Nokia E65 phone

Nokia E65 mobile phone:

The E65 comes in two colour schemes. Mine was brown – Nokia calls it Mocca – and silver. The alternative is red and silver. The brown parts are made of a rubbery substance which makes the E65 easy to grip. I don’t like the leather-look stipple on the back, but that is just a matter of personal taste.It is the only one of the three that looks like a traditional mobile. It is a slider handset, and alongside the capable S60 operating system, it sports a couple of speciality turns for business users.On the software side we have Nokia's Team Suite. This is basically groups management software. You set up groups and can then send e-mails, texts and MMSs to the whole group at once, view Web pages that relate to them and initiate conference calls with them.
This is a slider handset. I feel sliders should be very small when closed, and at 105mm tall and 49mm wide, the E65 is not that much smaller than a standard candybar phone. At 15.5mm it’s not that thin either, though its 115g of weight is acceptable.The conference calling bit is also covered by a hardware feature. One of the many buttons on the front of the casing is dedicated to conference calling. It can be set up to dial into a conference calling service and used to bring two current callers into a conference.Another front button mutes the E65's microphone, while a third you can set up to do anything you like and simply pressing it calls up the configuration software.

The slider mechanism feels solid, is slightly spring-loaded and delivers a comforting click when fully extended or closed, but Nokia has not thought hard enough about the ergonomics of using it. There is no thumbgrip for sliding the phone open, which means that you are forced either to put a thumb mark on the screen or press the edge of the large central select button of the navigation pad. Neither is a perfect solution.A very important aspect of the Nokia E65 is built-in Wi-Fi. This is increasingly common on handsets and smartphones, and in Nokia's E series handsets it is a staple. But this time around there is a twist. You can get the phone to search for networks in the vicinity at regular intervals and report its findings on the main screen. Or you can manually search for networks by selecting an option on the screen. Once you've found a network and are connected, Voice over IP calls and Web browsing are a couple of button presses away.The E65 comes with PC connectivity software and a USB cable, and battery life checked in at around 10 hours of non-stop MP3 music with the screen forced to stay on. It doesn't last as long when the Wi-Fi is active, though.This all adds up to a phone which is pretty nifty, but there are a couple of let-downs. As a 3G handset the absence of a front-facing camera for video calling is a downer and the strong S60 music player is let down by a mono earbud rather than stereo headset being supplied with the phone. Meanwhile the main camera shoots reasonably good photos at 2-megapixels but lacks self-portrait mirror, flash, auto-focus or a macro mode.The E65 is a quad-band 3G handset and like others in the E range is unashamedly aimed primarily at business users though of course there's nothing to stop others going for it too. Be aware if you are interested, that there is no front facing camera for video calling.The front fascia houses ten keys and the navigation pad. I'm not so sure even business people are going to find a great deal of use for the conference call key, though it can be set to call a default number for conference calls should you need it.The key which mutes the phone's microphone during calls could be handy within and outside the business community. Another key takes you to the address book and a fourth can be configured to do whatever you like. People you’ve assigned it a function, pressing it calls up the config utility – a nice touch that saves you from having to go into the Settings menu.These four keys are to the left and right of the navigation pad. They are pretty large and easy to find, as is the navigation pad’s centre button. Its outer ring is rather too small though, and the same criticism can be levelled at the soft menu keys Call, End, Clear and Nokia Menu keys, which collectively form a frame for the inner keys.Nokia’s Edit key is relegated to the right edge of the phone where it sits alongside the volume control keys and one for both voice dialling and the voice recorder. Long and short presses of this indicate which you want to use.The number pad, revealed when you open the slider is large and its keys are very slightly ridged, which helps you hit them accurately.



Short Features:

Key features:Conference calling, voice recording, notepad, integrated handsfree speaker, talking ringtones, and Nokia Team Suite,SMS, MMS with distribution lists, instant messages, and email,One Touch keys for conference calls, mute/unmute, and contacts,Quad-band coverage on up to five continents,802.11b/g integrated Wi-fi,
Symbian S60 3rd edition,2.0 megapixel camera, with video recording (CIF) at up to 30 fps MPEG-4,Available in Mocca Brown, Red, lavender pink and perrywinkle blue.

Operating frequency:Quad-band: EGSM 850/900/1800/1900,W-CDMA 2100,Voice over IP (VoIP) calls via integrated WLAN (IEEE 802.11g and 802.11b standards)

Size:Volume: 74 cc,Weight: 115 g,Dimensions: 105 x 49 x 15.5 mm

Display:Active-matrix QVGA color display (240 x 320 pixels) with color support for up to 16 million colors,Display contrast and brightness control,Display size 2,2in (5,6 cm)

User interface:S60 3rd Edition, built on the Symbian operating system,One Touch keys for mute/unmute, contacts, and conference calling,Five-way Nokia NaviTM key with two customizable soft keys, power key that can be used as profile key, and My Own key,S60 edit key located on the side of the device,Volume keys on the side of the device

Imaging:Photograph of Villa Park taken by the Nokia E65.Take snapshots with the 2 megapixel camera (no built-in flash).

Messaging:Read email with attachments: supports POP/IMAP, SMTP, and IMAP4 with idle protocols,Instant messaging client (OMA IMPS 1.2),Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS, ver. 1.2) for text, voice clips, video clips, and still images,SMS and MMS with distribution lists,Predictive text input T9

Multimedia:Video and audio streaming (3GPP & Real Media),Music player (MP3/AAC) and media player,Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) 1.0 with forward lock

Memory functions:Up to 65 MB user memory,MicroSD memory card support (up to 2GB maximum size)

Applications:Java?MIDP 2.0-based games and applications,Attachment viewers for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

Connectivity:Dual Transfer Mode (MSC 9),Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology,Pop-Port connector,IrDA with transfer rate up to 115 kbit/s,WiFi

Browsing:HTML Nokia browser,XHTMtack)

Data transfer:EGPRS multi-slot class 32 for 5 + 3 (receive + transmit) timeslots (up to 6 timeslots total for maximum download speeds of up to 296 kbit/s),Multi-slot class 32 is also supported with GPRS for a maximum downlink rate of 67 kbit/s,Remote and local (peer-to-peer) synchronization of calendar, contacts, notes and to-do list via Bluetooth technology, IR, or USB connectivity cable

Personal information management (PIM):Calendar with weekly view, contacts, to-do list, and notepad for short notes all viewable while managing a phone call

Voice features:One Touch keys for direct access to contacts, mute/unmute, and conference calling,Voice dialing,Voice commands for menu short cuts, keypad lock, and profiles,Voice recording to record your own notes or conversations,Talking ringtones mix the name of the caller with the ringtone so you know who's calling without looking at the screen,Integrated handsfree speaker,Supported speech codecs: EFR, FR, AMR NB, HR,Conference calling

Digital services:Over the air (OTA) downloads for ringtones, contacts, email, WAP, MMS, operator logos, and user group icons,Image upload/download,Smart content upload/download,Downloadable instrumental MIDI ringing tones.

Other features:Add-on solutions enable integration into enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) infrastructure.

Sales package contents:It is a most important feature on every cell phone.Nokia E65 handset,Nokia Battery BL-5F,Nokia Travel Charger AC-4,Nokia Headset HS-5 (black),
Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53,Nokia Carrying Pouch CP-18,Nokia MicroSD card [256MB] (APAC only)

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