Nokia E71

Nokia E71

E71 is a sexy new phone that one could admire to own, forming a new style statement just released by Nokia. Adhering to all the latest features, this phone comes power packed with its performance. The phone is just about 10mm thick which includes all the features one can find in the E series devices.

Nokia E71 Performance in the field of Display and styling

With the built it has got the phone is smaller than any other phones in the E series. Having a metallic body this phone is sure to attract all and make the owner feel special and of a new class. The size of the screen has been reduced to only 2.36 inches. However the resolution of the handset is 320X240 which seems crystal clear to your eyes.

The port for expandable memory is on the left spine of the handset and comes with 2GB microSD card included in the package. The phone has a 110MB internal memory. Coming to the right spine we would find the volume keys. The call handling capability is fine with no major issue.

When compared to E6li or the E62 we see a lot of improvement in the keypad. Clicking over the keys is altogether a different experience than the previous E series phones. It includes the traditional text support which mostly is dropped by most of the QWERTY phones today. The texting fraternity would surely love this feature been included in this phone. There are separate options for the home with calendar option on its left. The phonebook and the messaging options are on the left of the keypad. Although keypad seems to be a good performer but the keys have been placed pretty closed which can lead to pressing of different keys on occasions.

Nokia E71 Connectivity

This light beauty is build on a Quad band and is a GSM phone supporting 3G & HSDPA It includes the Infrared as well as the Bluetooth connectivity options. There is also a Wi-Fi and a LAN option available for the people who might need to connect to the internet with any of these options. Included in the pack is also the data cable enabling access of your phone’s data on a PC or connect to the net via GPRS. The data cable connection port comes just beside its memory card slot.

Nokia E71 Web Browsing, Messaging & Email

This is the best ever phone by Nokia for browsing the net on phone. One does not require inputting the server information and just can surf directly with the GPRS services enabled.

Same is the case in the WI-Fi connectivity where one can just go about by entering their id & password over their various email accounts over the internet. Besides this improvement in the connectivity options, messaging has improved considerably and now one can play around a lot more with the options available and the notification options.

The mobile browsing feature has improved over the other handsets of this series but one of the newest killer features included in the handset is the inclusion on the YouTube videos option inside the browser itself. Now one can actually browse streaming videos inside the browser itself rather than a new browser popping out.

Nokia E71 Modes

A new feature that has been devised in the handset is the option of separating the work life and personal life. It sports two home screens which would enable a user to have personal mail account shown up on the screen with another screen showing the corporate mail account, a brand new feature on itself. If this feature gets a bit improved then Nokia could actually cause some damages to the iPhone also.

Nokia E71 Software

Based on the Symbian Os version 9.2 of the S60 feature pack this phone has some of the software preloaded in it. Some of those which prove to be highly useful for the users are: Adobe PDF Reader, Quickoffice,  Active Notes, etc.

Nokia E71 Camera & Multimedia

The camera which this beauty sports is a 3.2mp camera having the flash and zoom feature. The photos clicked from this are decent considering this as a business phone rather than a fun phone. It has the capacity of recording in the VGA (320×240px) format. It also has a camera in the front for video calling.

It has a single speaker at top left of its screen which is pretty louder than E61i and has a pretty good playback although sometimes music could be choppy. The music playback time is around 18 hours on a stretch. A new 3.5 mm port would have been appreciated if included in this handset rather than a 2.5mm. The phone also has an inbuilt radio. One can capture videos for maximum an hour. It has a Real Player and also supports almost all the latest formats.

Nokia E71 Battery

It has a pretty improved battery backup with 10 hours of support on a GSM or 2G talk time. The battery is of 1500 mAh.

Concluding Remarks

With the view that this phone is targeted at the business fraternity and would be competing with business phones such as Blackberry it turns out to be a good performer. The expected price of the wonder is around Rs.20,000.