Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Nokia in Barcelona with another Nseries N78

Another loaded handset joining the Nseries at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia N78 comes in the bar form factor. Both Nokia N96 and N78 have a few design elements in common, starting with the underlying resemblance to Nokia N81. Nokia N78 however offers stereo loudspeakers.
Nokia N78 is also a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone with dual-band HSDPA support. The novelties are geotagging and the integrated FM transmitter, allowing music to be played on any FM radio. Also to mention is the multimedia menu with Navi wheel.

Nokia N78 uses S60 3rd edition, FP2 and has a 2.4" QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT display with 16M colors. Nokia N78 offers A-GPS support, Wi-Fi, 70MB on-board memory, expandable via microSD slot.

Nokia N78 has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics. It also records video in VGA resolution at 15fps but is still capable of playing VGA video clips at 30 fps.

The connectivity set includes the mentioned Wi-Fi b/g with UPnP, microUSB v2.0, 3.5mm stereo headphone plug and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP stereo audio.

Talking of music, Nokia N78 has enough to offer with an MP3 player, FM transmitter, stereo FM radio, Internet radio and MPEG-4 player.

Nokia N78 is powered by the much more capable 1200mAh (BL-6F). The phone is expected to start shipping at 2Q 2008 with an estimated retail price of 350 EUR before taxes and subsidies.

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