I bought Nokia N79 a few days ago and I think I have used it enough to write this useful piece of info.

• Appearance: Not good, seems like very delicate piece, not at all a fashionable design even though they give two extra back covers, all sucks(every one has a different outlook for looks, but don’t just believe what you see in the images)




• Sound:
  1. Loudspeaker:Very low volume in comparison to what you can get in the price tag it has. The bass sounds like treble effect and you can’t distinguish drum beats, though the music with just chimes and bells rings awesome. Talking on loudspeaker is easy though as the clarity of voice is good on loudspeaker. Still the stereo quality of the loudspeakers is good.
  2. Headset:Loud enough that you can listen the caller easily, can say good one.
  3. Earphones:The 3.5 mm jack provided on the top of the phone connects the earphones, the ones that came with it sounds excellent. Tried my PC headphones too, best music quality. Similar to the apple iPod
  4. Volume Shifter: Only 10 sound levels to choose from and some songs(specially the Titanic songs) sound too low on one level and too high at the right next level. Could have been better volume shifter if it would be like the iPod.




• Keypad: At first you might have some difficulty in finding out the keys but the design of keys is new and your hands will pick it up in a day or two and you would be typing faster than your previous phone.(still not faster than a touchscreen). Excellent placement of keys on the keypad and overall good.




• Screen: Just like other N series handsets, i.e. a good one with a resolution of 240×320. Movies run great in this and the colors are bright and the contrast is good. Viewable in sunlight too(some screens cant b seen in sunlight so thought it should be mentioned).




• FM-Transmitter: Yes buddies, this is transmitter and not just receiver. Now you can transmit your fav songs to your cars FM or your woofer system without attachments or need of bluetooth or wifi. Just start the transmitter and play the song. Experimented by playing a song on my device and played it simultaneously on 5 different mobile devices in college. Sounded pretty good as the volume of the song was greatly increased by using so many mobiles at the same time. Will experiment with the car stereo soon.




• Navi-Wheel: At first I started using it like the iPod Navi Wheel and it didn’t worked well, but then I realized my mistake and found that only the center of the Navi-Wheel is sensing my touch and not the whole Wheel as in iPod, so tried using it that way, it worked out perfectly. Very useful in scrolling loooong list of music and games menu and video songs etc etc.




• Breathing Effect: The blinking of a circular ring around the center button that kinda seem like the phone is breathing. Very attractive and can be seen even in the daylight.




• Auto Rotate: Seem to be the worst thing in the mobile as the mobile almost hangs when we turn the screen upside down and many times it makes wrong guess about the screen position and rotates randomly and sometimes gives delayed response. I needed to turn off this feature to use this mobile properly




• Battery Backup: Good Battery Backup with 1200mAh (for your comparison the most widely used BL 5C is only 850mAh). Didn’t discharged for three days in normal usage(listen a few songs and tested the videos etc). Fast charging, if charged regularly then it will only need 15 to 20 min to completely charge using its original charger(at first I thought the pin is same and used another nokia charger of my sister’s phone, but it didn’t charged completely after 3 hours, then I saw the ratings on the adapters and found that it wasn’t even providing enough current to charge the battery, so only use the charger that comes with it).




• Integrated GPS: Thanks to the Integrated GPS that you won’t need to buy another bluetooth GPS device to navigate maps through your phone. Works well outdoors but don’t catch any signal indoors.




• Camera: Either I haven’t yet figured out right configuration or the camera is not as good as the site says it is. with my cybershot, I can get much better pictures even in 2MP than what I get in 5MP of this phone’s camera.




• Speed: Runs the applications fast enough, though takes a looong time to open big images(it will open but will take time to get it to the resolution you have zoomed it, means when you’l zoom an image, you might think that its clarity is gone, but after about 5 to 10 sec, the clarity of the image will be restored). It even plays the VGA quality videos(640×480) as if its meant for it though for better quality, you might need to get the vids of 25 FPS to 30 FPS using a converter(the one that comes with it is slow but the quality is best). Slows down if the autorotate is on and you turned the screen, sometimes the vids even hangs.




• Hold Key: The hold key provided on the top of the phone is quite good and handy for frequent usage. Seems to be the most used key(slider key) on the phone by me.




• Storage: Comes with 4GB micro SD card, enough to store all your fav songs onto your mobile phone

In the last a few cons and pros in short

Pros:
• Slim Design
• Faster Keypad
• Integrated GPS
• Good Sound Quality(in earphones and headphones)
• Attractive Breathing effect
• Good Battery Backup
• Navi Wheel
• Key Lock Switch
• Fast Charging
• TV-Out Support(Cable needed)
• WiFi Connectivity

Cons:
• Looks not good
• Slow Auto-Rotate response
• Sometimes delays the keylock response too
• Unable to update firmware from PC(always gives error msg)

Rest anything you need to know about the product, just write down in the comment box and I’ll reply.
Would soon add a few more things in the review but right now this is all I can write as I am running out of time due to college overload.