Nokia E62 Review

The Nokia E62 is a bar design available through Cingular. The display is large, taking up the top half of the device, with the keyboard taking up the bottom half. It has an all metal silver casing and is similar in size to the Blackberry 8700. Opening the box revealed an AC charger, USB cable, Users Guide and PC Suite software for your PC.

There are several key features on this device that are just about required by anyone using a PDA integrated with a cell phone these days. Bluetooth, full internet, QWERTY keyboard, several email options, calendar and the ability to Sync with your computer all allow for ease of use. The Symbian operating system allows for a wide variety of third party programs to be downloaded onto the device, for a fee. You are able to view, and edit PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents, Adobe Reader, however we would recommend viewing and not editing Excel or Power Point files. Trying to edit them led us to frustration a few times before we finally gave up and went to a computer to edit them. The E62 lacks both the 3G band (UMTS/HSDPA), and Wi-Fi of its predecessor, the E61.


Specs:

Display: 16 million color 320 x 240 (QVGA) display. Screen size diagonally: 2.8 “, landscape orientation.Processor : 235 MHz TI OMAP

Operating System: Symbian 9.1 with Series 60 3.0 interface

Battery: Nokia BP-5L Lithium Ion rechargeable. Battery is user replaceable. 1500 mA. Claimed talk time up to 5 hours. Claimed standby: 14 days.

Performance: Texas Instruments OMAP 235 MHz CPU. 80 megs of flash memory for storage and typically 15.6 megs RAM available for running programs after boot.

Size: 4.6 x 2.74 x .55 inches. Weight: 5.08 ounces.

Phone: GSM quad band world phone supporting the 850/900/1800/1900MHz bands with GPRS and EDGE.

Camera: None.

Audio: Built in speaker, mic and 2.5mm stereo headset jack (stereo headset included). Voice Recorder, Music Player (MP3) and RealPlayer included.

Networking: Bluetooth 2.0. Hands free, headset, OBEX, ftp, serial port, HID, printing and DUN profiles.

Software: Contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, Office suite (read and write Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents), IM client, Navigator GPS application (requires optional Bluetooth GPS), Pro Golf Contest 2, memory card manager, Java VM, Messaging client (SMS, MMS, POP3 and IMAP email), web and WAP browsers, voice recorder, My Stuff (Gallery), Converter, Calculator, File Manager, RealPlayer, Flash Lite, Zip Manager, theme manager, application manager, Transfer (transfer contacts, calendar and some phone settings to or from another S40 or S60 phone), music player, clock.

Expansion: 1 miniSD slot.

Syncing: Syncs contacts, calendar, tasks and notes to Outlook under Windows using the included PC Suite software. Mac iSync plugin not yet available, workarounds (free and commercial) are available to sync contacts and calendar.

Nokia E70

Nokia E70Much as with the E60, the E70 initially strikes you as a rather plain, standard phone. There’s a screen at the top, sensible buttons at the bottom, a camera lens on the back, and not much else. What’s fantastic about this phone, and why it’s in the Nokia E (Enterprise) series is what’s under the hood (literally) and the mode of text entry. While you might be a T9 whiz, not everyone is, and the Blackberry-toting businessman has his two thumbs perfectly placed to type really quickly on a small but functional keyboard. And while the E61 form factor replicates the Blackberry, the E70 is more subtle. Sure, it has the classic candy bar shape, but then…

…hinge up that keypad, like the gull wing doors on a DeLorean, and you’ve got yourself a full keyboard. In addition, the high resolution portrait screen switches itself to landscape mode, reconfiguring the applications to take account of the different space and controls. It’s very, very swish, and lifts the E70 out of the crowd of ‘standard’ smartphones to something pretty special.

It’s also not gimmicky. This gullwing/split design has appeared before, in a Series 40 Nokia phone, and it obviously went down well in the focus groups. With slightly domed keys (more than on the 9500, but not by much) it’s pretty accurate but you can’t really push the speed – your thumbs can only move so fast. What is Nokia E70noticeable, and not easily cured, is that the phone is geared towards the right-handed people of the world. There’s only one way to hold the phone in “open” mode, and the phone cursor and soft keys snuggle up to the right hand side of the screen. There’s no easy solution, but it can make the phone awkward for left handers. What’s nice is the automatic reconfiguring of the screen. When you open the keyboard, the applications re-jig their layout, menu and buttons to make full use of the UI.

