Nokia E 7 Review Details 2011

Recently ProPakistani got its hands on the Nokia E7. Traditionally Nokia has geared the E series towards the business class but the E7 aims to do away with that and is designed in a way that it has a consumer feel to it too. So without further ado, let’s get started:

Design and Build:

The Nokia E7 is very similar to the Nokia N8. In fact it looks like its big brother. The build quality of the E7 is exceptional. It’s made from the same anodized aluminum the N8 is made of and it feels great in the hand. However the battery isn’t replaceable – so hard luck if your phone dies on you.

The left side of the Nokia E7 sports the lock/unlock slider key. The top houses mini-USB slot, a mini-HDMI slot, the power button and a 3.5mm audio jack, which can also be used for TV output at standard resolution.

The E7 has a great feature called USB on-the-go which allows you to plug a USB and it’ll automatically start the file manager through which you can access files on the USB. The mini-HDMI slot is a great treat and outputs video in 720p.

There is a SIM card slot which contains a SIM tray (which is a bit fragile and I was praying that I don’t break it whenever I was handling it), the camera capture key as well as a slider which doubles up to zoom in/out and volume up/down on the right side.

On the back it has the speaker at the bottom, a microphone which helps in noise cancelling during calls and the 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash. The front side has a single menu button, which is a welcome change since the menu key on the N8 was extremely annoying because it wasn’t centered.

Nokia E7 has a light sensor (which changes screen brightness according to lighting conditions) as well as a VGA camera on the front for video calls. But the defining feature of the E7 is revealed when you slide the phone to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The keys are well spaced and are wonderful to type on. The spacebar is perfectly centered and this keyboard is one of the best I’ve seen on any device. I should mention here that the build quality is so good that you don’t even realize that the phone splits in the middle.