The Nokia N78 is a fun phone to use, and despite some annoyances it's likely to find fans in those looking for a feature-filled Apple alternative. If there's one thing that Nokia does really well, it's candybar phones. Now that the competition is so much tougher, Nokia has decided the way to compete is to stack its mid-range phones with features. Design The N78 is a candybar phone with a piano-black face and a brown, "Zen garden" back. Build quality is fairly good, though not quite up to the standards of other N-series phones. The plastic backing feels particularly flimsy and isn't quite held in place securely enough for our liking. The "hinge" holding the press-button lock even broke after a few days use. The screen itself is 240x320 pixels, but due to the glossy finish of the phone it can get quite grimy with fingerprints...
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