Camera Phone Reviews

Nokia N75

Soundtrack to your life

The Nokia N75 music experience excels even with the device closed. The digital music player has easy controls on the cover of the device, and the reflective 1.36" color cover display guides you to your music, which is always just a button press away. Supporting a multitude of different formats, including MP3, M4A, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA, the advanced digital music player includes an equalizer, playlist, shuffle and repeat features for a direct connection to compatible online music services. When you connect the Nokia N75 to your compatible PC, a mere tap on the music key acts as an instant link to music stored. The PC-mobile synchronization redirects your favorite tunes straight to the Nokia N75, which can store up to 1,500* individual tracks on an optional 2GB microSD card. In addition to playing downloaded music and ripped cds, the Nokia N75 also includes a stereo FM radio, allowing you to listen to your favorite talk or music radio stations through your compatible headphones or through the integrated 3D stereo speakers.**

Show me what you got

A mere click of the dedicated camera key on the Nokia N75 results in a sharp, ready to print 2-megapixel (1600 x 1200 pixels) photos - select the best pictures by previewing them as a slideshow through the 2.4'' screen with up to 16 million colors. With up to 16x digital zoom, an integrated flash LED, and the files in JPEG/EXIF format, you can expect excellent quality for the photos taken. This entertainment device doubles as a mini TV screen, for optimized viewing of streaming and downloaded video clips. Featuring MPEG-4 video capture and playback in landscape mode, the Nokia N75 delivers an instant video experience with audio recording. With internal memory of up to 40 MB, which can be further expanded with an optional microSD card of up to 2 GB, the N75 allows users to capture up to 500 minutes of high quality video or close to 2500 2-megapixel photos.

The world in your hand

The highly intuitive Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map delivers desired Web pages with their original design directly to the high-resolution color display (320 x 240 pixels, up to 16 million colors). Furthermore, the browser enables RSS feeds, so users can subscribe to their favorite Web sites and receive regular updates. Keeping in touch with friends is just as easy as from your home computer, but the Nokia N75 is always with you - just follow simple set up prompts to access an existing compatible email account or standard SMS and MMS features. Part of the Nokia Nseries multimedia computers, the Nokia N75 offers great functionality in one beautifully shaped connected device. Designed to work on 3G (WCDMA 850/1900 MHz), EDGE and GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) networks, the Nokia N75 provides a fantastic Web browsing experience.

The Nokia N75 is expected to be available initially in the US during the fourth quarter of 2006.

Nokia N75 Reviews

PCMag reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "The 2-megapixel camera is disappointing. It gave me dim, bluish photos with a one-second shutter delay that made me miss some shots. I also saw purple halos in outdoor shots, and a bright sky was washed out. You're supposed to take photos with the flip closed, using the external screen as a viewfinder. But, if you take photos with the phone open, you have to rotate it 90 degrees, which is awkward to hold. The video mode, on the other hand, was pretty good at 352 by 288 and 15 frames per second, with very clear sound."

Infosync reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "We were very pleased with the lens on the Nokia N95, so the pictures we got from the N75 were all the more disappointing. They were completely unusable, blurry and washed looking. We found noise in our photos even when taking pictures of subjects lit with our studio lamps. Strangely, while using the bright LED lamp, the camera seems to take a picture without the flash, then another with the flash on. The shutter sound plays for the first and you get a static preview, but if you move the camera at this point, you'll miss the second, lit exposure. Though the camera earns points for a good viewfinder interface, with clear menus, and a wide range of sending, saving and printing options, you probably won't think of any pictures taken with the N75 as keepers. A real letdown from a phone in a family with such a photographic pedigree. "

Gizmodo reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "The speakers are tooth-sized, but super loud. And the camera needs a lens cover, because when it get dirty, shots end up looking terrible. But clean 2mp shots are great, if not a little grainy compared with a full digicam. Best results occur when you're using the shot mode, white balance, or flash. ... the external screen -- can be used as a music player screen (using the dedicated buttons, or a viewfinder for the video and photo camera. (It's a decent 160 x 128, at 1.6 inches wide, diagonally.) You can actually control the music player and do everything but make playlists from the external controls, which are called quick cover."

MobileTechReview reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "Expectations are naturally heightened with the recent release of the Nokia N95 with its 5 megapixel camera and autofocus lens. Now pull back those expectations: this is a much less expensive phone with a 2 megapixel camera and fixed focus lens. Phones and their cameras are evolving so quickly that we were first unimpressed with the Nokia N75's camera. Then we revisited last year's 2MP fixed focus offerings from Nokia like the N91 and E70 (neither offered by a US carrier) along with a few even more recent phones from other manufacturers. At the time, they looked pretty darned good for a phone but in comparison to the N75 their images were weaker with poorer focus and hazing. So, with a little perspective, we have to say the N75's photos are pretty decent for a 2MP camera phone. Even HTC and LG's 2MP fixed focus cameras don't do much better."

LaptopMag reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "The N75's main selling point is its 3G data speeds and Web surfing, despite the fact that this phone supports the slower UMTS technology as opposed to AT&T's higher-speed HSDPA network. In addition to the MEdia Net browser, which often stumbles when formatting pages like CNN.com, you can also go to the Tools menu and open Nokia's built-in browser, which presents unformatted full-sized pages, complete with a cursor. But for the best experience, we recommend downloading the Opera Mini browser."

Crunchgear reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, "Besides the obvious appeal being the music functionality is the camera. The Carl Zeissless 2-megapixel camera with built-in flash and 10x zoom offers six different scene modes for just about any situation you may find yourself, which includes Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Night , Night Portrait and User defined. Let’s be perfectly honest with each other on this subject. Pictures taken by any mobile phone in the 2-megapixel range aren’t going to land on the cover of any magazine, so just keep that in mind or take a look at the N95 and its 5-megapixel snapper. The N75 takes OK pictures for most situations and MPEG-4 video recording at 15fps is only limited by the amount of memory you have onboard and in the microSD slot."

PDAStreet reviews the Nokia N75 and writes, " Around the back you'll find the lens for the 2.0 megapixel camera and a small but powerful flash. There's no self-portrait mirror, however... While we like the quality of the 2.0 megapixel camera, pictures take on a yellowish cast so be sure to use the white balance first. The N75 includes several photo controls and can even shoot video."