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Here is a short video review made by phoneArena.

Nokia 6131 is a mid-level clamshell, which can be used both in Europe and the US thanks to its quad-band GSM support. It's relatively big-sized and comprises a QVGA display with up to 16 million colors, an additional color display, camera and music player, as well as slot for expanding the memory. The package includes the handset, a battery, manuals, CD and handsfree, which can be used both for making calls and listening to the FM Radio or music stored on the phone.

The camera is a 1.3 megapixel one, which a bit outdated for a phone of this class. It is located on the front shell and has neither a flash, nor a mirror but you can use the external display when self-shooting.

The maximum resolution is 1024x768 pixels for pictures and 176x144 – for the video, and we’d rather have QVGA so that they can be viewed in fullscreen on the phone and to be of any use on the PC. Starting the camera takes less than two seconds and using the digital zoom is very quick, too bad it’s useless. The only available options are the various color effects and the night mode.

Color reproduction of the taken pictures is incorrect as the purple is dominating and purple fringing was clearly seen in some of the photos, as it covered a large part of the image, or even all of it. Taking pictures with the Nokia 6131 in low lighting conditions (indoors for example) results in distorted images as digital noise is almost all over them. Decent photos can only be taken in very bright light (combination of natural and candescent lighting).

Via phoneArena.