Detailed Review of Latest Nokia E5
The Nokia E5 furthers Nokia's tendency of designing smartphone devices not just for the business owner, but also for the more casual user or IT Professional as well. The phone has the handy treat of being able to switch between 2 different home screens (Personal/Business) that appeared for the first time with the Nokia E72. This Nokia E5 review will give you the details.
Nokia did a great job with the E5 chassis. The battery cover on the back is aluminum, and the rest is made of a hard plastic that is shiny, glossy, but surprisingly does not catch fingerprints.
The front area of the Nokia E5 is split between the 320x240 resolution display, and the full QWERTY keyboard. There are a few very useful shortcuts on the keyboard, like turning bluetooth on and off, a mute option, and a one-key flashlight function, with the help of the E5's LED flash.
Under the hood there are HSDPA, Wi-Fi as well as A-GPS, a 5-MP camera with powerful LED flash, and a lot of software, all running under Symbian S60 V3. Ovi Chat, Ovi Contacts come pre-installed with the device. This is also the case for Quickoffice, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Ovi Files and Ovi Sync.
Facebook integration is particularly well made, as you can match Facebook profiles to contacts from your SIM. You can also match other added contacts, with their specific Facebook pages.
One fantastic point of the Nokia E5 is its quality sound. Most popular file types can be handled (Mp3, WMA, eAAC+) and while sound fidelity is decent using regular headphones, you can grow quite a lot with a headphone upgrade.
The E5 battery - 1200 mAh sustains in excess of 12 hours talk time, and more than 38 hours music time while used for playing mp3's.
All in all the Nokia E5's full keyboard together with fantastic music fidelity is what makes the Nokia E5 an attractive choice, with some disadvantages of the device being few advanced features on the E5 camera, a smaller screen resolution, and the default web browser that freezes on occasion. We trust this Nokia E5 review helped you in making an informed purchase decision.