Mobile Burn reviews the Nokia 7360 L’amour
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 AM PST In Devices
For you trendy consumers out there check out Mobile Burn’s review of this pretty little thing. High on style, low on tech seems to be the overall tone of this one.
Some snippets:
Unfortunately, the only update to the 7360 was the colour scheme – nothing else. It is still the same VGA camera equipped phone running on the old version of Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s S40 user interface. It is a triband (GSM 900, 1800, 1900 MHz) phone with support for GPRS and EDGE data. While calling it a timeless design, I wonder what Nokia was thinking when they decided not to at least update the UI.
The screen resolution is on 128 x 160 pixels, which makes the fonts look big and pixelated.
The 7360 comes equipped with a VGA camera. Nokia should really have improved on this.
There is no dedicated music player on the 7360. In fact, the only thing musically inclined on this phone is the FM radio.
There is no memory card slot for expansion.
The 7360 sports an old and obsolete Nokia S40 interface. Although it still works well, it just doesn’t cut it anymore when compared with the 3rd Edition of S40, which has been out for quite some time now.
One of the biggest flaws of the 7360 is the absence of Bluetooth. With almost every phone in the market now equipped with Bluetooth (except budget phones), the absence of it in the 7360 is a huge flaw, if not a big joke.
The 7360 has to be Nokia’s weakest effort for 2006. What were they thinking when they included it in the L’amour 2 collection without even updating it in the slightest bit? A new pink colour scheme doesn’t help it in any way. It has a poor camera and an obsolete UI, and lacks Bluetooth. I simply cannot recommend this phone to anyone unless all you are concerned with is the most basic of tasks that go no further than calls and SMS. It was a decent phone for 2005, but falls far behind the curve now in 2007.
Mobile Burn really burned the 7360. Zing!
The 7360 deserves a tough review, but I am very disappoint that Mobileburn (or rather, some reviewers there) has lowered itself to the level of many other sites in terms of the unnecessarily low-brow language they use (”if not a joke”, “what were they thinking”). I would have hoped they maintained their professional, analytical style of writing.
I agree, wish they would’ve been more professional about it. However they are one of the most through review sites out there.
How do I come off Viipottaja?
I don’t mind your off beat or even fould language, your site is just a blog..
)) Ok, don’t hit me now.. 
But I think you get the point, Mobileburn is supposed to be a professionally run and edited, “neutral” site, while your blog is – and correct me if I am wrong – more opinionated, sometimes a bit tongue in cheek etc.