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Nokia 7900

2007 cell phone model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2310395 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nokia 7900 is a mobile phone produced by Nokia and announced on August 7, 2007. It is part of Nokia's Prism Collection. It runs S40 5th Edition. It is a quadband phone and has WCDMA on 850 MHz and 2100 MHz. The 2-inch (51 mm) screen is powered by OLED technology, Nokia's first, and has a resolution of 320x240 pixels showing 16 million colors. Included is a 2-megapixel camera with flash, an 850mAh battery, and 1 GB of on board memory.

Dimensions are as follows: 112 x 45 x 11.3 mm; 101 grams.

There is a Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism, which has the same features, but the material of the casing is different.

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“Nokia 7900” enters the record as 2007 cell phone model. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nokia, cell and phone can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nokia, cell and phone.
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