Nokia N78 review: Bitter sweet

11 June 2008

Love it or leave it won't do here, we're afraid. Love it or hate it is more like it. There's so much to get excited about with Nokia N78. The excellent display and capable camera, topped with Navi wheel, FM transmitter, GPS and Wi-Fi sure round off a nice deal. And yes, the latest FP 2 is a downright treat. If only… Well, you must know already what we think of the package. Anyway, you're welcome to read on. Nokia N78 has a whole review up ahead to unleash its potential and a lifetime to beg for a facelift.

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M{I
14 Jun 2008

another THICK phone from Nokia. I just dont get the point why Nokia keeps producing thick phones, especially for the Nseries line ups.

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Anonymous
mGK
14 Jun 2008

gsmarena doesn't like the look. Many others do
http://www.n78.nl

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Anonymous
04$
12 Jun 2008

hahaha, 'infected' nice one GSMarena!!!! great review now see that was't so bad, just say you don like it and take it as a joke, thats exactly what you guys did, great review by the way best yet of all the nseries, aaaa by the way sorry i bashed at you guys in the preview.....i'm really sorry but hey but me some slack guys i do love the N81 look, i'm sorry but i do and GSMarena's the first site i hit when i'm online.....thanks!!!

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Shou Ji
M@T
12 Jun 2008

I bought this phone. GSMArena maybe right,the design not surprising me. But N78 design better than Samsung i550w,except the keypad. Samsung i550w better in screen and audio quality. The camera I think same in quality. FM transmitter is useless,low reaction. Maybe it's a bonus. The price is high for it's spec & feature. Maybe u should go for N82 or Samsung i550w.

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u1w
12 Jun 2008

heya plz gsmarena u r talking not clearly in reviews u should be to the point

and say directly the advantage and disadvantage

plz somw 1 tell tat N78 keypad z really more hard and diffy to use than n82 or better than tat

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Anonymous
mD6
11 Jun 2008

hahaah weak fm transmiter, which means that w980 has defeated it in fm transmiter too

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Niflas
w9J
11 Jun 2008

its best a fone , design is pretty decent i dont care abt review on dsingn , nxt sucessior following up by N73

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hargs48
N9B
11 Jun 2008

GSMArena is not mentioning that besides the 5MP cam of the N82 & accelerometer the N82 also has VGA vids @ 30fps,TV-Out,128MB RAM,a more complex 332Mhz CPU with 3D graphics engine thats just off the top of my head...

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AleXT
0Uv
11 Jun 2008

GSMArena, the THD level of 0.014 is not bad at all, it is above average! Please be more careful when writing your reviews.

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Guille
Puj
11 Jun 2008

There's a huge point missing in your adv/disadv. part, the N82 has no 3G-US version, whilst the N78 is already quad-band and dual UMTS band for europe and US(albeit not on the same model).
I think that is a point that you need to address(as for some users it might be a turning point).

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Sarex
M@T
11 Jun 2008

Simply best n features yet ugliest n design, keypad & inadequate fm transmiter. Trash

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AleXT
0Uv
11 Jun 2008

GSMArena, I think you've made a mistake, the N78 HAS RDS support. Just check the radio again and also you may want to check the user guide.

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Govindladdha
M@T
11 Jun 2008

'Excellent Mobile','Great Design','Great Features' *"Go 4 it"* Yahooo!!!

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Anonymous
wr0
11 Jun 2008

leave this gay phone, move to N82

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Anonymous
TIE
11 Jun 2008

" not our kind of design " become disadvantage?? many ppl will still like it u knoe. wake up gsm, this is not disadvantage!

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