Nokia N70
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The Nokia N70 is a multimedia 3G
smartphone
made by Nokia
and launched in Q3 2005. This phone is one of the first phones released for Nokia's line of Multimedia computers, the Nokia Nseries
. Nokia N70 is released alongside with Nokia N90
and Nokia N91
.
N70 (Model N70-1) is one of the handset
s in Nokia's Nseries
lineup of smart phones. It is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash
, a front VGA camera to allow video calling, FM radio, Bluetooth
, digital music player functionality, and support for 3D
Symbian, Java
games and other S60
2nd Edition software.
It uses the S60
user interface
and the Symbian 8.1a operating system
.
At the time of its launch, the N70 had the most built-in memory alongside its system memory and was the penultimate (before the related N72
) Symbian OS 8.x device released by Nokia, since the introduction of their new OS9 platform released in 2003 which offers more flexibility than the original that was made in 1998 and upgraded from then on.
In 2006 Nokia released N70 Music Edition phone.
The N70-5 is a variant of the N70 without 3G or a front camera. It was shipped to China, Mexico and East Europe markets and provides a lower-cost option for users who don't want or need 3G services.
3G
3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
smartphone
Smartphone
A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...
made by Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
and launched in Q3 2005. This phone is one of the first phones released for Nokia's line of Multimedia computers, the Nokia Nseries
Nokia Nseries
Nokia Nseries is a multimedia smartphone product family which is engineered and marketed by the Nokia Corporation.The Nseries devices are known to commonly support multiple high-speed wireless technologies, such as 3G, or Wireless LAN....
. Nokia N70 is released alongside with Nokia N90
Nokia N90
The Nokia N90 multimedia is a smartphone with two displays and Carl Zeiss optics . It has a 2 megapixel built-in digital camera with autofocus, 20× digital zoom, integrated flash, macro mode and the ability to record high quality video . The phone has no vibration feature...
and Nokia N91
Nokia N91
The Nokia N91 is a mobile phone that was released to the public in April of 2006. It is part of the Nokia Nseries range of mobile phones. At the time of release, it was the most advanced music phone ever launched by nokia. N91 also won the 'Most Innovative Product' award in recognition of its true...
.
Features
The NokiaNokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
N70 (Model N70-1) is one of the handset
Handset
On a telephone, the handset is a device the user holds to the ear to hear the audio sound. Modern-day handsets usually contain the phone's microphone as well, but in early telephones the microphone was mounted directly on the telephone itself, which often was attached to a wall at a convenient...
s in Nokia's Nseries
Nokia Nseries
Nokia Nseries is a multimedia smartphone product family which is engineered and marketed by the Nokia Corporation.The Nseries devices are known to commonly support multiple high-speed wireless technologies, such as 3G, or Wireless LAN....
lineup of smart phones. It is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera with built-in flash
Flash (photography)
A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene. A major purpose of a flash is to illuminate a dark scene. Other uses are capturing quickly moving objects or changing the quality of light...
, a front VGA camera to allow video calling, FM radio, Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
, digital music player functionality, and support for 3D
3D computer graphics
3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
Symbian, Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
games and other S60
S60 platform
The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic...
2nd Edition software.
It uses the S60
S60 platform
The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic...
user interface
User interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
and the Symbian 8.1a operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
.
At the time of its launch, the N70 had the most built-in memory alongside its system memory and was the penultimate (before the related N72
Nokia N72
The Nokia N72 is one of Nokia's high-end Nseries mobile phones, it is effectively a re-branded Nokia N70 with a reduced feature set. It was launched in May 2006.-Features:...
) Symbian OS 8.x device released by Nokia, since the introduction of their new OS9 platform released in 2003 which offers more flexibility than the original that was made in 1998 and upgraded from then on.
In 2006 Nokia released N70 Music Edition phone.
