Nokia Phones

In mid-January Nokia announced the transfer of navigation service Ovi Maps on a free basis. However the free walking and satellite navigation became available to owners only of relatively new models – N97, N97 mini, 5800 XpressMusic, 5800 Navigation Edition, E52, E55, E72, 5230, 6710 Navigator, 6730 classic, X6, N86 8MP.

The fresh press release shows that Nokia has taken into account the desires of  the users and has developed a version of Ovi Maps, compatible with former smartphones E71 and E66. However, not all features of new Ovi Maps have been implemented – there are no Guide Michelin and Lonely Planet premium services.

Ovi Maps for E71 and E66 are already available for downloaded from the Ovi Store.

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Nokia added a client of its popular programs for the Symbian operating system on its online store.

Skype, a free application that allows you to make calls to other devices with installed on client program via WiFi or 3G, has long been popular among computer and mobile users.

Today Nokia has announced that henceforth mobile client Skype for Symbian-devices can be downloaded from the online store Ovi Store, which opens up access to the program for more than 200 million users worldwide.

Currently Skype for Symbian supports the following models of Nokia phones: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530, Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 5320.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Models with QWERTY-keyboard, made in a bar form factor stand out among Nokia phones. Nokia E71 is one of the most popular smartphones of the manufacturer. Last year it received a successor in the face of Nokia E72. So let us consider seven pros and cons of E72.

Pros:
1. Camera
One of the most obvious superiority of E72 over the E71 is the camera. The resolution is 5 MP instead of 3.2 MP camera of E71. In addition to quality pictures of the phone is capable of recording more or less good videos (320 x 240 pixels at E71 and 640 x 480 pixels at E72).

2. Internal memory
Usually Nokia E71 has about 110 MB of memory available. Nokia E72, in turn, offers 250 MB of memory. The difference is 140 MB, which is a big plus.

3. Flashlight
It is impossible to overestimate the function of a flashlight – it may be useful both in the dark on the street and at home, when suddenly the electricity is turned off. You can turn of the flashlight of E72 by simply pressing the space key.

4. A 3.5-mm jack, microUSB for charging
Unlike the E71, which has 2.5-mm jack, E72 offers a 3.5-mm audio jack, compatible with most of  the headphones offered by various companies. We are pleased that Nokia said “no” to adapters.
Nokia E72 can be charged via a standard connector, similar to E71, and through the microUSB connector. If there is a PC and an appropriate cable, the phone can be easily charged as well.
The phones have identical batteries – BP-4L (1500 mAh), but the devices operate at different times. The new model has longer talk time.

5. Music search
A lot of users want voicecontrol phone, but the E72 offers a convenient feature. By pressing asterisk (*) on your keyboard from the Home screen and saying the song title or artist, a music player finds the desired track. No need to manually scroll through the whole huge library. Of course, the accuracy depends on the voice and pronunciation, but the effort is worthwhile.

6. Position sensor
The accelerometer of the Nokia E72 can be useful to turn off the alarm, games, or for counting steps and calories with the program Nokia Step Counter.

7. Free Lifetime navigation
With the release of navigation software Ovi Maps 3.03 owners of a number of recent Nokia phones have a lifetime subscription to the automotive and pedestrian navigation. E71 IS not a new model in contrast to E72, so only owners of Nokia E72 can evaluate all the charm of satellite navigation.

Cons
1. Battery compartment
One of the main advantages of the Nokia E71 is the assembly. Nokia E71 in this respect is a reliable device. We can’t say the same thing about E72, because if you drop the device the battery compartment lid is constantly going up. It can open up during everyday usage as well.

2. RAM
Both phones have 128 MB of RAM. However, E72 consumes an average of 25-30 MB more. As a result, E71 can be comfortable to work with 6-7 programs, while the E72 has difficulty digesting 3 – 4 simultaneously running applications.

3. Space Problem
The space key of Nokia E72 stops working from time to time. Restart helps to solve the problem, so the issue is of the software nature and should be treated with a firmware.

4. No podcasts
The new Eseries phones have no Podcasting and Internet Radio. For some owners, these can be important functions to lose.

5. Optical trackpad
Not all the new features are useful and optical trackpad may be one of them. Theoretically, it should be easy, but those who, for many years enjoyed the usual five-way button, can have some problems with addiction. Perhaps it makes sense to use an optical joystick only for the browser.

6. Keymap
Nokia has decided to dilute the lower number of extra keys, reducing the gap. Now it seems that the keyboard is too overloaded with buttons. Inconvenient to switch layouts are also worth noting.

7. Speaker
The speaker of Nokia E72 is not loud enough. It’s location (on the reverse side) does not make sound louder as well.

Nokia E71 Specs:
Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSDPA (900/2100 MHz),
Platform: Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
Display: 2.36 inch, 320 x 240 pixels, 16 million colors
Camera: 3.2 megapixel, autofocus, flash, QVGA video recording
Additional camera: 0,3 Mp
Processor: ARM 11 369 MHz
RAM: 128 MB
ROM: 256 MB
Internal Memory: 110 MB
Expansion slot: microSDHC (up to 8 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Wi-Fi (802.11b / g)
A-GPS
microUSB 2.0
2,5 mm jack
Audio: AAC, AAC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, eAAC, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7, 8, 10, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV
Video: 3GPP formats (H.263), Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9 / 10
Images: BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, WBMP
Battery: BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Hours of talk time: up to 10,5 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 4,5 hours in WCDMA
Hours of standby time: up to 408 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 480 hours in WCDMA
Hours in music mode playback: up to 18 hours
Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm
Weight: 126 grams
Form factor: bar with QWERTY
Type: Smartphone
Date of announcement: June 2008
Release Date: 2008

