Nokia E65

Like the highly successful N series, Nokia's E family of handsets caters for high-end consumers and corporate customers and the Nokia E65 slider is typical, with several outstanding features. First is the display - the LCD is a 240 x 320 pixel TFT panel with support for up to 16.7 million colours. More

Like the highly successful N series, Nokia's E family of handsets caters for high-end consumers and corporate customers and the Nokia E65 slider is typical, with several outstanding features. First is the display - the LCD is a 240 x 320 pixel TFT panel with support for up to 16.7 million colours. To put this in perspective, that is the same colour depth as your PC or laptop monitor (also known as "true colour"). As a result the visual quality is tremendous. Pre-installed productivity applications include the QuickOffice suite for document viewing and editing, a PDF viewer, ZIP archive manager (compression and decompression supported), a converter, Bluetooth printing manager, world clock, note taker, calculator, and file system manager. A quadband phone, the E65 supports 2G GSM 850, 900, 1800, and 1900MHz, all with the GPRS and EDGE protocols for data connectivity, plus network support for high speed 3G connectivity up to 384kbp/s. It is Bluetooth and WLAN enabled. All applications that use a network connection can be forced to use an active WLAN connection in lieu of GPRS, EDGE, or WCDMA connections. An upgraded version of the Nokia 6288, the E65 is not the lightest at 115g, but neither is it bulky, measuring 105 x 49 x 15.5mm - over 5mm thinner than its predecessor. It offers a 2 megapixel camera, 50 MB internal memory and a MicroSD memory card slot. You can make and receive calls with the slider open or closed and, in an interesting feature, you can reject a call with an SMS message. This means that if you hit the hang-up button on an incoming call, an SMS will automatically be sent to that number with a pre-defined message of your choice. Messaging support is excellent: SMS, MMS, instant messaging and BlackBerry and Exchange push email support. T9 predictive text is included so messages can be tapped out in record time, and with the high speed 3G and WLAN connectivity, large e-mails are downloaded in seconds. Wi-Fi support is a standard feature on the E-series. You can get the phone to search for networks in the vicinity at regular intervals and report its findings on the main screen. Or you can manually search for networks by selecting an option on the screen. Once you've found a network and are connected, Voice over IP calls and Web browsing are a couple of button presses away. Battery life is rated at three to six hours of talk time as a conventional GSM phone and up to 11 days on standby. - 2 megapixel camera - 3G connectivity - Wi-fi, WAP and Bluetooth Less