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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