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hey this is Ross with the verge and we are looking at the Nokia Lumia 710 the first thing you'll notice this is pretty pretty standard black design it's got a solid button on the bottom unlike most windows phones have come out which have been capacitive buttons if you look around the device you've got standard camera buttons you've got the volume rocker and if you look at the top you've got the microUSB port which is a little odd you've got the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and you've got the power button now the interesting thing about the microUSB is that you're usually seeing those more on the side and on the bottom on the back you've got the 5 megapixel camera you got the single LED flash and the pictures you take with it are pretty standard we kind of size it up with the Samsung Focus flash the HTC Radar 4G and they're all pretty much the same kind of picture quality more or less maybe a little bit of a saturation difference but you're not going to notice unless you really look carefully there is no front camera so if you're really big on video chatting you're just kind of out of luck here the display is a three point seven inch what nokia calls a clear black LCD it's basically an LCD with some better clothes than we've seen before the big problem with it and although it does look very nice in front the biggest difference if you look at the focus flash side by side you'll see the viewing angles are a little off the device runs Windows Phone which as with every other device it's more or less the same experience you're getting across all the phones you've got basically on a fundamental level a form over function and design it looks very pretty you've got this kind of Metro UI tile design but all in all you've got this kind of weird design choices you've got a search button the search button actually takes you back to being Universal every single time apps like Twitter they'll constantly reload when you open it actually makes it for a much slower experience and it does give any nerves after a while in addition to 7.5 mango updates you hold the back button here you've actually got its kind of multitasker we kind of go back from the windows it's an improvement it looks really good but if you're used to iPhone or Android functionality you're just not giving the same experience so one thing that Microsoft's been very adamant about has been lack of customization so basically you're getting the same look Nokia's actually added a few apps of its own though on the small scale you've got a new theme which is Nokia blue is actually a more navy blue compared to the bright one we have now this phone actually has three GPS apps we loaded it up you've got regular Bing Maps of course you've got the teen ailable centric TeleNav and you've all so got nokia drive the maps are actually powered by NAVTEQ which nokia now owns the other app that nokia has is the nokia weak hair app and if you click on it is literally as just an app that says how much nokia cares about you it respects for privacy doesn't collect your data and if you want to click on the privacy policy you get a ton of bright blue obnoxious links the other carrier centric app is t-mobile TV which as the name suggests is just a streaming service you get a 30 day trial or at least a week out of 30 day trial with our review unit and after that it actually has a monthly subscription fee at $49.99 in contract Lumia 710 is actually a pretty decent Windows Phone devices certainly stacks up to the likes other focus flash on AT&T and even the radar however you are patient enough CES is just around the corner in mid-january and Nokia is sure to have some Windows Phone announcements at that time