General —— Network UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Announced —— 2005, October
Status —— Available
Size —— Dimensions 117 x 53 x 22 mm, 102 cc
Weight —— 127 g
Display —— Type TFT, 16M colors
Size —— 352 x 416 pixels, 35 x 41 mm
- QWERTY keyboard
- Five-way scroll key
Ringtones —— Type Polyphonic (48 channels), Monophonic, MP3, True Tones
Vibration —— Yes
Memory —— Phonebook Yes
Call records —— Yes
Card slot —— miniSD, 64 MB card included, hotswap, buy memory
-75 MB shared memory
Data —— GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD —— Yes
EDGE —— Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G —— Yes, 384 kbps
WLAN —— Wi-Fi 802.11 i/e/g, VoIP over WLAN
Bluetooth —— Yes, v1.2
Infrared port —— Yes
USB —— Yes, Pop-Port
Features —— OS Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd edition
Messaging —— SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser —— WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games —— Pro Tour Golf + Java downloadable, order now
Colors —— Silver, Black
Camera —— 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(CIF)
- Push to talk
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- Office applications
- Blackberry connectivity
- T9
- Voice command/memo
- PIM including calendar, to-do list and printing
- Integrated handsfree
Battery —— Standard battery, Li-Ion 1150 mAh (BL-6C)
Stand-by —— Up to 220 h
Talk time —— Up to 7 h 20 min

Nokia E61i Smartphone launched in India

Nokia has announced the availability of the Nokia E61i smartphone in India. Speaking about the new Nokia E61i smartphone, Chakrapani GK, country general manager, Nokia Enterprise Solutions, said, “Today’s burgeoning workforce considers style quotient as significant as the productivity aspect and the newly launched Nokia E61i has been packaged to cater to both these elements. The smartphone comes in stylish grey colour and is thinner than its predecessor.”The Nokia E61i is packed with all the business applications of a Nokia Eseries device and offers Quadband GSM/EDGE coverage for international usage (850/900/1800/1900) with WCDMA 3GPP Release 99. The phone supports a MP3/ AAC/MP4 format, music player, media player and Java MIDP 2.0-based games and applications. It features video and audio streaming via 3GPP and real media.

Furthermore, Nokia E61i, which is the fourth Eseries phone to be launched in India, also features WCDMA PS with maximum upload and download rate of 384 kbps with e-mail date roaming and Infrared module (upto 115 kbps). It has a 60 MB built in memory and swappable micro SD memory card upto 2 GB. The smartphone comes with a five-way Nokia Navi key with two customizable soft keys, power key that can be used as a profile key and My Own key.

Nokia E61i offers personal information management and apart from the regular calendar, to do list, notes, file manager and contacts, it offers Nokia ‘Team Suite’ application for facilitating conference calls and communicating via SMS and e-mails with team members.

Enhance your business opportunities further with the e-mail supports like POP/IMAP and SMTP protocols along with Nokia Intellisync wireless e-mail 8.0 and a variety of third-party e-mail clients: Mail for exchange 1.5, Vista Mobile V 5.5, RIM Blackberry Connect V2.1 and good mobile messaging.

Features of the Nokia E61i smartphone features:

 

  • MP3 player
  • 2 mega pixel camera
  • Full web browser
  • Bluetooth
  • Memory card slot
  • Speaker-independent voice dialing
  • Music player
  • Flash Lite 1.1.
  • Java MIDP 2.0-based games and applications
  • Video and Audio streaming via 3GPP and Real media
  • Personal information management
  • One Touch keys and QWERTY keyboard
  • Internet via high-speed 3G
  • Immediate notification of new emails via the LED indicator light
  • View email attachments with Quickoffice, ZIP Manager, and Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN (virtual private network)
  • S60 platform 3rd Edition 9.1a
  • Printing capability to compatible printers using Bluetooth wireless technology
  • 60 MB built-in memory
  • Swappable micro SD memory card up to 2 GB
  • Specifications of Nokia E61i are:

