Nokia 7500 Prism

Discontinued
7th August 2007

We got our first glimpse of the Nokia 7500 Prism last month, when the handset was announced by Nokia China.

As ever, the Nokia 7000 series are for "fashion phones", and the Nokia 7500 (and its sibling the 7900) certainly fit into that category. The unusual angular design and repeated triangular pattern across the Nokia 7500 may not be to everyone's taste.. but it is certainly a highly distinctive handset and one that's pretty decently specified too.

Before we look at the technical specifications, it's worth taking a closer look at the Nokia 7500's design detailing. Nokia have gone to some effort to make sure that the whole phone continues the same theme, including the 7500's user interface. This overall look is sure to polarised opinion, but generally speaking these designs sell well (even the truly awful Nokia 7260).

Unlike some of Nokia's past fashion phones, the Nokia 7500 is pretty well specified. It has a 240x320 pixel display in 16 million colours, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, microSD memory expansion (up to 2GB with 512MB supplied as standard), Bluetooth, stereo wired headphones in the box and interchangeable "accent" colours (basically just a set of plastic inserts).

As you might expect, the Nokia 7500 comes with a multimedia player, web browser and email client plus an assortment of other software.

It's quite a lightweight phone - the Nokia 7500 Prism comes in at 83 grams. Talktime is a little on the short side at 2.8 hours, with 10 days standby time. This is a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 device, and the 7500 Prism also has GPRS and EDGE data. Overall, the Nokia 7500 measures 109 x 44 x 14mm.

The Nokia 7500 Prism is good value too - at around €210 before tax and subsidy it should make an attractive prepay handset as well as a contract one. The Nokia 7500 Prism is already available in certain Asia-Pacific countries, presumably with other countries to follow during Q3 2007.