It's the Nokia E71 vs the BlackBerry Bold for the appellation of best business buzz of 2008! For the accomplished brace of years, BlackBerry accept been abstraction out a alcove as the cast of best for accumulated users, with their acceptable aggregate of abounding or near-full QWERTY keypads and advance email systems. Nokia accept been steadily convalescent the user-friendliness and ability of their E alternation phones too, and now it seems that both BlackBerry and Nokia accept fabricated a added bound advanced and both landed up with awful able adaptable communications devices. Whether you accept the BlackBerry or the Nokia, you shouldn't go far amiss back it comes to communicating on the move.
Both the E71 and the Bold action a abounding QWERTY keypad, with numeric keys anchored in the centre. The Bold has a added aesthetic styling, whilst the E71 has added buttons to advance and a added techy attending and feel. The E71's added buttons are committed one-touch keys for Home, calendar, contacts, and email. The E71 uses a Navi�Key that works rather like the abrasion pad on a a laptop and provides accelerated scrolling for affective about the screen. This is arguably a added acceptable ascribe adjustment than the BlackBerry trackball. The Nokia additionally hascomputer appliance aids to argument input, including automated spelling correction, auto-completion, and chat applicant lists. The E71 is absolutely a bit narrower than the Bold, authoritative the keys hardly smaller, but has the advantage of actuality abundant thinner. In fact, at aloof 10mm array it feels about flat, and makes the Bold (measuring 15mm) attending huge by comparison. Either way, both accessories accommodate accomplished abutment for argument input.
Nokia accept able the E71 with one of their best screens. Barometer 2.36 inches across, with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, this gives a acceptable amplitude for alive on emails and documents, or examination web pages, but it doesn't accept as aerial a resolution as the Bold's screen. Nevertheless it's an accomplished display, able of announcement 16 actor colours and appliance an alive cast LCD for acceptable afterimage and clarity, alike in abstinent sunlight.
The E71 can be acclimated handsfree, with either a handsfree apostle or a Bluetooth wireless headset, accumulated with both speaker-dependent and speaker-independent articulation dialling. You can set the buzz to acknowledgment automatically back appliance a angle or a car kit.
Messaging is what the E71 is all about, of course, and it is able-bodied able for both advance email and argument messaging. The accessory supports IMAP, POP and SMTP email protocols, as able-bodied as Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email. Attachments are supported, and the Quickoffice appliance lets you appearance and adapt Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. We don't anticipate that Nokia accept bent up with BlackBerry yet, but the email arrangement is absolutely usable. The E71 is absolutely able for security, with a keypad lock, alien lock and alike encryption for abstracts stored in anamnesis or on the anamnesis card. Abounding abutment for Virtual Private Networks is provided.
The buzz is additionally able on multimedia. A 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and beam is included, and you can almanac video in MPEG4 or 3GP formats at a resolution of 640 x 480 at 22 fps or 320 x 240 (QVGA) at 30 fps. A accessory front-facing camera is acclimated for video calling. The camera absolutely beats the Bold's camera after a doubt, although you ability altercate that for a buzz of this type, the camera is rather over-specified. The music amateur can handle all accepted formats, and there's additionally an FM radio with Visual Radio support. RealPlayer is acclimated to playback video.
Like abounding smartphones, the Nokia includes chip A-GPS accessory navigation, with the Nokia Maps appliance pre-installed.
You can additionally use the buzz for web browsing. The congenital browser can handle XHTML, Javascript, stylesheets and Flash, so is able to affectation best websites correctly. You can use the Navi�Key actual finer to zoom in on web pages, a bit like the iPhone.
The E71 has accomplished connectivity with abutment for Bluetooth 2.0 (with Enhanced Abstracts Rate), micro USB, WLAN and alike Infrared. The WLAN affiliation can be acclimated to accomplish VoIP calls. A 2.5mm Nokia headphone atrium is provided, so you can bung in a accordant headset, but it would accept been nice to accept a accepted 3.5mm jack, like the BlackBerry Bold has. The buzz additionally appearance FOTA (firmware updatable over the air.) A absolute apartment of claimed organiser functions is included.
Battery activity is actual good, but the WLAN eats array ability absolutely quickly, so you won't appetite to go after a charger for too continued if you're planning to accomplish abundant use of this feature. Remember to about-face off WLAN back not in use! And the GPS too! The centralized anamnesis of the buzz is 110 Mbytes, additional the advantage to add up to 8 Gbytes of microSD agenda memory. Whilst abounding users may acquisition this to be sufficient, we'd accept adopted to see a lot added centralized memory. The BlackBerry Bold comes with a 1GB or centralized memory, and we feel that the Nokia is under-specified in this department.
So, which to choose: the Nokia E71 or the BlackBerry Bold? As usual, it's horses for courses. The E71 is decidedly added bunched than the BlackBerry, is apparently added acceptable built, and has a abundant added acceptable camera. It holds its own back it comes to applications, connectivity and array life. But the BlackBerry beats the Nokia back you accede the admeasurement of the display, its awfully above memory, its ease-of-use and ability back it comes to configuring email. Don't get us wrong, the E71 is a abundant device, and apparently Nokia's best adaptable appointment so far, but BlackBerry still rules in the commonwealth of adaptable email.
- Series 60 3.1, Symbian 9.2 SmartPhone
- 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and 4x digital zoom
- Video camera with digital zoom
- Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320 pixels (2.36 inches)
- Music Player (MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ formats)
- FM radio with Visual Radio support
- MP3 ringtones / video ringtones
- Speakerphone
- Voice memo recording
- Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP protocols), Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
- Attachment viewer for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Symbian and Java? MIDP 2.0 applications
- Internet: xHTML web browser, Flash Lite 3.0, WAP, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps
- Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, micro-USB, Infrared, data modem, 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
- Memory: 110 Mbytes plus support for microSD cards (up to 8 Gbytes)
- Vibration alert
- Quadband (850/900/1800/1900) plus 3G HSDPA
- Size: 114 x 57 x 10 mm
- Weight: 127g
- Talktime: 4.5 hours (3G) - 10.5 hours (2G)
- Battery standby: 400 hours (166 hours using WLAN)
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