Memory

The new product comes with a 64 Mb of onboard memory, and a microSD card can always be used for expansion (no hot swapping is available though, as mentioned above) The selling package includes a 512 Mb card, however cards of a capacity up to 2 Gb are supported.

Screen

Nokia 7610 Supernova is equipped with a QVGA TFT screen (320x240) which is typical for this product class, the diagonal is a bit shorter than one would want ? 2.2''. The color palette is 16M. In the real life, the screen image looks very pleasing ?with good contrast, bright and vivid-colored. The view angles are just perfect. Unfortunately, this excellence ends where the daylight begins, the screen heavily affected by glares in direct sunlight due to the sort of coating used applied to the front glass. 

 Connectivity

The new Nokia 7610 Supernova is a quad-band phone (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) and supports Class 10 EDGE. It has no WCDMA capabilities, which only proves the guess that this product was designed exclusively for the mass market.

Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR is what Supernova offers in the wireless connectivity department. It functions quite well, we weren't able to detect any problems during the tests. The options include activation state (on/off), the list of accessible devices, the visibility state, device name and a variety of other standard parameters. All the associated services are also quite standard.

The Bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP) also brought about no problems, the maximal sound volume is quite sufficient and can be adjusted manually. The following profiles are available:

• Dial Up Networking Profile 
• File Transfer Profile
• Generic Access Profile
• Service Discovery Application Profile
• Headset Profile 
• Handsfree (Car Kit) Profile
• Generic Object Exchange Profile (OBEX) 
• Object Push Profile 
• File Transfer Profile 
• Basic Printing Profile
• Audio Video Remote Control Profile
• Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
• Enhanced Data Rate
• Dual Profile Bluetooth (Voice & Data) 
• vNote

USB 2.0 is the means for wire communication which the new handset has to offer. The data transfer rate isn't the highest around, though. There are four connectivity modes available: Modem, Mass Storage, Media Player, Printer. The required mode is selectable from the corresponding menu and can be set as default, or optionally left for prompting each time you plug the phone cable into your PC.

The radio unit has the same nice-looking interface. The headset provides a very decent quality of sound, to say the least. The theme is independent from the theme used by the mp3 player, so the both applications can be configured to sport different skins simultaneously. Up to 50 radio stations can be saved to memory in a specified storage folder. Auto-search and RDS capabilities are also in.

 Software Platform

As it was noted earlier, the top-class Supernova is based off the firth revision of S40, so there aren't any platform-wise peculiarities that have not been discussed in the previous articles dealing with S40 E5 phones. Please refer to 6500 Slide and 5610 reviews on our site to find out more about S40 functionality. 
The only thing worth mentioning in this article section is the Theme Colorise feature, which is a rich pack of themes ?actually more of them than any Samsung product could ever offer.

Camera

For a fashion phone, the camera looks not bad ?a 3.2 Mp auto-focusing unit with an integrated flash. In this aspect, the model is fully analogous with 6500 Slide and 5610; the Slide handset possesses Carl Zeiss optics though, which gives it a little boost putting it above the two other models in the sense of image acquisition quality?The flash is effective at distances not exceeding a meter and a half. The camera is deprived of a lens guard. The shoot button is a bit too tight . A 20x digital zoom is available. The volume controls serve as zoom controls while in the shooting mode.

 The camera interface is fully analogous with Nokia 6500 Slide / 5610, here we see the very same options and possibilities. The interface utilizes a landscape orientation, though a portrait mode is also available as an option. In the viewfinder mode, the screen displays a number indicators telling of the current settings: the resolution, the storage folder, the zoom ration, the timer info, the remaining number of shots, the flash on/off state and so on. Everything's simple and clear.