Nokia Review

Nokia E61 Review – Nokia has responded to the boom of the BlackBerry market in the form of the Nokia E61. This smartphone has a large 2.8 inch, 320 by 240 pixel, 16.7 million color LCD screen. The E61 includes a light sensor that really works and keeps the display easily readable unlike other phones.

The Qwerty keyboard has small keys but no audio when you press a button. There are shortcuts to functions like the internet, but no dedicated buttons. Learning these shortcuts is highly recommended.

Above the keyboard is a joystick, left and right soft keys, begin and end call buttons, and dedicated keys for email and the programs area.

The E61 excludes an antenna and includes the volume keys, voice recorder key, and loudspeaker on the left side. The bottom holds the infrared port, the power plug and the pop-port while the miniSD card slot is under the battery cover. The top and right sides are empty and the thumb wheel is nonexistent. This Nokia phone has no camera.

The Nokia E61 processor is a 206 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP and has a Symbian 9.1 operating system with Series 60 version 3 User Interface. It includes Quad-band GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, 802.11g, and Bluetooth 1.2. It has good battery life with 4 days of power under moderate use.

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When it comes to size, the Nokia E61 is small and shaped like a wedge, measuring up at 117 by 69.7 by 18 millimeters, and light, weighing in at 144 grams. The small base is half an inch thick, while the top is 1/4 of an inch thicker at 0.75″.

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Nokia E50 Review – The Nokia E50 is an O.K. business phone with good business features, but has a couple flaws that owners of the phone have been able to bring to light lately.

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The Nokia E50 isn’t a terrible phone, though. For a quadband Smartphone, it’s light and skinny. It’s a good phone for the business person who isn’t interested in having a cam, Mp3 player, and all the other features that come with an entertainment-type phone.

The business features are all there with the Nokia E50. It offers a great speakerphone, voice commands and dialing, functional e-mail support, internet browsing (quick downloads via EDGE), and also a helpful Microsoft document attachment viewer.

Connectivity options are all there: Bluetooth 2.0, USB, and infrared. There’s a good amount of internal memory to work with, over 70 MB in total. If you need more, there’s support for expansion memory cards.

The Symbian Series 60 backs the E50 and makes this phone a versatile business device.

There are a couple flaws that the E50 has that you should be aware of. Users have been complaining about the unchangeable font size – it’s small. The font size makes it difficult to use some of the advanced features – older users might especially have trouble with it. The Symbian interface, though very powerful, is somewhat prone to crashing.

Users have recommended the E60 over the E50, or perhaps a different business device like the Nokia 9500. You will get more business capability out of these phones, and probably a little less frustration.