NOKIA E7 -- A PERFECT BUSINESS MODEL

Nokia E7 has proved a perfect business phone in it's series , while being a touch n type phone it's many other  cool features are enough to attract people but it has some weak points as well .  The Nokia E7 could’ve been just another E series phone. Oh well, that wasn’t meant to be. The latest is implicitly the greatest but, in the case of the E7, the latest may simply be the last.Now, Nokia reconfirmed their commitment to Symbian in the short-term, but that doesn't mean much. If the platform is to be scrapped, users will learn it the hard way when regular updates stop coming in. Occasional bug-fixes is the best they can hope to get. And good software support is among of the main reasons why people still choose Nokia

Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Penta-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA
• Anodized aluminum unibody
• 4" 16M-color ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
• Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
• 8 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
• 720p video recording @ 25fps
• Symbian^3 OS
• 680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB RAM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
• microHDMI port 720p TV-out functionality
• GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
• Digital compass
• 16GB of on-board storage
• Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
• DivX and XviD video support
• Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM Radio with RDS
• microUSB port with USB On-the-go
• Flash and Java support for the web browser
• Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
• Good quality audio
• Smart and voice dialing
• Office document editor pre-installed

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2010, September
	Status	Available. Released 2011, February

BODY	Dimensions	123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm, 104.9 cc
	Weight	176 g
	Keyboard	QWERTY

DISPLAY	Type	AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	360 x 640 pixels, 4.0 inches (~184 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass
		- Nokia ClearBlack display

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	16 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM

DATA	GPRS	Class 32
	EDGE	Class 32
	Speed	HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
	Bluetooth	Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support

CAMERA	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash,
	Features	Geo-tagging, face detection
	Video	Yes, 720p@25fps, video stabilization
	Secondary	Yes, VGA

FEATURES	OS	Symbian^3 OS, upgradeable to Nokia Belle OS
	CPU	680 MHz ARM 11
	GPU	Broadcom BCM2727
	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, Adobe Flash Lite
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.1
	Colors	Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange
		- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite - Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player - MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV player - Voice command/dial - Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Video/photo editor - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D)
	Stand-by	Up to 432 h (2G) / Up to 480 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 9 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)

MISC	SAR US	0.93 W/kg (head)     1.23 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.56 W/kg (head)

Main disadvantages

• Symbian^3 is still behind Android and iOS usability standards
• Ovi store content is inferior to Android market and App Store
• Fixed-focus on an 8 megapixel camera is just wrong
• Camera interface is decidedly outdated
• Battery is not user-replaceable
• No microSD card slot

File manager can talk to thumb drives, card readers

The File manager on board the E7 is a capable app that can do anything you can think of with your files - moving, copying renaming, sorting or sending - you name it. You can also password-protect your memory card if you see fit. You can also search for a specific file or directory.

   
The file manager

With USB On-the-go enabled on the Nokia E7, you can also use the file manger to access USB flash drives and even other phones connected over the provided USB OTG cable. Of all the USB flash drives we tried to connect, the E7 only failed with only one.

We tried several card readers too – and they worked! We tried to dazzle with by putting two cards at once (a microSD card and a CF card) and it recognized them both without a hitch. Now that’s a huge improvement over what the N8 can do.

The situation with slaving phones is more of a hit or miss – Nokia phones (both S40 and S60) worked and we even managed to get the Samsung Galaxy S to connect (the Nokia’s own N8 failed here). Other Androids and an iPhone 4, however, couldn’t connect so while you can work with thumb drives reliably, you shouldn’t depend on connecting to phones.

The gallery saw no changes

As you might know the Symbian belle offers virtually the same image browsing software as its predecessors and honestly, it only qualifies as passable by modern standards. The Nokia E7’s gallery is the same as in the N8.

The sweep gestures and getting pinch-zooming are here, but still there is nothing eye-candy inside.

  
The E7 image gallery

The N8 lacks kinetic scrolling and panning and so is the E7. Almost six months later and Nokia is still on the same page. That’s definitely not in its favor.

On the positive side opting between portrait and landscape mode is automatic, thanks to the built-in accelerometer.

In addition to the familiar pinch gesture you can also zoom in by double taping, the volume slider or even the on-screen slider.

 
Zooming in on a single photo

Selection of multiple photos for deleting or sharing is available straight from the gallery. There are plenty of sharing options – you can send the image via MMS, email or Bluetooth or you can share it on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. To do the latter you should configure your social accounts first.

The final features of the image gallery include the image tagging system for easier image sorting, the slide show and the albums system (again helping you sort your image database).

Overall, picture browsing is relatively fast even with 12 MP pics, but zooming is somewhat slow. You need to wait for a second or two every time you start zooming in on a photo.

Standard Symbian music player

Symbian never had trouble with the music player features and but its looks were far from impressive. With Symbian^3 however Nokia introduces a new Cover Flow-like interface, which adds the much needed eye-candy.

  
The music player got a visual upgrade too • the Cover Flow-like interface

There’s automatic sorting by artist, album, genre and the option to create custom playlists straight on the phone. The music player supports a huge number of formats and it has an equalizer plus a stereo widening feature.

There are five equalizer presets, including Bass booster, but you can’t create your own.

   
The Now playing interface • Equalizer and stereo widening are available

Quite naturally, the player can also be minimized to play in background. In this case you can control it through the music player widget on the homescreen, which also displays the currently running track.           so on one go we can say e7 is a quite handy n cool set but it lacks some qualities which can disappoint customers