ew: Nokia E70

**Anilrgowda** · 05-Jan-2007, 01:13 AM

Reviewed by oiltec from uk on 22nd Dec 2006
good all round mobile, does more than i realy need,but best to have to much. not happy with the size and the opening part of the keybord is to flimsey so am changing to the e 60
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Reviewed by johnson from uk on 12th Dec 2006
this phone is great its much better than the privies 6820 and 6822 also it has a 2mp camera (like before it was 0.3mp a poor camera) and the display too. this phone is just as good as n70 but no were as good as n73 n80 and k800i the 3MP phones
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Reviewed by saha from france on 11th Dec 2006
fantastic!!! one word simply fantastic i dont have 2 say any more about the phone just go out there and buy one !!! NOW !!!
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Reviewed by Richard Fell from UK on 4th Dec 2006
Note to the blind: the top of the 'submit a review' page says: "Love your mobile? Hate it? Please share your experiences to help opther people. . ." But what happens? These reviews are full of half-assed illiterate postings by morons who don't own the phone they're "reviewing" and who condescend to tell the rest of us that such-and-such is "brilliant, man!" because they've half understood the tech spec. "Get this phone now!" they scream. . . and then sit back wondering if they'll ever be able to afford a replacement for their 3310. Pathetic. Anyway. This is my account of my experience with an E70. 1. It's a great concept. 2. It's badly executed. 3. The hardware lacks precision and no amount of "learning curve" brings the reassurance of consistent, accurate performance. 4. I had the E70 for almost a week and lost count of the number of times it didn't do what I wanted it to because of an input mechanism that's as wayward as a small boat in a Force 10 gale. 5. So it was returned to the supplier. If you want tech specs, have a read elsewhere of all the posts from all the people who don't own the E70 but would wish you to believe they're experts that know what they're talking about. Yeah. Right. If
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Reviewed by Jemma Hawtrey from UK on 25th Nov 2006
I've owned - in order - Ericsson R380, Nokia 9210, Sony Ericsson P800, Nokia 9300 and finally the E70-1. Dont ask me what the '-1' means - I assume that it refers to the colour version (mine being the silver model). Of all the phones I have had so far its probably the best of the lot. Its pretty much got all the functionality of the 9300 PLUS it has a decent camera. The lack of camera is what kills the 9300 stone dead as anything other than a business phone - it wouldnt have killed Nokia to have put a decent camera in the 9300i - but I digress... The phone is well built and is a lot less intrusive in a pocket than the 9300. Its keyboard is a little trickier to use mainly because of the 'natural keyboard'-esque split which houses the screen and selection joystick & ok/cancel controls. I had gone into the shop with the intention of getting one of the D900 samsung handsets. I am very very glad that I didnt because this E70 is amazing. This illustrates one important consideration when going into a retail shop to purchase a new handset. Do your research first because there will most likely be a handset that will match you perfectly but dont expect the salesperson to even know that it exists.. not through any fault of their own, but the number of handsets available. Put simply if you want a handset that can handle web, email, wifi - has a qwerty keyboard - with the plus of a very reasonable camera and built in video recording & MP3/MP4/AAC playback there is not another phone on the market that even comes close. Nokia have done their job with this handset brilliantly - their only mistake - no-one actually really knows it exists!
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Reviewed by Easilyled from UK on 21st Nov 2006
I had the phone on trial from my service provider, fortunately. I managed to use it for a day before becoming totally frustrated with it. The first problem is the 5-way selection key. Great in theory but rubbish in practice. Unles you press it EXACTLY straight down, it tends to slide off up, down, left or right before registering the select, thus you get whatever option is above, below or alongside the one you actually want. It needs a separate button in the middle and certainly the one I had was virtually unusable. I hope Nokia take note. A simple 2nd key somewhere programmed as "select would help then you could use the (tiny) joystick, I needed to use my fingernails to move it, 4 ways only and dont bother with the "perpendicular press". In 2 years use with PC and laptop, my wireless router has never missed a beat over wifi. At first I could only get the E70 to connect with no security on the wifi at all. Gradually I turned security on, 1st access control (only approved MAC addresses) then encryption. The E70 would not work with non-broadcasting wifi name. The router had to be set to broadcast its id. Well I got it to work eventually but 24 hours later, no joy again. As a phone its a flawed concept, too big for a phone, to small for a PDA and how do you keep the screen scratch-free so you can see the admittedly amazingly clear small font? Nice idea. Not for me though.
