairly irritating. 3.No business cards. It's crazy!! How can we function if we cannot even attach the number as a message? 4. CAmera: one word- Abysmal. The quality is worse than my basic Nokia phone. REally it says 5MP, but the pictures are grainy be it night or day. 5.I need to go through 2-3 screen to enter someone's contact info. It could be integrated into one page, but Nokia has really messed up here. Simple UI is the need of the hour. It's not all bad: The UI is great and the phone is quick and with (when it doesn't hang that is). Great touch sensitivity (too sensitive at times.) Was able to easily transfer all my contacts from my old phone using contact transfer app- Great stuff. If all the bugs are fixed it may be a desirable phone for the price tag.

Just bought this phone really great UI, had been using nokia device from the day i had my first cell phone so great to be with nokia againnnabout the phone really great speed 1.4Ghz really performs upto the marknncamera quality also great, the autofix helps quite wellnnmusic n videos play greatnnmessaging is a bit pain cause switching from n79 to touch but gettin used to itnnapps just wrk awesome xbox live games are greatnnn with nokia contacts transfer app gettin ma contacts from n79 was a piece of cakennone thing which i dont miss from my earlier phone was opera browsers, IE on the phone is quite fast more user frenly so no need for going to any other browsernnthe only thing is with the battery backup its a bit oknnon a whole phone is great best buy.... on this price tag dont miss it....

wow at this price this is a deal breaker...i hav used lumia 800 and wp7.5 os is far far fluidic,,,,and social networks are deeply integrated into this OS..which means no need of downloading separate apps..live tikes,quick transitions,which is nt present in ios or android..those who are complaing this is nt dual core plz understand it dooesnt require dual core to run so smoothly..and simple funda is tht "more ghz" = "less battery backup"..eventhough current mobiles hav evolved a lot from old mobiles,battery is almost the same where it started..so people try windows os..its nt at all bad...

I used this phone for 1 week before it was sent to Delhi for "Testing" at Nokia Headquarters. I am a big fan of Windows Phone 7 operating system but a few flaws are still there in the os . Overall Nokia Lumia 710 is best you can get for 15000 Rs. Problem 1) Nokia Lumia has severe problems in ending calls. You can't end a normal call. This problem has plagued this device and it has forced so many owners to sell their phone. The phone hangs every time you end a call. HENCE, YOU HAVE TO RESTART THE PHONE EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO END A CALL. Google it " Nokia Lumia 710 Call ending bug " Problem 2) If you are a pre-paid customer watch out. WP7 has problems handling USSD codes ( ex : *---# ) Most of the time it won't show your call cost or net usage after use . Note : This review is based on my experience . Please do not generalize it . If Nokia manages to solve these two issues " I will a happy Lumia customer again" :)