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Nokia 3720 unveiled – specs and photos
By JBC on 09 July 2009
GLOBAL – Today we bring you the phone behind the videos, the Nokia 3720 classic. Over the last couple of days you might have seen the 3720 classic being beaten to within an inch of its life as we kicked it, hit it with a golf club, dropped it from the top of a ladder, swam with it, dunked it in beer, sunk it in jelly and shot it with a paintball gun. Dubbed the new ‘rugged’ phone and built to IP-54 standards, the 3720 classic is designed to resist water, dust and shock.
Markku Suomi, VP Connect devices at Nokia said
“Whether using it at the beach or in a dusty construction site, the Nokia 3720 classic has been specifically engineered to withstand the splashes, bumps and drops that come with the terrain”
And he’s not wrong. We’ve been playing with the device and it really does take a lot of abuse. But this isn’t like ‘rugged’ phones of the past. For starters, it simply doesn’t look like one. Get it in the hand and from the feel you can tell it’s something a bit special.
Flip it over and in place of the usual snap on battery cover, comes a twist screw set up designed to keep the cover in place in the event of a fall. This cover not only protects the battery, but the internal circuitry too.
Looks wise I think the phone is an ace. With a range of colours on offer it won’t be hard to find one that suits (sorry, no Camo though).
The device will start shipping this summer and is expected to cost about €125 before subsidies or taxes. Check out the full, official, specs and gallery below.
- 2-megapixel camera with LED flash, 4X digital zoom
- 2.2-inch QVGA 16.7 million colours display
- Nokia Maps pre-installed on the 1GB microSD card
- Stereo music player supporting MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA, and stereo FM Radio
- 20MB free internal user memory plus support for microSD memory card up to 8GB
- XHTML browser, Java MIDP2.0, OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.1
- EGSM 900/1800/1900
- Series 40
- 115mm x 47mm x 15.3mm
- 94g
- Up to seven hours talk time
- Up to 18 days standby time
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Tags | 3720 classic, Nokia 3720 classic
July 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
“sorry, no Camo though” lool I know a certain guru who’s going to be really disappointed with that.
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Scott Reply:
August 5th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Need to release this in North America, I go through sony ericssons way quicker than i should.
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July 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
This is amazing!..
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July 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hmm…its says that it comes with nokia maps preloaded…but doesnt specifically mention if it has inbuilt gps ..or if we’ll have to buy an external one ?
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Arun Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 10:50 am
no internal gps, only external support. i want to know the call quality, is there any noise during calls.
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July 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Really like the keypad
Large comfortable keys with spaces in between to minmize the risk of miss clicks. Those “large island keys” are exactly what I want to see in a N-series candybar.
I guess my dream phone would be like a candybar N86 with xenon flash and a “large island” keypad.
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July 10th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Phone looking really cool especially in green color.
As per network specified EGSM 900/1800/1900, does it support 3G network?
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July 10th, 2009 at 11:13 am
It’ll quite useful and lauded in emerging markets like Nigeria. Though, the kinds of terrain/situations it’ll have to endure here are several times toughier/worse than any ’stress tests’ you guys, on conversations, have been putting it through
e.g. The 3720c dropping on the road from a passenger’s hand, during a phone call session, whilst the passenger is on a high-speed okada (local motocyclist taxi-like drivers).
The phone maynot be bulletproof,but i guess its up for the job. – Send it to us down here, Nokia, – and we’ll be more than glad to help you really ‘re-define’ the meaning of ’stress tests’ !!
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July 10th, 2009 at 11:31 am
always fascinating to see mobile phones becoming the tools of life. You can always pop your existing phone inside a small clear plastic bag, tape it closed, and use it through the plastic. I have some original TV remotes I kept in their bags.
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July 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I think its to big for its class. But anyway, great phone
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July 13th, 2009 at 8:14 am
toi muon dat mua 5 cai
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July 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Rugged phone for rugged people. i’m going to buy one.
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August 25th, 2009 at 1:55 am
WHEN DOES THIS PHONE GET RELEASED>????
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Anonymous Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
+1
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August 31st, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I think this might be the phone I don’t break.
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Rob Reply:
November 21st, 2009 at 3:29 am
I have the predecessor of this phone, the 5500 sport.
Last February (2009) it spent over an hour in 300 mm of water. The only problem I have with it now is that the 0/tuv button is a bit dodgy. I have been told the 3720 will be available in Australia early in 2010. Well worth the wait as far as I am concerned
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