Description:



The E61 is a powerful smart phone, equipped with productivity apps, a plethora of wireless options, and good call quality. Though it has its similarities to the Motorola Q and BlackBerrys (slim design, full QWERTY keyboard), the E61 is definitely best suited for the corporate user who needs a fully loaded device for working on the road. The Nokia E61 WCDMA/EDGE device is an E-mail optimized smart phone with uncompromised voice functionality. Multiple e-mail solutions with rich attachment content support combined with extensive range of connectivity methods including WLAN and familiar Nokia voice UI, gives mobile professionals a competitive edge.

Features

The Nokia E61 is comes with GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and WCDMA 2100 MHz, it incorporates Wi-Fi 802.11b, Bluetooth 1.2 with support for up to 6 concurrent connections, Infrared and USB 2.0. Furthermore, the device includes a miniSD card slot for expanding its 75 MB of non-volatile memory, all of which is contained within measurements of 117 x 70 x 14 mm and 144 g.

Unlike all other previous devices based on the Series 60 platform, the E61 features a QVGA screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and 16M colour depth. Fitted with an ambient light sensor, the display resides just above two soft keys, a five-way navigational pad and the QWERTY thumb board of the device, a design first for Nokia. Also focusing heavily on messaging capabilities, the E61 will be offering support for basic e-mail via POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP, as well as more advanced solutions including Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, BlackBerry, Visto and Seven. Also, the E61 supports push-to-talk and VoIP along with additional voice dialing functionality and recording. Furthermore, the Nokia E61 includes several business-oriented functions such as the ability to integrate the device into an enterprise framework allowing IT administrators to carry out application management as well as remote locking and wiping of device data.

Specifications

The technical specifications of the Nokia E 61 are: 2.8-inch high resolution landscape display, Music player with MP3 and WMA support, MP3 ring tones, Speaker independent voice dialing, Voice over IP, 64 MB of onboard memory, MiniSD memory card expansion, 64 MB card bundled, Wi-Fi 802.11g, Bluetooth dial-up networking, headset, keyboard and printing support, USB 2.0 connectivity, Microsoft Outlook synchronization via Bluetooth or USB, 3G with limited video calling, Quad-band GSM with EDGE support, 117 x 70 x 14 mm, 144 g, 4 hours of talk time, 10 days of standby .

Conclusion

The E61 does what Nokia does best: connects people. Its all-encompassing connectivity setup is exploited in full by a broad line-up of quality messaging, office and browsing applications which run in tandem with a superb screen and more than decent thumb board. Granted, it’s not among the most powerful business phones nor does it fare well in the department of synchronization - but the latter is at long last addressable by several third party solutions. Sprinkle with handy utilities, attention to detail, good battery life and a compact form factor, and you end up with a very solid business phone contender indeed.