Expected Release
Nokia has decided to give surprise to the Users by launching Nokia E-61 in the First Quarter of year 2006. On the other hand, the Customers are ready to the new technology monster welcome abroad.
Expected Price
There is always a conflict between price and Performance. This time Nokia has neither comprised performance over price nor price over performance. Nokia E-61 is expected to be launched within price range of USD 420 to USD 540.
Design
Nokia E-61 has as shiny, stylish design with metallic color coating, which receives the attention automatically even when placed in a variety of handsets.
Battery Life
Nokia E-61 is equipped with standard Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-5L) battery and its performance is extra-ordinary as compared to other handsets.
The battery is used to give a performance of up to 7 hours (420 minutes) of GSM talk as compared to Black-Berry's battery that only gives 4 hours of GSM talk time , not only this the handset is active and alive for about 264 hours in GSM Standby mode.
Screen Display
Nokia targeting the market by providing a handset with a large Landscape screen having TFT LCD display with high resolution of 352 x 240 pixels and supports 16.7 million (24-bit) colors, just have a look on the word million again, this is not a fairy tale, it does actually supports this amount of colors. Although Nokia E-61 supports the same pixel resolution as Black-Berry, its rival, does but the main difference comes when one think of supported colors. Black-Berry is only capable of 65 K colors which is just a portion of the colors supported by Nokia E-61.
Not only this, the handset also beats Sony Ericsson W900 by a mile in supported colors. Sony Ericsson W900 supports 256 K colors which could not compete with Nokia E-61 in any way.
Landscape Screen
With the handset providing Landscape screen, the users can enjoy operating and browsing the handset with even more ease than in normal handsets. You don't even need to scroll down or up while reading emails or messages. Imagine the amusement you get while watching movie or song on a Landscape mode supported handset.
Keyboard
Unlike other handsets, Nokia E-61 has a full QWERTY Keyboard with backlight.
Two shift Keys available are also quite useful for users.
Scrolling
Nokia E-61 comes with large high screen resolution screen. With such large screen one forgets the need of scroll down or up because everything is visible and available to him with ease. Due to such a big screen, one is always comfortable in using the different applications and reading documents.
Size and Weight
No doubt Nokia E-61 is a light weight set with exceptional dimensions is expected to be the most wanted handset in near future. Nokia E-61 weighs only 5.08 oz (144g) with the dimensions of 117 x 70 x 14 mm (4.61"x2.74"x0.55").
Supported Networks
Nokia E-61 is Quad-Band GSM device that is capable to supports GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, and also WCDMA 2100.
Email Capabilities
Nokia E-61 is equipped with the advanced email capabilities to provide full time support to the business users. With the help of Nokia e-61 one can check out ones email on the way.
One does not need to go through the series of clicks in order to reach Inbox; user can reach his E-mail through simple access i.e. just pressing a single button specifically designed for this purpose.
With Nokia E-61, you can see more than three emails at a time, which is a unique feature and is enough to convince that Nokia team has spend quite a lot time in making this handset a legend.
Microsoft Office Support
This is not as simple as it looks like in other handsets, Nokia E-61 has the ability to support different and most commonly used document formats e.g. a business man can check out his email that contains wither Microsoft word, Microsoft Power point or Microsoft Excel attachments. Nokia E-61 does provide the support for different suites of Microsoft Offices e.g. Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003 as well.
Aip Manager
With Nokia E-61, one can download the zipped documents and have easy accessibility to those documents; this is possible only because Nokia E-61 includes a Zip Manager as well. So one can compress and decompress the documents and enjoy the optimal space utilization features of zipping the documents.
Adobe Compatibility
Nokia E-61 does contain the Adobe Acrobat Reader so the user can read the Adobe files using Nokia E-61. Not only this, by using the writing features of Adobe Acrobat, user can convert the documents in Acrobat format as well.
Memory
As like other handsets, Nokia E-61 also has a built-in memory. Currently Nokia E-61 is supposed to equipped with up to 75MB built-in flash shared memory, but it does provide support for extra memory and can cope miniSD card to enhance the memory requirements.
It includes 64 MB miniSD card.
Multi Tasking
Can you guess that why Microsoft Outlook is so popular, one important reason among other so many reasons is that one can compose mail and then send email to the Recipients while working offline and soon after when it finds the connection E-mail is sent to the Recipient. Isn't this a great feature? Guess What? Nokia E-61 is also equipped with the same functionality and one can compose the Emails while offline and as soon as the handset finds a connection it will be able to send the email otherwise the email will be saved in your outbox. Not only this, one can read his emails while working offline. Does any other handset supports this feature?
You can send and receive emails when you are in middle of a telephone call.
Data Network
This phone is Data-Capable i.e. can be used by other computers as an interface or more precisely as modem to the internet.
For Packet Data: It supports Class 10, 236.8 kbps EGPRS (EDGE) plus class 11 GPRS plus 384 kbps for WCDMA for Europe and Asia.
For Wireless internet: It supports WAP 2.0 / xHTML, TCP/IP for wireless internet.
