Nokia has decided that the best way to sell off a backlog of C7 handsets is to dip them in gold, slap them with a price tag of €800 (£695) and call it the Nokia Oro (Italian for gold apparently). The C7, is a decent phone hardware-wise but its downfall was the Symbian OS housed inside – though the Oro will have the updated Symbian Anna out of the box (which isn’t gold-plated by the way). However Nokia has now decided that all it needs to do to sell the surplus phones is bling them up a little. One of the markets Nokia seems to be targeting with these ostentatious handsets is Russia, home of the oligarch. "We have a large number of users who are looking for products with a build quality and superior materials that attest to their success and social standing. In some areas, possession of such premium products is the passport to being taken seriously," so said Nokia's Gabriel Speratti, General Manager for its operations the former USSR.
Nokia Oro - Specifications, Features and Reviews
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Product Info
Brand
Model
Nokia Oro
Announced
May 02, 2011
Status
Available. Released 2011, August
Price Group (USD)
General Product Info
Dimensions
117.3 x 57.5 x 12.2 mm, 77.7 cc (4.62 x 2.26 x 0.4
Weight
132 g (4.66 oz)
Display Type
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Screen Size
360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches (~210 ppi pixel density)
Body Type
Multitouch
Sound
Alert Types
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker
Yes
Audio Jack
Yes
Memory
Memory Card Slot
Up to 32 GB
Internal Memory
8 GB, 512 MB ROM
RAM
256 MB RAM
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Connectivity
GPRS
Yes
Edge
Yes
WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth
v3.0, A2DP
Speed
HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
USB
microUSB v2.0, USB O
Camera
Primary
8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash
Secondary
VGA
Features
Geo-tagging, face detection
Primary Video
720p@25fps
Hardware Features
CPU
680 MHz ARM 11
Radio
Ste
GPS
Yes, with A-GPS; Ovi Maps 3.0
Sensors
Accelerometer, proximity, compass
GPU
Broadcom BCM2727
Software Features
OS
Symbian Anna OS
Messages
SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, Adobe Flash Lite
Java
Yes
Colors
Nokia Oro Light, Nokia Oro Dark
Other Features
18-carat gold plating
- Sapphire crystal and leather materials
- Web TV
- TV-out
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Quickoffice document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Adobe Reader
- Photo editor
- Voice memo/dial/command
- Predictive text input
- Sapphire crystal and leather materials
- Web TV
- TV-out
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player
- Quickoffice document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Adobe Reader
- Photo editor
- Voice memo/dial/command
- Predictive text input
Battery
Type
Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery (BL-5K)
Talk Time
Up to 9 h 36 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 1
Stand By
Up to 555 h (2G) / Up to 656 h (3G)
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