Nokia 7370, the Nokia's first rotator designed handset taking lead in the fashion models, stands above the Nokia 7270 in the hierarchy. Although the handset is extraordinary providing bulk of functionality in this small device but still is expected to be facing a competition with Motorola V80.
Expected Release
Nokia announced the handset to be released in October 2005 and they are on the way and the handset is available in market but of course due to the increase demand of the handset, it would not be possible to get the handset easily, but still officially the handset is available in market.
Expected Price
Nokia taking care of users, not only easing them by providing a hand set that best suits the needs of all the users in all corners of world but also takes care of the prize so that the majority people buy it. Nokia 7370, a beauty of design and functionality is expected to be 300-340 USD, which is quite reasonable and affordable as well.
Package
As Nokia 7370 is nominated as a fashion handset, the package consists of Nokia 7370 handset, a regular Nokia battery, Standard AC-3 charger, Stereo headset HS-31 and a General User Guide to assist the users in employing the handset. The Package also contains the Fashion Pouch and a Fashion hand Strap. So the package is good in order to provide all the necessary stuff.
Colors Availability
"Coffee brown" and "Warm amber" are the two nice and attractive colors which are available for Nokia 7370 handset.
Design
Nokia 7370 is Nokia's first swivel designed spin-style phone having oval form of the bottom. The handset having a slight tilt in its design is also has the ability of 180-degree rotation.
Screen Display
Nokia 7370 is a distinct handset with a beautiful color screen, Nokia 7370 is capable of supporting graphical display high-contrast, TFT screen that supports up to 262000 (256K) colors. Nokia 7370 have a good big QVGA screen with the resolution of 320x240 pixels. The screen itself is reasonably big and is of the size of 30 x 40 mm.
Extra Side Keys
Nokia 7370 has 2 side quickly accessible keys, one of them is for volume control and the other is there to provide the zoom functionality.
Battery Life
Nokia 7370 is equipped with standard Li-Ion 700 mAh (BL-4B) battery that gives extraordinary performance in both stand-by mode and talking mode. One can have a continuous 4 hours talk by using Nokia 7370 and this is not the end, there is still something more to go, the handset is alive for up to 270 hours. Just look at the number 270!
Size and Weight
I have came across many handsets but no one was such a good to take my heart always because of the many reasons, and one of the reason was the handsets are so big and over weighted that they some times it gets difficult to hang with them. Nokia has once again won the race of providing a good quality functionality in a light weight and easy to pick handset, Nokia 7370. No one will be convinced that Nokia 7370 is just 104 grams in weight having dimensions of 88x43x23 mm with an occupying volume of 73 cc.
Ringtones
Nokia 7370 is able to support Polyphonic ring tones, which are not simple but are 64-tones/channel polyphony. Nokia along with supporting Polyphonic Ringtones also supports MP3, AAC and MIDI-64, AMR, WB-AMR format files as call melodies. I have not come across any handset that supports Video Ring tones but Nokia 7370 is there to support video ringing melodies.
Memory
Nokia 7370 has in internal integrated memory of 10MB that is shared among all of the applications in handset. User can use the memory to archive SMS and MMS as well, but each MMS cant exceed more than 100 KB, the limitation is there in order to make optimized use of phone memory and user could not waste it by storing heavy MMS for no use.
Phonebook
Nokia 7370's phone book is spacious and is capable of storing up to 500 entries at a time; these are the ones other than the ones which can be stored on SIM. One interesting thing is that one can store multiple numbers against one name in the phonebook. So collectively you can store more than 500 phone numbers.
Voice Dialing
Advance features like Voice dialing is also presents in Nokia 7370. The handset also recognizes the Voice commands for you as well.
Fast Dialing
Fast dialing features is also available in Nokia 7370 and the handset is capable of supporting fast dialing for up to 8 numbers. This is an interesting feature for Mobile users. I know this!
Automatic Dialing
Not only this, automatic redialing feature is also available in Nokia 7370, rather this would be unfair to just say redial, Nokia 7370 is capable to make up to 10 redial attempts.
Photo ID
Pictures in the handset can be associated with the phone numbers, so that when there is a call from the number that has associated picture with it, the display comes up with the associated picture. Nokia 7370 also supports the distinct Photo-ID feature by associating one from the so many pictures available in 10MB of internal memory with any of the stored numbers.