When the Nokia E7 was announced way back in September 2010, I was quite excited to check the thing out. A 4 Inch touchscreen on a Nokia, with the new ClearBlack Display, in the very successful N97 Slide-and-tilt Formfactor to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, the E7 seemed like an instant hit at the time.
But fast foward all the way to today, March 2011 when we finally have our hands on the phone, which still hasnt come to a couple parts of the world yet (including here in India) coupled with the recent Nokia Windows Phone Announcement, the scene is definitely very much different for the E7, then it was back when the phone was announced. Yet the Nokia E7 seems determined to show you that Eseries means Business. Read on for the review.
Incase you havent heard of the E7-00 before, it features specs such as:
You can read the entire specs on the Nokia E7 Product Page.
Now all that being said, there are a few disadvantages, unfortunately. Like:
Because of the aforementioned Nokia-Windows Phone Announcement, the Finnish Giant has reiterated that they are committed to Symbian for the short term. But that doesnt really mean much to developers, or consumers who might stop seeing updates, bug fixes or apps for Symbian as they OS gets scrapped. That being said, if the E7 is as big as a success as the N8 was, that might buy Symbian another year or two of life.
The Retail Package:
The Nokia E7 comes with the usual retail box contents that you’d expect. There’s the Mini-HDMI Connector, and micro-USB connector cables in the box, in addition to the charger, quckstart guide, microUSB-to-USB connector cable and Headset.
Because the E7 doesnt have a microSD port, there is none in the retail package, and since the E7′s battery is not removable/replaceable the battery is in the sealed unit itself. More details of the retail package contents in our Nokia E7 Unboxing post.
The Design and Construction:
The Nokia E7 is quite wide compared to most other Nokia Touch devices in the past. One might even say it’s a little ‘big‘. Design wise it’s more like a big Nokia N8, giving up the camera for a larger, better display and a hardware Qwerty Slide-out Keyboard.
The E7 measures 123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm and weighs 176 grams. It’s supposed to be a sequel to Nokia’s communicator range of devices, so by that standard it’s actually quite portable.
While the device is big as in wide, it’s really slim from the side, in terms of breadth, which means it is very pocket-able. We were quite amazed by how they managed to fit a full hardware QWERTY keyboard in there.
All together the build quality is solid, like a tank, thanks to that Anodized Aluminum Unibody shell around it. Probably the best in the business. And to add to that the E7 has a Gorilla Glass Display, which is pretty scratch resistant. This phone could definitely survive a beating. Excellent build quality.
Moving on, the 4 Inch Display takes up most of the space on the front of the device, with a earpiece located centrally above it, and a front facing VGA camera on the right of it.
On the left side are the Ambient Light and Proximity Sensors. The Ambient light sensor controls your screen and key backlight brightness according to what would be needed depending on the amount of light around you. The Proximity Sensor shuts off the touchscreen as you place the phone near your ear during calls. Just so your ear doesnt make any calls of it’s own. It’s all quite well hidden, so you might not even notice it at first glance.
Underneath the display is the centered menu key, all alone, like the Nokia N8. No calling keys unfortch, which is something we really liked on the C7.
At the top of the phone, you have a power key (which can change profiles on short press), a MicroHDMI port under a plastic cover, a microUSB port (which doesnt have a cover unfortch), and a standard 3.5mm Audio Jack. Next to the MicroUSB port is a tiny LED charging indicator light, to let you know when the phone is charging. Since the E7 doesnt support Nokia’s old thin-pin chargers, you’ll have to charge via microUSB only.
The microHDMI port when combined with the bundled microHDMI-to-HDMI connector allows you to project 720p High Definition to an HDMI TV. Since there’s DivX and Xvid support out of the box, when combined with the Nokia Big Screen App, the E7 can actually rival a standard home media entertainment system. Definitely one of its most impressive features.
On the left side of the phone, you have the sliding screenlock switch, which has indentations etched on so its easy to get a grip and use.
On the right side though, is another sliding key, this one to increase or decrease volume. Unlike the screenlock key, this one’s a bit too small and quite uncomfortable to use.
Next to it, is the dedicated camera key (one step, because there’s no autofocus), and the SIM card slot.
The bottom of the E7 is minimal, with no ports at all.
On the back of the E7, is the 8 Megapixel EDoF ‘Full Focus’ Camera with a Dual LED Flash. Since it’s supposed to be an ‘Eseries’ device, Nokia decided to dump the gorgeous 12 Megapixel Carl Zeiss and Xenon Flash of the N8, and go with this one. Sigh.
