When it comes to designing all out fashion blowers, you could never accuse Nokia of holding back. Its previous eye catching Art Deco and L’Amour collections sported outrageously ornate and in some cases garish designs that appealed to a certain fun loving frou frou female fraternity. Luckily, the Finnish outfit has toned down the bling bling factor on its new Supernova quartet but cranked up the technicolour dial instead.
The first of the fab four we’ve managed to nab is the lower middle class 7310 candybar. For a funky fashionista its design is shockingly workaday only tarted up by a reflective finish and interchangeable skins. Our sample came with a bright pink and a more sedate navy covers so you can do swapsies if the mode takes you while the display turns into a mirror when powered down – perfect for the social butter to apply war paint when hotfooting between shindigs.
Naturally, the 7310 is Nokia-easy to use with large thumb-benevolent keys and five-way rocker switch. The homescreen is also highly customisable, offering a wealth of shortcuts to prime features.
The 7310 lower mid range division prepay ranking dictates its feature set won’t be stellar. You can forget about 3G for starters with web browser and downloading unfortunately indebted to sluggish EDGE speeds. The two-megapixel camera is also woefully basic, although the music player is tidy enough with a microSD card slot under the rear bonnet able to handle 4GB cards (that’s about 250 average sized MP3 tunes.)
Verdict
This fashion phone lacks star (arf!) quality, although the old school exchangeable skins spice up proceedings a smidge.
Best features
Cool mirrored finish and exchangeable covers
User-friendly
Not so good
Bland design
No 3G
Basic camera
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