The world leader in Symbian smartphones is ramping up its smartphone domination for the year with an E-series smartphone that will surely capture a wider segment of the consumer markets who want great value in a smartphone that looks like a Blackberry but minus the price.
Enter the Nokia E5, at a lovely launch price of €180 before subsidies and taxes making it the most affordable smartphone in Nokia’s E-series. It also comes in body color choices of black, chalk white, silver grey, sky blue and copper brown. Nokia E5 contracts are some of the hottest mobile phone offers available online today. You can save money on them by comparing mobile deals.
Considered the successor of its more expensive E63, the E5 inherits the same Blackberry styled body of the E72 and many of its features. Measuring 115 x 58.9 x 12.8 mm, it loses the svelte 10mm waistline of the E72 but is actually lighter by 2g at 126g. It also loses a few more of the E72 features but they are a trifle nitpick when you consider the great value it provides. At Moby1 you can find the best deals for contract phones as well as Sim only deals.
Giving up Something for Something
For nearly half the €350 launch price of the E72, the Nokia E5 gives up, gets the same and edges out many in the E72 feature set.
• Its display gives up the 16 million color depth on the E72 but gets the same 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen with QVGA resolution. Color depth goes down to 256k. It also gives up the gravity accelerometer, optical trackpad and 5-way scroll key.
• It gives up autofocus in favor of a EDoF (Extended Depth of Field) fixed focus camera with the same 5-megapixel resolution, LED flash and VGA video recording at 15fps.
• It loses the preloaded digital compass and document reader but gets the same preloaded messaging tools like Gmail, Ovi Mail, Yahoo Mail and Instant Messaging support for Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Ovi Chat and Windows Live Messenger. It gets the same support for MS Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. The Ovi Store is likewise pre-installed for downloading of apps and games.
• The Nokia E5 under the hood gets the same ARM11 CPU clocked at 600 MHz to run the same Symbian v9.3 platform with S60 3.2 UI.
• It gets the same 250 MB user phone memory but edges out the E72 with twice the RAM at 256 MB and twice the microSD expandability to 32 GB.
• Its mobile entertainment gets just about the same multimedia prowess as the E72. You get stereo FM receiver with RDS, 3.5mm headphone jack, A2DP support for wireless stereo listening and Flash Lite v3.0 for video streaming online. But its media players lose the playback support for M4A audio and 3GP video files.
• The Nokia E5 hardware gets the same 3G coverage on tri band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and 2G on a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi 802.11 b/g with UPnP and DLNA, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, microUSB 2.0. It gets the same GPS receiver with A-GPS support and Ovi Maps 3.4 with lifetime free navigation support.
• It sheds off 4 hours of talk time from the E72 but its weaker 1200 mAh Li-Ion BL-4D battery delivers a respectable to 8.5 hours of talk time on 2G, 38 hours of music listening and 705 hours on standby on a full charge.