But it is understandable, as the E7 is targeted towards just Business users. Still, you know how we are about Cameras on phones, and Xenon vs LED flashes. Maybe someday we’ll see a Nokia N8 slider with a hardware Qwerty keyboard, eh?
Also on the back, is the single loudspeaker, and a second microphone that’s used for Active Noise Cancellation. It’s also used, along with the front mic, for Stereo Sound recording in video recording.
The Battery Life:
Underneath the back, but not removable, is the same 1200 mAh BL-4D battery that powers the N8. Since it has a bigger screen, the E7 doesnt last as long as the N8 does. On moderate usage we managed to get a day and a half’s usage out of it.
Heavy usage would run it down in a day. Still it’s not too bad at all, and looks like Symbian’s power management is really working. The battery isnt user-replaceable, so you might want to carry a portable charger if you want it to go longer.
The ClearBlack Display:
The E7-00 has a 4 Inch ClearBlack AMOLED Display at nHD Resolution. The Bezel surrounding it is a little wide, but the screen is super impressive, and is quite an upgrade over the 3.5 Inch screen on the N8.
The ClearBlack screen itself is supposed to provide a superior contrast, better viewing angles and better legibility in direct sunlight because of an added layer that acts as a polarizing filter. The Deep Blacks are gorgeous and makes a bit of a difference on the already-crisp AMOLED Nokia Screens that we saw on the N8, and C7. We would even go so far as to say that the CBD is on par, if not better than the Super AMOLED Displays from Samsung, in terms of true deep blacks.
Ofcourse its also worth mentioning that the display touch sensitivity is pretty good, as you’d expect from a Capacitive touchscreen, but not quite as good as the Galaxy S or iPhone 4 screen in that aspect. Some might find the E7′s screen better, some might not, it all comes down to the user. The Nokia’s usually have the advantage of Haptic feedback to their screens which is supposed to make you ‘feel’ like you’ve actually touched a physical button. On the E7 it feels like the vibration of the haptic feedback is localized to the area that your finger is touching the screen at, which means the vibration is always coming from right under your finger.
Overall, the Clearblack display is a huge step forward for Nokia’s screen, and puts image quality on par with the competition. Here’s a couple image comparisons of the Nokia E7 ClearBlack Display (Bottom) vs Nokia N8 AMOLED Screen (Top).
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The Form Factor:
The slider on the E7 is basically the same as the one on the N97, and the slider has a huge hinge on the back that allows it to open and prop itself up at a tilt for comfortable viewing and usage.
It takes a bit of effort to push it open the first couple times, but its not too big of a task. But just like in the N97, you have that feeling that you’re going to catapult open the phone with your thumb. You see, you don’t exactly ‘slide’ the phone open, you sorta push the side of the screen down, and the other side of the screen lifts up, with the spring assisted hinge going the rest of the work.
The hinge itself is solid, and constructed in such a way that it cant really get ‘loose‘ as such over time.
You can also set the slider to lock the screen when closed, or go back to the homescreen. Or you can choose to automatically open an app when slid open.
All this in a package that is almost as slim as the Nokia N8. Amazing.
The Keyboard:
The keyboard on the E7 is probably the most comfortable QWERTY keyboard we’ve ever used on a Mobile phone. For one thing, there’s four rows of well spaced keys.
The key backlighting is also quite impressive, with no light leakage anywhere. Just as you’d expect from an Eseries device.
Feedback to each key is quite good, but a little short compared to what we’re normally used to.
But that being said, we still maintain that it’s probably the most comfortable one we’ve used.
The Symbian^3 Operating System and User Interface:
Symbian^3 as you might already know, is a cleaned up, polished version of the Symbian OS, evolved from Symbian^1 (or S60V5 as it used to be known). The main problem in our eyes with Symbian^3, is with the virtual touch keyboard for text input, but since the E7 has a physical keyboard, it’s not a problem at all.
You have three homescreens that you can fill up with Widgets and shortcuts.
And you can rearrange widgets on the screen.
Unfortunately you cant take a widget from one screen and drag it to the next, not yet atleast.
There’s a software update coming soon that should make things a lot more ‘pretty‘, and should fix a couple small niggles. Like for example, the homescreen panes scroll only after you have completed a swiping action across the screen. But there’s also the 3 dot symbol at the bottom of the screen, that you can tap to scroll through the homescreens.
