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Form Factor
The N79 is a good looking handset with sleek lines and curves that give it a touch of refinement and class. The 2.4-inch TFT LCD sports a 240 x 320 pixel, 16 million color resolution. The keypad is large enough for fingers of any size to operate with ease. Its five way nav-pad employs Nokia’s touch sensitive Navi-Wheel feature that seems to be more refined than any of the other handsets that it features on. To activate the media menu, a designated button is neatly placed on the side. What I didn’t like was the placement of the Menu and Cancel keys. Having them in between keys that are raised made it a bit difficult to access sometimes, especially the Cancel key when it came to erasing while typing a message or mail. Bad move Nokia.
Features and Performance
The N79 is no different from any other Symbian OS device with a Series 60 UI. With its ARM 11 369 MHz processor there’s no lag when it comes to navigation, screen rotation with the accelerometer or use of the Navi-Wheel operation. There’s nothing new that the N79 has to offer if it’s compared to the N85 that I reviewed just a couple of weeks ago.
