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Nokia E5 Review, Specifications and Comparison

E5 of Nokia is a QWERTY phone with High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 10.2 Mbps max and High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 2 Mbps max 3G network and Tri-Band WCDMA. The phone weighs 126 g, dimensions are 115 * 58.9 * 12.8 mm, 2.36 inches in size, TFT screen with 256,000 colors and 320 * 240 pixels resolution (QVGA). Its Operating System is Symbian OS v9.3 and ARM 11 600 Mhz processor.

The battery is 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery with a talk-time power of 6 h, standby power of 670 h and stereo music player playback time of 38 h. It has music player for MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WMA, Real Media Player, Ovi Music, Internet Radio, Stereo FM Radio, speakerphone with 3.5 mm audio jack. While looking at other features like camera the phone has 5MP, full focus, LED flash, can zoom up to 3x digital, image editor, can take video in VGA at the rate of 15 frames per second with mp4 video file formating, recording file formats like mp4 and 3gp.

On viewing its memory storage capacity it has 250 MB internal memory, 256 MB RAM, and external memory microSD memory card slot with 2GB card extendable till 32 GB. Its other features include wireless LAN Wi-Fi of IEEE 802.11 b/g, Stereo Bluetooth v2.0 with (A2DP – Advanced Audio Distribution Profile – used for streaming high quality audio from one device to another using bluetooh connection, AVRCP – Audio/Video Remote Control Profile – a single remote control to control all audio/video equipments to which it has access), Local and remote synchronization, GPS, GPRS, EDGE, Messaging through SMS, MMS, Push, Email, and IM, Audio messaging, Games, Flash Lite 3.0, business phone features like Quick office suite, Adobe PDF Reader, ZIP, Intranet, Device Encryption and etc., the phone comes in five different colors such as carbon black, copper brown, silver grey, chalk white and sky blue.

Nokia E5 Specifications and Comparison :

Dimensions : Nokia E5 – 115 * 58.9 * 12.8 mm, 2.36 inches in size, TFT screen with 256,000 colors and 320 * 240 pixels resolution (QVGA)

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – dimensions are 114 * 58 * 10 mm, 2.36 inches, TFT screen, 16 M colors, 320 * 240 pixels resolution
  • Nokia E63 – dimensions are 113 * 59 * 13 mm, 2.36 inches, TFT screen, 16 M colors, 320 * 240 pixels resolution

Weight : Nokia E5 – 126 g

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – 128 g
  • Nokia E63 – 126 g

QWERTY keypad

OS : Symbian OS v9.3 and ARM 11 600 Mhz processor

Memory : Nokia E5 – 250 MB internal memory, 256 MB RAM, and external memory microSD memory card slot with 2GB card extendable till 32 GB

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – 250 MB, 128 MB RAM, micro SD memory extendable to 16 GB
  • Nokia E63 – 120 MB, micro SD memory extendable to 16 GB

3G : Nokia E5 – High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 10.2 Mbps max and High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 2 Mbps max

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – High Speed Downlink Packet Access of 10.2 Mbps max and High Speed Uplink Packet Access of 2 Mbps max
  • Nokia E63 – 384 Kbps

Tri-Band WCDMA

Battery : Nokia E5 – 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery with a talk-time power of 6 h, standby power of 670 h and stereo music player playback time of 38 h

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery with standby power of 576 h, talk-time power of 6 h
  • Nokia E63 – 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery with standby power of 480 h, talk-time power of 5 h

Camera : Nokia E5 – 5MP, full focus, LED flash, can zoom up to 3x digital, image editor, can take video in VGA at the rate of 15 frames per second with mp4 video file formating, recording file formats like mp4 and 3gp

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – 5 MP, LED flash, auto focus
  • Nokia E63 – 2 MP, LED flash

Music player for MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, and WMA, Real Media Player, Ovi Music

Internet Radio, Stereo FM Radio

Speakerphone with 3.5 mm audio jack

Wi-Fi  – IEEE 802.11 b/g

Stereo Bluetooth v2.0 (A2DP, AVRCP)

Local and remote synchronization

GPS

GPRS

EDGE

Messaging through SMS, MMS, Push, Email, and IM, Audio messaging

Games

Flash Lite 3.0

Business phone features like Quick office suite, Adobe PDF Reader, ZIP, Intranet, Device Encryption and etc.,

Colors : carbon black, copper brown, silver grey, chalk white and sky blue

Price : Nokia E5 – currently the phone is available for $ 169.00 in Amazon and Rs 9904 in India

comparison :

