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.