     

  • Modes: GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 plus WCDMA 2100 in some versions
  • Weight: 5.29 oz (150 g)
  • Dimensions: 4.61? x 2.76? x 0.55? (117 x 70 x 14 mm)
  • Form Factor: Bar
  • Internal Antenna
  • Battery Life Talk: 4.70 hours (282 minutes)
  • Standby: 360 hours (15 days)
  • Battery Type: 1500 mAh
  • Display Type: LCD (Color TFT/TFD)
  • Colors: 16.7 million (24-bit)
  • Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels
  • Platform / OS S60 (Symbian)
  • 3rd Edition (Symbian 9.1a)
  • Memory 60 MB (built-in, flash shared memory)
  • Phone Book Capacity shared memory

  • Nokia E-90 Series

    A New Nokia E-90 Series targeting the new business culture of mobility will soon be available in the market.The product will be handy for professionals who value time making it possible for them to respond to jobs.

    The device is different from others because of the additional performance and a higher memory capacity.

    Speaking during the launch of the new product Richard Vester the head of Nokia enterprise solutions for south and East Africa said the phone would be available at a price of 750-800 euro as per the world market price.

    Despite the qwerty keyboard and office suite, the Nokia E61 was a bit of a sideways step for someone used to a Nokia 9500 (for example), but the new E90 brings all that was good about the classic Communicator hardware and form factor into the same series as the E61. In fact, the hardware’s demonstrably better:

    • the 800 by 352 pixel by 24-bit colour main screen (dwell on those specs for a second - two and a half times wider than that on the E61 and almost double the height)
    • the full QVGA external screen (no more cut-down external interface)
    • the full integration of external and internal displays (so that you can switch seamlessly between the same application in open or closed mode!)
    • fast processor and around 80MB of RAM (yep, that’s RAM, not storage memory) free after booting
    • a significantly better keyboard
    • a more flexible hinge (stronger and allowing flat-use, as in the 9300)
    • an integrated GPS receiver (a la the N95, and a great match for the new Nokia Maps software/service)
    • a standard miniUSB port (no more Pop-port, thankfully) and stereo headphone socket
    • a far superior (3 megapixel, auto-focus, with flash) stills camera
    • a pretty decent (VGA resolution, 25 frames per second) video camera


    Nokia showcases The New Dual-mode Nokia E65 and Nokia E61I BUSINESS DEVICES

    Nokia E65 and E61
    Nokia E61i, Nokia E65, and all dual-mode Nokia Eseries devices support the full range of Nokia business voice solutions, including Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel, Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco, and Avaya One-X. Nokia Eseries devices run a variety of email, business voice, security, and mobile workforce management applications and other business application software.

    Dual-mode Nokia Eseries devices with wireless LAN are ideal for implementing a business voice solution integrating mobile devices into fixed corporate telephony systems. With an integrated system, business users need only carry a single device with a single business number for fixed and mobile telephony. They can take advantage of the rich feature set of corporate telephony systems as well as cost savings from features like least-cost routing.

    For personal use, the integrated SIP VoIP capabilities of dual-mode Nokia Eseries devices allow users also to make and receive Internet calls over the wireless LAN networks in homes, airports, and other hotspots.

    More…

    Nokia E50 Review

    Nokia E50

    In the E series of the Finnish mobile giant Nokia comes the E50 model which is primarily meant for catering to the needs and aspiration of the business class. It is a smartphone featuring personal computer like functionality in the phone. The Nokia E50 phones comes with array of high-end features meeting the high expectation for which it is meant for for business, and only for business.

    Total

    • Model: 2006, officially presented May 18, 2006
    • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900
    • Li-Ion Battery 970 mAh (BL-5C)
    • Hours online conversation from 3.2 to 6.4 hours in standby mode from 6.8 to 8.3 days, the time of charging full-2 h.
    • Display, 262,000 colors (TFT), permission to 240 h320 points
    • 5 position navigational keys
    • phone runs in Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface S60 3rd edition)
    • Weight 104 grams
    • Dimensions 113 x 43.5 x 15.5 mm


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