Nokia 9500 Review

Introduction:
This communicator came to replace 9210i. Differs in a bigger memory size, better screen and some other improvements.
Class communicator
Position in the line above Nokia 9210i
Rival phones Motorola MPx


Specifications

General features
Announced in February 2004, in the market since the 4 Q 2004, official announcement on the 22 of February 2004
eGSM90018001900
Battery type BP-5L, 1300 mAh
Battery life
talk time 4 - 6 hours
standby time up to 300 hours
Full charging - 1 hour 50 minutes
High-contrast graphical display with the resolution of 640x200 pixels, 65K (TFT), not a touchscreen. External screen 65K, 128x128 pixels
5 positional navi button
The phone is run by Symbian OS 7.0s
QWERTY-keypad
28 menu languages, English and two extra languages may be used at the same time
VGA-camera - the maximum resolution is 640 x 480 pixels, recording 3GP clips with sound (Sub QCIF or QCIF) up to 10 minutes in duration. A possibility to edit photos, video. Night mode.
Weight 222 g
Dimensions 148 x 57 x 24 mm

Memory
80 MB of memory are shared dynamically between the phone book, a calendar, messages, images and applications
MMC cards expansion connector (64 MB card in a standard kit)
A possibility to assign a photo to a name in the phone book
A possibility to keep Name, Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone number, Fax and E-mail address for a name — total number of fields is 8 (a possibility to increase the number at will).
The number of groups is not limited, A possibility to assign a name to several groups at the same time
SIM-card entries are stored separately, viewing them with the internal memory is impossible
Call lists, no any limits in the number of entries, all the entries contain besides the date and the duration of the call, a call type. A possibility to set a storage period for calls in the list (a month by default)
MMS up to 100 KB for a message
Call management, ringing tones
Polyphonic call melodies, True Tones
Voice dialing for 25 numbers, voice tags
Loud speaker
Call duration is shown during a conversation
Musical editor, a possibility to assign melodies to the names in the phone book
mp3AAC files as a call signal


SMS
Predictive text input ?9
Templates (10 are preset, a possibility to edit them or add own ones )
A possibility to send and receive graphical messages
Concatenated messages
MMS

Connectivity
WAP 2.0
Opera Browser
IrDA
Bluetooth
GPRS (4+2)
EDGE
E-mail protocols SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or IrDA
SyncML
SMIL
Instant Messaging
MMS
Wi-Fi
Organizer and extras
User's profiles(5), temporary profile
Time, date
Calculator, currency converter
Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate results), countdown timer

Organizer supports different kinds of events, reminders
To-do list
Dictaphone
mp3 player
A possibility to record video with sound - QCIF (176x144) or subQCIF (128x96)
RealOne Player plays RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
Photo album
MIDP JavaTM (2.0)
A possibility to load Java applications
Games

Review

This phone is AMAZING!!!Sleek, well equipped, stylish-- it got some stares! I would give it 6 stars. The screen can be easily seen in really bright sunlight. Businesslike phone with lots of extras. BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!1you wont be disappointed. I was a little unsure of it but got it free from work and its amazing