Ocimnet - The Nokia E51 is both extremely compact and light-weight: in fact, it can be ranked as the smallest of all E-series phones. Still, the front panel is classic black and is framed on the edges by steel lining, contributing to the feel of luxury and perfect quality. 2 inch display, the type of the display is TFT, with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels visualizing up to 16.7 million colors. The coloration of the images is well-saturated and highly contrasted; the brightness is automatically controlled by a light sensor depending on the environment.
The E51 adds keys for fast access to the calendar, the phonebook, the mailbox, and the menu. The D-Pad has raised edges for better distinction; however, being too small. The size of the other buttons also takes its toll; moreover, they are situated too close to each other. This drawback is compensated by their easy-to-feel relief, soft touch, and good tactile feedback. Generally, the positive features prevail over the negative, so handling the phone is trouble-free indeed.
The camera here is also positioned on the back. The resolution is only 2 megapixels and, regrettably, it also lacks both auto-focus and flashlight; still, this is normal with regard to the target customers of Nokia E51. You will not find a special button for taking shots, either – this is done through pressing the central part of the D-Pad. Use stainless steel, the material that is used for the frame of the front panel, is what the manufacturers made the entire back lid of. This designer solution forms the overall impression of an elegant, yet reliable and solid device.
Е51 is a phone running on Symbian Operating System with S60 interface. To be precise, the exact version is Symbian 9.2 with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, which is the latest one used in a Nokia phone up to now. This means that the phone is almost absolutely identical to other using this OS/UI and the only changes are due to minor personalization of the OS.
The phonebook of Symbian S60 phones is one of the best on the market, together with those of Windows smartphones. All the contacts are displayed as a list and if there is a picture ID, it can be seen in the top left corner of the screen as a thumbnail with a very small size when you select the contact. If you want to search, you type in directly from the keypad and searching is done for the whole name, even if the name is saved in more than one field.
The Calendar has preserved the functionality of its Symbian fellows. You can add 4 types of entries (Meeting/Memo/Anniversary/To-do), to select Subject, Location,Start/End Time and connect an alarm. Alarms are located in a third menu – Clock (in Office). The World Clock is also located in this menu and you can add various cities that you like to view – that’s very convenient and saves a lot of time compared to the standard way with “moving across the world map”. In the Office menu you will find other applications, part of the organizer. By the File manager you can view the phone memory and the memory card and copy/move files. The calculator does not have scientific functions and the converter doesn’t have the most attractive interface but it works. Notes is for short notes without alarms and reminders.
The office files are often received with the e-mails archived in series and that is why the phone is supplied with a ZIP manager, which can zip/unzip files. As a phone of the E-series, E51 comes with several more extra applications, not available in the other Symbian S60 phones. Teams is an application which makes it easy for you to conduct a conference conversation/send a message or use PushToTalk with a preset group of people differentiated as Team.
The email is set by means of a Wizard which saves you a lot of writing by automatically ‘completing’ part of the settings. If you know how to configure your e-mail, this will take one to two minutes and then you will be able to use it in your phone. You can preset your phone to download headers only and then a whole message when you want to view it, or download up to a fixed limit (a limit in KB set by you) or directly download the whole letters together with the attached files.
Nokia E51 is quad-band GSM phone supporting 3G UMTS/HSDPA at 850/2100 MHz bands, which means that is has one of the US 3G frequencies and the one for Europe/Asia. E51 supports WiFI 802.11g which is the standard for a wireless LAN network. Using WiFi or HSDPA data, loading and viewing standard HTML web pages is easy job. The phone has no problem rendering all pages and reading phoneArena’s news was a pleasure. Scrolling left-to-right and top-to-bottom is done with the phone’s d-pad, and a mini-map shows you, which part of the page you are looking at.
Nokia E51 disposes of a 2 megapixel camera, but regrettably, as mentioned above, it has neither a flashlight nor an auto-focus. The camera is started in 2.5 seconds and then you are faced with its definitely unattractive interface. Thus the manufacturer wants to show that this is not a multimedia phone and defines another difference between the E and N-series.
The music player is not the one we know from the N-series phones with Symbian 9.2 either, but is quite similar. Like the 6120 Classic for example. In the Now Playing interface you can navigate the directions of the d-pad, while information on the played track is visualized below. Album cover (if one is present) is visualized on the left.
In addition to the Music Player comes the built in FM tuner. It is nothing extraordinary but allows you to listen to local FM stations, delivering music or audio information (news for example) over the air. The interface is standard and allows for saving of up to 50 stations to your “favorite” list. As always, wired headphones should be attached in order to be used as an antenna for the phone. Unfortunately MPEG4 H.263-encoded video clip with QVGA Resolution and 460kbps bitrate appears to be too “heavy” for the device and the video lags, so only lower quality clips should be played.
Nokia E51 works with a processor of the ARM 11 type featuring a clock rate of 369 MHz. During the time when we were operating the phone it made quite a few slow-downs, especially at opening heavier applications. The phone even crashed several times and had to be restarted when attempting to close down the Nokia Maps program.
Minggu, April 17, 2011
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