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Nokia E66
An addition to the Nokia E-Series family and a highly-recommendable business phone is the Nokia E66. This phone has managed to incorporate cool features in a slick slide-design with a body dimension of 4.21 x 1.93 x 0.51 inches and weight of 4.27 ounces. It is wider as compared to other sliders but the extra width and weight just secured a strong foundation. It features a brightly colored screen and an easy to use and comfortable numeric 12-key keypad. It also features a 2.5mm headphone port and a microSD card slot.
This Symbian S60-powered smartphone has a number of new design tricks. An accelerometer redraws the screen in portrait or landscape mode, depending on how the device is held. It also included a new interesting set of dedicated keys around the four-way button which are easily-recognizable.
First and foremost, the gadget is a phone, so its important to take note on the quality of calls in Nokia E66 which doesn’t fail in this case especially with indoor calls. Outside calls may produce a little trouble especially if the background is very noisy.
Phone features include a nice address book features which can also be synchronized with the Outlook Contacts using the Nokia PC Suite. Nokia E66 can also handle Exchange servers for e-mail, contacts and calendar entries. Additional calling features include voice recognition, conference calling and the speakerphone.
In terms of e-mail features, the Nokia E66 doesn’t fail, especially that the phone’s selling point is on its business-class e-mail applications. Typing long message is good despite the absence of the QWERTY keyboard, thanks to the soft keypad. However, it could have been better if the E66 included a pre-loaded instant messaging clients, especially if that this phone targets business people. Real-time messaging is important and the incorporation of either MSN or Yahoo Messenger application could have been very helpful. The Nokia E66 is also a very good scheduling tool with the help of Exchange ActiveSync support and some good synchronization software. It also included the Quickoffice for reading and creating office documents and presentations.
Web browsing is also very good in the E66. It features the Symbian S60 browser which can load pages in a faster rate with the help of an EDGE connection. Layout is superb and scrolling around is quick. With the GPS, navigating around is a task made easier in the E66. The sensor is sensitive and it include the Nokia Maps 2.0 software. Connectivity features included Bluetooth with a variety of supported profiles, Infrared, USB and Wi-Fi.
The E66 is not a multimedia phone but it has a few good features in this category. It has FM radio and an impressive music player that supports the following formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA. The player allows users to create playlists and to the customize EQ settings. The 3.2-megapixel camera sadly, doesn’t perform well. It has auto focus lens but images it produced weren’t good at all as they lacked detail. However, as said earlier the E66 is more focused on its business features, so this aspect remains forgivable.