Nokia E71 in white or grey

Paul Miller from Engadget Mobile wrote on his Nokia E71 review that even though he is spoiled by the iPhone’s touch interface, there’s more power and customizability with the S60-powered Nokia E71. The music and video playback is challenged by the screen and interface though.

Boy Genius Report claimed on their Nokia E71 review that it is the sexiest damn phone they’ve seen in a long time and even go as far as saying it is the best phone Nokia has made to date.

Steve Litchfield from All About Symbian wrote a very detailed Nokia E71 review and even said that the E71 is the iPhone’s nemesis, “using almost the identical dimensions in a totally different way, for a totally different set of users.” While disappointed with the multimedia side of the Nokia E71, there’s a lot of other things to like about.

SMS Text News’ Nokia E71 review by Ben Smith explained fans will not be impressed with the email client and media functions such as video streaming on Qik. However, they like the design, size, battery life, and the quick GPS position locking.

My-Symbian writer Michal Jerz mentioned on his Nokia E71 review the high buld quality of the device, but not impressed with video recording. in the end, the E71′s elegant design and high quality results in a warm recommendation.

Dotsisx from Symbian-Guru was surprised with the pocketable size of the E71 on her Nokia E71 review. A disadvantages she found was the autofocus function by pressing the T key, but she felt that Nokia E61 users will move to the Nokia E71i.

Nokia E71 has following main features:

• Quad-band GSM support
• 3G with HSDPA 3.6Mbps support
• 2.36-inch 16M color display of QVGA resolution
• Comfortable full QWERTY keypad
• Convenient business-minded shortcut keys
• Symbian 9.2 OS, S60 UI with FP1 (topped with some FP2 goodies)
• 369 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
• Wi-Fi
• Built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS
• 3.2 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash
• 110 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion, ships with a 2GB card
• Slimmest smartphone to-date, slimmest Wi-Fi and/or GPS handset to-date
• Stainless steel casing
• Standard 2.5mm audio jack
• Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support
• microUSB v2.0
• FM radio
• Remote Wipe
• Provider-independent VoIP support
• Infrared port
• Great battery life
• Office document editor

THOUGHTS

I’ve been chatting with others about the Nokia E71 and surprised at how popular it is! I think it will sell relatively well in the India especially at the starting price point. The suggested retail price for the dealers is 13000INR, but expect to pay around 12000-12500INR