  • Nokia E72 – currently the phone is available for $ 249.00 in Amazon and Rs 16,250 in India
  • Nokia E63 – currently the phone is available for $ 176.99 in Amazon and Rs 7740 in India

Therefore the mobile seems to be a best deal while considering its price and its features with 3G network

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Windows Mobile 7 creating waves in the mobile community

Im not sure whats with Microsoft, It  could be the luck with version number 7 or Steve Ballmer suddenly found some secret Vault, all their recent products are getting positive reviews even from hardcore critics of Microsoft. After the success of Zune mediaplayer and Windows 7 now its the turn of Microsoft’s Mobile division to show off Windows Mobile 7 a completely rewritten code base and clutter free touch driven interface definitely promises something totally new.

Based on the limited look at the new OS through Developer Build Simulation and some videos, the Windows Mobile OS 7 looks to be driven by simplicity and a typical touch screen based Tiles interface from the Homescreen. No shadows, no unnecessary eye candy and only the intuitive access oriented design, afterall anything else is more annoying than anything. Microsoft has taken the best features from its Zune Media player and embedded in the new Mobile OS. All the applications appear to be completely redesigned (re written ?)  to fit the new OS.

Also Microsoft is going to set Minimum hardware requirements for the Mobile manufacturers so that any device running the WinMo 7 will be as zippy as the devices running competing platforms, If WinMo can make a impact as it appears it would, you can definitely expect a price war benefitting the consumer.

Apple had the advantage of writing iphone’s code from the scratch but the likes of Microsoft and Nokia, included  the touch functionality as an extra feature and it involved tweaking their original smartphone design which wasnt as flexible as the Iphone OS. But with Maemo Nokia is catching up and with Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft is expected to do the same.

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Symbian Series 60 v3 what is it? how is it different from UIQ ?

Symbian is a OS for mobile devices.Well everybody knows that, then what is this series 60 v2 and v3 and then they call feature pack.What exactly are these?.To know what they are we need to have a look at a bit of history.

Symbian Ltd is the original owner of Symbian OS , Symbian is currently owned by Nokia (47.9%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%), Siemens AG (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).

That time the UI was of different variants, It was fragmented between Nokia and Sony ericsson. Development of different UIs was made generic with a “reference design strategy” for either ‘smartphone’ or ‘communicator’ devices, subdivided further into keyboard- or tablet-based designs. Two reference UIs (DFRDs) were shipped – Quartz and Crystal. The former was merged with Ericsson’s ‘Ronneby’ design and became the basis for the UIQ interface, the latter reached the market as the Nokia Series 80 UI.

Later UIs were Sapphire,Ruby and Emerald. But in end it was Crystal for Nokia and Quartz for Sony Ericsson. By 2002 Symbian stopped development of UI and started giving its OS without UI. The UI development was taken by Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Whereas the Core OS is same for both companies UI’s differ. Nokia went on its development of Series 60 whereas Sony Ericsson came out with UIQ. Till this day this is the norm with both these companies, and even others like Motorola use either one of these UI’s.

Current major version of Symbian core is 9.1 and Nokia’s s60 v3 uses this version.Sony ericsson devices M600 and W950 uses this core. The Symbian 9.1 was a major upgrade from symbian 8.0 with more security and other features.

There have been three releases of Nokia S60: “Series 60” (2001), “Series 60 Second Edition” (2004) and “Series 60 3rd Edition” (2005). The third version is not compatible with earlier two versions and is based on Symbian 9.1.

2nd edition phones were the popular Nokia 3230,Nokia 6085,N70,N90,N72.

3rd edition phones include N73,N93,N95(with feature pack),E61i.

Nokia is planning to bring out the Series 60 v5 (they are skipping on v4 as 4  denotes death in Asia.. Im also from Asia but never knew this) in 2008, with support for touch screen much like iphone. But the only touch screen phone available currently from Nokia is 6708, it uses UIQ(sonyericsson’s) .

Nokia also has S40, the main differentiating factor being the S40 is not multitasking. You cant open more than a single application. Nokia 5300 is latest addition in S40.

S80 is the communicator series with Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500. S90 being the N7700 or the new N770. S90,S80 and S40 are not compatible with S60.

S60 is also licensed and used by Samsung,LG,Lenova and Panasonic.UIQ is used by Motorola and others. Symbian covers almost 60+% of Smartphone market with Windows Mobile at 15% and Windows CE and RIM devices at 10%.