Nokia N76

Nokia N76 has been made available on the market in April at an estimated, pre-tax, unsubsidized sales price of approximately 400 euros.

Nokia N76 is UMTS compatible and offers maximum downloading speeds of up to 384 Kbps. N76 integrates good connectivity features beside 3G, such as: GPRS Class 32, 107 / 64.2 kbps, EDGE Class 32, 296 / 177.6 kbits, HSCSD 57.6 kbit/s, Bluetooth 2.0 and miniUSB 2.0.

The phone is big, perhaps one of the biggest clamshells on the market, measuring 106.5 x 52 x 13.7 mm (folded) and weighing 115 grams (battery included)

Besides the good processor, the phone offers a good-quality sound for music fans, provided that they use better headphones than those included in the sales package.

Nokia indirectly recognized that the N76 model has many major faults in its construction and software integration by accepting covering warranties that include things which are not standard for a handset. The faulty design, the cheap material, as well as the low life battery are among the negative points of the clamshell. There are also serious bugs with the phone such as: lag control of the external music dedicated keys, call interruptions, as well as restarts of the operating system when running clips recorded. Even if these bugs are not present in all phones, it still denotes a bad implementation of the S60 platform.[via]