Nokia's E series of smartphones is aimed pretty squarely at the
business community, but in fact it has a lot to offer the well
organised consumer too.
The E51 is possibly the most attractive of the bunch to date,
because it is a small, lightweight, candybar style mobile phone,
housing some sophisticated software. It looks quite innocuous, but it
packs a real punch.
In fact the main outward sign that this is a ‘power' phone is the
bank of buttons sitting immediately beneath the screen. This includes
the usual Call, End and Nokia soft-keys, but also houses what Nokia
calls its ‘One-touch' keys; four buttons designed to give you access to
Contacts, Calendar, mobile e-mail and application management functions.
These keys all have three functions. For example, press the Calendar
key and the calendar opens for you to view appointments. Hold it down
and you are taken to the screen where you can create a new meeting. Tap
the key twice and you see your calendar on the first press, returning
to the previous application on the second.
To make room for all these keys, and for a generously sized number
pad, the screen is quite small at just two inches corner to corner. It
has a fairly standard 240 x 320 pixel resolution, and it is sharp and
clear.
This is a 3G handset with HSDPA support for fast data downloading,
but no front-facing camera for two-way video calling. You can make
video calls, but you have to use the back-facing 2-megapixel camera, so
can only show the caller what you can see rather than your own face.
Some might think that a blessing!
As a high end phone it is perhaps no surprise that Wi-Fi is built
in, and one of the markets Nokia has in mind for this phone is the
business place where workers move around a lot and can use
Voice-over-IP telephone systems to ensure staff are contactable at all
times.
There is 130MB of built-in memory and a microSD card slot to add
more. A huge array of applications is built in, including the expected
calendar and To Do management, mobile e-mail and readers for PDF,
Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Nokia Maps is built in for
navigation purposes, though there's no GPS so you'll need to add a
Bluetooth one if you want door to door navigation - and pay for that as
an add-on to Nokia Maps, too.
Nokia's Active Notes application lets you embed images, sounds, Web
addresses and more into text notes, and in addition to the music player
there is an FM radio.
Taken From
http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h1464.htm
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