#nokia e71 review

After a couple of weeks with the Nokia E71, I can certainly say it's the best and most equipped smartphone coming out of Nokia's doors for the longest time. The Nokia E71 (see unboxing pics here) is the successor of the popular Nokia E61 & E61i but follows the same features from the candybar Nokia E51 (see review here). Nokia has shrunked the E71 to just 57mm (E61i is 70mm) and trimmed it down to an amazingly 10mm (E61i is 13.9mm) thickness. In the connectivity department, the Nokia E71 offers everything imaginable in its form factor -- 3G/HSDPA 3.6Mbps, WiFi 802.11 b/g, built-in GPS receiver and A-GPS function, microUSB, infra-red and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP. All-in-all, I'd give the Nokia E71 a good buy for data/connectivity dependent users. Well, that's until the qwerty Nokia E71 goes on sale at the end of the month. At first, I thought the N78 would be just a slight improvement over its N77 predecessor (see my review of the Nokia N77 here) but turns out these two have very little things alike and the former isn't a digital TV phone. The Nokia N78 features a prominent directional pad at the center called the Navi-Wheel which was initially introduced in the N81 (see my review of the Nokia N81 here). Read more in our articles including "Nokia E71 Review" and "Nokia E51 Review".