The Nokia 700, touted as the world’s smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It’s slim. It’s quite sleek too, and many other ‘S’ adjectives as well.

The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, an external speaker hugging the bottom curve, and all this in only a 92g, 9.7mm-thick phone. It’s pretty swish.

The thin Nokia 700 is certainly a tiny smartphone, but is it packing much hardware in that skinny frame?

Symbian Belle is simple and Android runs well on the slim smartphone

The Nokia 700, touted as the world’s smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It’s slim. It’s quite sleek too, and many other ‘S’ adjectives as well.

The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, an external speaker hugging the bottom curve, and all this in only a 92g, 9.7mm-thick phone. It’s pretty swish.

The smooth battery cover has a brushed steel finish that feels smooth to the touch, encasing the 5MP camera with LED flash and – happily – a tiny clip, meaning no scrabbling around to get the cover off.

At the top sits the micro USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and charge port.

Although there is the occasional mini-freeze, the user interface – running off a 1GHz processor – is generally slick and much more lag-free than its Nokia smartphone predecessors such as the E7; a great improvement from Symbian, which is usually the Achilles’ heel of Nokia handsets.