Specification sheet
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Form factor | Candy bar |
| Platform / Operating System | BB5 BB5 BB5 may refer to:*BB5, a postcode district in the BB postcode area*Big Brother Australia 2005, the fifth season of Big Brother Australia*Big Brother Family , the fifth season of Big Brother Bulgaria... / Symbian OS v8.1a, S60 Platform S60 platform The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic... Second Edition, Feature Pack 3 |
| CPU | Texas Instruments OMAP OMAP OMAP developed by Texas Instruments is a category of proprietary system on chips for portable and mobile multimedia applications. OMAP devices generally include a general-purpose ARM architecture processor core plus one or more specialized co-processors... 1710 (ARM architecture ARM architecture ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced... 926TEJ v5) – 220 MHz |
| Memory (RAM/Flash/MMC) | 55 MB/19.9 MB/up to 2 GB |
| GSM frequencies | 900/1800/1900/2100 MHz |
| GPRS | Yes, class 10 (4down/2up, max 5 active) |
| EDGE (EGPRS) | Yes, class 10 |
| WCDMA | Yes (384 kbit/s) |
| Main screen | TFT Matrix, 256K colours, 176x208 pixels |
| Camera | Front 0.3 Megapixel, 2× digital zoom & rear 1600 × 1200 with L.E.D Flash, 20× digital zoom |
| Video recording | Yes, CIF Common Intermediate Format CIF , also known as FCIF , is a format used to standardize the horizontal and vertical resolutions in pixels of YCbCr sequences in video signals, commonly used in video teleconferencing systems. It was first proposed in the H.261 standard.CIF was designed to be easy to convert to PAL or NTSC... at .MP4 or .3GP |
| Multimedia Messaging | Yes |
| Video calls | Yes |
| Push to talk Push to talk Push-to-talk , also known as Press-to-Transmit, is a method of conversing on half-duplex communication lines, including two-way radio, using a momentary button to switch from voice reception mode to transmit mode.... |
Yes |
| Java support | Yes, MIDP 2.0, 3D Games are also supported |
| Built-in memory | 19.9 MB |
| Memory card slot | Yes, RS-DV-MMC/MMC Mobile, hotswap, 2 GB Maximum |
| Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security... |
Yes, 2.0 (A2DP Profile Not Supported) |
| Infrared Infrared Infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometres , and extending conventionally to 300 µm... |
No |
| Data cable support | Yes, Pop-Port, USB 2.0 |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML XHTML XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written.... , HTML HTML HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages.... |
| Yes | |
| Music player | Yes, stereo w/bass from headphones |
| Radio | Yes |
| Video Player | Yes |
| Polyphonic tones | Yes, 64 voices |
| Ringtones | Yes – MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), WAV, MP3, AAC |
| HF speakerphone | Yes |
| Offline mode | Yes |
| Battery | BL-5C (970 mAh) |
| Talk time | Up to 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Standby time | Up to 265 hours |
| Weight | 126 grams |
| Dimensions | 108.8 × 53 × 21.8 mm |
| SAR-Rating | 0.5 W/kg |
| Availability | Q3/2005 |
| Else | QuickOffice QuickOffice Quickoffice is a productivity suite for mobile devices which allows users to view, create and edit text files, presentations and spreadsheets. It consist of Quickword , Quicksheet and QuickPoint . The programs are compatible with Microsoft Office.Quickoffice is commonly used in smartphones and PDAs... office suite, A Nokia branded version of Opera Mobile Opera Mobile Opera Mobile is a web browser for smartphones and PDA's developed by the Opera Software company. The first version was released in 2000 for the Psion Series 7 and netBook. Today, it is available for a variety of devices that run on Android, S60, Windows Mobile, Maemo , and MeeGo... web browser, Symantec Mobile Security 4.0 (6 months trial) |
N70-5 model
Music Edition
In 2006 Nokia released its Music Edition series for N70, N73 and N91. All had black housing and new sales boxes and packages, and were special for their extra storage capacity as compared to the standard models. Music Edition of the N70-1 model featured a 1 GB memory card, 3.5 mm audio adapter with remote contol (AD-41), headphones (HS-28), dedicated music button in place of the multimedia key button. The Music edition also features new themes colored in Green and in Red. The speakers and the Music interface of the phone has been improved.External links
Reviews
- Nokia N70 – Reviews by CNETCNETCNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...
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