Nokia recently announced a four row slide out QWERTY-fied business smartphone, Nokia E7 featuring Nokia’s new ClearBlack technology for better outdoor visibility. It’s the first E-series device with the latest Symbian^ 3 OS, sporting larger 4’’ AMOLED touch screen with nHD resolution and 8 Mpix camera, more internal memory storage. The display of the Nokia E7 comes with the Nokia ‘ClearBlack’ technology and which gives better sunlight legibility with lower power usage as the other two higher models Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 launched along with it.
The Nokia E7 has a similar design of the Nokia N8, and the major external change is an additional sliding QWERTY keypad and the camera and it is being presented and perceived by many people and bloggers as essentially a Nokia N8. It comes with 3 widgegetized home screens.
The Nokia E7 features 8 MP camera(3266×2450 pixels) with dual LED flash & 720p HD video recording, Qwerty keyboard, 3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, WI-FI 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS, 16GB inbuilt storage, Adobe Flashlite 4.0.
Full Technical Specifications of Nokia E7
| Network | |
| 3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 2100 /1900 |
| 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
| Dimensions | |
| L x B x H, Vol | 123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm |
| Weight | 176 g |
| Display | |
| Type | AMOLED capacitive touchscreen |
| Size | 4.0 inches |
| Colours & Pixels | 16 Million colours & 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) |
| Input/ User Interface | |
| Input | QWERTY Keyboard Multi-touch input method Finger touch support for text input and UI control Full screen handwriting recognition |
| System Properties | |
| Operating System | Symbian^ 3 OS |
| CPU | ARM 11 600 MHz processor 256MB RAM & 1GB ROM |
| Storage Capacity | |
| Memory | 16GB Internal memory No microSD card slot for expansion |
| Browser & Messaging | HTML, WAP 2.0/xHTML Nokia Web Browser (OSS) with Mini Map MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS, SMS(threaded view) |
| Camera | |
| Still | 8 Megapixels(3266×2450 pixels) with Dual-LED flash, 2x digital zoom, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection. |
| Secondary | VGA(640 x 480 pixels) |
| Video Recording | nHD 720p @ 25fps Up to 3x digital video zoom |
| Connectivity | |
| Data | EDGE & GPRS |
| Bluetooth & USB | v2.1 with A2DP Stereo & v2.0 micro USB |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g |
| Headset | 3.5mm stereo headset jack |
| Radio | Stereo FM radio with RDS |
| GPS | A-GPS |
| 3G | HSUPA 2.0 Mbps HSDPA 10.2 Mbps |
| Music & Video | |
| Music Format | MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, E-AC-3, AC-3 |
| Video Format | MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV |
| Battery | |
| Type | Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D) standard battery |
| Music Play-back time | Up to 38 hours |
| Standby Time | Up to 475 hours (3G) Up to 430 hours (2G) |
| Talk Time | Up to 5 hours(3G) Up to 9 hours(2G) |
| Other Features | Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI Nokia Maps 3.0 Adobe Flashlite 4.0 Ambient light sensor Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) |
| Colors Availability | Orange Blue Green Silver white Dark Grey |
The Nokia E7 is able to shoot and edit 720p video and offers18 days of standby time and up to 9 hours of talk time. Nokia E7 also includes F-secure Anti-theft, Quick Office, World traveller and other productivity software.
Nokia E7 comes with FM Radio but it lacks FM Transmitter and microSD card slot for memory expansion. With the help of Nokia E7, you can save time with easy and direct access to all of your work email accounts from the same view and Connect to popular social networks from your home screen and stay in touch with business contacts and colleagues.
The Nokia E7 gives Dolby Digital Plus surround sound when played with HDMI and a home theatre.
Price & Availability
The exact price & release date of Nokia E7 has not been announced yet officially. It is expected to be available from the last quarter of 2010 and it may cost $640 and the price of Nokia E7 in India would be around Rs.32,000.
Keep watching this for an further updates.