T-Mobile Nokia Astound Video Review

March 29th, 2011 • • 15 comments

I’m going to try something new. Instead of reviewing phones with multiple paragraphs, I’ll be more visual and now do it through videos. The first phone to get that treatment is the T-Mobile Nokia Astound. The Astound is basically the Nokia C7 with newer firmware, portrait Qwerty, updated browser, and a few other extras. Priced at only $79.99 with a 2-year contract, will it be a hit at T-Mobile? We’ll find out.

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The Nokia Astound features a 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen made of Gorilla glass, so believe me when I say it’s hard to scratch. It also offers an 8MP camera with dual led flash, HD video, VGA front-facing camera, and 8GB mass memory with support for MicoSD memory card up to 32GB.

The Nokia Astound packs a lot of features for such a good price. Call quality is spot-on as expected and battery life is excellent. My normal usage gets me over a day until needing to plug in. It’s also amazing that the Astound is running a newer firmware that puts it ahead of its higher higher-priced siblings, the Nokia E7 and Nokia N8. No phone is perfect, though. While I love the addition of portrait QWERTY keyboard, I find the buttons to be cramped. Nokia can create some space by getting rid of some buttons and moving them to the secondary function.

Have any questions about the T-Mobile Nokia Astound? Do you prefer this new format of doing reviews on video? I’ll be reviewing the Nokia E7 next, so let me know if you have suggestions and tips for the upcoming video.

  • http://twitter.com/ph_eagle brwn_eagle

    excelente

  • Bobhope

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  • http://twitter.com/bragzter Bradley Larcher

    nice review. the astound is definitely a bargain at $79.99 for a feature rich smartphone.

  • Anonymous

    Really Mark, no mention of the FM Transmitter in the phone? That is one of my favorite features on the N8 and I know it is on the C7 too.

    Good video though!

    • http://thenokiablog.com Mark Guim

      Actually noticed that I missed a bunch of stuff on this review after publishing it. I’ll cover more stuff the next time. Thanks for commenting =)

      • Anonymous

        Could you update the text to include the things you missed? I think that would be easier than reshooting the video while being able to clarify the information for our viewers.

        I am unable to watch the videos at work but I may whip out my N900 and take a look. The downside to video reviews is that youtube is blocked by most educational/government facilities so you may not have as many viewers see your review as soon as possible.

        I hope to watch the review later today.

  • Magento Themes

    Really, T-Mobile Nokia Astound Video Review is a nice review and it has lots of features for good price. I really enjoyed this article.

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  • Erigobertoher

    Since you have others phones like the vibrant you should do some face off

  • Sknitsefil

    the phone suxxxx..its going back tomorrow im getting a my touch

  • Anonymous

    I really dont care about it, if you dont have the prominent thing to reveal, dont market it like that. Astound is not the complete phone.

  • Guest

    But the C7 Astound has some nice photo apps for its 8Mpixel cam like ’3DPhotoFree’ which makes the Astound into a 3D camera phone

  • Henry

      There are a lot of cool apps….ovi store has plenty for whatever you want to do with your phone. I like reading with it so I’ve got an good e-reader from mbooks, for anything else contact ovi :)

  • Hanna_97

    Aand..for more details about the app see the new video Nokia mBooks Hands On Presentation :). 

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