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GSMArena team, 31 October 2011

Agent seven double-oh


Nokia 700 review: Agent seven double-oh

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  • User reviews
  • 700

8. Social networking, Ovi Store, Ovi Maps
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and construction
  3. 3. User interface
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, audio quality, video player, FM radio
  6. 6. Camera, photo quality, video camera, video quality
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, organizer
  8. 8. Social networking, Ovi Store, Ovi Maps
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Nokia 700 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (135)

Nokia Symbian Touch UI

Social networking integration

The Nokia 700 is quite a social device, as demonstrated in the phone book. The Social app however is the nexus for all things social - it supports the two most popular networks, Facebook and Twitter. You can have multiple accounts on each network but only one of each can be active at a time.

The Facebook section offers a wide range of options with an easy to use, touch-optimized user interface. Posting a status update is simple as is attaching a photo or video (or shooting new ones on the spot) as well as adding geotagging data.

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Facebook integration is pretty extensive

Twitter is accessed via a similarly neat interface. There's a handy button to shorten links and you can attach photos and videos to your tweets as well.

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Twitter integration is great too

The text input field for status updates for both Facebook and Twitter covers only the top half of the screen and the portrait QWERTY fits at the bottom.

A cool feature is the All Activity section that becomes available when you add both Facebook and Twitter accounts. It pulls status updates from both networks into a single list. You can also post a status update on both networks simultaneously from here. Unfortunately, there's no option to post only to one of the networks - you have to go to the network's specific section to do that.

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The Social app pools all status updates into the All Activity section

Friend search also becomes available on both networks - it searches both accounts for a given name.

Same old Nokia Store

Symbian is still one of the most popular smartphone OSes in the world but its application store is pretty barren compared to the iOS App Store and Android's Market.

The company has refreshed their Nokia store interface to make it more user-friendly for Symbian^3 and it's what you get on Belle too. And while the UI is indeed very handy to use, the number of apps is somewhat of a problem.

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The Nokia Store

The default screen shows a list of featured apps or you can browse the apps available in the Nokia Store by categories – Applications, Games, Audio and Video content, Personalization; or by collections.

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The number of apps is increasing too

Your account profile keeps track of all the apps you have installed under My stuff. You can now also select where games and apps should be installed and where audio and video should go. That’s nice – we wish Android had that right from the start.

Nokia Maps comes with free lifetime navigation

The Nokia 700 comes with a built-in GPS receiver, which locked onto satellites in just over a minute upon a cold start (A-GPS turned off). Keeping the lock from then on was not an issue for the 700 even in a dense urban environment.

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Nokia Maps gives you free lifetime voice-guided navigation over the excellent Navteq maps

One of the best perks of buying a Symbian from Nokia is that you get free voice-guided navigation for life. The voice guidance is currently available in over 70 countries and over 40 different languages, with even traffic information for more than 10 of those.

In addition, Nokia did a pretty decent job of the Nokia Maps application itself, giving it a cool, touch-friendly interface, as well as nice features such as location info from Lonely Planet or Qype (you get a different source for the different locations).

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Checking out nearby points of interest and their reviews • Sharing a location

With Nokia Maps 3.06 you get three different view modes including satellite and terrain maps. Those however do need an internet connection. The more regular 2D and 3D view modes are also at hand and can be used with preloaded maps. Starting with v3.06 can download maps directly on the phone, no computer needed anymore.

The route planning algorithm is also rather easy to customize to best suit your preferences. Toll roads and motorways can be avoided and so can tunnels and ferries. Routes can be set to either fastest or shortest.

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Navigating with Nokia Maps 3.06

Nokia Maps is also usable for pedestrian navigation or you can switch the GPS receiver off and use the phone as a hand-held map. Nokia Maps 3.06 also joins in on the location check-in craze and supports a long list of networks (but not Foursquare, understandably).

What's missing is the "More" option we've seen on other installations of Nokia Maps 3.06 - it allowed you to enable extra features like a 5-day weather forecast and Map Reported, which can be used to report map inaccuracies.

Next Page » 9. Conclusion
8. Social networking, Ovi Store, Ovi Maps
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360-degree spin, unboxing, design and construction
  3. 3. User interface
  4. 4. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  5. 5. Gallery, music player, audio quality, video player, FM radio
  6. 6. Camera, photo quality, video camera, video quality
  7. 7. Connectivity, web browser, organizer
  8. 8. Social networking, Ovi Store, Ovi Maps
  9. 9. Conclusion
  10.  
  11. Nokia 700 specification
  12. User opinions and reviews
  13. Review comments (135)

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