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Nokia N79 review: Swiss Army knife

20 November 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment
Nokia N79 review: Swiss Army knife - read the full textNseries keep on throwing heavy-spec'd phones at us and there's no question they're hitting their best form in quite a while. About time we got less of a curve ball lookswise, Nokia N79 embodies a new approach to Nseries styling...

 

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> In reply to Stumbler @ 2008-11-21 14:01 from 0BiV - click to readThe n-series have come up with 16gb and fm transmitters this year, all of which are useful. About the 8mp, the i8510 may capture more detail due to the bigger lens, but why should i get an i8510 when n82 already exists? It delivers excellent 5mp images plus it goes for half the price of i8510? I would be trading bigger pictures for the xenon flash which is much more useful.
Not having a dedicated 3d graphics accelerator only reduces the performance, but it doesnt make it bad. Its performance is still ok. Werent people happy with the excellent performance of n78? Yet it didnt have the graphics accelerator. Thats why i say it isnt a disadvantage to lack one.

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  • 2008-11-21 14:44
  • M@T2

N79 is a redesigned phone?? i can't see it , list out la

even though they continue use n81 design ON N85, but they not like some rubbish brand, nothing change at all just the design different!

nokia got improve the feature! smart xpress on cover is old feature?? fm-transmitter also??

OLED screen is not a new thing?

adding the wmv code haven' t enough?? a device can play RM,MP4,3GP,WMV,FLV not enough??
better than some product until now only can play MP4 ,3GP ONLY!


the symbian version also the latest one

if all this feature cannot satisfy you, i bet you, you better don't ever buy a SONY ERICSSON phone

THOSE PHONE WILL MAKE YOU HE11
AS BORING AS HE11

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  • 2008-11-21 14:13
  • ib7n

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-11-21 12:33 from M@T2 - click to readIt seems I touched a nerve there by pointing out that the Nseries haven't introduced anything new for a year now, just redesigning the same old phones.
And of course no HW accelerator is a disadvantage - my N95 had a HW accelerator and it was released a year and a half ago. And it used to take much better pictures, too. So that makes the camera of N79, even though it is better than the N85 rather disappointing.About the 8mp and lagging thing - have you checked out Samsung INNOV8 image quality? I can't see Nokia offering anything even comparable to that.
Frankly, i can't see how can a review saying: "Solid value as a brand-loyal upgrade and little competition let the N79 hope for quite a success." be biased against Nokia but if that helps you sleep better at night - Sure, call it biased and let's get it over with.

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  • 2008-11-21 14:01
  • 0BiV

> In reply to Stumbler @ 2008-11-21 10:48 from 0BiV - click to readThat review was totally biased. How can they say a disadvantage of n79 is not having a dedicated 3d accelerator? Just because they couldnt attack it on looks, they had to look for excuses? And the whole camera thing? One minute it takes better pics than n85, the next minute it takes bad pics. They should get their stories right. GSMArena's reviews are starting to sound different from all other websites and that wont reflect positively.
Lagging in what? Just because they havent released an 8mp? It doesnt really bring any superior function except for bigger pictures. No other manufacturer has bothered to put in useful extra functions like optical zoom. If n96 is a failure like you say, why has it sold more than any other 8mp handset? And dont worry about 5800xm, it is destined for success.

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  • 2008-11-21 12:33
  • M@T2

pity ugly people , never ever see the real phone just can judge with a word-ugly


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  • 2008-11-21 12:14
  • ib7n

> In reply to mds @ 2008-11-21 04:13 from TIE7 - click to readIt seem to be the whimpers day today - You GSM did say that the N79 has better camera than the N85. Maybe if you bothered reading before posting you would have saved the world some time.
Look, I know it's hard for you guys to accept it, but Nokia is lagging behind the competition recently. It's not this or any other website's fault that it hasn't brought any serious innovation to the market for at least a year now. I wonder if the 5800 is going to change that or it will turn out to be yet another failure like the N96.

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  • 2008-11-21 10:48
  • 0BiV

> In reply to kitch @ 2008-11-21 08:44 from PESd - click to readJudging by the comparative photos the N79 is far away from even N95 8GB's standards. I can't figure out how is it going to match the N82...

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  • 2008-11-21 10:41
  • 0BiV

> In reply to NSeries Fan @ 2008-11-21 05:18 from ji{R - click to readAre you insane? How are those two frequency response graphs the same?
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/revie...ena_a001.png
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/revie...ena_a001.png

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  • 2008-11-21 10:39
  • 0BiV

I like your style ;). But I don't agree that GSMArena are Nokia haters...

