Nokia E-70 Review

Introduction:

This smartphone continues the traditions of the 6800, is equipped with a QWERTY-keypad, WLAN module, Bluetooh, and a camera with the resolution of 2 MP.
Class:smartphone, 3G, business
Position in the line: above Nokia E61
Rival phones: no in this form-factor

Specifications
General features
Announced in 2005 , official announcement on the 13 October 2005
eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA
Battery type 1150 mAh Li-Ion (BL-6C).

Battery life:
talk mode from 3.6 up to 7.3 hours
standby mode from 7.2 up to 9.3 days
High-contrast graphical display, 256000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 352x416 pixels
Integrated 2.0 MP camera (the maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels), timer, 8x digital zoom, records video in three resolutions (352x288, 176x144, 128x96 pixels)
5D navi button
The phone is run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface Platform 60 ver 3.0)
Weight: 127 gramms
Dimensions: 117 x 53 x 22 mm

Memory
75 MB of memory are dynamically shared among a phone book, a calendar, messages, images and applications
Expansion slot for mini-SD cards, you can use hot change of cards
You can assign to names in a phonebook a photo
For a name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. You can add any number of fields fields.
Unlimited number of groups, you can assign a name to several groups at the same time
SIM-card entries are stored separately, viewing them with memory phone numbers is impossible
Call lists, no restrictions on the number of entries, all records have date and call duration, but its type specified. You can set storage period for calls in the list (by default that is a month)
Call management, ringing tones
Vibracall
polyphonic call melodies, True Tones, supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
64-tones call signal, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
Voice dialing independent of the speaker's voice, no need in in recording tags preliminarily
Speakerphone
Automatic redial
Call duration is shown during a call
Melody editor, you can assign melodies to names in a phonebook

SMS
Predictive text input ?9
Message templates (10 preset, also you can change them or add own ones)
Sending and receiving graphical messages
Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Connectivity
WAP 2.0
Bluetooth v.1.2
WLAN (802.11g, 802.11e, 802.11i)
IrDA
HSCSD
GPRS class 10
EGPRS (Class:B, Multislot class 10)
HTML, xHTML, cHTML
E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
MMS v.1.2
Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth
SyncML
SMIL
USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
PoC or PTT
Instant Messaging
Organizer and extras
User's profiles (5), temporary profile
Time, date
Calculator, currency converter
Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer

Organizer with support for events of various kinds, setting reminders
To-do list
Dictaphone (works in the talk mode)
3GPP Video Streaming
RealOne Player: playing RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
Photo album - improved gallery
Viewer - an application for viewing on the phone files MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Exel
PDF
MP3 player
MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
load Java applications
Games

Review
This is the first time Nokia has introduced the Symbian OS to the folding keyboard, and in my opinion this is the best thing they could have done. The power of the full keyboard is readily applied to Symbian much more than for ther standard series 40