Nokia Surge 6790

The Nokia 6790 for AT & T pushed as a starting point for the Finnish phone manufacturer. It runs on Symbian S60 platform to support exchange and includes a number of productivity tools, GPS and support for 3G. However, this increase is not in line with the same target group of intended users, businesses and power than others, but also for a younger audience, offering easy access to social networking sites, and a spacious full QWERTY keyboard for easy messaging. The wallet-friendly price of $ 79.99, with a two-year contract is also very attractive, but it must have data plan with him. We love the design, but the jump Nokia definitely fill a gap in the range of AT & T for a younger clientele looking for something a little better, a basic phone message for a price reasonable.

4 things we like about the Nokia Surge 6790

• Flash lite with full HTML browser
• 3G support
• In affordable price you get GPS as well
• You will also have access to social networking sites

2 things we don’t like about the Nokia Surge 6790

• Build quality is not good
• Without opening the keypad you can’t dial the number

Nokia Surge 6790 Review

When we saw the blossoming of Nokia in images, we do not really know what they want to draw, and now we have at hand, well, this is interesting. The Surge is much weaker than expected, with only 3.8 centimeters high and 2.2 centimeters wide and 0.6 cm thick and 4.3 ounces. Although the small size is nice, we were not so enthusiastic about the smooth and plasticky feel of the phone and the battery door is creaking at the slightest amount of pressure.

It also provides the user interface of the many falls on a cell phone from a smartphone, has more to do with the Symbian operating system aging. The screen is also very limited, so it meant a little more scrolling and it was the best for viewing videos and Web pages. It is also a magnet for fingerprints and spots. That said you're probably on the phone in landscape mode, much of the time, so at least you will have a wider viewing area where the screen is horizontal. To make things easier for your monitor has a built-in accelerometer so the screen orientation automatically switches from portrait to landscape mode when you rotate the phone. The accelerometer was quick and changed the screen with little or no delay. However, we note that some of the icons on the screen as he saw the screen go cut myself in Fritz, but never during our test.

Around the ads are a handful of navigation and shortcut commands. The display (if the phone), held vertically, you have the standard keys, Talk and End keys and a keyboard with four lanes with a center select button on the left side, there are shortcut keys to page navigation menus and messages. While handy for surfing the mobile phone have to say, press the keys is hard and cracks on the phone when trying to punch. Another irritation is that you open the package, not dial phone numbers from your address book. Although we are not big fans of the above tests, we are very pleased with the full keyboard QWERTY. You can do this by using the screen to the right and the sliding mechanism is smooth and locks securely. The keypad buttons are nice and big and I feel very muddy or flat, so the typing experience is great.

At the top of the device, you will find players to find a 2.5mm headset jack and attached the power connector, protected by a cover. The Micro-USB on the left side also has a protective cover, which we appreciate, but it is difficult to eliminate and get a time in the way you try to connect the various cables. There is a volume rocker and camera activation / capture button on the right. Finally, the camera is on the back, while the microSD slot can be found behind the battery compartment.

Do not let their small size, soaring Nokia has many functions and a complete smartphone platform based on Symbian S60. Although the operating system looks quite outdated compared to some contests, they may still be working on the synchronization of Microsoft Exchange, and support for personal accounts such as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live has done, and Gmail. The device also comes with the QuickOffice suite for working with Office documents and an array of productivity tools, including a reader PDF, voice recording and calendar, among others. At this point, the momentum delivered by an application called Juice Caster preloaded with which you news, updates, photos and videos to view other social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Flickr, or your own Juice Caster network. AT & T is also seeking to enter the social game and make an AT & T stock, application for Facebook with AT & T for the freedom of choice, on Facebook, where users can gain followers and number lots a points system. Juice Caster is quite clever, though a little kludgey to navigate with all the different options and tabs. There is little work to do if the media like Facebook and MySpace publish the pages you access, incorporated in the code and so on.

To download pictures and videos on these pages, you have many choices. Select), you can group your files are already in 120MB internal memory of the phone, or you can use the media on a card microSD (which can take up to 8 GB card shop Surge. Surge Nokia is also a 2 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities, so you can capture moments on the road.

The device offers all the usual options, including the quality and resolution of the means of reception, the white balance settings, a stopwatch and more. The image quality is not as important as the images look dull and has a blue tint. On the other hand, recorded clips looked decent, with a fairly clear and less blur.

The transition from the core of most social skills Surge Nokia as a phone, the epidemic has quad-band world roaming, a speakerphone, speed dialing, three way call, teleconferencing, voice commands, and text and multimedia messages. The address book is limited only to available memory (the SIM card has additional 250 contacts) and allows you to connect multiple numbers, email addresses, job title, and other personal information to a contact. You can also use video calls with AT & T Video share service, but note that the recipient has a share of video-enabled phone and the service is $ 4.99 per month. Bluetooth 2 0 is on board with support for mono headsets and stereo Bluetooth hands-free for the car, object push profile, dial-up networking, audio-visual distance control and more.

The increase also supports 3G (HSDPA 850/1900MHz), to be more flexible browsing experience on the Web, the AT & T 3.5G networks should correspond to services streaming media, including AT & T Music and AT & T Video supported both on the phone for help. I hope that the 3G network of AT & T is very reliable, because where you live; the smartphone has integrated Wi-Fi too.

In a post-smartphone level, the increase proposed by some of the older boys with a full browser support for Web HTML with Flash Lite. We were able to identify YouTube pretty well, but it took several attempts to get to play video. Once the river for the most part was smooth, although sometimes a video, you need to push.

If you cannot get enough of the video, the increase also comes with the mobile application, and there are many other entertainment venues as well, including an integrated media player (AAC, AAC + V1 supports AAC + V2, WAV, MP3, WMA 9 and RealAudio 10 files), FM radio and XM, and a handful of games.

Last but not least, the Nokia Surge GPS / A-GPS support for AT & T Navigator. With this service, depending on location, you can get the real time control, data, voice, routing, navigation and other tools. Currently, the AT & T Navigator for the first 30 days are free, but you will be charged $ 9.99 a month if you cancel the operation.

We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 850/1900) Nokia Surge in San Francisco with AT & T services and the quality was OK. Voices sounded a bit tinny on our end of the interview and the call will remove all the time, so we ask our friends to repeat them.

Our partners are not particularly impressed by the sound quality, either. Some have reported a slight clicking noise, while others said they did not seem very clear. Speakerphone quality was not particularly remarkable. Unaffected, there was plenty of volume, and should bear able to talk without problems.
We paired the headset with the touch of Logitech Mobile Traveler Bluetooth and the Motorola Bluetooth Active Headphones S9. We were big fans of the sound quality of the latter, but he came to practice listening to music, because the climb is equipped with 3,5 mm for headphones and we don 'have access to a sound card or a compatible headset . As for calls, speaker phone with music pumping high volumes, although we do not know how many friends will miss your songs through the speaker.

Final Words and Conclusion

AT & T 3G network coverage is somewhat uneven, here in San Francisco, not only to provide impressive speeds, either. Nokia has a push 1500mAh lithium ion battery and has a rated talk time of 4.7 hours (4 hours for 3G) and up to 16 days standby. In our test battery leakage, the expected increase in 10.25 hours of talk time on a single battery charge.