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  • 2008-11-21 09:55
  • m{jZ

there are more nokia fans than any other brands, GSMarena have lost respect from every single nokia fan, every nokia review every sence the N78 has been taken further than just biased but on a personal, its amazing to see how you review lg, samsung and SE, you make the bitter sweet by saying thing like 'while this may not be the best phone on the market, its certainly has class' you say that for like all LG,s Samsung's etc... but when it comes to nokia "Zoomin is bloody slow, did we mention zoomin is bloody slow and that fact that zoomin is bloddy slow is there'

So GSMarena your advice for N85 and N79 is that throw the phone in garbage cause zoomin is bloody slow? no phone has all the N85 and N79 specs in one excpt for i7110 even inovate falls short on FM trans and smart xpress on covers, the i7110 is huge, heavy and bad contorls, no but you choise to hate Nokia

Anyone can buy the phone and review it, its your job to give a unbiased review and even admittin you are biased so childish and unprofessional, this has nothing to do with other brands, its all about being against nokia, Shame GSMarena

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  • 2008-11-21 09:23
  • 3Cex

This is solely biased review, on other websites there is no difference between N82 and N79 camera except xenon flash. And i dono know why u guys highlighted zooming issue. Come on a kid knows how to update firmware so why didn't u update. I never faced zooming issue.

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  • 2008-11-21 08:44
  • PESd

Ouch. This review doesn't make sense! The screenshots are even copied from the N85 screenshots!! It's not the N79's screenshots that were posted! Even at their Audio Quality section, they used to show the N85's frequency response graph rather than the N79!

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  • 2008-11-21 05:18
  • ji{R

I find this review rather harsh and biased. I have read other people's views and some other reviews of this phone and found that the camera is better than N85. There was also no mention of the gps being worse than other similar nokia models.

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  • 2008-11-21 04:13
  • TIE7

> In reply to Greg @ 2008-11-20 21:02 from nyK} - click to readhave this phone in my hand for more than 2 weeks !awesome looks and performance!and it can edit ms files!
and the gps is god too!go to mobile-review . com! there they say that the camera module is no difference from n82!xcept for xenon!and they also sy that gps is one of the best performance of it among the nseroes!
gsm always put some pretyped disadvantages!all the nseries and also navigators hav bad review of gps(in gsm)then how can you say that its worse than others!
and another thing they said it was better than n85 in photography in the review of 85 but now they say n79 is really bad!
now what is this gsm! in every phone's review you guys try to badmouth that phone and in other review u use that same phone as a hero! wow!

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  • 2008-11-21 02:42
  • 2W5r

> In reply to kitch @ 2008-11-20 21:55 from PESd - click to readIt's a matter of personal preference, though Nokias always look plastic to me... Perhaps it's that glossy plastic they use that are so commonly seen in toys. Case in point, Nokia 6500 slide... Gosh, nice metal parts combined with terrible black cheap-looking plastic.

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  • 2008-11-21 00:35
  • PEaW

gsmarena says that camera performance is not that good, but when reviewing n85 they say that n79's camera is a little better than n85's
Thats a big misstake you know

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  • 2008-11-20 23:42
  • mD6k

I wasnt sure on the looks of this phone from the online pics and wasnt going to buy it, then after playing with the grey version for 30 seconds in the nokia flagship store in London I was totally sold. The looks are stunning in the flesh so much better than the SE w902 which looks awesome in the piccys but is average in the flesh

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  • 2008-11-20 23:21
  • mrZa

> In reply to kitch @ 2008-11-20 21:55 from PESd - click to readyea bro i've noticed this about nokia too, the phones actually look better in real than compared to the offical pics, with other brands such as SE the official pics make the phone look so cool but in real they are dull, but nokia i love just lookin at them, the N79 is wow! but i just don like the dpad...it looks alot cooler when the center button is big and the navi wheel is thin, like the N78! but will definetly have a look at N79 at the stores! later homie!

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  • 2008-11-20 23:03
  • 3Cex

It´s effing ugly!!

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  • 2008-11-20 22:45
  • G2GS

I dono know why gsmarena is making issue with zooming.
U guys are reviewing a phone without firmware update or r u biased with nokia nseries to highlight some non-existent issues. I have N79 and i never faced any zooming problem. Why u guys faced problem in both of highend Nseries N85 & N79. Even other review sites didn't complain about zooming and GPS then why.

Why did u delete my post

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  • 2008-11-20 22:34
  • PESd
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