Nokia E71 review

Tuesday, December 16th 2008 - 10:00 CET - Comments: 1

T he time a business mobile phone was simple and boring is in the past. Business and private are being united. The genuine corporate mobile companies such as the BlackBerry creators, aim more and more at the private user, whilst Samsung and Nokia in turn serve the business user. Nokia serves the business user with their E-series. In addition to a compact slider, the E66, Nokia has introduced the E71. Nokia business phones have a neat design and feature many functionalities. That's the reason more and more private phone users end up going for a business mobile phone.

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Nokia E71 business phone with Symbian OS

Nokia also chose Symbian as the operating system for the Nokia E71. Usually, this is the standard for the corporate E-series and the popular N-series of Nokia. The version used on the Nokia E71 is Symbian S60 3.1 Edition. The disadvantage of Symbian software is that it unfortunately tends to slow down the cell phone, which is what we experienced with the Nokia N96 for example. Surprisingly, the Nokia E71 doesn't suffer from any delay, the mobile phone works fast and smooth. The menu has become more straightforward and simple when it comes down to graphics, which might be why it is faster.

 

 

Multimedia functions on the Nokia E71 cell phone

Besides being a smooth business mobile phone, the Nokia E71 also features various multimedia applications. Media contains Realplayer, the camera, Musicstore, picture gallery, voice recorder and a Flash player. Music and video are perfectly reproduced on the E71. The media player looks fine and neat. The monitor is not that large, but is instead quite wide and this is very convenient for video files, since nowadays many wide screen films are available. The built-in speaker delivers a nice sound however, to fully enjoy your music, you ought to use the included stereo headset.

 

 

Nokia E71 review

The Nokia E71 is a solid, business smartphone. The Nokia E71 features a full QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS receiver, HSDPA Internet possibilities, and a 3.2 megapixel digital camera, all of which are housed in a metal housing. Widely applicable business use is enabled by the Symbian operating system on the Nokia E71. Our findings about this business mobile phone can be read in the following Nokia E71 review.

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