Video: Nokia X7 unboxing and the new style packaging!
On Thursday we got a sneak peek of the new Nokia packaging for the X7. Here we have a closer look at that new packaging with an unboxing from the folks at techblogGR. Unlike the usual flip boxes, we have one with a sliding sleeve that immediately reveals the device. It’s kinda Apple stylie as some might say. My Omnia 7 came in a similar layout (which of course, copied the minimalistic Apple packaging)
I think I prefer this style of packaging. It’s more compact, you immediately see the device outside the box and the first thing after sliding off the sleeve. Another cool thing is that you can make odd squeaking noises if you pull the packing in and out :p.
Quite smartly, underneath the phone, the tray for the sim card is already removed, indicating to the user that this can come out of the phone and this is how to insert the SIM card. There’s also a clear sticker on the back of the X7 to explain this. It’s a similar tray to the E7 which I really liked. In the case of the X7 though, this is also how you access memory card (which E7 does not have).
The box contents are hidden in smart layers. Peel off the mould for x7 and you have a separating layer, inside of which actually houses a little pamphlet manual.
The headphones and USB cable are neatly tucked away in a black labelled box, charger sits open nicely.
Opinions on Symbian/EDoF/Processor aside, it’s essentially a good phone. It looks great and seems to perform ok on Symbian Anna (well in other videos, it seems to have an odd lag/freeze in this video). Just imagine the new things Nokia are cooking up with New Symbian, MeeGo and of course the upcoming Windows Phones. I hope we keep to this minimalistic packaging with at first glance just shows the phone.
Video by techblogGR of techblog.gr
Oh whilst we’re here, here’s an 18 minute hands on with the X7 from TELEFONINOpuntoNET
telefonino.net via dailymobile
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Only sentence I could understand was the “Blah blah blah”
But anyways, informative vid!
Really nice looking phone, but about 2 years ago it could be the Xperia X10 wrost nightmare but its too little too late now this phone cant stand against Arc or SGS2
Yup, it is a very nice phone and S^3 Anna if it was there last year could have been quite something.
Now, this is a mid-range handset, I don’t think it’s meant to compete with the likes of the Arc or SGS2 (though some diehards would say it’s infinitely better because it’s Symbian :S)
This is how Nokia wants to compete with iPhone 5, Galaxy S II and HTC Sensation?
You might say it’s a midrange phone but it sure has a premium price on it.
Only a complete fool would buy this when there are clearly lots of better choices.
That phone is so ancient it’s got the beginning of the universe recorded on it. Too bad it’s recorded with the crappy EDoF camera Nokia loves so much.
it have a premium price coz it have a well premium body, GS and arc have some wheird plastic bodies, it doesnt looks durable, but to be realistic it make some sense, since a smartphone lifetime is about 18 months until it became outdated =/ but i still think that a nokia phone is beter than iphones or those cheap plastic ponycars(i mean a cellphone without a lot of stuff and a huge engine like Atrix and SGS2), nokia phones seen to target ppl who doesnt care too much about change their phone every year, its a very durable midrange stuff, not like iphone princess and those plastic bodies of 1 year lifetime
LOL at the beginning of the universe part.
your right anyone still buys nokia’s phones are plain stupid, even a low end android would be better than this(my friend has a low end android and its better than my n8′s software)
on the other hand nokia has reduced a lot of prices on accessories like speakers:D they’re not bad
You know half the time you talk so much shit.
But +1
the nexus1 comes in a box like that too
dont really think u can call it apple style
i prefer the N8 style box i wish they stuck with that on all their phones but the only thing that they seem to maintain in their packaging is the colouring
Yes there are other brands with this style of packaging. I think before iPhone, no one really did the whole minimalistic box-barely-bigger-than-phone thing.
I think the boxes make a bigger statement if the phone is in colour (not the embossed variety). Otherwise, from a slight distance it just looks like a blue box.
yes a colour pic of the phone is nice maybe as a slipcover instead? (the embossing on the n8 box is in line with luxury goods though) but i was speaking more of the slim square box design
like a box of chocolates almost
damn it… I find ordinary nokia square packaging more appealing.. lol
My favorite Nokia box is my N900 box! It was black/charcoal gray with a raised n900 on the front of the box that you could feel as you slide your hand across the box! It also had the specs on the box just like on the phone. High quality stuff.
