Nokia 8800 Arte Review

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In a nutshell: It's Nokia's most exclusive phone to date, and you won't see many of these on the street. The 8800 Arte is crafted from premium materials, and should be considered as a luxury item, not a tech gadget or a workhorse phone. Still, it has 3G, a 3 megapixel camera, and a music player, as well as making you look good while you're making calls. But if you have to ask the price, then it's not the right phone for you!
Best buy: £430.61 from the Carphone Warehouse.

Review: January 2008. Updated October 2008.

The Nokia 8800 Arte is Nokia's latest in its premium range of phones. Following on from the 8800, 8800 Sirocco and 8600 Luna, it seems that the marketing guys at Nokia felt that £400 - £500 for a phone was no way nearly enough, so they have priced the 8800 Arte at close to double that. This is pushing prices towards Vertu levels (Nokia's ultra-exclusive brand), so the chances are you won't see many of these phones on the street

Nokia 6700 Classic Review

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In a nutshell: The 6700 Classic is a good phone. With smart looks, a quality metal finish and a high specification, we can see this becoming Nokia's top mid-range phone in the second half of 2009. Top features include a-GPS, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, a music player, an FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth, HSPA and a memory card. Things to watch out for include freezing / shutting down and breakable screens.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Silver) or free from Dialaphone (Silver) or Dialaphone (Black); or £179.90 on PAYG from Mobiles.co.uk (Silver) or £219 sim free direct from Nokia.

Nokia 6600i Slide Review

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Nokia 6600 Fold Review

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In a nutshell: The Nokia 6600 Fold is a very attractive clamshell phone. With an invisible outer display that lights up when you tap it, and an electromagnetic opening mechanism that opens the fold automatically, it's definitely not a run of the mill phone, but is a little but special. You'll find that it includes the full range of features that you'd expect: a 2 megapixel camera, 3G video calling, a stereo music player, an FM radio, Bluetooth and support for memory cards up to 4GB. But the reliability of this phone is very poor, and we'd suggest that you avoid it.
Best buy: *Free* from Three.

Nokia 6500 Classic Review

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In a nutshell: The 6500 Classic is Nokia's thinnest phone so far, and is a stunningly beautiful phone too, with its polished metal casing. It's an easy to use phone that does just what most people want from a phone - make calls, take pictures and play music. Supplied with 1 Gbyte of memory and a stereo headset, it's already equipped to go. The one thing missing from this 3G phone is video calling. We have deducted marks because of poor battery life, reliability problems and the small keypad. Available in Black, Bronze, Pink or Silver.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Black); or £79.95 on PAYG from the Carphone Warehouse (Black or Bronze),

Review: October 2007. Updated September 2008.

Now here's a tasty-looking phone. Nokia have finally joined the ultra-thin revolution with the 6500 Classic phone. This is the slimmest Nokia phone released in the UK and, incredibly it's a 3G phone too! And doesn't it look nice, with its sleek aluminium casing ("individually polished", according to the Nokia blurb) and available in Black and Bronze. Let's pause a moment to enjoy the looks

Nokia 6303 Classic Review

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In a nutshell: Our favourite Nokia just got upgraded! The 6303 Classic is a modern reworking of the classic Nokia 6300. It's a no-nonsense easy-to-use handset with an attractive stainless steel finish and great features - a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, MP3 player, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, Nokia Maps, plenty of memory, Bluetooth, USB and good battery life. Available in Stainless Steel or Matt Black.
Best buy: *Free* with a free Compaq laptop from Dialaphone (Silver) or with free line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Silver) or Mobiles.co.uk (Black); or £79.95 on PAYG from the Carphone Warehouse (Black or Silver), or £79.90 from Mobiles.co.uk (Black or Silver).

Review: June 2009.

The Nokia 6303 Classic is the upgrade for the Nokia 6300, which has been a bestseller for the past couple of years and one of our favourite Nokias of all-time. The 6303 Classic updates the technology and the styling of the 6300, fixing the 6300's problems of poor battery life and small memory.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Review

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In a nutshell: Nokia's first touchscreen phone is impressively good. It may not have quite the polished feel of the iPhone, but with so many good features, it's in many ways better than the iPhone. Headline features include the very high resolution touchscreen with 16 million colours, the 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3G video calling, an excellent web browser with support for Flash, the music player & FM radio, GPS positioning with Nokia Maps, WiFi, Bluetooth and an 8GB memory card. Available in black, red or blue.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental or a free gift (PlayStation 3 or Dell laptop) from Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or with half-price line rental from Dialaphone (Black) or Dialaphone (Comes With Music Edition); or £149.95 on PAYG from the Carphone Warehouse (Red) or £195.70 on from Dialaphone.