The main menu is still arranged by folders and icons in a Grid pattern, and you can rearrange things as you’d want.
There’s also a ‘view as list‘ option but we wouldnt recommend that.
As always, Symbian can multitask with quite a load of apps running in the backgground. You can press and hold on the menu button to bring up the multitasking task manager, which shows you live thumbnails of the apps you are currently running. You can only see three apps on the screen at at time, but you can scroll through to get to the one you want. You can also tap the ‘X’ mark against each app, to close it right from the task manager.
All in all the E7 is quite snappy, with a couple moments of lag when running very heavy apps, or if there are too many apps opened and running in the background. There’s 256 MB of RAM which is a lot of the Symbian OS. The same amount would not really be able to do anything on the Android OS, for example, but it seems to work quite well for S^3.
There’s animations in all menus, like fade-in and fade-out, along with icons having a ‘pressed‘ animation when touched. Lots of eye candy, compared to previous versions of Symbian. Not the prettiest Touch UI out there, but its deffo better than previous Symbian devices
The Phonebook and Contact Management:
Symbian has always had a very functional phonebook app, which has almost unlimited contact capacity, plenty of contact info fields, and can be synced with an exchange account too.
Your contacts are displayed by either First Name, Last name or vice versa, and you can choose to show contacts from the SIM card, or phone memory, or both.
Contacts are displayed under two tabs, with the first one giving you a summary of that contact’s information, and their primary phone numbers, or which group you’ve placed them under (if any), among other information.
Tapping on the second tab, lists all the contacts information in detail, sorted by the type of information.
You can edit contacts to change or add new information, or delete info.
You can also assign personal ringtones or video tones to individual contacts, or a group of contacts.
Yup, there’s group support too.
Just like S60V5 before it, finding a contact is as easy as typing out the contact name. If you’re using the virtual keyboard, the full alphabet list appears, and then unneeded letters disappear as you type (Example, the alphabet ‘Z’ would be hidden if no contact names begin with a ‘Z’ and so on).
You can also select a couple ‘favorite‘ contacts that appear at the top of the list and should save you a bit of scrolling.
Your favorite contacts can also be added to the homescreen for easier access, using the respective widget.
There’s also smart dialing from the main screen, so you can just type out a contacts name, and select it from the list that pops up, to make a call.
There’s also a certain amount of Social Network integration with Facebook and Twitter but we found that the free Socially App for Symbian does a much better job, and is probably worth the download over the default Nokia Social App.
Making Phone Calls:
For a business phone, making and receiving phone calls is important. You need great reception, and cant afford too many dropped calls. Not a problem with the E7, as we never had any dropped calls, even when the signal strength was low at just one bar. Audio was always loud and clear, and the noise canceling helps the person on the other side of the call hear you clearly.
Bluetooth headsets also work great with the E7, with A2DP stereo support, and voice dialing features as well.
Another thing to note, is that if you’re on a call and want to switch to the loudspeaker, you can just slide the keyboard out and it will switch automatically. Ofcourse, you can also switch to the loudspeaker by just tapping the icon while in a call.
There’s also smart features like being able to mute an incoming call by just flipping the phone over, screen face down.
Text Messaging:
Eseries devices have always focused on Messaging too, and thanks to the hardware QWERTY keyboard, the E7 can handle all your messaging needs very well.
Incoming messages (SMS or MMS) go to a new Conversations view, with threaded messages. Or you can view them in the old format, in the common inbox.
Otherwise its pretty much the same message editor, capable of handling all kinds of messages, from SMS or MMS, or Audio Messages, with a character count so you know how many words per sms you’ve typed out.
If you insert media into the message while typing it out, the SMS gets automatically converted to an MMS, where the character count changes into a data counter so you know how much kb the MMS is.
So yes, basically the same Messaging app we’ve known and used before.
Emails:
Another important aspect of Business, is emails. The Mail Client on the E7 is able to setup everything from Gmail or Hotmail mailboxes just fine. Getting things like an Exchange ActiveSync server to sync does need a bit of manual settings entered in though, but in most cases all you need is a username and a password and you’ll be on your way.
You can have multiple email accounts, but there is no combined mailbox view unfortch. You can organise your emails by date, sender, subject, priorty, attachments, etc. And ofcourse, you can search in a mailbox too.
