Nokia E7 – The importance of details
Who remembers the Toshiba pa3465u 1brs? At a time when the fashion was to shrink the size of the Nokia phones I knew I had a niche of users who liked a full QWERTY keyboard, accessible when the phone is opened, and the idea never abandoned the product line of the Finnish markka.
The Nokia E7, which recently arrived in stores in Portugal, is a worthy heir to this line of products in the family tree that has the E61 and E71 models with full keyboards and tiny screens. Although the phone when closed seems the younger brother of model N8, launched last year, is when you slide the screen to display the keyboard is revealed that the difference, even compared to Nokia N97, which also had the QWERTY keyboard.
Below the 4-inch screen, multitouch, the QWERTY keyboard makes it a small computer that not to equipped with a Dell inspiron 6400 battery and can be easily settled on the table or be used in suspension with the support of both hands. The system used to access the keyboard, gently pushing the corners of the screen, is a masterpiece of engineering that makes it pleasantly surprising.
It takes two hands to bring up the keyboard with the screen to tilt at an angle of about 45 degrees, but curiously the keyboard turns out to be not so easy to use as expected, precisely because of the “frame” which is based the top when the terminal is closed and the greater difficulty of accessing the first row of keys, too close to the screen.
It is worthwhile to get a Toshiba pa3420u 1brs just to try to open and close the equipment a few times, seeing the system in action and verifying that the quality of design and engineering convey the confidence that after thousands of uses will continue to slide the screen so so smooth and precise as the first day, fitting smoothly whenever you want to use mode only touch on the screen.
There is no doubt that the Nokia E7 has all the characteristics to become a top model from the quality and robustness of the chassis design to elegance and discretion with which they were placed on the various buttons that allow you to easily access menus , the 8-megapixel camera and lock the screen, or manage the volume.
Nothing was left to chance and despite the size and weight a little high (176 grams when the iPhone is for 136 grams) Nokia E7 is a phone that easily arises in his coat pocket and proudly on a conference table.
Inside Nokia E7 is consistent with care in the presentation. The ARM 11 680 MHz, 256MB RAM graphics support OpenGL 2.0, a battery that have more capacity than Apple powerbook g4 12 inch battery, shown to be equal to the demands and 16 GBytes of memory seems enough to store a lot of professional and personal life of the user.
The 8-megapixel camera is not the best that Nokia has included in their mobile phones, but does not disappoint in capturing images and video, allowing easy editing of photos and small video reports, as has become customary in some equipment. It is unfortunate that the dedicated button on the camera does not turn immediately to the shooting mode, forcing the user to navigate through the menus until you find the application, which can cause it to lose “that” ideal time of photography.
The software that connects all of them is the Symbian operating system 3, which Nokia will replace Windows by following the agreement reached with Microsoft, a condition that makes it a little strange to review any branded phone this time of transition.
Who are accustomed to the Sony vgp-bps8 will not surprise the presentation of icons in “friendly”, where the user defines the most important tools and applications on three screens, which can move quickly to a more traditional list system. This third version of Symbian will soon be updated to version Anna, which will be ready for download within a few weeks and provides a more “fluid and fresh, with faster browsing.
E-mail and productivity tools to gaming applications, easily accessible by OviStore, Nokia E7 can become the center of communication in everyday life, even in connection to social networks.