Nokia's
finally fessing up to its latest E series QWERTY phone, but took this one in a seriously surprising direction... for Nokia, anyway: thin. The E71 is one of the thinnest phones we've ever seen exit the doors of the Finnish giant, at 10mm thick, but there's still plenty of room for everything you'd expect out of an E series phone like WiFi, HSDPA, A-GPS and even a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video chat -- the main place the E71 differs on specs from its new E66 sibling is the 2.36-inch QVGA screen, just a fraction of an inch smaller. The E71 even manages to squeeze in extra battery, with 20 days of standby, 10.5 hours of GSM talk or 4.5 hours of 3G talk. There's 110MB of built-in storage and a microSD slot if you grow out of that, and the same business / personal switcher of the
E66. Folks accustomed to previous Nokia QWERTY phones in the form factor like the
E62 will find the screen noticeably smaller, but with the same number of pixels and an incredibly pocketable form factor there's plenty to love about this new entry. Unfortunately, the $500-ish pricetag isn't quite alluring, and like the E66, Nokia doesn't have any carrier subsidies lined up just yet. The E71 should arrive in the States -- and yes, with full 3G US bands -- sometime Q3 of this year, and will be available in grey steel and white steel.
posted June 16th 2008 8:01AM
How would this compare to the BlackBerry bold?
I am buying both Nokia E71 and Blackberry Bold 9000.
I currently use Nokia E90, I bought a Nokia E71 today and transferring all my data from Nokia to Nokia is a breeze.
I love Blackberry Bold 9000 for the speed. But unfortunately, just like Microsoft crappy contacts (it doesn’t allow input more then one mobile field into one contact). More then ever, nowadays, more and more business travelling people have more then one mobile number.
Also, when you are in Asia and running out of battery and you don’t bring your charger, good luck to ask around and borrowing Blackberry charger. For Nokia, you can ask almost anybody on the street, they’ll have it.
To me Blackberry Bold 9000 is a Ferrari with a layout comfort flaw (contact mobile field is not expandable), Nokia E71 is a Ferrari with an Engine flaw (speed is slower compared to Bold 9000).
A layout flaw makes you uncomfortable during your rides, engine flaw such as speed only reduce point to point time.
I can live with engine flaw, instead of running 200km/h, I am ok with 100km/h. But I am not ok with the layout comfort flaw.
To sum it up, a migration from Nokia to Blackberry is like a migration from a Powerful SUV to a Ferrari. A sacrificed data migration have to be made and it’s not acceptable for me.
mmmm very nice, so much so, i ordered it today in white.
three.co.uk fone free, £25/month for 18 months 500 mins & unlimited txts. can't wait to get it.
drooooool lol