Hands On with T-Mobile's Nokia Astound

"The Nokia Astound, also known as the Nokia C7, could be T-Mobile's best feature phone. Never mind that it's a smartphone; it makes more sense if you ignore that it's a smartphone. The phone appears to have a great camera, terrific GPS, a pretty good music player and just enough apps that you'll be able to find some games you like.

"The C7 is the last gasp of a doomed operating system: Nokia has said it's phasing out Symbian in favor of Windows Phone 7. But that mostly affects things like the app catalog. It doesn't affect any of the built-in features—Symbian's death won't make a sharp 8-megapixel camera any fuzzier, and it won't make a music player stop pumping tunes."

"The device is targeted at "first time feature phone-to-smartphone users," Nokia said at the product launch, and that makes sense."