Multiple Languages:
Nokia E-61 supports multiple languages. The phone is capable to display its menu and text in languages other than US English. So this feature enables Nokia to target the customers other than Native Englishs.
Alerts
Nokia E-61 enables the users to create and save different Ring Profiles. Later on the User can quickly activate them and assign them. Different Ringing options can be applied to incoming calls, incoming SMS, service status, alarm etc.
Nokia E-61 supports polyphonic Ringtones of 48 chords, Monophonic, MP3 and True Tones as well. It does have a vibrator which can be very useful some times.
Phone Router
Don't you think that connecting to WLAN and WCDMA, using Infrared, Bluetooth and USB, are the purposes of Router; your answer would of course be Yes. So we can nominate this small smart-phone "Nokia E-61" a "Phone Router". Just imagine that with these features available in a phone can you ever need any ad-hoc connection?
Phone Network
Besides enjoying WLAN features, If you are an employee of a company that has Avaya or Cisco IP PBX, Nokia E-61 having SIP based VOIP Client can easily plug into these corporate phone networks, pretending to be an office phone, accessing whole set of functionality like Four-digit in house dialing, call answering and making prefixed outgoing calls. Is not this a new addition in handsets? Just dare to say no with proof.
Voip Capabilities
Enjoy VOIP functionality from your Nokia E-61 smart-phone via WiFi over corporate WLAN. I think that this is the major need of a business user and Nokia has been able to reveal this at right time. Thanks to Nokia.
Operating System
Nokia E-61 is a Series 60 3rd Edition device runs over Symbian Operating System v9.1. So it does support the compatibility of most of the softwares.
Conference Calling
With Nokia E-61, one can be a part of Conference call. Conference call capability allows up to 6 participants to be in a call, including the initiator.
Speakerphone
A hands-free speaker phone is also present in Nokia E-61, so there is no need for the Nokia E-61 to be always with your ears for listening and speaking.
Messaging
Nokia E-61 is one of the handsets that provide proper email client that can connect directly to POP, IMAP, SMTP, ActiveSync, Blackberry, Good-Link, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile servers. All of these clients does support the attachments.
It supports MMS version 1.2. Not only this, the handset also supports SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) and can make a small multimedia movie by integrating different parts of MMS message.
One can also compose a text messaging template and save it in the handset. This template will be available for future use.
Communication
Nokia E-61 can connect to outer world with a variety of options e.g. Nokia E-61 enables to connect using USB 2.0 Pop-Port, Infrared, and Bluetooth version 1.2 as well with which 6 connections can be made simultaneously.
PC Synchronization
PC Sync available in Nokia E-61 allows the users to connect their handsets to PC and synchronize the phone with relevant computer application.
Camera
It does not have a Camera; this is the thing that most people were looking forward. Most of the organizations have a very secure working environment and they will never let their employees to get in the sensitive areas of office equipped themselves with cameras. So business persons can now enjoy free roaming in and outside office having Nokia E-61 with them with no threat to the security.
Multimedia
How is it possible that a handset that is going to be launched in 21st century doesn't have a Multimedia Player? Like other handsets Nokia E-61 is also equipped with multimedia player, so this handset supports a lot of media formats for user benefits. It has audio and video streaming capability along with Mp3/ACC player/MPEG4 player.
Ringtones Comparison
Nokia E-61 having Ringtones of 48 chords while Sony Ericsson w900 that supports Polyphonic tones of 72 channels
Video Streaming:
Nokia E-61 allows the user to see a real-time broadcast. There is no need to download the movie and by sacrificing the free space, one can use the "Streaming" feature of the handset that allows playing without downloading. With this feature, the user can also view a live broadcast. Isn't this a unique feature in its own?
For Streaming Nokia E-61 supports 3GPP and RealMedia protocols.
OMA DM:
How is it possible that a phone plugged in the corporate phone network can be out of the IT Managers eyes. OMA DA is the facility that enables the Administrators to control the handset's functionality and can have check and balance over the Company's data that where it is going.
Not only this, IT Managers are facilitated with the Over the Air Management, and they can easily control the set of functionality of Nokia E-61 like other telephones in the Phone Network. They can not only lock the phone from remote location but also can clean the data that is on the Nokia E-61 just because of becoming part of the corporate phone network and using the communication facilities.
Digital TTY/TDD:
Nokia E-61 has support for Digital TTY/TDD. This feature enables those who are deaf and hard of hearing to use a special TTY text device with digital service.
Without this feature, TTY devices are compatible only with analog service.
Additional Available Keys:
Call soft-key button on Left side and Hang-up button on Right side are well designed and easy to use.
One hand navigation is possible only through Nokia E-61.
Miscellaneous
One can save multiple numbers per name .
User can assign distinct Rings to different Users, so he can know who is calling even without looking at the number.
Speaker-Independent voice dialing is available in this handset. Although Speaker-dependent/ Recorded voice dialing is common to the handsets, but this is also a unique and new feature in this handset.