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Nokia N70 comes with the following:
" Smartphone
" Charger
" Stereo headset
" Cd with software
" RS-MMC card for 64 MB
" USB cable
" User Guide

Nokia N70 is the second phone from the new N series, announced by Nokia in the spring. All models of this line are extraordinary in a certain way: the N90 model because of its 2 megapixel camera and optics from Carl Zeiss, Nokia N91 because of its built-in hard disk. Three phones were announced as part of the Nseries - the N70, N90, and the N91.The N70 is the first phone form the Nseries,it is still a smartphone that has 3G, a 2 megapixel camera, 30 MB of memory+ an 64 mb card, a radio, a MP3 player, memory card slot and everything a smartphone should have.As with the 6680, the N70 plays host to a range of connectivity options, at the base of which lies tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz connectivity along with WCDMA 2100 MHz based 3G. It offers an excellent phonebook, good organizer functions, and active cooperation with PC. It gets you on the web, downloads emails, views documents in Microsoft Office or PDF format, and connects you to the 3G network.

One disadvantage is that there is no infrared port. Infrared has been dumped in favour of a comfortable selection of profiles for Bluetooth 2.0. For those with a need for speed, there's also the option of USB 2.0 via the proprietary Pop-port connector of the smartphone. As we are used to from Nokia voice quality and signal reception proved outstanding in the N70, and we're thrilled to see Nokia finally introducing speaker independent name dialing.On its right side the phone has a tiny button, which appears to lack any function at first glance. It is active when the back cover is removed and the camera lens is uncovered: the mysterious button is a shutter release which can be used when the phone is held horizontally, like a common digital camera. Above this button is the slot cover for the RS-DV-MMC memory card

Nokia N70 has a TFT type active display, able to show 262K colors. The brightness of N70's display has a 5-step contrast setup. You can also select an interval, in which the backlighting will dimmer and to let the screensaver with a time bar to appear. A standard for Nokia products POP-port is on the bottom end. And a charger connector is new (much smaller in size) alike the whole N-series by Nokia. The removable Li-Ion battery BL-5C is capacious of 900 mAh.The producer says that battery life forms up to 11 days in the standby mode and up to 3.5 hours in the talk mode. Like all the N-series devices the Nokia N70 is built on the Series 60 version 2, the third service pack is used (Series 60 2nd Edition Feature Pack 2, or Series 60 version 2.6).Bluetooth is traditionally the maximum functional, all the profiles are supported, including HID (wireless headset may be connected with no special drivers).

Photos taken with the Nokia N70 are a bit worse than with the Nokia N90 and Sony Ericsson k750i due to the absence of autofocus.However the N70 looses only to the N-series smartphones and no other even indirect rival can compare with it in the camera quality.An active slider protecting the camera from dirt and damage is applied in the device.At the slider opening the phone automatically turns a shooting mode on, the screen serves as a viewfinder. The max picture resolution is 1600 x 1200 pixels. Photo resolution is not specified in the settings separately, instead you can chose of the three quality variants. And the number of pixels will be shown in the bottom right corner. You can't choose the compression quality for each resolution.
" Print (2 MP, 1600 x 1200 pixels)
" E-mail (0.8 MP, 640 x 480 pixels)
" MMS (0.3 MP, 240 x 180 pixels)

Here is an exemple of a photo taken with Nokia N70:

(Click on the photo to enlarge)

After pressing the joystick (serves as a shutter button) the picture is being saved for 3-4 seconds, the speed has not changed as compared to the Nokia 6680. You can make a series of 6 pictures one after another (sequence mode). Placing the device on the bottom end, setting the timer (for 10, 20 or 30 seconds) you can take a self photo (the bottom end is splay and thus you'll have to find a rest).
The duration of each video record is only limited by the free memory space. In addition, the phone offers a better format: 352 × 288 pixels, which is four times more than most camera phones can do. Unlike older picture applications, the one in N70 is not able to show pictures across the entire display. It does use zoom, but this works in the smaller frame with status line. Yet, pictures can be displayed horizontally, across the entire screen through the slide show - an option accessible from the Gallery. Here you can not only set the transition speed, but also manually skip a picture or go back. Viewing can be accompanied by music too.

Shooting modes.
" Automatic
" User - user defined settings
" Portrait (1-2 m distance from the object)
" Landscape/scene (the object is far away, the flash is off)
" Night mode
" Sports mode (fast moving objects)
The flash works in four modes - automatic, anti-red eyes, and off. As we have already said the screen serves as a viewfinder. The number of the left photos that will get into the memory is shown in the top right corner. The icon column on the right signifies the settings applied (flash mode, photo resolution, preset mode). Joystick top-down deviations run the digital zoom, right-left ones control the flash. Right-left deviations on the Nokia 6680 switched between the photo and video modes, which was very comfortable. The flash works in the distance of 1.5 meters. Besides the main camera there is also a frontal VGA-camera in the device. Its main purpose - video-calls. Switching between the cameras is automatical by opening/closing a slider or via the menu.

The main features of the Nokia N70 camera:
" 2 MP instead of 1 MP
" Extra camera settings and the interface has changed
" Anti-red eye effect
" Extra button for taking photos appeared
" An active slider has changed, it got bigger while the motion is softer
" Video resolution significantly improved (352 x 288 pixels, instead of 176 x 144 pixels)

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