Nokia 7020 Announced

The Nokia 7020 is a low-cost fashion phone with a built-in accelerometer which allows "tap control" of various applications. With an unsubsidised pre-tax price of about €90, the 7020 attempts to introduce a bit of style to budget devices.



This is a fairly straightforward clamshell phone - there's a 2.2" 240 x 320 pixel display, basic 2 megapixel camera, microSD expandable memory, Bluetooth, Ovi integration, a multimedia player, web browser and an FM radio. Talktime on the Nokia 7020 is about 4.5 hours with up to 15 days standby time.

In fact, there's not much going on here that we haven't seen many times before.. apart from the accelerometer functions that is. Tapping on the phone can bring up information, alerts or change the external display. It's not exactly groundbreaking stuff, but for less than one hundred euro it's not bad.

The standard sales package includes a stereo wired headset, battery, charger and that's about it. If you want a microSD card then you will need to buy one separately. The 7020 also uses the old-style 2.5mm audio connector, so you can't use it with standard headsets.

Nokia say that the 7020 should be available in Graphite, Hot Pink, Silver and Blue. If you want a 7020 then you will need to wait a little while - Nokia say that the phone is due out in Q4 2009, which does seem like a long time to wait.