Nokia E5 Review

Background Information & Look n’ Feel

The Nokia E5 smart phone heavily resembles Blackberry’s style of phone and the Nokia E72. The Nokia E5 comes in 5 delectable colours –business black, wild white, baby blue, bronzy brown and shiny silver.

It can be used for business or pleasure, which reflects the funky colours for private use, and the more subtle colours for business. This is also reflected in the software aspect of the phone as well.

Hardware – Display, Keyboard, Battery, Communications, Memory, Connectors

With the E5, Nokia have intended to provide better social networking tools and messaging for people all over the globe, at prices within the ordinary person’s means. It has access to a range of email accounts (including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail, Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler Business), Instant Messaging unities and a number of social networking sites. This is all made very easy to use by the full QWERTY keyboard, weighing in at an acceptable 126g.

The screen is 2.4-inches, which seems very small in comparison to other Nokia models. Nonetheless, it is still adequate for internet use and taking pictures. The phone also has a 5 mega-pixel camera with fixed focus, auto flash, 4X optical zoom, and video recording.

This model also comes with 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth, WAP, GPRS and EDGE technology, which makes this phone great for using the web. Although, the internal memory doesn’t seem to be up to scratch with a 250 MB internal memory. This can be redeemed through the use of a memory card, expanding storage of up to 32GB with a microSD card…that’s better!

With a standard Li-lon battery, this smart phone has an outstanding battery life with 18 hours and 30 minutes talk time, with a standby life of 29 days! So if you don’t like charging your phone very often, this is the one for you.

Availability & Pricing

The Nokia E5 is estimated to cost €180 before taxes, which will be approximately £160 and is expected to be available in the Q3 of 2010. This is a very moderate price by Nokia to make a phone like this more accessible to a much wider audience.

All in all, this affordable smart phone seems to be quite impressive for its price tag.

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