Nokia E62
Nokia E62 is a powerful and productivity-driven smart phone, a plethora of wireless options, and good call quality. Though it has its similarities to the the Motorola Q and BlackBerrys, the E62 is definitely best suited for the business user who needs a fully loaded device for working on the road.
Released on September 29th and available exclusively through Cingular Wireless, the E62 is the U.S. version of the E61, which has been available in Europe since earlier this year.
At a slim 0.7 inches, the E62 is thin enough to stash in a pocket, and its wide, 2.8 inches screen with 320 x 240 resolution screen displays 16 million colors, making it an excellent choice for media playing and internet browsing. Text and images looked excellent, and even better, it was still readable in sunlight; you can also adjust the backlighting and contrast.
Below the screen are four slightly confusing soft keys, menu and e-mail buttons, and a very usable joystick. This isn’t a touch-screen device, so you’ll be using that joystick a lot, but it’s a joy to use.
There are three buttons on the left spine, Volume Up, Volume Down, and Voice Record. But nothing on the right side, where we looked instinctively for a jog dial and a Back button like those found on the Motorola Q and the RIM BlackBerry 8700.
As a business-centric device, the Nokia E62 doesn’t come equipped with a camera. E62 comes with built in memory of 90MB. It does have a miniSD expansion slot, but it’s inconveniently located behind the battery cover on the left side.
The E62 runs Symbian OS 9.1, Series 60 third edition, and comes with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint viewer/editors that handle even Word tables, complex PowerPoint presentations, and multiworksheet Excel documents, although they do take a long time to open.
The smart phone also works with Adobe Reader and Zip Manager, and comes with your basic PIM apps and organization tools, such as a calculator, a clock, a calendar, notes, a voice recorder, and a currency converter.
The smart phone is equipped with a decent music player which plays back MP3, RealAudio, and AAC files and songs can be sorted by artist, album, genre, or composer. Besides, you can also create playlists right on the device, set songs on random or repeat mode, and tweak the sound settings via the built-in equalizer.
For videos, RealPlayer is built in and is compatible with MPEG-4 and 3GPP formats. Though the E62 lacks a camera, you can view JPEG, BMP, BNG, and GIF files with the included image viewer.
The E62 supports a very wide range of Bluetooth functions, including headsets, file transfer, stereo music playback, printing, dial-up networking, and PC connectivity. Unfortunately, the prototype’s Bluetooth was pretty buggy. For example, remote-control functions didn’t work with my Plantronics Pulsar 590a headphones, and the phone had trouble pairing with a Jabra a320s Bluetooth dongle on a PC. With a Plantronics Voyager 510 headset, Bluetooth range was pretty good—rock-solid at 15 feet, just fine at 30, and staticky but usable at 45.
Reviews from CNET Reviews
The good: The Nokia E62 boasts a vibrant and sharp screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a full array of wireless options (Bluetooth, UMTS). The Symbian smart phone also has solid call quality, a speakerphone, the ability to view and edit Office documents, and robust e-mail capabilities.
The bad: The Nokia E62’s miniSD slot is located inconveniently behind the battery cover, and the device was sometimes sluggish when switching between apps. There’s no camera option, either.
The bottom line: The Nokia E62 certainly isn’t for everyone, but with its powerful productivity apps, connectivity options, and solid call quality, the smart phone will make a good addition to a corporate user’s arsenal.
More details in Nokia E62’s specifications, please refer to Nokia website.
Written by martin on November 27th, 2006 with
no comments.
Read more articles on Nokia.
- [+] Digg: Feature this article
- [+] Del.icio.us: Bookmark this article
- [+] Furl: Bookmark this article