Nokia N79
Here’s Nokia’s N79 — a dummy model showing some available options for Xpress-On covers that came with. Changing the back cover on your N79 would also change the background colour on your home screen. Clever.
I played with an N79 during the N97 24/7 tour and was so enamoured with it that I started poking about for one soon as I got home…
… And thanks to an eBay auction I soon had myself a brand-new, factory unlocked N79 to call my own.
Here’s the N79’s Navi™ wheel in action, a neat feature that in no way excused the horrible number pad underneath — which is a real shame, since everything else about it was great.
As this was my first-ever Nseries device, I finally got to use my N-Gage account. And Mile High Pinball was far and away my favourite title on Nokia’s ill-fated gaming platform.
Interesting you hated the keypad – I loved the N79 so dearly that I flat-out told Nokia they weren’t getting it back (only phone I ever did that with, I swear!). They said to keep it as long as I was legitimately using it. God I loved that phone. So small, yet so beautiful and powerful in its time – 5MP cam, and man, could I ever text on that keypad.
It was actually your review of the N79 that convinced me to get one. I wanted to link to it here, but you’ve taken Symbian-Guru.com down…?
Anyway yeah, wasn’t too fond of the keypad (I preferred the one on the N86) but it definitely ticked all the other boxes for me.
By the way, might I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the S60 Ambassadors kit you sent me in 2008? Not so much the extra-small long-sleeved fitted T for girls, but absolutely that Bluetooth headset. 🙂