Volume: 80 cc
Weight: 94 g
Length: 105 mm
Width: 46 mm
Thickness (max): 18 mm
Display: 65,536 color, 128 x 160 pixel display
Price: $200.95 - $383.52
While Nokia’s previous art deco fashion phones, with their dark red-and-black combinations that wouldn’t look out of place down at the club, the Finnish company chose to go with a more baroque theme this time round. During our testing, the Nokia 7360 was the subject of envious colleagues and interested glances with its stylish gold and beige façade decorated by patterned floral designs. Other little touches like an orange-tinged translucent gem as a central selector button, a cute fashion cloth tag similar to those on your jeans, and a brown silk pouch with velvet interior lining have the words “phone luxury” written all over. Pouch aside, the whole package works well, making the 7360 a sexy alternative to those who desire a good-looking mobile but don’t fancy the sleek, slim lines of Motorola’s famed RAZR frame.
The release of the 7360 demonstrates the concept of the maximum platform life, when all the changes concern only appearance. This deliberate simplification of the model starting L’Amour line taken in order to lead the device into the section of merely designer solutions, that is a refusal from any competition with own products of the same price category but higher functionality. Such solution is well-taken only for a company with many loyal customers and having a reputation of a maker of phones with good attractive design.
The raisin and the main feature of Nokia 7360 is its garish design. Like all the models in this collection, this one is represented in two colour solutions - Coffee Brown and Warm Amber. The designers consider them to be fashionable colours of 2005-2006. We think both solutions look well, and the colours are selected well. A mirror metallic insertion is on the face panel. The same insertion emphasizes the material of the back side, and a part of the cover is stylized as leather. The side edging is made a la dull metal, and the left side features an insertion of semitransparent plastic in emerald colour (here it is unsaturated). The designers decided not to show excess of zeal with metal, a navi button looks garishly, as well as a loudspeaker grate, on/off button on the top end. All other elements are dull, and seemingly they were all created in imitation of plastic (after all metal and “leather” are to be emphasized).
As per any other Series 40 mobile phone, the menu interface can be toggled between a 3 x 3 icon grid and a list. Opening the menu interface, however, has a 1-second lag which is slightly unusual. The usual applications such as calendar, to-do list and notes are found, but an interesting addition is Yoga Coach which provides postures, tips and even a schedule to manage your sessions.
The VGA camera sensor, which is starting to show its age amidst megapixel variants, produces mediocre snapshots that, while decent-looking on the phone display, cannot be considered viewable on a PC. Without any onboard photolight, taking good night shots is a challenge.
Key features:
128 x 160 pixels 16-bit color display
FM stereo radio
Integrated VGA camera
Integrated handsfree speaker
XHTML mobile browsing
IrDA
Pop-Port™ connector
Multimedia:
FM stereo radio
Browsing:
WAP* 2.0 xHTML/HTML multimode browser
OMA Digital DRM 1.0 - Including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution
Imaging:
Integrated VGA camera
Video recorder
Video player
Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS 1.2 for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Flash messaging: Send and receive Flash messages that appear promptly on the phone screen
Presence-enhanced contacts: Check the status of your friends before you call them
Nokia Xpress audio messaging
Instant messaging (Chat)