Review: February 2009. Updated March 2009.

We've waited a heck of a long time for Nokia to catch up with Apple, LG and Samsung and launch a touchscreen phone. And here it is at last! It's a 3G smartphone, and belongs to Nokia's XpressMusic range.

Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Review

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Nokia 3600 Slide Review

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In a nutshell: A good budget phone, with battery life the only big let-down. For under £100 you get a lovely ergonomic slide phone with a fantastic 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, an MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth, memory card and applications like Nokia Maps and the Opera web browser. The sales package includes a stereo headset and a 512 MB memory card.
Best buy: £49.95 on Pay as you Go from the Carphone Warehouse (Black), or £49.95 from Dialaphone (Black or Pink).

Review: January 2009. Last updated July 2009.

The Nokia 3600 Slide is a great example of what Nokia can do when they don't try to hard. It's an entry-level camera phone, that packs in every feature that you could demand from a sub-£100 GSM mobile phone. It's a compact phone that sits nicely in the palm and looks kind of cute when closed. It slides very smoothly open to reveal a textbook-perfect keypad that's just the right size, and is very easy to use. No problem texting on this one! When you slide the phone open, the gorgeous 16 million colour display springs into life, providing familiar Nokia menus and crisp graphics.

Nokia N97 Review

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In a nutshell: Available in Black or White, the N97 is more a mobile computer than a mobile phone. Packed with every imaginable feature, Nokia's designers have succeeded in creating a device that is supremely powerful yet easy to use, with a user-friendly touchscreen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. With music, video, photos, email, web and downloadable apps all easily accessible from the customisable home page, the N97 delivers everything that we could ask for on the move. Big, heavy and expensive, but just about worth it!
Best buy: *Free* from Dialaphone (White) or Dialaphone (Black) or Mobiles.co.uk (Black) or £499 sim free direct from Nokia.

Review: June 2009.

The N97 is much more than an enhanced N96 - it has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a touchscreen display. Other features include a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, GPS, WiFi and 32GB memory. Nokia claim that it is the "most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence". Throw away your laptops, guys, the N97 is here!

Nokia N96 Review

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In a nutshell: Nokia's flagship smartphone just got better! Complete with 16 GB built-in memory, GPS satellite navigation, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 3G video calling, and every other gadget you can think of! On the downside it's large, battery life is poor, and the Symbian operating system is still not 100% reliable.
Best buy: *Free* with half-price line rental from Mobiles.co.uk (Black).

Review: September 2008.

The Nokia N96 is probably the most eagerly anticipated phone release of 2008. But that's partly because we've been anticipating it for so long! Lengthy delays usually mean that the engineers struggled to deliver what the marketing boys promised, so we're going to be checking the N96 very carefully for signs that some of it may not work quite as it should.

But first of all, let's take the phone out of its box and just admire it, because it's a lovely piece of kit. It's big of course - slightly bigger even than the N95, and a touch heavier too - but it's not the heaviest phone ever. But putting that to one side, it's still a really nice phone to look at. It's smoother and curvier than the N95, and the buttons are less confusing.

Nokia N95 Review

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In a nutshell: The most technically advanced smartphone ever! Complete with GPS satellite navigation, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 3G video calling, and every other gadget you can think of! On the downside it's large, and like most smartphones does not have 100% robust firmware. If you've used another Nseries phone or Symbian phone before, then you'll love it! Available in 4GB and 8GB versions; in silver, black or red.
Best buy: *Free* from the Carphone Warehouse (8GB Comes With Music) or direct from Three (8GB).

Review: April 2007. Updated October 2008.

Another Nokia Nseries smartphone! And this one is the most technically advanced ever! Can it really live up to the hype, or will it prove to be as unreliable and bug-ridden as some of Nokia's other Nseries phones?

