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First Nokia N75 review published!

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By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, March 8th, 2007 at 1:28 PM

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Check it out at Symbian Guru.

Some snippets:

Firmware: 10.1.154

DSL Reports speed test results:

  • 5k – too fast
  • 50k – 41 kbit/sec – .826s
    latency – 10.415s d/l time
  • 100k – 100 kbit/sec – .672s
    latency – 8.615s d/l time
  • 200k – 120 kbit/sec – .799s
    latency – 13.972s d/l time
  • 600k – 77 kbit/sec – .696s
    latency – 62.997s d/l time
  • 1MB – 57 kbit/sec – .706s
    latency – 142.238s d/l time

I will never recommend the purchase of a locked phone on my site. If you absolutely need 3G on a Nokia device in the USA then this Cingular offering is for you. Personally I’d rather have the N76.

The initial speed test results are terribly disappointing, but too many variables can affect those scores.

One would need two phones, WinMo and S60, to preform testing at the same location and within the same hour to start figuring out if either Cingular or Nokia is at fault.

My hypothesis: Symbian Guru is an area where 3G service isn’t very strong.

In my home, with a Nokia E61 on T-Mobile, I always score above 150 kbit/sec.

(photo from Flickr)

UPDATE: Ricky repeated the speed tests in the web browser this time as opposed to the services browser:

  • 5k – too fast
  • 50k – too fast
  • 100k – 164 kbit/sec – .67s latency – 5.525s d/l time
  • 200k – 263 kbit/sec – .667s latency – 6.71s d/l time
  • 600k – 307 kbit/sec – .664s latency – 16.246s d/l time
  • 1mb – 381 kbit/sec – .643s latency – 22.089s d/l time

Better, but it still doesn’t touch Sprint and Verizon’s EVDO.

When will HSDPA make it state site? No body knows.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ricky Cadden

    I performed the initial tests using the Services browser. I performed the same tests again with the Web browser and posted the results. They are MUCH faster, and again, as Olly mentioned, one of the key things is the latency is really low.

    I normally do not encourage buying BRANDED phones, either, but this being currently the only device on the market with US 3G and S60, I made an exception. I will actually be getting it unbranded sometime next week, so I’m not really worried.

  • Jeb

    Where can you buy the unbranded one your talking about? Or do you have “friends”?

  • Ricky Cadden

    what can I say, I’m a friendly guy. :)

  • Ricky Cadden

    - When will HSDPA make it state site? No body knows. –

    Actually Cingular has a couple of HSDPA handsets out, and their aircards have had it for a while. It’s already laid out in any 3G market, too, as I understand it.

  • cb474

    Can you comment on the call quality for this phone? I have two questions: 1) How is the microphone? In loud settings, does it pick up an amplify background noise as loud as the caller’s own voice? Or is background noise pretty well damped? This has been a big problem for me that lots of people have complained about with my Nokia 6230i. 2) How is the quality of the speaker for listening to calls (the regular speaker, not the speakerphone). Is the sound quality good fidelity? Can you hear other people okay in loud settings? Thanks.

  • jok

    useful information indeed
    thanks