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Nokia E65 Review | Price | Features |Specifications

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:53

Quick Review:

Plus: Good design, Nice screen size, useful productivity tools

Minus: No QWERTY keyboard, No flash in camera, navigation slightly cumbersome for some people

First look at Nokia E65  and you will be very surprised to note that such a sleek phone managed to capture so many features. The slider option of the phone added a lot of space to it as did the comfortably-sized keypad. Though the side buttons were a bit cumbersome to use, it worked fine once I got used to it.

The Nokia E65 is a good performer as a smart phone and though it might have an occasional slow-down moment, it continues to offer a decent level of service to the users. The screen is also quite large and though the phone is not very e-mail friendly, the screen is brightly lit and very comfortable to read in all situations. Personally, we felt that there was enough space to add a QWERTY keyboard and this would have made the phone a lot more useful.

Anyways, the Nokia E65 does offer other interesting features such as productivity tools which help users get more out of their mobile phone. However, the lack of a flash with the camera takes the phone back couple of notches on the technology front. Though some users do not find the navigation very easy on the phone, we found it to be OK and the slider option ensured that  we do not accidentally press any numbers when the phone is in my purse.

Full Specification:

Key Features

• Get more out of your workday with a range of business features: conference calling, voice recording, notepad, integrated handsfree speaker, talking ringtones, and Nokia Team Suite, In-Device Search and message reader
• Send messages using an extensive range of options: SMS, MMS and email to defined groups of people
• Access business functions quickly and easily: One Touch keys for conference calls, mute/unmute, and contacts
• Talk around the world with 3G and quad-band GSM coverage on up to five continents
• Show your sense of style with the slim, stylish slide design
• Work hard, play hard – listen to your favorite tunes or watch video clips with the music and media players
• Take snapshots with the 2 megapixel camera

Operating Frequency

• WCDMA 2100 MHz
• Quad-band: EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Voice over IP (VoIP) calls via integrated WLAN (IEEE 802.11g and 802.11b standards)

Dimensions

• Volume: 74 cc
• Weight: 115 g
• Length: 105 mm
• Width: 49 mm
• Thickness (max): 15.5 mm

Display

• Active-matrix QVGA color display (240 x 320 pixels) with color support for up to 16 million colors
• Display contrast and brightness control

User Interface

• S60 3rd Edition, built on the Symbian operating system
• One Touch keys for mute/unmute, contacts, and conference calling
• Five-way Nokia Navi™ key with two customizable soft keys, power key that can be used as profile key, and My Own key
• S60 edit key located on the side of the device
• Volume keys on the side of the device

Imaging

• Take snapshots with the 2 megapixel camera

Multimedia

• Video and audio streaming (3GPP & Real Media)
• RealPlayer (MP4)
• Music player (MP3/AAC) and media player
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) 1.0 with forward lock

Memory Functions

• Up to 50 MB user memory
• MicroSD memory card support

Messaging

• Read email with attachments: Supports POP/IMAP, SMTP, IMAP4 with idle protocols, Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email 8.0 and a variety of third-party email clients: Mail for Exchange 1.5 (delivered via Nokia Downloads! Application), Visto Mobile v5.5, RIM BlackBerry Connect v2.1, and Good Mobile Messaging (email clients are dependent on operator variant)
• Instant messaging client (OMA IMPS 1.2)
• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS, ver. 1.2) for text, voice clips, video clips, and still images
• SMS and MMS with distribution lists
• Predictive text input T9

Applications

• Symbian and Java™ MIDP 2.0-based games and applications
• Attachment viewers for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations