Nokia E61i

An admirable cell phone we have experimented is the Nokia E61i, a phone that was designed to compete a very competitive market. Launched around 01/4/2007 the E61i supports the networks GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 2100. Being of size 117 x 70 x 14 mm and weighting only 150 g, this phone has a perfect design. The Nokia E61i comes with a powerful camera of 2.0 MP / Video Recorder. The phone is equipped with a 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery, letting a talk time of 5.00 hours and lasts in standby around 408 hours. Its engineers included a 60.0 MB memory, enough a normal use! Summing to its internal memory external memory can be added of format microSD / TransFlash memory cards.

photos of this model have been around on gadget-related sites for a long while, and this update comes as no surprise, one could even say “we’d asked for it – we got it”. Faced-off against the E61, the new Nokia E61i wins by having revamped design, camera (ok, we won’t mention how many mpix it packs), but regrettably the operating system version has remained untouched. The foremost rival of the E61 – SonyEricsson M600 – now loses to Nokia’s offspring in the sense of both the feature craved for by many users (we mean camera, of course), and looks. However the rumor has it that the M600 is being updated soon with an offering boasting WLAN support and imaging capabilities. What is my personal opinion on the E61i? They have patched up the things that used to ward many off, but more importantly, the business aim has gradually given its place to the multimedia, which seems to be still vital for enterprise users.
Incidentally, it is good to see that the design revamp has touched not only the casing’s color (to me, this combination is truly alluring), but controls as well, specifically addition of new buttons onto the faceplate – take a look for yourself at the keys flanking the joystick. Now, instead of two functional keys we have no less than four – what’s the upside I hear you ask? This reduces the time you might spend for calling up a specific application. Over and above the joystick’s design has been changed as well, so that in its present state it is handier than that found on the original model.
And of course we can’t just overlook the brilliant sales package – we only wish it wouldn’t be spoiled with that mono-headset. Since the E61i comes boxed with a 2 Gb memory card, why won’t they just allow us to listen to music right after pulling the handset out of the box?

General features

• Announced in 2007, official announcement on the 13 February 2007


• eGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA


• Battery type 1500 mAh Li-Ion (BP-4L)


• Battery life : talk mode up to 9 hoursstandby mode up to 400 hours


• High-contrast graphical display, 16М colours (TFT), the resolution of 240x320 pixel(QVGA), 2,8 ", active part – 56.9x42.7 mm


• 5D navigational button


• Special button for sending email messages and LED-indicator of new incoming messages


• Run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (Platform S60 3rd edition)


• Package: Nokia E61i, Nokia Battery BP-4L, Nokia Travel Charger AC-4, Nokia Headset HS-5, Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53, Nokia microSD Card 2GB MU-37


• Weight: 150 gramms


• Dimensions: 117 x 70 x 11.5 mm

Memory

• 60 MB of memory are dynamically shared among the phonebook, the calendar, messages, images and applications


• Expansion connector for micro-SD, hot change of cards


• Assign a photo to numbers in the phonebook


• Each name entry may contain Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position,


• Phone number, Mobile phone, Fax and E-mail address — total number of 8 fields. Add any number of fields.


• Unlimited number of user groups, assign a name to several groups at the same time


• SIM-card notes are stored separately, you can't view them with phone memory at the same time


• Call lists, no limit on the number of entries, type of call is specified besides of date and duration. You can set a storage period for calls in the list(a month by default)

Call management, ringing tones

• Vibracall


• Polyphonic call melodies, True Tones, supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV


• 64-tones call melody, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR


• Voice dial independent of pronounciation, no need in preliminary tag recording


• Speakerphone


• Assign melodies to names in the phonebook

SMS

• Predictive text input Т9


• Message templates (10 preinstalled, you can change or add own ones)


• Sending and receiving graphical messages


• Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Camera

• Integrated camera 2.0 MP (the maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels)


• Recording video clips MPEG4/Н.263, CIF resolution


• Digital zoom


• Timer


• Backlighting at shooting


• Effects (black and white, negative, sepia)

Connectivity

• WAP 2.0


• Bluetooth v.1.2


• WLAN 802.11b/g


• IrDA


• HSCSD


• GPRS class 10


• EGPRS (Class B, Multislot class 10)


• Support for HTML, xHTML, cHTML


• E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4


• Blackberry connectivity


• MMS v.1.2


• Synchronization with PC


• SyncML


• SMIL


• USB 2.0 via Pop-Port


• PoC or PTT


• Instant Messaging

Organizer and extras

• User profiles (5), temporary profile


• Time, date


• Calculator, currency converter


• Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer


• Organizer supports various kinds of events, setting reminders


• To-do list


• Dictaphone (records during phone conversations)


• 3GPP Video Streaming


• RealOne Player: plays RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files


• Photoalbum - advanced gallery


• Application showing files - MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Exel


• Support for PDF


• MP3 player


• Support for MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)


• Games