8 Jun 2009
The Nokia 3610 Fold is a compact mobile phone that is mainly clad in stunning silver, with complimenting colours of blue, rose, red and green to enhance its overall design. It is from Nokia's range of slide opening handsets, which include the Nokia 3600 Slide. This mobile phone weighs only 97 grams. Its overall dimensions include 99.6 x 44.3 x 19.6 millimetres.

This mobile phone comes with dual coloured screens. It has an external TFT screen measures 33.02 millimetres and displays 262,000 colours on a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels. Meanwhile, its 50.8-millimetre TFT internal display screen showcases 262,000 colours in 240 x 320-pixel resolution. The external screen comes with an analogue clock display, complete with wallpapers and themes. Users may also choose from a wide range of pre-installed polyphonic ringtones that give the handset a more personalised appeal.

This handset operates on quad band technology and covers GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 networks. It is suitable for worldwide roaming, with its coverage dependent on the user's network provider. Users may also connect the Nokia 3610 Fold with compatible devices such as a printer, a laptop or a computer using the Micro USB support. For better ease in file sharing, the handset also supports wireless Bluetooth technology. The World Wide Web is within reach for users of this mobile phone, through the pre-installed XHTML/HTML Nokia WAP 2.0 Internet browser. Users can expect the mobile phone to download and transfer files at faster rates, given the EDGE and GPRS technologies integrated in it.

This mobile phone offers the standard services of SMS or text and MMS or Multimedia messaging to allow users to communicate with their contacts. As a bonus feature, it also supports Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging. Moreover, given the Internet connectivity it offers, this mobile phone allows users to access their e-mails and send or receive e-mail messages with attachments via IMAP, POP and SMTP servers.

The Nokia 3610 Fold is at its best when assisting busy users. It comes with organiser tools such as a phone book that stores contacts with images, a calculator and a vibration alert. Making or taking calls using this mobile phone is a sure breeze with its support for Voice Command, Speed Dialing, Voice Dialing and an integrated speakerphone for hands-free calls. This handset also comes with call options such as Call Waiting and Call Hold. It is also a perfect companion for traveling users with its Flight Mode option.

While appearing too business-oriented, this handset is not all work. It is a pleasure to use for photo buffs with its 1.3 Megapixel Camera with a powerful 6 x digital zoom and auto focus to capture photo subjects more precisely. It also allows users to set their pictures in different colour tones of sepia, normal, grayscale and negative. This built-in camera also comes with the still and self-timer modes, and a dedicated camera button for utmost ease of use. In addition, this photo-capturing device also transforms itself into a video recorder that supports QCIF format. It plays footages in MP4, Codecs, 3GPP, H263 and MPEG4 video formats.

This mobile phone can also pass for a good music companion with its built-in music player, complete with a dedicated volume key. Through the music player, users can listen to their favourite tracks in MP3, AAC and eAAC+ audio formats. In addition, there is never a down time for play time with the Nokia 3610 Fold, as it allows users to enjoy Java games that may be downloaded from the Internet.

Messages, contact details, photos, music files, videos and other data can be stored in the 30-Megabyte memory of this device. This mobile phone's storage capacity can be further expanded using a MicroSD memory card. When fully charged, the battery of this handset offers users up to 4.5 hours of talk time. It can also last to up to 457 hours in standby time.

Certain users for the Nokia 3610 Fold have criticised the handset for its average-performing audio player, as well as its lacks of an integrated FM radio. Some observers also find this mobile phone too basic with no extra features that most recent handsets offer. Nevertheless, satisfied owners of this mobile phone commend this mobile phone for its practical and user-friendly features.

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