by : Bradley Ben

Last decade has witnessed the market being flooded with mobile phones best known for stylish exteriors. These designer phones resonated the evolution of mobile phones from being some mere communication tools to style accessories enamouring millions left and right. With their distinct stylised self, they perfectly matched the desires of many a die-hard fashion aficionados. In the detail intricacies of gorgeous style and the necessity of such, for a general buyer the decision was needed to be taken between the need and the price constraint. However, along with the flurry of mobile phones embellishing style from their every inch and the proceeding confusion in the minds of buyers, mobile manufacturers have also made sure that there are ones that meet to the demand of a simpleton. Or most appropriately, ones discerning. And alongside many contemporaries in the recent past, featuring in the low-price segment, Nokia too has come up with one by the name Nokia 5070 ; a perfect match of style and cost-effective features.

It comes as a package of powerful features and stylish yet simple looks. Be it its 18.6 mm width, meagre weight of 88 gm, CSTN display with supports for 65K colours or ability to reproduce images of resolution 128x160 pixels; Nokia 5070 has an exterior that can give tough competition to many a costly companions in the name of mobile phones.

Talk of other specialities and this GSM phone comes to make you witness of the long list of functionalities that the phone has on offer. There are GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, Infrared port, USB pop-port and WAP 2.0/xHTML browser to take care of your data transfer and internet needs. The Nokia OS bundled with this phone offers service of a media player supporting a plethora of video and music files. Then there is a VGA camera with ability to record video in QCIF mode, a stereo FM radio support and 4MB of internal memory.

Now, who says cheap phones don't look good? For every inch of stylised exterior and a visit to the long feature list, Nokia 5070 showcases more reasons to its existence than any of its so called 'designer phone' counterparts!