Nokia E61 Review

Nokia E61 Review - There are four mobile phones in Nokia E series and the Nokia E61 has made the most stir amongst the users. It is the one which looks like the Black Berry. The phone has a matte gray finish with 2.8 inch landscape display, having a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, with user adjustable brightness and also an ambient light sensor which works well. Though the keyboard looks very large, lit by a pleasant white backlight, the advantage is that the key buttons are large enough for easier use compared to any other phone. A LED, sitting right on the top of the phone, acts as an email alert. You can set up the phone to check your emails at preset intervals.The Nokia E61 handset is large, measuring 117 x 69.7 x 14mm and weighing 144g, with most of its weight lying at the top. Then again it sits well in your hand. You might want a second lighter mobile phone when you are travelling. The phone has a hands-free speaker, which is quite loud and clear. It also has a large navigational array, with easily distinguishable buttons. Nokia E61 does not have a camera, but is able to receive video calls over 3G, though it is not a 3G phone.

As far as WAN is concerned, Nokia E61 is a quad-band handset, operating on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequency bands. It supports GPRS, EDGE, SMS, infrared, and has a range of applications, such as, Java MIDP 2.0, voice commands, a voice recorder, Loud Speaker. A spacious volume rocker is found on the left side of the phone.

The phone does not support Memory Stick Duo format or any other method of memory expansion, which restricts music file storage and updating of such files. The audio quality of the phone is crystal clear as also the signal reception and transmission. It has a removable 1500 mAh Li-ion battery, having 7 hours talk time or 260 hours standby, considered to be quite low looking at the battery’s theoretical capacity.

Nokia E61 has a web browser that traverses full-size web pages. It also has an office suite, which allows viewing, editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The handset comes with a very decent music player and a SIP based VoIP client. A hot-swap miniSD card slot, although inconveniently placed, comes in handy to store your music files along with the available 64MB internal memory.