Nokia 7710
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The Nokia 7710 is a discontinued mobile phone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

 model produced by Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

.

The 7710 is based on the Nokia 7700
Nokia 7700
The Nokia 7700 is a mobile phone produced by Nokia, announced in 2003 but never released. It was expected to be the first multimedia smartphone from Nokia, and the first smartphone to use the Series 90 GUI on Symbian OS.-Features:...

 which was never released. It is Nokia's first, and so far only smartphone to run the Series 90 GUI atop the Symbian OS. 7710 was announced in November 2004.

Features

Compatible with GSM/HSCSD/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz networks, the 7710 features a wide, touch-screen colour LCD with a resolution of 640 x 320 pixels and 16-bit colour depth, which also boasts a special power save mode activating only 640 x 64 pixels of the display. It has 90 MB of internal memory supported by a 128 MB MultiMedia Card (MMC
MultiMediaCard
The MultiMediaCard is a flash memory memory card standard. Unveiled in 1997 by Siemens AG and SanDisk, it is based on Toshiba's NAND-based flash memory, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on Intel NOR-based memory such as CompactFlash. MMC is about the size of a postage...

). The external memory can be upgraded up to 2 GB, though the CPU and RAM could do with being faster.

Moreover, the Nokia 7710 also offers multiple-format video recording courtesy of its integrated digital camera, supporting QCIF resolution at 17 frame/s in MPEG4, H.263 and Real Video 8 formats - for which the device also supports full-screen playback at 15 frame/s. Additionally, a music player supports MP3, AAC, RealAudio 7 and 8, WAV, MIDI and AMR formats, whilst picture viewing is also in place with support for JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, MBM and PNG formats.

Due to pilot projects in some select areas there also exists 7710 phones which contain an optional DVB-H
DVB-H
DVB-H is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats. It is a technical specification for bringing broadcast services to mobile handsets. DVB-H was formally adopted as ETSI standard EN 302 304 in November 2004. The DVB-H specification can be downloaded from the official DVB-H website...

 tuner module.

Specifications

Dimensions 128 x 69.5 x 19 mm, 142 cc
Weight 189 g
Display 3,5 inch TFT
TFT LCD
Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...

 touchscreen, 65,536 colors, 640 x 320 pixels
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
General packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode...

Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32–48 kbit/s
HSCSD
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
High-speed circuit-switched data , is an enhancement to Circuit Switched Data , the original data transmission mechanism of the GSM mobile phone system, four times faster than GSM, with data rates up to 38.4 kbit/s....

43.2 kbit/s
EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

Class 10, 236.8 kbit/s
Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

v1.2
USB
Universal Serial Bus
USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices....

Yes, Pop-Port
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email
Camera 1.3-0.99 megapixels depending on firmware (1280 x 1024 px - 1152 x 864 px), video (QCIF), (with update to firmware version 4.10, 1.3 megapixels)
CPU
Central processing unit
The central processing unit is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in...

ARM
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

 168 MHz (source: Gsmarena)
Storage MMC
MultiMediaCard
The MultiMediaCard is a flash memory memory card standard. Unveiled in 1997 by Siemens AG and SanDisk, it is based on Toshiba's NAND-based flash memory, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on Intel NOR-based memory such as CompactFlash. MMC is about the size of a postage...

 memory card (128Mb–2Gb) + 90Mb internal memory
Operating System Symbian OS v7.0s, Series 90 UI
Other Software complete PIM suite
 - office applications (word processor, spreadsheet and PowerPoint viewer),
 - E-mail client (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4)
video and audio player, Java MIDP 2.0 apps
Browser WAP/xHTML, HTML with Flash 6 support
Battery lasts approx. 240–342 hours

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Cultural reference

  • In the motion picture Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay Beecher refers to a device found by Kumar, which was mounted on the console of the borrowed Ford Mustang
    Ford Mustang
    The Ford Mustang is an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was initially based on the second generation North American Ford Falcon, a compact car. Introduced early on April 17, 1964, as a "1964½" model, the 1965 Mustang was the automaker's most successful launch since the Model A...

    , as a "Nokia 7710" (though the actual device used was a Nokia 770 which is an MID rather than a cell phone). Kumar
    Kal Penn
    Kalpen Suresh Modi , best known by his stage name Kal Penn, is an American film and television actor, producer, and civil servant....

    's friend Goldstein is later heard explaining to Kumar via the supposed phone that he "shtupped Cindy Kim" and that he received a "blumpkin".
  • In the motion picture Stormbreaker
    Stormbreaker (film)
    Stormbreaker is a 2006 British spy film based on Anthony Horowitz's novel of the same name, the first novel in the Alex Rider series. It stars newcomer Alex Pettyfer as the teenage spy alongside actors Mickey Rourke and Bill Nighy...

    Alex's phone is a Nokia 7710.


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