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Nokia's E series takes on BlackBerry

By Bonnie Cha, CNET.com on 19 October 2005

Tags: e | e60 | e61 | e70 | mobile | nokia | phone | series | smart | symbian

Nokia E Series: E60, E61, E70The Finnish mobile giant recently announced three new smart phones aimed at mobile professionals. The brand-new E series, which consists of the Nokia E60, the Nokia E61, and the Nokia E70, will come with WLAN and 3G, and operate on Symbian OS 9.1. Expect the handsets to be out in Q1 2006.

Today, Nokia announced three new smart phones aimed at all you mobile professionals out there. The brand-new E series consists of the Nokia E60, the Nokia E61, and the Nokia E70. All three models run on Symbian OS 9.1 and support a number of corporate mobile e-mail solutions, including GoodLink, BlackBerry Connect, and Nokia Business Center. Plus, they feature some advanced voice services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and push-to-talk. The trio is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2006.

Editors' note: According to Nokia Australia, the E60, E61 and E70 are expected to be launch locally in Q1 2006. More pricing and availability details will be released closer to date.

The Nokia E60 sports a classic candy bar shape and offers you a host of voice options -- speakerphone, conference calling, push-to-talk, and VoIP. The E60 will operate on GSM 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 (3G) networks.

The Nokia E61 is designed to be a mobile e-mail device, and its styling may look a little familiar (think BlackBerry). The lean, mean e-mail machine is armed with a full QWERTY keyboard and push e-mail clients (BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile) with support for attachments and an editing function. The E61 also has all the voice capabilities of the E60 and will operate on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 networks.

Last but not least, there's the Nokia E70. Much like the Nokia 6820, the candy bar-style E70 opens up to reveal a full keyboard so that you can message till the cows come home. The smart phone features many of the same voice and productivity functions of its other two siblings. Nokia will offer two versions of the E70: one for Europe and Asia (GSM 900/1900/1900; WDCDMA 2100) and one for the Americas (GSM 850/1800/1900).

Nokia E series
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In a nutshell: 3G, tri-band GSM smart phone; WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, infrared; supports VoIP, PTT; up to 8.3 days standby time; Java; MP3/AAC player; 30MB internal memory; 64MB reduced size MMC (hot swappable); 16 million colour screen; 115 x 49 x 16.9mm; 117g.

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In a nutshell: 3G, quad-band GSM smart phone; WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, infrared; supports VoIP, PTT, e-mail attachments; 75MB internal memory; 64MB reduced size MMC (hot swappable); QWERTY thumbboard; 16 million colour screen; push e-mail; 117 x 69.7 x 18mm; 144g.

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In a nutshell:3G, tri-band GSM smart phone; fold-out keyboard; up to 75MB internal memory; miniSD card slot; 256K colour screen; 2-megapixel camera; MP3/AAC player; 117 x 53 x 22mm (closed); 127g.

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Rajesh
23/08/2006 06:57 PM

Nokia is taking everyone for a ride. I purchased the Nokia E60 and the blackberry software doesn't intall on it. Nokia says you need to upgrade the firmware to 2.618.06.05 and it seems that they haven't released the firmware at all. I don't understand why Nokia would go ahead with all the press releases and make people buy the phones if it will not work.

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Stan
06/03/2007 05:28 PM

I would like to know if N70 is possible to have wlan install?

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manoharonlyu
28/03/2007 06:06 PM

snoujaim
19/09/2007 02:46 PM

Where can you get Nokia E70? I am after 2 phones?

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navviid
05/04/2008 04:57 PM

i love nokia mobile i wish i have one but due to money problem?

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ragu_airtel
26/06/2008 04:44 PM

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