Nokia 7700 Blog

Nokia 7700 Beauty (Not-wanted) Beast
Author: Mateusz Kurowski

Not-wanted...

When in 2003 year, Nokia was announced new model, based of the Symbian operating system, which has got huge touchable screen, i knowed , that it must became in to my hand . In 2004 year, at the Cebit in the Hannover, phone was showed to the people. Premiere of this phone, has planned at the second part of the 2004 year. In my mind i have had a idea, great, maybe it's could be availbe in my Operator offer?

I never belive in bad luck, until one day when , at the Nokia site, i cleary readed a information, that the Nokia 7700 has been not availble to the End-Users... From all Nokia sub-sites were started removing all information about the 7700. Nokia 7700 has gone.... But , few month later Nokia , has annouced a replacement of the 7700, but in the hearts of 7700 fans , were still something like empty spaces. Nokia 7700 has got something what, distinguish them from a rest of the normally phones, but replacement of them, Nokia 7710 was ... normally. Now in the world is only, a nearly 20 pieces of the 7700 . From 2004 year , i was looking for this phone... without result. But, few week ago i spotted a very good offer.

My piece is a 8 from over a dozen in the world...

Beauty...

Nokia 7700, has got very specific design , it's not a phone that be good for all. Phone is avaible in two color version, Black and White . Size of them, is not very huge, it's a little bit bigger than N-gage. At the back, we can see a VGA Camera Eye. At the left side, is Memory Card Slot, and buttons were supposed to go in to the main menu.At the top, there is only a standard communication buttons. In the right side we can see a power on button.To navigation we were supposed to do a joystick, and touchscreen..

Ready for all...

I decide to turn-on the phone, a big 640x320 px display, showed me a Nokia logo, and was played a Nokia standard melody. He, welcome me, like a prototype „Unknown Error”.After that i saw a main menu , from here we can go everywhere we want, and large icons is very good idea for that. My prototype has got a newest firmware for this model, from 21 may 2004 year, it very stable, i haven't got any problems with using all functions.

Communication....

Writing a SMS/MMS on the Virtual (QWERTY) Keyboard is great, we can also use a pen and write directly on the screen (character by character). Nice thing is drawing :), we can draw on example something to our friend ;). All connections options working without problem. Very specific is a method of the Talking, we must take the phone by the his thin side (down) and it was Side-Talking like in the N-gage Classic, the quality of connection is very good..

World-Wide...

Standard web browser, sometimes has got problem with the advanced sites with Java script, images,.But after, i installed a Opera Mini, i saw a true POWER of this phone. Ever sites look great, and discovering sites is very nice. Nokia 7700 was a very multimedia phone, here you can listen your mp3, watch video (in my example via TCPMP player!) a quality of Video is Superb. Also in this kind o phone, the Camera is important, but here is only VGA camera, withour recording video option.

Beast...

Procesor 32-bit RISC ARM9 , at frequence 150 Mhz behave very good. Phone is very fast und stable, there's no way about the some problems with the system. Only one time, i saw a White Screen od Death. For user is a avaible 90MB of free internal memory, what is so huge like the phone who was seen a daylight in 2004 year. Nokia 7700 has got 32MB of RAM, and user have got 18MB from this, and its so visible , because in example in 7710 where we have got only 12MB of RAM, in 7700 we could listening a mp3, visitng a websites and writing a note, and its no make any imppresion for the phone :)
Summary

In my opinion Nokia, do a mistake, by cancelled a Nokia 7700 project. It's got everything what in 2004 year was desirable by the thousands of people.Large touchscreen , a lot of internal Memory, and camera. Officalce Cause of cancelled , was „The market is not ready for the phone like Nokia 7700”.It's bull shit. At everywhere example Cebit in 2004 year, the visitors were admire of them. They one cause of the cancelled the 7700 project, is a very „modern” design, and very unstable firmware in the older pieces of 7700. Now in the world, is only over a dozen or so, pieces of this model, and a more of them has been in the Nokia factory, when they are testing a Mobile Television, and another multimedia systems.