Nokia E72 Specs:
Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSPA (850/1900/2100 MHz),
Platform: Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
Display: 2.4 inch, 320 x 240 pixels, 16 million colors
Camera: 5 megapixel, flash, autofocus, video recording VGA
Additional camera: 0,3 Mp
Processor: ARM 11 600 MHz
RAM: 128 MB
ROM: 512 MB
Internal Memory: 250 MB
Memory Card: microSDHC (up to 16 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
microUSB
3.5-mm connector
FM-radio
A-GPS
Wi-Fi (802.11b / g)
Optical joystick, position sensors, compass
Audio: AAC, AAC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AU, eAAC, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7, 8, 10, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA
Video: 3GPP, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9 / 10, WMV
Images: BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, OTA, PNG, WBMP
Battery: BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Hours of talk time: up to 12,5 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 6 hours in WCDMA
Hours Standby time: up to 384 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 528 hours in WCDMA
Time running conversation on VoIP: up to 13,6 hours
Hours during playback of audio: up to 37,5 hours
Hours during playback of video: up to 13 hours
Hours in video mode: up to 6,4 hours
Dimensions: 114 x 58,3 x 10,1 mm
Weight: 128 grams
Form factor: bar with QWERTY
Type: Smartphone
Date of announcement: June 15, 2009
Release Date: November 2009

Popularity: 3% [?]

We have already mention the mysterious phone from the Finnish manufacturer with an appropriate name Nokia Mystic several names. It was assumed that this is a new Nokia device of C-series. Also there was a possibility that it is a successor of popular business smartphones Nokia E71 and Nokia E72 – QWERTY-device Nokia E73. But we still do not know what will be the final name of this “mysterious” new smartphone.

Currently, there is information on the web that the smartphone Nokia E73 will appear on the U.S. market in June this year, where it will be sold through the mobile operator T-Mobile. No other details are available yet: neither the exact date of occurrence, nor the likely cost of the new device, nor any of its technical characteristics.

It is not clear if this information will be confirmed in the future. However, if this happens, the emergence of Nokia E73 in the portfolio of T-Mobile USA could attract the attention of many buyers, because for now the operator sells only an entry-level Nokia devices.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Judging by the name, the application allows users to edit and add the list of words in their phones for later use in the T9 typing mode. You can also scan text files for words importing from XML-file and transferring them between phones.

Nokia Custom Dictionary is fully operational on the following phone models: Nokia E63, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800 and Nokia X6. Application may have a slight problem on Nokia E72, Nokia E75, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 Mini. On old phones (eg, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N79, Nokia N78 and Nokia N82) the application has limited functionality.

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Separately, I would like to mention a small but necessary segment of “smart” units – QWERTY-devices with fully functional keyboard. It is worth noting the appearance of a Nokia E71 model – the long-awaited successor of the two-year old Nokia E61 keyboard hit (and its updated version E61i). The novelty is not so comfortable with the terms of ergonomics (QWERTY-keyboard usability is rather questionable). But everything else has undergone substantial modernization. This includes the hardware capabilities (excellent performance, the increased amount of memory, wireless interfaces, excellent 3.2-megapixel camera autofocus, GPS), and software. After all, we should not forget that Nokia E71 is a Symbian-smartphone, which means that the business functionality of the device can be significantly enhanced through the installation of third party applications.

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After the success of Nokia E71, the Finnish manufacturer decided to release a new device for employees – Nokia E75 side slider with QWERTY-keyboard. Now all fans of mobile correspondence may deal with more comfort.

If you try to compare Nokia E75 with Nokia E71, it probably will not be a quite right decision. The dev ices are very different – with the case design, keyboard (although even there, there is a QWERTY-layout), the orientation of the display, size, even though they belong to the same series.

Novelty has an acceptable size for this class of devices, Nokia E75 perfectly settled down in the inside pocket of light jackets and particularly was not felt there, though, it weighs 139 grams.

The build quality of Nokia pleases: parts fit perfectly together, no squeaks, not annoying. Metal can be found on the back of the slider at the ends around the display, and cover made from it hides the battery compartment. It is made of corrugated stainless steel, looks good and solid.

At the ends are the volume keys, camera button and voice dialing, microUSB slot and memory card slot. At the upper end there is a standard 3.5-mm jack for headphones. That’s good, because adapter not required.

Popularity: 9% [?]

Nokia E71 was announced in June 2008. Nokia E71 develops the ideas of the popular models of Nokia E61, and very successfully. Nokia E71 has been recognized as the best phone and best smartphone version of Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2008.V Nokia E71 has almost everything a person needs, and business people in particular. First, it is QWERTY-keyboard. Despite the small size of the buttons all the testers noted that it is used very conveniently. Nokia E71 smartphone works in GSM (900/1800/1900) and 3G (HSDPA 850/2100 MHz) networks is equipped with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, IRDA, and GPS-receiver.

This is the maximum possible today communication combination. Nokia E71 has e-mail, WAP and HTML-pages browsing function. Corporate users can run Nokia E71 Intranet and use VPN. QuickOffice is responsible for working with the text. Built-in 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash makes images with a maximum resolution of 2048×1536, there is a 4 x digital zoom, video recording with a resolution of 640×480 pixels (15 frames per second) and video with a 320×240screen resolution. Video can be viewed on a TV via AV-output. Nokia E71 allows you to listen to mp3, Wma, Aac, AAC, eAAC audio files through built-in speaker or through headphones; there is also an FM-radio. The built-in 110 MB can be expanded with microSD cards, supported by the volume of cards up to 8 Gb. For more convenience, Nokia E71 has a Mode, which allows switching between preconfigured schemes. Nokia E71 is a very popular model, and in early February 2009 the manufacturer expanded the colors of devices – to the white and silver-black modifications were added black and red.

Popularity: 9% [?]