The Nokia 700 reminds us of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray - slimness personified. With the new Symbian Belle OS, expectations are quite high that this may give a bit of tough competition to Android. While we are impressed with the phone, the OS doesn’t exude a lot of confidence.

Look & Feel
The sheer sleekness of the Nokia 700 is probably the biggest thing about it! The dimension stat reads 110 x 50 x 9.7 (in mm). However, at 9.4 mm, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray (read our review here) is thinner than the 700. And it weighs just 96 grams, 4 grams less than the Ray.

Despite keeping the weight down so well, the build quality is literally flawless. It is plastic all around, but doesn’t feel cheap or flimsy at all. In fact, we did not find even the slightest but of flex anywhere on the phone. The 3.2-inch display is the AMOLED type, and is accompanied by three hardware keys - calls connect, calls disconnect and Home. Apart from home, the likes of the return and options are on the touchscreen interface. Not the most optimal user interface experience, we must say. At the very bottom is the speaker, in a slightly curved grille design, on a step below the height of the display and the keys. Helps a lot when you aren’t looking at the phone to know where the call connect and disconnect keys are.

Flip it over and there is the 5MP camera with LED flash. We like the battery cover opening mechanism - simple slide hinge to pop open. On the right spine are the volume rocker, display lock and the camera key. The 3.5mm headphone jack, the micro USB port are on the top, along with the thin pin charger we had seen till sometime back with Nokia phones.

The build quality is better than expected. While the Nokia 700 doesn’t have the killer looks or snazzy colours to spice things up, it does have a sense of calm perfection about it.

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