The Nokia Lumia 710 is T-Mobile's additional Windows Buzz Mango additional bearing smartphone, and it's Nokia's second Windows phone. For a buzz that's authentic by its "secondness", it's nonetheless an adorable and arresting example of Windows Buzz hardware. It has a aciculate display, that characteristic Nokia attending with arced corners and pleasing lines, and a few Nokia signature touches like their Nokia Drive app. The Lumia 710 adeptness not accept the unibody polycarbonate architecture and Super AMOLED affectation of its added top end across companion, the Lumia 800, but it's a abundant smartphone for $49.99 on contract.
High end or low end, or about in between; Windows Phones all allotment the aforementioned basal specs acknowledgment to Microsoft's strict guidelines. That agency this $49 buzz runs on the aforementioned CPU and its affectation has the aforementioned resolution as the college end Lumia 800 and AT&T Windows Phones like the HTC Titan Android L621. You get a additional bearing individual amount 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with Adreno 205 graphics, a 3.7" 800 x 480 pixel capacitive blow screen, 3G and 4G HSPA+ 14.4Mbps (currently the fastest abstracts affiliation Windows Buzz supports), a 5 megapixel rear camera and the accepted WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a GPS. Not bad for the price!
Typical of lower priced Windows Phones, you get beneath storage: 8 gigs vs. 16 gigs on college end phones. The Lumia 710 has about 5.33 gigs chargeless for your use, and that adeptness be a bit bound for those of you who embrace the Zune ecosystem for syncing music and video. Zune is as anytime one of the slickest and a lot of agreeable adaptable music players, and it makes the iPhone's music amateur attending a bit old school. It has anthology art, and side-scrolling to see accompanying music, artist bios and more. If you accept a Zune canyon ($10/month), you've got an all you can eat cable music account and you can beck music to the buzz after side-loading application the Zune app in Windows or the Mac Windows Buzz Connector (with iTunes sync) in Mac OS X. If you ambition to acquirement music and videos from the Zune Marketplace, you'll pay application the Microsoft Points system, just as you do with XBOX downloadable content. The Lumia 710 has good complete superior from the speaker, and actual acceptable complete superior through headphones and Bluetooth stereo headphones. The rear-firing apostle is decidedly loud for a baby phone.
Thanks to the 1.4GHz CPU, the Lumia 710 hums appropriate along. Windows Buzz is optimized for the Qualcomm Snapdragon individual amount CPU, and acceleration is consistently impressive. It's as fast as the iPhone 4S and you don't see the occasional lag that pesters Android phones. XBOX Live amateur play calmly on the phone, and even ambitious 3D titles play well. Speaking of XBOX, Windows Buzz integrates with XBOX Live and there's a advantageous alternative of quality amateur alignment in amount from .99 to $6.99, with a lot of top superior titles affairs for $2.99 to $4.99.
Again, acknowledgment to Microsoft's ample ecosystem, you get actual acceptable MS Exchange abutment and a adaptable MS Office apartment for examination and alteration MS Office files. In accession it handles Gmail and Google Contacts and Calendar accompany forth with POP3 and IMAP email. The buzz can cull abstracts and photos from the SkyDrive billow too. The Lumia 710 has 4G HSPA+ and WCDMA+GSM on T-Mobile, and speeds in our solid advantage breadth were actual good, with abstracts appointment bound and music alive after a hiccup. T-Mobile TV streamed altogether over HSPA+, as did Netflix. If alive lots of video or music, you adeptness ambition to use WiFi if accessible to abstain hitting your abstracts cap. T-Mobile doesn't cut off barter who beat their abstracts plan allowance, but they will apathetic down your affiliation to EDGE speeds for the remainder of your account period.
The Nokia Lumia 710 looks audibly Nokia. It has that bar architecture with arced corners, circuitous curves and a accepted Euro chichi appearance that sets it afar from added Windows Phones. It's accessible in white and black, and admitting it doesn't look as berserk different as the unibody polycarbonate Nokia Lumia 800, it's not a arrangement searching phone, nor dull. It's not terribly attenuate though; at 0.49", it's semi-chunky by today's super-thin buzz standards. The array does allow a removable aback awning with admission to the 1300 mAh Lithium Ion array inside, which the slimmer Lumia 800 lacks.
The aback is fabricated of a adaptable bendable blow actual and it seems adequately asperous and shock arresting too. The foreground and top and basal edges are ablaze plastic, and the 3 accepted Windows Buzz buttons are the automated clicky blazon rather than capacitive. They account for concrete feedback, but are annoyingly annealed to press.
The "ClearBlack" TFT LCD is actual aciculate and has acceptable blush in agreement of assimilation and accuracy. Blacks are absolutely deep, examination angles are appropriate but not 178 amount IPS wide, and accuracy is appropriate admitting it does achromatize in ablaze outdoor light. The affectation is clad in Corning Gorilla Glass for added backbone and blemish resistance.
As you'd apprehend from Nokia, alarm superior is accomplished for both admission and approachable voice. Reception is solid and we didn't accept a arresting alarm drop. The buzz uses a micro SIM just like the Lumia 800 and iPhone 4/4S. The smartphone is quad bandage GSM and cloister bandage HSPA+. It has both T-Mobile and AT&T HSPA+ bands, acceptable due to the planned (but failed) alliance with AT&T. The Lumia 710 works with Bluetooth headsets, car kits and Bluetooth stereo gear. Audio superior over Bluetooth is decidedly acceptable both for music and voice. Alas, the buzz has neither a adaptable hotspot feature nor iocean W7 WiFi calling. The 5 megapixel rear camera takes actual acceptable photos that are sharp, bright and well-exposed. Nokia knows how to make a acceptable camera. The buzz can shoot 720p video that additionally looks good, but there's no 1080p video recording here due to the individual amount CPU. The camera has an LED beam and Windows Buzz offers a advantageous alternative of settings and the adeptness to upload photos and videos to Sky Drive and amusing networking sites.
Conclusion
There's a lot to like in Nokia's aboriginal US Windows Phone. The arrangement amount belies a solid set of features; quick performance and an affected admitting not attenuate design. Alarm superior is excellent, the camera takes acceptable photos and the phone is fast. Gaming is aqueous and fun, the Zune music acquaintance is as anytime agreeable and alive video plays able-bodied over T-Mobile's HSPA+ network. If you're searching for an simple to abridged smartphone that's wallet-friendly, the Nokia Lumia 710 is account a look. It beats the HTC Radar 4G Windows Buzz on T-Mobile for both amount and specs, and it's a admirable addition to Windows Phone. We do ambition the foreground buttons weren't so maddeningly difficult to columnist and that the Lumia 710 had the adaptable hotspot feature, but those are our alone two complaints.