Nokia E71

17 Nov 2008
Weighing 127 grams and measuring 114 x 57 x 10 millimetres, the E71 is another 3G Smartphone creation by Nokia. Available in white or grey coloured casings, the Nokia E71 feels slim and solid for ease of handling. It flaunts a display of over 16 million colours at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels on a 58.42 millimetre on its QVGA external screen.

Right below the QVGA screen, the Nokia E71 reveals a QWERTY keyboard, as well as a Navi key for smoother menu navigation. The Nokia E71 has a selection of ringing tones in MP3 type that will suit the user's personality. Similarly, wallpapers and screensavers come in varied selections for users to give their handset a distinct style of its own.

The Nokia E71 runs on Symbian v. 9.2 operating system, powered by the software Series 60 version 3.1. The Nokia E71 has been integrated with a GPS system for navigation with full support for Nokia Maps. A quadband mobile phone, the Nokia E71 runs on the network bands of GSM 1900m GSM 1800, GSM 900, GSM 850 and WCDMA.

The Nokia E71 supports Internet connectivity with its built-in XHTML and HTML browsers. The handset also has an integrated Mini Maps Nokia browser. In addition, the Nokia E71 has WLAN Wi-Fi support for ease in Web connectivity in hotspot locations. For device connectivity, the Nokia E71 allows USB cable connection, Bluetooth wireless, and an Infrared, which can be used with other compatible devices. Users will experience the multitasking capability of the Nokia E71, owing to the HSDPA system that runs on the handset. The GPRS and EDGE technologies also ensure that the Nokia E71 users will experience faster Internet connectivity.

The Nokia E71 has kept the standard messaging services of mobile phones with its support for SMS or text and MMS or multimedia messaging. As it offers Internet connectivity, the Nokia E71 also allows instant messaging for online chats, access to email over POP, IMAP and SMTP, plus attachment support. Making calls using the Nokia E71 is convenient with the mobile phone's push-to-talk feature. It also has a handsfree speaker that allows users to multitask while making or accepting calls. Moreover, the Nokia E71 supports Voice-Over Internet calls and conference calls.

Setting schedules and doing business is possible with the organiser tools that include advanced phone book for contacts with photos or images, a calendar in monthly and weekly view options, an analogue and digital clock, an alarm clock, a calculator, a currency converter, a to-do list, and an active notes and reminders options. Handset and remote lock systems are offered by the Nokia E71 to keep the mobile phone safe when it unused.

A celebrated feature of the Nokia E71 is its integrated digital camera in 3.2 Megapixels. The digital camera has built-in auto focus, LED flash, digital zoom and CMOS sensor for quality shots. Certain imaging settings may also be tweaked to allow users to customize their photo output finish, specifically capture, scene, white balance and colour tone modes. Besides capturing photos, the Nokia E71's digital camera also functions to record videos in QCIF, 3GP, MPEG4, MP4 and H263 video formats. It is also complete with digital video zoom and allows adjustments in video settings. The Nokia E71 also allows video streaming on the handset.

The Nokia E71 also houses a RealPlayer music device which supports transferring, downloading and playing of music popular audio formats such as AAC, AAC+, eAAC, MP3 and WMA. Users can also tune in to an FM radio station to catch their favourite tracks. Aiming to entertain its users, the Nokia E71 has embedded games, and supports downloading of games from the Web.

Internally, the Nokia E71 offers 110 Megabytes of memory that may be expanded to 8 Gigabytes with a MicroSD card. The mobile phone offers its users 10.5 hours of GSM talk time, or an equivalent of 4.5 hours of talk time on WCDMA. On standby mode, the Nokia E71 lasts until 408 hours for GSM and WCDMA, and 166 hours for WLAN.

The Nokia E71 may please observers because of its sophisticated design and top functionalities. However, some users point out that while the handset's camera works well, it should have had an autofocus and zoom. Furthermore, the Nokia E71 is unable to charge using USB, others have said.

Reviewer: Martin Power - Hebburn, Tyne and Wear
Reviewed on: 1st October, 2008
Rating: 9/10
Nokia E-71
This is a great handset. I was initially dubious regarding it's overall abilities having initially viewed it as a mainly business phone. It's email and message handling capabilities are without question and it's ability to set up email forwarding via normal email or web mail is a piece of cake. It comes with a 2gb card in the box and supports up to 8gb. It's multimedia capabilities are much improved over it's predecessors as are it's form factor which is super slim and the build quality appears top notch too. The media players are not up to the standard of a N series handset but then that is what they are mainly developed for and as such the two do not bear comparison. However for simple movies at H.264 res its acceptable and also for music too and it's speakers appear to handle the output well with little distortion except of my son plays it at full whack. I added the coreplayer for video playing which is a download from corecodec's website and costs around £15 and believe me this can now handle any video format from avi, xvid, divx the full lot and it plays them great with no jarring or breakup and it is rare to have to reformat a movie to fit on the phone. I simply download - as you do and get watching on the eay to work. I did replace the headphones but that is down to personal choice only. I could not recommend this handset highly enough. I looked in detail at the blackberry but felt it was too chunky and it's media capabilities are not as good despite what RIM may tell you. It's camera is only a 2MP and although better than my previous 8320 it is just not up to the job and the build quality with that faux leather backing is well urrgh!! The camera on the E-71 is a 3.2MP and it does the job to be hones and although it only has a LED flash it is more than adequate and with the GPS for geotagging the snaps it does the job certainly for what I want anyhow. Improvements I would suggest for next time would be upgrade to S60 FP2 to improve multimedia handling and possibley a better camera if it could be accomodated into the form factor without turning it into a big lump of hardware

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