The headline features of the eagerly-awaited Nokia N95 are mouth-wateringly amazing:

• Built-in GPS navigation
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss & Tessar optics
• Wi-Fi wireless internet connection
• 2.6 inch display with 16 million colours
• Ultra-fast HSDPA data transfer

Let's start with the basics. The Nokia N95 is a 3G smartphone built on the Series 60 Symbian interface (version 3.1). Let's be clear from the start that these types of phone are slow, have a tendency to freeze or shut down, and have unstable firmware. They are also large and heavy. At 120g the N95 is of average weight for a smartphone, but is pretty bulky, despite its slide design. At least you won't forget which pocket it's in! When closed, you can access menu functions using the 5-way navigation key and the associated control keys. The N95 also has several other dedicated media keys that can be used as shortcuts to media functions. This is a good feature if you like to have lots of buttons to push, but sometimes they just end up getting in the way. When you slide the phone open you have access to a full keypad, but like the Nokia N73, the buttons are too small to be really comfortable. The user interface will be familiar to anyone who has used a Series 60 phone before: it's not as simple to use as the Nokias of olden days, but you wouldn't expect such a high powered device to be, would you? So, without getting into the functionality of the phone yet, we'd give it 2 stars for usability

Nokia E71 Review

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In a nutshell: The Nokia E71 is Nokia's greatest challenge to BlackBerry yet. With full support for push email, attachment editing and web browsing, Nokia have definitely parked their tanks on the BlackBerry lawn. The E71 also features full multimedia capabilities, including a 3.2 megapixel camera, video calling, and a media player. HSDPA, WLAN, GPS and big battery power complete the package. It's available in a choice of Grey Steel or White Steel.
Best buy: *Free* with a free Sony Vaio laptop from Mobiles.co.uk or free from Vodafone Business Shop or Three (Grey).

Review: September 2008.

It's the Nokia E71 vs the BlackBerry Bold for the title of best business phone of 2008! For the past couple of years, BlackBerry have been carving out a niche as the brand of choice for corporate users, with their winning combination of full or near-full QWERTY keypads and push email systems. Nokia have been steadily improving the user-friendliness and power of their E series phones too, and now it seems that both BlackBerry and Nokia have made a further leap forward and both landed up with highly polished mobile communications devices. Whether you choose the BlackBerry or the Nokia, you shouldn't go far wrong when it comes to communicating on the move.

Nokia E63 Review

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In a nutshell: The Nokia E63 is arguably the company's first BlackBerry-beater. With full support for push email, attachment editing and web browsing, an absolutely superb QWERTY keyboard, WLAN and 3G support, it meets the full needs of the business user. The E63 also has a camera, video calling, and a media player. It's missing HSDPA and GPS, but these are really its only faults.
Best buy: *Free* from Three (Black); or £149.99 on PAYG from Three (Black).

Review: March 2009. Last updated August 2009.

The Nokia E63 is the little brother of the E71 business smartphone. We liked Nokia's E71 BlackBerry-buster a lot, awarding it 5 stars and concluding that it was better built than the BlackBerry Bold, had great applications, connectivity and battery life but was beaten by the Bold on the size of the display, memory and ease-of-use. Can the E63 address any of these issues without compromising anything important?

Nokia E51 Review

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In a nutshell: The Nokia E51 is a powerful communications device equipped with email, a wealth of organiser applications, web browser, camera and media player. With 3G HSDPA and WLAN it can connect to a wide range of networks and devices. It's also a slimline and lightweight phone that looks good and is very easy to use.
Best buy: *Free* from Vodafone Business Shop.

Review: February 2008. Updated June 2009.

The Nokia E51 is a business smartphone that is packed with useful features. It's a slim phone with classic looks, although with a rugged edge to its appearance too. Although it lacks the QWERTY keypad of a BlackBerry, it's still a competent email device, and unlike the very disappointing E50, the E51 really does deliver on its potential.

The E51 is available in a choice of three colours - black, silver and pink - although the front face of the phone remains black, with just the edge and back changing colour. Design-wise, this is a no-nonsense easy-to-use phone, with a classic shape, a nice conventional keypad and a 5-way navigation key for easy scrolling and selection. There are also some handy shortcut buttons for email, calendar, contacts and the active standby screen. On the right side is a mute key next to the volume keys. On the left side you'll find a Push to Talk key and a voice recorder key. An LED indicator is used to notify you of new email and messages, as well as missed calls. It's a nice-sized phone too, and very slim, at just 12mm. First impressions are excellent - the E51 looks and feels like a quality device.