Product Walk-Through: Nokia E71 Shines in eWEEK Labs Tests

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BY: eWEEK Labs

The Nokia E71 ships with Version 3.1 of the firm’s S60 interface, and runs atop Symbian OS Version 9.2.

The E71 is powered by a 369 MHz ARM11 Freescale processor, and packs 128MB of RAM and 110MB of user-accessible storage.

The unit’s rather modest storage capacity may be expanded through the E71’s MicroSDHC expansion slot.

For input, the E71 comes with a nicely implemented thumb keyboard, along with a five-way control pad.

We found support for copying and pasting text in a couple of spots, but not where we would’ve found the support most useful. For instance, we could copy text from an e-mail message we were composing, but not from one we were reading.

Since the E71’s thumb keyboard occupies about half of the unit’s front-side real estate, the device is limited to a fairly small, 320 by 240 pixel, 2.4-inch display.

The E71 comes with the obligatory built-in camera, a 3.2 megapixel unit fixed on the back of the device. Less typical, however, are the camera’s autofocus and flash features.

The E71 measures 4.48 by 2.24 by .39 inches, and weighs in at 4.48 ounces. As smart phones go, the E71 is strikingly slim, and most of its weight goes to the device’s healthy-sized removable battery.

The E71 ships with a 1,500 mAh lithium-polymer battery based on which Nokia advertises talk times of up to 10.5 hours in GSM/EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) mode, and up to 4.5 hours in HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) mode.

Nokia’s E71 comes with a full complement of messaging options-