My lest favorite was my N82 box. A huge complicated mess! Not.only is the box lrge and in charge, it had several layers of box to take off AND a never before seen hard clear plastic shell covering the phone that was held in place by ANOTHER cardboard flap…….
Same. My favourite is the N900 box.
I think the N95 had a box similar to the N82…when you opened the lid up, the N95 was the first thing you would see. To take it out, you would have to open another cardboard flap and then remove the plastic shell that would be covering the phone.
To be honest, i don’t really mind what size or shape the box comes in, all it has to do is identify what the product is and show off key facts/figures of the device.
Thanks for the insight about the N95 box. The N82 came with a Nokia PC Suite cdrom too! Ah, the good ole days!
Actually, speaking of favourite packaging, my favourite of all time was the SUPER SUPER LIMITED EDITION Non consumer Nokia N95 that Nokia gave away to like 8 people who were testing the N95 before it was available.
The first part was this amazing cube, the slid you could slide up to first reveal the phone (N95) and then you could slide this off to reveal accessories.
The second box was like a super cool black cube where the lid lifts up, one of the side panel flaps down and you’ve got like 3-4 trays of accessories.
I’ll have to find mine and take pictures again as the site I posted them on at the time has turned off their forums. It’s not the most eco-friendly but it was the most awesome Nokia box I ever owned.
Nokia doesn’t do this anymore apparently with bloggers as they fear the whole “influencing them”. Google and co don’t seem to have a problem handing units away, lol, and I certainly won’t be give any more favour/any less bashing with a free/trial vs paid units.
Nokia put the N900s in a black cube too i think it required hooking up to a computer through usb to open it
those were pretty sweet
yeah here’s the “hackerbox”
With they decided to put cake in the normal retail packaging :p
yeah sounds like the n95 and the n93i
and yeah the N8s box is like the N900
Yeah i agree, if this, the E6 and the E7 were released last year, along with Anna, maybe Nokia would be in a different situation.
The X7, a “dedicated gaming and multi-media” phone, has a dated spec-sheet. And such a high-price tag(for those features) I would certainly look elsewhere.
Can anyone confrim if this really does have 4 speakers? I read somewhere that theres only two. Maybe I will use this an Ipod..
reading this with x7 and it has only two speakers. Other two are microphones.
So a worse camera and a more pixelated screen than the n8, with otherwise the same specs, for a premium price. All this released almost a year after the N8. Really Nokia? You’ve outdone yourself this time.
And to make matters worse the reason I STILL don’t have a portrait qwerty is because these pathetic fools want people to buy this (which certainly won’t be happening in any meaningful numbers anyway)
Goodbye Nokia. Hellooooo SGS2.
Wellcome to Android World.
Yes, We have a Poetry QWERTY.
And stupid fucking guys still insist “Nokia number one go away b*tch.. bla bla.”
Don’t be fucking fan boy riddiculus, Nokia cannot compete with those phones towards Galaxy S2, or anything else with Android phone.
nokia have no chance! Accept it fan boys!
What masterpiece has this ‘poetry’ keyboard composed of late. I hope it is of Shakespearan quality
Say hello to dual core plastic who laggs
Hahah. I’m user of HTC Desire HD, Not GS2, And I’ve Gorilla Glass, too. And Alliminum Cover.
Don’t worry about strong.
And, Say welcome to S^3 with more lag, no easy poetry qwerty, and 1 minutes turn on with lags, and no-resizable widgets. No more than 3 HomeScreen, no good embed browser (haha: only You can say USE Opera
)
I understand why nokia’s battery lasts longer than android phone, Beceause, you can nothing do more than taking pictures and talking…
Symbian Anna will be released to all devices on 21st June during the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. They are releasing many phone including Nokia N9, Symbian Dual core phones(Prototypes), windows prototypes and other mid and low end phone. All phones releasing in Q3 or Q4. Nokia N9 will be available from July end.
Hhahaha.. Look at that crap! It freeze in first turn on. LOL.
Think about it. You payed money for it, after unboxin/turn on process, it freeze! LOL. You’ll tell “F*CK You Symbian^3 THE Worlds F*ckin/Freezing OS in the First Turn On!”
Nokia is number one in making “Freezing Phones while first turn on”.
Something you learn to put up with as a Symbian user. Quite odd really. The experience is made worse if you try other platforms where freeze/lag is minimal. It’s very subtle but to me makes an awful lot of difference to the user experience (though for some, features, features, features, makes their user experience – and that’s OK too).
One that hiccup is over, it seems to be OK. Well for a while anyway.
