Nokia E70
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Appearances can be deceptive, and that's
certainly tue with the Nokia E70. At first glance, this
looks like an enhanced version of the Nokia
6822, but in fact the E70 is much more closely
related to handsets such as the Nokia
N90 and N91.
This is perhaps the long rumoured "Nokia 6830".
The Nokie E70 is a 3G device, running
the Symbian Series 60 OS, and it also features WiFi
connectivity. Although the E70 is part of Nokia's business-orientated
"E series" of devices, it breaks with the
camera-less E60 and E61 by including a 2 megapixel digital
camera. As with the N90, there's a high density 352x416
pixel display and expandable memory. The Nokia E70 also
comes with a miniSD memory expansion slot and Blueooth.
The E70's WiFi connection supports 802.11g, 802.11i
and 802.11e protocols and it can also be used to make
VOIP calls (voice over IP). In addition, the E70 has
tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900) and GPRS.
Of
course, that QWERTY keyboard is designed for messaging,
and the Nokia E70 supports standard internet email protocols
(POP3/IMAP/SMTP), plus additonal third party software
such as Blackberry and Visto clients. Users of the E70
can view most types of Microsoft Office document, and
even make alterations, plus there's a PDF reader. The
inbuilt web browser switches between landscape and portrait
modes, but although the 355x416 pixel display has a
lot of pixels, it's actually a very high density display
and physically a lot smaller than (say) the Nokia
E61. There's a multimedia player too, and the
E70's 3G features mean that you can also download streaming
multimedia directly to the handset.
There's no video calling on the Nokia
E70 as it lacks a secondary camera. If you want to make
video calls, you'll need to choose a different handset.
In fact Nokia don't have a 3G handset with a QWERTY
keyboard that can make video calls, although we assume
that they will do at some point in the future.
The E70 is a funny sort of hybrid, but
users of the 6800 series of handsets will vouch that
the QWERTY keyboard is very usable, and the E70 has
a massively improved display and feature set over the
old 6800 series too. Unlike the other E-series phones,
the E70 has a camera, but unlike most 3G phones, no
video calling. WiFi is unusual in a phone of this type
too.
At 127 grams in weight, the E70 is about
average for a 3G phone, but not many 3G handsets squeeze
in this many features. Talktime is 3.6-7.3 hours on
GSM, with up to 9 days standby. Expected to be available
from Q1 2006.
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Nokia
E70 at a glance
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Available:
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Q1
2006
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Network:
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UMTS
(3G) + Tri-band GSM
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Data:
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UMTS
(3G) + GPRS + WiFI
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Screen:
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352x416
pixels, 256k colours
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Camera:
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2
megapixels
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Size:
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Large
candy bar 117x53x22mm
/ 127 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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3-7 hours talk / 9 days standby
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