Nokia E-61 Mobile Phone

The Nokia E61 is just crying out to be called the "Nokiaberry" - and the reasons for that are obvious. The large screen with the QWERTY keyboard arranged underneath bears a striking resemblance to the classic Blackberry format, but unlike Motorola's Moto Q device, Nokia have styled the E61 so that you can instantly tell that it's really a Nokia (OK, perhaps it reminds us of a Stretch limo a little too.)

This is certainly a sophisticated device - the Nokia E61 is a 3G handset with quad-band GSM support, WiFi and Bluetooth. There's a large 320x240 pixel display in 16 million colours, combined with the Symbian Series 60 OS (version 9.1). Navigation is through a Nokia-style mini joystick and softkeys, so this should be pretty familiar territory for Nokia users.

There's no camera on the Nokia E61 - this is useful because many businesses have serious issues with digital camera proliferation, especially in sensitive commercial environments. It does come with expandable memory using miniSD cards (and there's a decent 75Mb of internal memory too). The Nokia E61 is quite a capable multimedia device, with support for MP3, AAC and Real Video and Audio. As the E61 is a 3G device, it can also download a variety of streaming multimedia.

You can tell by the E61's look though that this device is designed for email, and the E61 supports standard Internet protocols (POP3/IMAP/SMTP) and also Blackberry Email Connect, Visto and Seven Always On push email systems. There's also an instant messaging client compatible with Yahoo! and AOL. There's an XHTML web browser too, which takes advantage of the E61's 320 pixel wide display (but it's not as wide as the fantastic display on the Nokia 9300 and 9500 devices).

WiFi is included on the E61, and the handset can even support VOIP telephone calls over its TCP/IP connection. There's Bluetooth too on the E61, and of course you can also connect it to a PC using a USB cable.

The camera on the E61.. well, it doesn't exist. Perhaps Nokia have learned a little from the launch of the Nokia9500 , where the camera actually put some corporate customers off. This means that there's no 3G calling either, but then the Nokia E61 isn't that kind of device.

Software support on the E61 is good - you can view and edit Microsoft Office documents, view Adobe PDFs and even work with ZIP files. The Symbian Series 60 OS is also expandable, so you can add more applications. The E61 also has a comprehensive set of PIM applications preloaded, and it comes with just about everything you would expect from a device of this type.

Source: mobilegazette.com