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Nokia E52 Review , Specifications – Elegant Update to E51

Nokia recently updated its E51 candybar business phone with a new E52,  a S60 3.2.3 Edition running on the Symbian 9.3 OS core. The phone is loaded with all the top of line features of a business phone but with the numeric keyboard. It has a whopping 8 hour talktime, keeping in line with Nokia’s Business Phones of E Series. It has 3.2 Mega Pixel camera, A-GPS navigation (assisted GPS) , VOIP , Nokia mini Maps, Full internet Browser , Flash Lite and much more. Not to mention this is a 3G phone.

As usual first

The Looks and Coolness Factor

Not exactly a visual delight but its very rare to find a candybar phone without full keyboard in Business phones, and thats what E52 do. Nokia has E71 and E63 for Full Keyboard and Slider design in Business Class phones, and E52 is their Candybar/ Monoblock phone. One of main feautures of Nokia E51 was its stunning thin body and E52 has taken that to another level all together. You can call it one of the thinnest phones around even thinner than the original E51.

Nokia E52 Light Brown E Series Phone
Nokia E52 Golden Aluminium E Series Phone
Nokia E52 metallic silver
Nokia E52 metallic silver

We are comparing E52 with other phones of candy bar nature to give you a better picture how this feels. For example E52 is exactly half the thinckness of N73 which is 19 mm thick.

Dimensions  – Length (Height) x Width x Thickness (all in Millimetres mm)

Comparison of E51,E52,N73,N78 and E71 in terms of Dimensions and Thickness.

Nokia E51     –  114  x 46 x 12  mm

Nokia  E52 – 116 x 49 x 9.9 mm

Nokia   N78 –  113  x 49 x 15.1 mm

Nokia  E71   –  114 x 57 x10 mm

Nokia N73 –   110 x 49 x 19 mm

Definitely the E52 and E71 beat the competition in terms of the thin factor.

Weight  (g – grams): (comparison of E51 , E52 , N73 , N78 , E71 in terms of Weight)

E51 – 100

E52 – 98 g

N73- 116 g

N78- 101.8 g

E71 – 128 g

Nokia E52 is pretty light in terms of weight and it will be surely considered by ladies.

It is available in two colours  Metal Grey aluminium and Golden aluminium.

Features

The Nokia E52 boasts a 2.4″ TFT display at a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA).
Colours : 16 million colours
Automatic display orientation (landscape/portrait)

Operating frequency

  • Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900

Communication and Connectivity

  • GPRS class A, multislot class 32
  • EGSM class A, multislot class 32
  • WCDMA 900/2100 (Nokia E52-1)
  • WCDMA 850/2100 (Nokia E52-2)
  • HSDPA maximum speed: up to 10.2 Mbps
  • HSUPA maximum speed: up to 2 Mbps
  • WLAN 802.11 b/g
  • TCP/IP support
  • Capability to serve as data modem
  • Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, A2DP

Messaging and Email

  • SMS, MMS, IMAP4 , Nokia Messaging, Microsoft ActiveSync, POP3 and SMTP
Web browsing

  • Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS
  • Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP
  • TCP/IP support
  • Nokia MiniMap browser
  • Nokia Mobile Search (in-device and Internet)

GPS and navigation

  • A-GPS with compass
  • Nokia Maps application
Camera

  • 3.2 megapixel Full focus camera with LED flash
  • Up to 4x digital zoom
  • Video recording in MP4 and 3gpp format.

Ports and Connectors

  • Mini USB
  • Standard 3.5mm Audio Jack

Audio and Video Features

  • Music Player with Mp3,AAC,eAAC+ support.
  • 3gpp and MP4 video playback.
  • Divx ready.
  • Video Calling.
  • FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support.

Other Applications

  • Office Suite
  • PIM
  • Java
  • Flash Lite
  • Nokia Full HTML Browser with mini Map
  • S60 Edition 3.2.3
  • Symbian OS 9.3

Package Contents

  • Nokia Battery BP-4L (1500 mAh)
  • Nokia Charger AC-10
  • Nokia Charger Adapter CA-146C
  • Nokia Stereo headset HS-48
  • Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101) supports charging
  • Nokia 1 GB microSD card (MU-22) inside device
  • PCSuite (v 7.1) in microSD card
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Nokia 6600i Slider – Review, Pictures and Specifications

Nokia it seems is obsessed with the number 6600, afterall the original Nokia 6600 was its first ever successful Smart Phone. After the failure of its 6600 Slider now Nokia has launched a better upgrade 6600i Slider 3G with top of the line features. First the looks and Coolness factor

Nokia 6600i Looks and Design :

This phone adds the much needed ?? curvy looks to the Boxy slider design of Nokia high end phones. Imagine a N85 looking better wih curvy looks. It picks the design of the old Nokia 6600’s curvy looks.  The phone looks pretty neat and it will help everyone to compare this beauty with existing phones in terms of size and dimensions.

To compare Nokia 6600i ‘s looks and dimensions we took some other popular sliders of the current generation. The cool Nokia 7100 SuperNova, Nokia N85 , Nokia N95.

