Editor's Review of the E71
Weighing 127 grams and measuring 114 x 57 x 10 millimetres, the E71 is another 3G Smartphone creation by Nokia. Available in white or grey coloured casings, the Nokia E71 feels slim and solid for ease of handling. It flaunts a display of over 16 million colours at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels on a 58.42 millimetre on its QVGA external screen.
Right below the QVGA screen, there is a QWERTY keyboard, as well as a Navi key for smoother menu navigation. The phone has a selection of ringing tones in MP3 type that will suit the user's personality. Similarly, wallpapers and screensavers come in varied selections for users to give their handset a distinct style of its own.
The Nokia E71 runs on Symbian v. 9.2 operating system, powered by the software Series 60 version 3.1. It has been integrated with a GPS system for navigation with full support for Nokia Maps. A quadband mobile phone, it runs on the network bands of GSM 1900m GSM 1800, GSM 900, GSM 850 and WCDMA.
The Nokia E71 supports Internet connectivity with its built-in XHTML and HTML browsers. The handset also has an integrated Mini Maps Nokia browser. In addition, there is WLAN Wi-Fi support for ease in Web connectivity in hotspot locations. For device connectivity, there is a USB cable connection, Bluetooth wireless, and an Infrared, which can be used with other compatible devices. The GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA technologies also ensure that the users will experience faster Internet connectivity.
The Nokia E71 has kept the standard messaging services of mobile phones with its support for SMS or text and MMS or multimedia messaging. As it offers Internet connectivity, the mobile phone also allows instant messaging for online chats, access to email over POP, IMAP and SMTP, plus attachment support. Making calls is convenient with the mobile phone's push-to-talk feature. It also has a handsfree speaker that allows users to multitask while making or accepting calls. Moreover, there is support for Voice-Over IP calls and conference calls.
Setting schedules and doing business is possible with the organiser tools that include advanced phone book for contacts with photos or images, a calendar in monthly and weekly view options, an analogue and digital clock, an alarm clock, a calculator, a currency converter, a to-do list, and an active notes and reminders options. Handset and remote lock systems are offered to keep the mobile phone safe when it unused.
A celebrated feature of the Nokia E71 is its integrated digital camera in 3.2 Megapixels. The digital camera has built-in auto focus, LED flash, digital zoom and CMOS sensor for quality shots. Certain imaging settings may also be tweaked to allow users to customize their photo output finish, specifically capture, scene, white balance and colour tone modes. Besides capturing photos, the integrated camera also functions to record videos in QCIF, 3GP, MPEG4, MP4 and H263 video formats. It is also complete with digital video zoom and allows adjustments in video settings. You can even stream video on the handset.
The Nokia E71 houses a RealPlayer music device which supports transferring, downloading and playing of music popular audio formats such as AAC, AAC+, eAAC, MP3 and WMA. Users can also tune in to an FM radio station to catch their favourite tracks. Aiming to entertain its users, the device has embedded games, and supports downloading of games from the Web.
Internally, the Nokia E71 offers 110 Megabytes of memory that may be expanded to 8 Gigabytes with a MicroSD card. The mobile phone offers its users 10.5 hours of GSM talk time, or an equivalent of 4.5 hours of talk time on WCDMA. On standby mode, the E71 lasts until 408 hours for GSM and WCDMA, and 166 hours for WLAN.
The Nokia E71 may please observers because of its sophisticated design and top functionalities. However, some users point out that while the handset's camera works well, it should have had an autofocus and zoom. Furthermore, it is unable to charge using USB, others have said.
User Reviews
E71 has a sleek and attractive design. The combination of hardware enclosed in an eye-catching metallic body performs very well. 3.2 MP camera at the back provides acceptable results in the outdoor but doesnâ??t perform well in low light. Front-facing camera provides a good option for video-conferencing while on move. Built-in SIP client facilitates the user to make/receive VOIP calls. Push email solution from 3rd party and its QWERTY keyboard make it a perfect business phone that has a decent battery life, stylish look and reliable performance. This single device in ones pocket can replace the need of carrying laptop.
An excellent mobile phone for work and pleasure.It is a very solid screen with many features and supported applications. It has an excellent battery life and good display. It features GPRS and wifi so it is the perfect partner for email and internet browsing on the road and at home. It has the latest version of OVI maps, along with other GPS aps via the OVI store. It is a very good media player and comes with the facility to extend the memory further with micro sd. Office documents can be edited via Quickoffice and it has full integration with Outlook via exchange or the nokia desktop application. Connectivity can be achived by wifi, bluetooth or USB. Overall a great phone with a full querty keyboard.
Nokia E-71
This is a great handset. I was initially dubious regarding it's overall abilities having initially viewed it as a mainly business phone. It's email and message handling capabilities are without question and it's ability to set up email forwarding via normal email or web mail is a piece of cake. It comes with a 2gb card in the box and supports up to 8gb. It's multimedia capabilities are much improved over it's predecessors as are it's form factor which is super slim and the build quality appears top notch too. The media players are not up to the standard of a N series handset but then that is what they are mainly developed for and as such the two do not bear comparison. However for simple movies at H.264 res its acceptable and also for music too and it's speakers appear to handle the output well with little distortion except of my son plays it at full whack. I added the coreplayer for video playing which is a download from corecodec's website and costs around £15 and believe me this can now handle any video format from avi, xvid, divx the full lot and it plays them great with no jarring or breakup and it is rare to have to reformat a movie to fit on the phone. I simply download - as you do and get watching on the eay to work. I did replace the headphones but that is down to personal choice only. I could not recommend this handset highly enough. I looked in detail at the blackberry but felt it was too chunky and it's media capabilities are not as good despite what RIM may tell you. It's camera is only a 2MP and although better than my previous 8320 it is just not up to the job and the build quality with that faux leather backing is well urrgh!! The camera on the E-71 is a 3.2MP and it does the job to be hones and although it only has a LED flash it is more than adequate and with the GPS for geotagging the snaps it does the job certainly for what I want anyhow. Improvements I would suggest for next time would be upgrade to S60 FP2 to improve multimedia handling and possibley a better camera if it could be accomodated into the form factor without turning it into a big lump of hardware
Find out more about the Nokia E71 at nokia.co.uk
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