Jay, look at that : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_XHL5CB_7w
Any freezes can you see ?
And nokia still insists on 3 minutes turn on time.That’s riddiculus.
(2001)6600 start time(turn on time) = (2011)N8/E7/X7 vs. vs.
Nokia will loose if thing goes like this.
I was a nokia fan, Jay. You know that. And after have an android phone experience, I said myself, Nokia reaaly fails. Some people says, android battery lasts for 8 hours. That’s not true. I rooted my phone, and i underclocked my 1 ghz CPU to 245 mhz~680 mhz.(it sets cpu mhz automatically, if it need an cpu power) Afterwards, My Battery lasts 2 day minumum.I’m not exaggrating that. And do not need to be Android Master.I have been 1,5 Months Android User.
And there is no freeze, or something else in underclocked CPU.
Say to me Jay; who needs Nokia after that ? Who buys Nokia Phone after that ?
Sorry my Bad english, anyway, You don’t have care about me.
How often do you turn on/off your phone, if this is such a big matter for you?
Btw, my N8 is usable, not so fast as that Desire, but in about 30 seconds.
well take out the battery of the desire and THEN start to turn on the phone.
you will see, that a android device takes longer to start than a symbian device.
the point is, that a desire hd isn’t off when you tunr it off.
3 minutes turn on time? None of my Nokias takes 3 minutes to turn on. N93 was about 21seconds, N8 was about 30-40 (depending on what background apps you have installed, it could actually be a lot longer, but default it doesn’t take that long to boot).
I think you may have misunderstood me when I said,
“the experience is made worse if you try other platforms where freeze/lag is minimal.”
I’m not saying other platforms lag, quite the opposite. I’m saying that because they are mostly very smooth, it makes the lags in Symbian much more obvious.
Please re-read my comment. I didn’t say anything bad about Android, though you seem to think I have.
Detailed X7 review:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=hu&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=hu&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technet.hu%2Ftelefon%2F20110610%2Fnokia_x7_teszt_annacska_kitarulkozik%2F
Seriously, if some of you people don’t like Nokia why are you guys wasting your time on this website?? I mean I’m not a fan of android but I don’t be on androidforums trolling the android people. I honestly believe that android fans are hands down the worst phone fanboys ever. They always gotta point to prove and justify their purchase of their phone. Nobody cares.
Just get a phone that you like and keep it moving. I don’t care if Nokia is no.1 in the world or not or if they continue to lose marketshare. I prefer their phones over any other phone brand and that’s my preference. It’s beyond ridiculous!!
Well, I think most are ex Nokia fans who have recently been sent Androids way because of Nokia’s inability to produce. Hence why they have been around this site.
I still have my N8 but am wiping my hands of Nokia and heading to android, but don’t worry you won’t see me trolling this forum like Cod3rror lol
I played with the Samsung Galaxy 2 and being a owner of the iPhone 4 and Nokia N900 I can truly say the phone is way overrated! It’s built like shit and though it may have a beautiful screen as well as all the power it was lagging and the Tmobile guy couldn’t figure out why. It kills me how sufficient the Symbian Nseries handle all those features that these so called highend Android and Apple device has with ease. Android is so overrated it’s unreal and quite tired of hearing about them. Apple is to damn limited and wp7 is a apple wanna be by having a closed ecosystem as well. My N900 still offers more without the needs of all those damn apps. Is this the new way of judging smartphone base off apps? If so it’s truly sad. I’m glad Nokia gives the consumers cables to be able to use the hdmi out as well as for USB on the go, saves so much money that way. Apple don’t give you shit! The cable you buy for the iPhone 4 don’t even allow you to play games on the tv or watch you tube and that’s pathetic.
To all Android, Apple Fans, watch this Ad and see what Nokia did and where Steve Job got the idea of iPhone.
I just love comments like ”You know I was Nokia fan but than I saw Nokia copies: Mongoloid and iPoo”. So what the hell are you doing on My Nokia Blog? Can’t believe how some people can be miserable.
I was a Nokia fan, but nowadays I’d prefer to choose IPhone…For sorry
Well, I think most are ex Nokia fans who have recently been sent Androids way because of Nokia’s inability to produce. Hence why they have been around this site.
I still have my N8 but am wiping my hands of Nokia and heading to android, but don’t worry you won’t see me trolling this forum like Cod3rror lol
—– You can buy even cheaper galaxy S II instead