Nokia's E series takes on BlackBerry

The 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	Features
Nokia E60 See images	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. More info: See specifications Rate this phone
Nokia E61 See images	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. More info: See specifications Rate this phone
Nokia E70 See images	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. More info: See specifications Rate this phone