Nokia E71

Nokia E71

The Nokia E71 weighs in at 127 g and is 10mm thick. The phone features a 3.2 megapixel camera, aGPS, push email and HSDPA 3G.

The numeric keypad is a part of the alphabetical keypad. There is predictive text which makes texting very easy to accomplish. Above the keyboard there is a square navpad and this is very simple to understand and make use of. An alert light comes on and lets you know when you have a message. There are four shortcut keys on the phone. These are the Calendar key, the Contacts key, the Home key and the Messages key.

If you are looking for your most often used applications then look no further than the home screen. Here you will find your email set-up, VoIP set-up, mailbox, Wi-Fi scanner, calendar entries and voice messages that have yet to be heard. The time and date is easily visible. Here you will also find six shortcut icons - Browser, File Manager, Maps, Messages, Notes and finally, a mode switch.

The screen of the Nokia E71 is of a decent size. It is 2.4 inches diagonal with 320x240 pixels of resolution and has a color depth of 16 million colors. In simple words, the display is extremely sharp and full of clarity. The screen works very well in direct sunlight as well.

The Nokia E71 features Bluetooth technology with A2DP stereo, Wi-Fi, USB and an infrared port (which is unusual by today’s cell phone standards). The USB replaces the Pop-Port found on the E71’s predecessor, the E61. There is a 3.6Mb/s HSDPA connection. It is important to bear in mind however that the speed with which the phone works is tied into the location and the network you are using.

The Nokia E71 is a fast acting phone. The operational side of it is very good. It boasts a 369MHz ARM processor which can handle just about anything that comes its way on the Symbian S60 platform. Even if you choose to run more than one application at a time, the E71 is up for the task.

Web browsing is a joy with the Nokia E71. The proportions of the screen make it easy to move from page to page as well as to zoom in on details of a page. Pages can easily be viewed full screen. You can choose to see pictures or not and to allow for pop-ups or not. The choice is yours.

While the 3.2 megapixel camera is not the brightest and best on the market, it has some good points. The camera offers VGA resolution video capture at 22fps, digital zoom, autofocus, red eye reduction, and LED flash. There’s also an additional camera for video calling.

The music player on the phone is great! Sorting and playing music can be done with relative ease and all of the most popular audio and video formats are supported. These include AAC, MP3, Flash Video, RealAudio/Video, WMA and WMV. There is 110MB of storage and this can be made larger thanks to the work of the microSD memory cards up to 8GB. The FM radio on the Nokia E71 is one of the best around.

Pros

All phones have their good points. Here are the ones for the Nokia E71:

Screen is clear and sharp and displays a whopping 16 million colors

Excellent design and solid construction

Bluetooth

Wi-Fi (extremely efficient on this phone)

3G support

Superb sound quality

Strong signal reception

microSD slot

Asisted GPS feature

Push email (easy to set up and use)

Symbian OS

QWERTY keyboard

3.2 megapixel camera

Excellent battery life: 10 hours of talk-time is perfect for the businessperson on the go

Excellent value for money

Cons

All phones also have their bad points. But there’s hardly anything negative that can be said about the E71. Here’s one:

3.2 megapixel camera isn’t the best out there, especially for use in dimly lit areas

Overall

The Nokia E71 is full of positive points, and it is difficult to find anything negative about it. From a business perspective, the Nokia E71 is one of the best phones out there with its Smartphone capabilities and long battery life. The phone earns top marks in most other areas too and comes in as highly recommended.