If you prefer to save bandwidth, you can choose to download headers only for an email, or just choose to download the entire email. You can set the app to check for new email at a set interval, or always on, or even at a peak time only, if you prefer. There is still HTML support within emails too.
Push email worked fine for us, though there were a couple niggles. Nokia Messaging has been acting up here in India so it might just be us.
USB OTG (On the Go):
The E7 allows for USB On-The-Go using the included in-box adaptor cable. You can plug in almost any usb flash drive, usb card readers, usb mice or other usb accessories and it would work fine. We even managed to use the N8 to charge another phone over usb.
For USB Drives, you can browse through the contents of the drive with the standard Symbian File Browser. The Symbian file browser supports all the basic features such as cut, copying, pasting, renaming, sorting or sending by bluetooth, etc.
The Gallery:
Symbian^3 has basically the same image viewer as the newer Symbian^1 devices.
The E7′s gallery is basically the same as the one on the N8, arranged in a grid by thumbnails, with pinch-to-zoom and swipe to go between images.
Zooming in is smooth enough, but it might take a second.
You can also zoom in by double tapping on a point on the image, or using the volume keys on the phone. The E7 will also switch between portrait and landscape using the built-in accelerometer, and has slideshow modes available, as always, in addition to sorting images by albums and tags.
When it comes to sharing images, you can send them via Bluetooth, MMS, Email or via a Social Network like Facebook or Twitter, but the latter converts them to quite a low resolution (atleast on the current Nokia Social v1.2) which wasnt too acceptable for us, personally.
The Music Player:
Symbian never really had a problem with the features of its Music Player, and that’s the same case here.
The Symbian^3 Music Player UI is also quite nice, with a new Cover-flow-like interface in landscape, and in portrait too in some areas.
As always, there’s sorting by Songs, Albums, Artists, Genre and Playlists.
You can create custom playlists right on the phone, or import a standard .M3U Playlist.
There’s support for a variety of formats like MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA and an equalizer with stereo widening.
Unfortunately you cannot create your own custom equalizer anymore, but there are five others available, including bass boost.
And ofcourse, Symbian still supports Multitasking just fine, so you can play music in the background and control it from the Homescreen Music Player widget.
Audio Quality on the E7 was pretty good, we’d even say N8 quality audio output, which is quite good for an Eseries device.
The Loudspeaker is louder than the one on the N8, but it also found on the back of the phone, albeit oriented a bit more towards the left which means it doesnt get as muffled when placed on a flat surface.
The FM Radio:
The E7 features an FM Radio but sadly does not have an FM Transmitter, which was a bit disappointing. The FM Radio though supports RDS if your favourite FM stations have that feature.
The Video Player:
Symbian^3′s video player is quite capable and supports subtitles too now (via an App Update which hasnt come to the E7 yet for some weird reason). There’s DivX and XviD support too right out of the box, which means the E7 is quite capable in this regard.
To add to that, it can play back 720p high def video too, smoothly which was pretty impressive. Connect the HDMI port to a High Def TV and this gets even more impressive.
Video plays in fullscreen automatically, and a tap on the screen brings up media controls which auto hide after a couple seconds.
The large AMOLED ClearBlack Display screen on the E7 is brilliant for watching videos on too, which means the E7 is actually a pretty rockin’ media device.
But there are somethings that prevent it from being a perfect experience. For one thing you cant playback any video that’s larger than 2GB for some weird reason, and in some cases it might refuse to play standard Xvid/DivX or MKV files (but it isnt too common). This does mean you wont be able to playback any full length 720p HD movies though. Which is a same since we managed to get about 6 hours of video playback out of the E7.
The Camera:
The Nokia E7-00 comes with an 8 Megapixel EDoF Full Focus Camera, which shoots at a maximum resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. There’s a Dual LED Flash too, for what its worth.
The Camera UI is the usual Symbian deal, with three shortcuts available on the viewfinder, allowing you to toggle between video camcorder mode and back, set the flash on or off, and get to the rest of the camera features and settings.
Changing things like White Balance or ISO settings can get a bit tedious, going into sub menus and such, but its not too bad. There’s also color tones, scene modes, exposure, contrast and sharpness setting available. Unfortunately your settings still get reset whenever you leave the camera app, so you’ll have to remember to re-edit them when needed.
There’s Face detection also available though, and Geo-Tagging of images.
Coming to the camera specifically, we were quite disappointed in the non-autofocus lens on the E7, which might as well have been fixed-focus in our eyes. Images were very rarely in focus, and seemed to be a bit over-sharpened in some cases. Anything closer than 50 cm will be completely out of focus. Coming from an N8, that’s quite disappointing.