Galmarous and curvy Nokia 6600i laucnhed in 2009
Galmarous and curvy Nokia 6600i laucnhed in 2009
Nokia 6600i Black and Silver
Nokia 6600i Black and Silver

The dimensions are  Height (length)  x  Width x Thickness . Below are dimensions (thickness) comparison of Nokia 6600i,N85,Super Nova 7100,N95 8GB, Nokia 6300 and N96.

Nokia 6600i slider            –    93 mm  x 45 mm    x  14.2 mm

Nokia 7100 Super Nova –    98 mm x 48.4 mm x  15 mm

Nokia N85                            –    103 mm x 50 mm x 16 mm

Nokia N95 8Gb                  –     100 mm x 53 mm x 21 mm

Nokia N96                           –     103 mm x 55 mm x 18 mm

Nokia 6600 Slider           –

So the results are clear the new Nokia 6600i is definitely smaller in terms of dimensions compared to Super Nova 7100 by 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The  new Nokia 6600 is same in its thickness to Nokia Super Nova 7100. The phone is definitely thinner compared to the N95 and N85. The Nokia 6600 has the same dimensions as that of new Nokia 6600i.

In terms of the weight  .Below are weight comparison of Nokia 6600i,N85,Super Nova 7100,N95 8GB, Nokia 6300 and N96.

Nokia 6300 (Bar)                  –   91 g

Nokia 6600i                          –    110 g

Nokia Super Nova 7100 –      103 g

Nokia N85                             –      128 g

Nokia N95 8GB                   –       129 g

Nokia N96                           –        125 g

The new 6600i is little heavier than the Super Nova 7100 but lighter than the NSeries phones. We also compared it with Nokia 6300 one of the lightest and thinnest phones, the Nokia 6600i is almost 20 grams heavier.

Feautures :

Nokia 6600i is a 3G ,   S40 series phone with top of line features like 5MP camera and 2.2 TFT screen.

Screen resolution – 320 x 240

Colours  – 16.7 Million

This is a standard resolution for almost all the above mentioned phones. But the colours does make a huge difference in Nokia 6600i. It has 16.7 Million colours bringing 6600i to the level of other N series phones like N96 and N95.  Compared to this the Super Nova has only 65,000  colours.

Talk Time  – 4 hours (240 minutes)

Standby  –  350 hours

When the colours increase the battery life reduces, the talktime of Nokia 6600i is half that of Super Nova 7100 and equal to other N series phones.

Internal Memory – 20MB

External memory – micro SD upto 8GB

Symbian Platform – S40

Operating Frequency – GSM 800 / GSM 950 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900

WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 2100  (GSM ,  3G, UMTS )

Camera :

Pixels of 5 MP  at 2592 x 1944 Image resolution comparable with N95.

Digital zoom upto 8x and Dual LED Flash, Image stabilizer , has 30 fps video recording in QVGA format.

Messaging and Communications :

SMS , MMS , Email (settings for Gmail,Yahoo and MSN ) , Pop , SMTP and Video Calling.

Internet :

WAP , xHTML  browser with Flash support. The broswer has java plugin and much more. The protocols used are HTTP, WAP and XML.

Music and Video (Media):

Video player supports 3gpp and Real Media content.

Music Player – AAC , MP3 , Real Audio , MPs, AAC+ and  eAAC+

FM Radio.

Connectivity :

Bluetooth 2.0 , wireless LAN , GPRS , EDGE and  3G  (depends on country)

Package Contents :

  • Nokia 6600i slide
  • Nokia Battery BL-4U
  • Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101D
  • Nokia Stereo Headset WH-203
  • Nokia High Efficiency Charger AC-8
  • Nokia microSD Memory Card MU-22
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    Stupid (real) ways to get fired during recession (in Infosys and TCS)

    These two are real incidents and one from Infosys and another from TCS.

    1. Create color xerox copies of your bus passes and use company’s bus service for free 

    Yes some of the freshers in Infosys tried this and sadly had a sad ending to their career. News is that infosys doubled its bus pass rates and pushed these thrifty freshers into such a genuine idea.

    2. Try to hack your CEO’s account

    This time its TCS, two Mumbai smarties who somehow found their CEO Ramadurai Employee Id and tried to log in to his ultimatix account (TCS all in all web application). Maybe they were thinking Ramadurai keeps a simple password or default password ??? . They tried it three times and his account was locked.  It appears that Ramadurai’s secretary wasnt too happy and he/she ordered a probe and the culprits were found within a day and asked to resign meekly. Good thing is that since TCS asked them to resign, nothing will be mentioned in their conduct certificates.  Hope these unlucky chaps try their luck in next year’s black hat meet.

    Ok now dont give me a third reason which goes like “Writing a blog like this about your own company”.

    Since I had joined a new company recently after quitting TCS, I couldnt collect much inside information about TCS. Anyway some of my friends and blog followers contributed the above incidents. Keep mailing me something happening around these IT firms and let me update it for you.