Nokia E71 Mobile Phone Review

June 10th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in Mobile Phone Reviews

The screen isn’t particularly stunning, only 2.36-inches diagonal, QVGA and none-too-bright, but it certainly gets the job done and leaves room for all that QWERTY. Battery life is basically a non-issue, with 20 days of standby, and 10.5 hours of GSM talk, though the 4.5 hours of 3G talk might pose an issue. We didn’t really put the processor to the test, but load times for just about everything were quite zippy, especially compared to the E62′s consistent sluggishness in loading up simple things like recent calls and the address book.

Overall it’s all about your OS of choice and what exactly you want to do with your phone. If music and video playback are key, the E71′s screen and interface are going to pose a challenge, and if typing is paramount you might need a slightly larger QWERTY keyboard — though our typing speed after about a day was roughly equivalent to our iPhone speed after about a year of use. As for accomplishing what it sets out to do, the E71 manages it all with style, providing a plethora of features in a speedy, beautiful and miniscule device. Since Nokia won’t be working with American carriers right away on subsidizing the E7

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