Nokia N-Series : N71

Screen > 320×240 pixels, 262,144 colors
Exterior screen > 96×68 pixels, 65,000 colors
Camera > 2 Megapixel
Second camera > VGA
Operating system > Symbian OS 9.1
Ringtone > Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3
Memory > 10 mebibyte
Memory card > 128 MiB MiniSD card
Networks > GSM
Battery > Li-Ion 970 mAh (BL-5C)
Physical size > 98.6 x 51.2 x 25.8mm
Weight > 139g
Form factor > Clamshell
The Nokia N71 is a multimedia 3G clamshell smartphone by Nokia with a 2 megapixel camera, a built-in flash, a front camera to allow real-time video calling, FM radio, Bluetooth, digital music player functionality, comes standard with a full Web browser, and has support for 3D Java games.

Other features include its ability to transfer data via W-CDMA 2100, GPRS and EDGE.

Nokia promotes the N71’s 2 megapixel digital rear camera as producing high quality photography and video as well as its music and radio functionality (the phone’s multimedia mini-SD card means it can hold up to 2 gibibytes equating to potentially hundreds of tracks).

According to Nokia its specifications are:

* Battery stand-by max – 216 hours
* Battery talk time max – 240 mins
* SAR rating – 0.38 W/kg.

The N71 uses the third edition of the Nokia S60 user-interface (i.e. Symbian OS version 9.1).

Nokia N-Series

Nokia Nseries is a product family consisting of multimedia smartphones. These are convergence mobile devices supporting digital multimedia services such as music playback, video capture, photography, mobile gaming and Internet services. All Nseries devices support at least one high-speed wireless technology, such as 3G, or Wireless LAN.

History

On 27 April 2005, Nokia announced a new brand of multimedia devices at the press conference of mobile phone manufacturer in Amsterdam. The first three Nseries devices introduced at the conference consists of N70, N90 and N91. On 2 November 2005, Nokia announced the N71, N80 and N92, and on 25 April 2006, Nokia announced the N72, N73 and N93, and on 26 September 2006, Nokia announced the N75 and N95.On 8 January 2007, Nokia announced the Nokia N76, Nokia N77 and Nokia N93i. On 29 August 2007, Nokia announced the N95 8GB, N81, N81 8GB, and on 14 November 2007, Nokia announced the N82. At the 2008 GSMA held in Barcelona, the N96 and N78 were unveiled. Two new Nseries devices were revealed at the end of August 2008, the Nokia N79 and Nokia N85.

Features

The Nokia Nseries is aimed at users looking to pack as many features as possible into one device. The better-than-average cameras often found on Nseries devices are one such example, as are the video and music playback and photo viewing capabilities of these devices, which resemble those of standalone portable media devices.

In all recently launched devices GPS, MP3 player and WLAN functionality also have been present.

Operating Systems

The first Nseries device, the N90, utilised the older Symbian 8.1 OS, as did the N70. Subsequently Nokia switched to using SymbianOS 9 for all later Nseries devices (except the N72, which was based on the N70). Newer Nseries devices incorporate newer revisions of SymbianOS 9 that include Feature Packs.

The N800 and N810 internet tablets are the only Nseries devices to not use Symbian OS. They use the Linux-based Internet Tablet OS and an open source development platform called maemo.