Nokia X7

This Nokia is built and designed to provide the perfect entertainment factor but unfortunately does lack the firepower in some other areas. There's no doubting it looks the part and is quite an interesting and intriguing phone with its upmarket and stylish design, but what it oozes in appearance it somewhat misses out on in the functionality stakes.

The large 4" touchscreen display should be great for media usage however it is compromised by the AMOLED display that looks impressive but only has 360 x 640 pixels. This isn't much when you compare it to 480 x 800 pixel type panels that Nokia's rivals have.

It is a hard hitting, bulky phone and does weigh quite a bit -  146 grams to be precise - but this is partly down to the fact that there is a large amount of steel in the case design. This is a good thing however as it protects the phone from damage. In comparison to other phones on the market, it's size isn't overbearing and is a great gadget to look at.

Under the cover there is a decent sized 1200 mAh battery which is said to give four and a half hours talktime on 3G and 18 days standby.

The phone has all the quality features you would ever need too including; an 8 megapixel camera capable of 720p video capture at 25 fps, an FM radio, GPS, a micro SD slot and bluetooth.

The phone is soon to be hitting the market and will be available in dark steel and light steel colouring. Its main rival will be the HTC Desire S and the Nokia wins hands down with the camera and its fashionable styling.  It's main problem however will be competing technically with the HTC. The latter has a much faster processor and has tonnes of applications available in the Android market.

The Nokia will make a good buy but HTC might just nick it in the popularity stakes.

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