| Nokia N78 Unlocked Smartphone with 3.2 MP Camera, 3G, Wi-fi, GPS, MP3/Video Player, MicroSD Slot--U.S. Version with Warranty (Black) | 
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| Brand: Nokia
Category: Wireless
List Price: $565.99
Buy New: $279.97
You Save: $286.02 (51%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 156
Color: Black
Media: Wireless Phone Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.5 x 3.1
MPN: N78
Model: 002F840
UPC: 758478014714
EAN: 0758478014714
ASIN: B0017QHCXE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I like, great price October 8, 2008
I have to say kudos to Amazon I had a defective phone. In one day I had a replacement. I had the UPS man asking to take the defective phone off my hands. That is SERVICE! Now the phone. Very fast! Very bright! I use the FM Transmitter and radio many times a day. Love the photo Geo Tagging, Sportstracker, QuickOffice 5.0, design, music player, podcasting directories. The things that are OK are: Nokia Maps( Google is free and much faster, headphones)you must try your own awesome feature. I have a videocamera that takes pics, but this is a very good back up. I gladly give up the video and picture taking ability to have the price drop. Haven't stopped using it since I got it from the UPS guy(the guy runs fast though, funny too). Will buy again from Amazon. NOTE: The only thing that kept me from buying the N79 was the design. Many features but no comparison in design to the N78.
Nokia N78 September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Other than the price being a little steep, I'm quite happy with the phone and all of it's features. One of the most improtant things to me is how well the phone actually performs as a phone. The clarity and volume is great compared to some of the previous motorola phones I've owned, and have yet to recieve any complaints from whoever I'm talking to on the other end.
As far as the features go, there's more than i will ever use. I've yet to run across any problems using most of them. The camera takes suprisngly good pictures for a camera phone, and the mp3/internet radio/fm radio get used often, and also work well. Also, this phone is supported by the joiku spot software, which lets me use my phone as a wireless router. The 3g download speed supported is great, and helps break up a very boring day at work when my laptop's connected to the phone.
Great Phone! August 19, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was expecting this phone from several weeks, and the final date arrived.
It is simple awesome!
Excelent display, with a great angle view, very fast for common task and also very fast in GPS, with Garmin Mobile XT (4.20.20).
It GPS is faster than N95 or N82!
Great battery life!
I'd like to note its keypad that you have to get used at first.
But, as i said, simply awesome!
 Great features but too many bugs August 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The N78-3 is the USA/North American (sometimes called the "NAM") version of the N78, the newest of Nokia's flagship N-Series phones.
I got the N78 a few days after it came out. I was moving up from a Nokia 6120 Classic. Compared to the 6120 the N78 adds alot of features, most important to me were: Bigger screen, GPS, WiFi, and a 3.2 MP camera.
While it succeeds on several points, on about 50% of the features the N78 falls down due to nagging bugs.
Physical Aspects & Controls
2.4" LCD screen is bright and clear
Buttons are a dismal choice of attractive design over function, they are needlessly difficult to use.
The shiny surface attracts face- and fingerprints, also the buttons attract dust in a pocket.
The new "Navi-Wheel" is unsupported in many applications (notably the web browser) and much less useful because of this.
The overall shape is pleasing, not as small as the 6120 but not at all the brick that is the N82.
The 3.5mm (standard) headphone jack is a huge improvement.
The lack of a charger jack on the bottom ruins any chance of a car holder/charger and for no reason.
The MicroSD slot is tough to reach but you don't use it often so not a big problem.
The plastic back flexes and feels cheap. The rest of the build feels solid.
The stereo speakers sound very good for their size.
The MicroUSB connector is pointless. MiniUSB is the same size and well-supported.
The Nokia cannot charge via the USB port. This is just plain silly.
The N78 in Use
GPS
The GPS works fairly well but compared to a $130 dedicated Garmin GPS it fails terribly. The N78 takes about 30-60 seconds to get a lock and Nokia's Maps program does not spin to make your current direction "up", North is always up instead (unless you're "navigating", and that's not free). For some unknown reason Nokia wants you to subscribe before you can use the navigation feature, your free subscription runs out in 3 months. I fail to see how navigation is an ongoing cost for Nokia (and therefore requires payment). Traffic info is not available for the USA. Google's free Google Maps for S60 is better than the Nokia Maps application in many ways, including traffic.
Messaging
The N78 has been plagued by email bugs since I got it out of the box. The automatic email retrieval function has never worked. First it downloaded all 3000 of the messages in my inbox without asking, and there's no option to limit that number or get rid of the headers in memory. I recreated the mailbox several times trying different strategies to get around the bugs with no luck. Today I discovered it deleted my entire mailbox all by itself. This all surprising since the 6120's email worked great and I don't see much difference between the two.
Web
The web browser works well but is also subject to many niggles. With the 6120 it tended to run out of memory, the N78 solves that. The "permanent" bookmarks and bookmark folders imposed by Nokia are annoying. You'll have to scroll past the "Nokia Graphics" folder a thousand times while surfing the web, you can't move it, you can't delete it. Thanks Nokia.
WiFi
The addition of WiFi seems to work pretty well but constant use drains the battery in only a few hours. Also for some reason every program that uses the internet seems to have a different list of access points. The web browser has a great "smart" list where it puts your known wifi's at the top if they are in range. Dozens of other programs though have a random jumble of access points. S60 really looks inconsistent in this area.
Bluetooth
I had serious trouble connecting with my Nokia CK-7W Car Kit. It sometimes drops the caller's voice entirely for 2-10 seconds. Or it drops the call completely. It's not usable. My Motorola S9 works fine. My Jabra headset has flaked out a couple of times, it never did with the 6120.
GPRS/Edge/3G
I had typical connection experiences with my T-Mobile edge-only plan. Of course T-Mo has no real 3G so nothing to report there. The 6120 works well with AT&T's 3G, I'm assuming the N78 does as well.
Camera
The 3.2 MP auto focus camera works great. Nokia fixed the dedicated camera button so it takes a sustained push to activate it, something I constantly did on the 6120. The autofocus and brighter LED mean this is nearly as good as a dedicated camera. Outdoor pictures are as good as my Canon SD200 used to take a few years ago. The photo viewing application is also better with a scrolling list of pictures and it auto-rotates the screen to use the landscape view.
PC Suite
I wouldn't normally mention the PC Suite, it's worked great for some time. Now however Nokia has removed some functionality for Vista users and this was not quickly followed by a fix. Annoying since my laptop uses Vista and that's where I sync my phone. Also there's still no way to sync with Google Calendar or Google IM contacts. Finally for some reason it takes upwards of 45 minutes to install! Even Microsoft Office installs faster.
Summary
I am hopeful that an upcoming firmware update will solve most of the problems. But the current version (10.136) is over 6 weeks old so the pace of updates is certainly lacking at the least. I'm fearful for the S60 platform because of this phone, it looks like a buggy hodge-podge of applications where every little change ripples through the system and causes bugs elsewhere. The N78 looks like a solid piece of hardware, well-designed except for the buttons. The software has many problems and I cannot recommend it. My own brother has a 6120 but I have told him to hold off until some of the more glaring bugs get fixed.
Update
2 months later and not a single firmware update from Nokia. No bugs fixed at all. I cannot live without my email and without my car kit anymore. I'm sending the phone back to Nokia. I'd give it 0 stars if Amazon would allow that.
Exotic July 28, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
First i have to thank to Amazon.com and their wonderful service with out standing customer service , Nokia N78 is a small computer in your hand and more...... fantastic performance with awesome features and the exotic looks , i really can tell this PDA is from future and nothing like it .
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