Should you be young, like a bit of bling, and simply want a handset for making calls and sending texts, the 7100 Supernova could be the Nokia for you.
Conversely, “if you are on the hunt for a top-notch music or camera phone,” as Knowyourmobile are anything but alone in warning, “then this might be a good time to avert your eyes.”
“The stingy 1.3MP camera is less than impressive,” complains Mobile-phones.co.uk. “In real life,” Knowyourmobile explains, “the flash-lacking, auto-focus lacking camera really doesn't do a great job.” Pocket-lint agrees “the camera is a little archaic.” And Trusted Reviews terms it “a bit of a disaster,” before adding “indoors, the camera is woeful.”
Nor, “by any stretch of the imagination,” says Pocket-lint, is this really a music handset. “Since there's no memory card slot,” Mobile-phones.co.uk points out, “music lovers will be hard-pushed to use the phone as an MP3 player.” Without it, and with only “the somewhat mean 4MB of built in memory,” Knowyourmobile explains, “you won't be able to store many tunes on the phone.”
But, “if you can live with the foibles” that include the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack, “sound output is acceptable,” Trusted Reviews concedes, “and there's an FM radio that can auto-tune stations.”
The 2-inch, 320 x 240 pixel display “is small by current standards,” suggests Pocket-lint, “but it still looks bright and sharp enough for everyday use, except when you step outside.” Trusted Reviews fears “its 65,000 colour handling specification is a bit below par these days,” while Mobile-phones.co.uk feel “images are colourful but not as sharp as you would expect on higher-end phones.”
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Fortunately as Knowyourmobile notes, despite the lack of 3G support, web browsing “isn't too bad.” Opera Mini 4, “possibly the best choice given the small screen” in the opinion of Pocket-lint, “offers reasonably fast internet over EDGE” says Mobile-phones.co.uk and, according to Trusted Reviews, “makes web browsing a surprisingly positive experience.”
The slider handset, which comes in a choice of three different colour schemes, “looks quite fetching” to Pocket-lint. Knowyourmobile prefers to describe it as “distinctive.” However Mobile-phones.co.uk thinks the appearance “plasticky and chunky.” But Trusted Reviews is more concerned that “the casing is made of plastic, which might not stand too many drops down the stairs or crunches in a bag.”
Performance wise, Knowyourmobile notes, “call quality was fine, and with little going on to really trouble the battery we managed two day runs between charges with ease.” Pocket-lint also thought battery life “pretty good”, and Trusted Reviews “reasonably” so.
In conclusion Pocket-lint were of the view that “there is not much to get excited about here, but not much that is confusing either.” Trusted Reviews thought the phone “disappointing” and that it “could have done with a £20 price reduction.” Mobile-phones.co.uk were marginally less critical, suggesting that “priced around £60” the Supernova “isn't expensive,” but “it really doesn't seem to offer much for your cash.” Knowyourmobile would “have liked a little more bang for our buck.”
So, all in all, it would seem the Supernova is a pretty basic phone with sadly little to commend it.