Color reproduction too was touch-and-go with it either being absolutely right, or wrong. Basically the E7′s camera should be decent for casual users who arnt too bothered about having a camera on their phone.
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Video recording though is the E7′s saving grace, managing to shoot 720p high def MP4 video with Image stabilization.
Video results had a good amount of detail, with good colors, and low noise at 25 fps. HD Video takes quite a bit of space though (a 10 second video could take about 15-20 MB), so you’ll want to be careful with that.
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Connectivity:
The E7 supports all kinds of network connectivity options, like Quad Band GPRS, EDGE, 3G (850/900/1700/1900/2100 Mhz), HSPA (HSDPA/HSUPA).
There’s also Bluetooth 3.0 (with Stereo A2DP), Wifi, USB V2.0, mini-HDMI.
Web Browsing :
Unfortunately the Symbian^3 Web Browser is still lagging behind competitors, desperately needed an overhaul.
It’s not completely hopeless though, but it can be a bit of a pain to use since the UI really does need a bit of polishing.
There’s Multi-touch pinch to zoom, with Flash support.
There’s no tab support unless you open a pop-up link. But you cant manually open up a new ‘tab’ as such.
Page rendering is decent enough, with auto-fill of forms, password manager, find-on-page, pop-up blocker and visual history.
Also worth noting is that the hardware QWERTY makes the whole experience a lot better, especially when it comes to text input.
And as we mentioned earlier, there is Flash support (Flash Lite v4.0) which means you can play back 240p videos but Flash games dont work too well and there’s no HTML5 support. That all being said, because of the huge 4 Inch screen, web browsing is actually quite do-able on the E7.
Office and Productivity:
Being an Eseries device, the E7 has an Office Document Editor onboard, with Quickoffice pre-installed.
The Quickoffice app is quite feature rich, with a ton of features and support for all office file formats (Word, Powerpoint, Excel). Again, the UI does need a bit of polishing, but its deffo functional.
Editing Office documents on Mobile has never been a ‘fun’ experience for me personally, but the app does have Pinch-to-Zoom and a couple formatting and editing options to try and make the whole experience somewhat better.
There’s also Adobe PDF Viewer preinstalled so that you can view (but not edit) PDF files.
There’s also a ZIP manager onboard, and the F-Secure antivirus app.
Along with this is a dictionary, voice memo recorder, and a notes app.
Very strangely, the convertor app which has almost always been on Symbian phones, is now gone missing.
The Calendar on the E7 is quite good with four different view modes available (like month, week, daily or to-do views) and multiple calendar support.
You can set up Meetings, Anniversaries, and To-Do appointments, each having their own field and alarm reminder features.
The Calculator app is still basically the same as other versions of Symbian, not much new here.
And ofcourse, there’s the alarm app which allows you to create as many alarms as you’d want, with repeat options for daily, weekly or weekday/weekend reminders. A fun feature (we thought) was that you can simply just flip the phone over to snooze an alarm.
Apps and the Ovi Store:
Symbian’s in a bit of a pickle since the Microsoft-Nokia Windows Phone deal. Symbian developers werent too happy about the partnership, which would see Symbian being played down as the primary Nokia Smartphone OS, and in turn just might mean that developers will stop coding for the OS, and as a result, it would be unable to catch up with iOS and Android in terms of Quality Apps on the store.
So if you’re considering getting the E7, that’s going to have to be a significant thought process that you’ll have to decide upon. There’s quite a ton of apps on the Ovi Store, and with games like Fruit Ninja making an appearance, it does seem that big companies are pushing out apps for Symbian along with other platforms. But individual developers might not, which would mean new premium content in the Ovi Store wouldnt appear as consistently as on other operating systems.
The Ovi Store though, has a nicely refreshed UI and is quite usable, having apps arranged by categories like Applications, Games, and Personalization (Audio, Video, Themes), etc.
Downloading an app is pretty straightforward, and automatically installs. Your Nokia/Ovi Account remembers what apps you’ve bought or downloaded which you can re-download up to 5 times.
A-GPS and Voice Navigation:
Like most Nokia devices nowadays, the Nokia E7 comes with free turn-by-turn voice navigation on Ovi Maps for it’s built-in A-GPS. Ovi Maps has a bunch of nice features, like Lonely planet integration, Bookmyshow (India) and Buurp.com (India), and an Event guide to let you know what’s going on nearby, within your city or town. There’s pinch-to-zoom and you can download maps straight to your phone without needing a computer (for Ovi Maps V3.06).
Getting a GPS lock takes about a minute or two with A-GPS, and anywhere from five to ten minutes without A-GPS (though that depends on a number of factors).
Couple that with the 4 Inch Huge screen on the E7, and the great sunlight legibility of the ClearBlack display, means that the E7 is actually a pretty sweet SatNav unit for your car as well as for your long walks around the town.
The Conclusion:
Without a doubt, depending on whom you ask, the Nokia E7 is either the best or second best Nokia device available right now. Unfortunately though, that might not mean much, because of the fact that it does run Symbian, which isnt exactly the cool kid on the block anymore.
Is there enough otherwise for the E7 to hold it’s own? Well, there’s the Clearblack AMOLED Display, USB OTG, HDMI-Out, HD Video recording, the freakkin’ sweet anodized aluminum body, the slide-out qwerty keyboard, Turn-by-Turn Navigation and the pentaband 3G. Whether or not that’s enough for you comes down to personal choice.
At the same price point, you could get an HTC Desire Z or Motorola Milestone 2, but both have their pros and cons versus the E7.
Unfortunately the Nokia E7 is cursed with having to be released just after the Nokia-Microsoft announcement, which is definitely going to affect it’s sales as people try to figure out what the future of Symbian means of them. Symbian’s going to be around atleast for about a year or two, so if that timeframe’s fine with you, here’s a phone you might want to take a look at. In the meanwhile, we think the E7 is a pretty sweet business phone, with excellent build quality, and a ton of connectivity and multimedia options.
Worth recommending? Definitely. But this one might be the last of it’s kind. Atleast its still functionally more advanced that a Windows Phone 7 device, eh?
Clinton is currently based in New Delhi, India and is executive editor for UnleashThePhones. He is responsible for all editorial decisions, and covers all forms of Mobile and mobile-related accessories.
Cj is addicted to caffeine, social media, and technology. Always up for a good conversation, you can reach him through the contact form, his website, on Google Plus 
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im planning to get the e7 or iphone 4. which do you recommend? ive also heard that nokia phones hang up a lot? is that in this to? btw amazing review just loved it ..!!
i love to bay this phone i can say i have never used other phone except Nokia but if u ask my opinion i will say reduce the price ....i know it is with good features but if u compare Nokia n8 with it it will win and now a days people purchase good cell phones not only for calling but for other feachers also i mean camera which is not so good as Nokia n8 so i will say reduce the price
Great review! Fixed Focus Camera is the worst part. Such a waste. Even a businessman needs to take close up photos. The next worst part is nHD on the 4" mon. 16:9 is great but nHD is not enough.
What a giant review, really awesome. evevoltech.blogspot.com
Nokia E7 Has a little torch function.. One can turn on the torch by just holding the lock key button for 3 seconds..
Too costly phone :) 35k on preorder...even if its starts on sale for 32k i feel it costly for low processing power :D
Hey. It does NOT have low processing power! Try it and you will be amazed! I have been using mine for 3 weeks now and no performance issues in any use - even with several apps running simultaniously. Dont look only at the MHz, but actual performance!
Great review, I wonder if they are coming with more Eseries devices like those in 2009, they really had the good looks and great battery durability even though they didn't had touchscreens, they're not for everyone really...
NICE Review!!! Hey CJ, you still have that E7 right??? =P, Can you upload the folder "Z:/Resource/Apps" from your E7 (using x-plore app or any other such file browser just copy the folder and upload to any site and send me link plz plz)..... .....It will help the modding community in making E7 icons for s60v5 devices......... can you plz reply soon?? =P
Hey hey! The icons are the ones from the N8 Midnight Theme (that's also on the C7 heh). Do you still want them? They're not as exclusive, so i was just letting you know heh :D
yep still want em' =D
Good review, does Noise cancelling actually work?
It seems to work according to folks who were on the other end of the call, atleast when we tried it. There didnt seem to be a way to turn it off/on for a comparison test tho.
Nothing missed ! :)
Great review, if Nokia get PR2 out very soon it will help the E7 sales alot. Mine arrives tomorrow
BAM ! "Giant" you say ? Uber-giant I say. Nice review, nice job as usual. Cheers !
Aw thanks Axel :D I hope it comes in useful for people out there heh
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