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Reviewed by NJSS from UK on 13th Nov 2006
A great 'phone in principal, but not yet fully debugged. Mine was very slow, and communications by cable or Bluetooth to PCs were patchy. A firmware upgrade was recommended and carried out by the local club Nokia depot. This improved the speed somewhat but spoilt the keyboard mapping - hitting the + key have an @ sign etc. After four firmware upgrades in a couple of weeks - all done by the Club Nokia shop the 'phone won't communicate at all. It has been returned and I have gone back to my excellent Nokia 6810. My recommendation is to avoid 'phones with the Symbian O/S and stick with those with Nokia's own O/S.
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Reviewed by kevin from england on 23rd Oct 2006
this fone is amazing it can e-mail and even send stuff by bluetooth coooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by honshud from korea on 2nd Oct 2006
this phone is a junk phone DID NOT LIKE IT U COULD BETTER NEXT TIME NOKIA
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Reviewed by Dave from UK on 29th Aug 2006
Nice phone just sent to market too early. I have had an E70 for about 3 months, as an eval blackberry replacement. We liked the keyboard and the screen but at launch it had no Blackckberry client. Now there is a client but it needs a software update, no software updater yet for this phone. So for the last month I have used it as a phone....not as a replacement for my blackberry, how retro is that. You can't connect it to your PC via the out of the box cable and charge the phone. You need another cable for that. It plays mono out of the box, want stereo then there is another cable for that. Want a car kit that doesn't use bluepoop, well its not out yet. This will be a great phone for business when Nokia finally get all the bits we need in the box on day one. At that time we will by lots of them. Until then we will be deploying blackberries.
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Reviewed by W2C from UK on 11th Aug 2006
I have had the E70 for a week now. Initially the keyboard takes some getting used to but once you've used it for a while it quickly becomes comfortable (I'm writing this review from the phone). Initially I found the phone very frustrating because it kept running out memory especially when using the web browser. I had it flashed to the latest firmware by a friend and it no longer does this anymore. It also used to take a lot of time & memory to switch screen orientations. This is much faster now (although still a bit slow). Anyway now it is a pretty good phone plus email plus browser machine. wifi works very well. it is much snappier than my 9300. the screen is very nice and the fonts and pictures are very clear with the onboard camera (atleast for taking pics of whiteboards) BUT it is much smaller than the 9300 internal screen. Best function is the voice control that lets you turn on bluetooth or change profile after long pressing the voice key - use ful in the car. Biggest disappointment is that the Blackberry software doesn't work with the new firmware but that should be temporary. But I'm taking a star off because I need that functionality & my company does not support other push solutions. Overall a keeper if you get the new firmware.
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Reviewed by André from Switzerland on 7th Aug 2006
The Nokia E70 is one of the best "technically performant" mobile phones on the market today. It currently has one the finest screens, sporting 352x416 pixels (totalling 146'432 pixels). This allows it to show more information than other handsets, which usually have around 40'000 pixels, maybe 80'000 for the better ones. Another strong selling point for this phone is its ability to connect to WiFi. Data connection costs can be very expensive; for example, by simply loading the CNN web page on the phone browser, one could be billed as high as $1. Thanks to WiFi, the the phone user can take advantage of wireless hotspots and surf online for free. Furthermore Wifi is much faster than the connection from the service provider. One might be disappinted by the absence of built-in FM radio, however an add-on accessory, the HS-2R Nokia headset, could be used to provide such functionality. The built-in camera has also received some criticism: it has no auto focus, which means that a photography of something close, like a page of text, might be too blurry.There is an application being developed (Mobile Scan) to address this issue, allowing using the camera as a scanner. Also criticized is the lack of a frontal camera (the camera on its back can be used for video calls, but that would be a little cumbersome, requiring tricks like pointing at a mirror for the callee to be able to see the caller), and somewhat bulky and "inelegant" looks under certain angles. The phone is available in two colors, silver and black. It should be overtaken, in terms of capacities by the soon-to-come Sony-Ericsson P990i.
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Reviewed by the gimp from england on 31st Jul 2006
best fone ever must buy!!!!!!
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Reviewed by Sree Kumar from sree@ziksa.com on 23rd Jul 2006
I have a small review of the fantastic browser on the Nokia E70 at www.missaticum.net/mobileblog/.
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Reviewed by nerd from Iceland on 21st Jun 2006
This is pretty much a phone for a business person looking for something like a Blackberry 87xx but in a smaller package, a super compact communicator. I traded in a iPAQ PDA phone running Windows Mobile for this one and so far the E70 can do anything my PDA phone could and more. I particularly liked the E70s impressive connectivity features, the fold out QWERTY keyboard with which you can type obscure Scandinavian, German, French etc... letters without having to jump through flaming hoops, the display which makes up for it's small size with a resolution of 352x416 pixels (which is actually a greater resolution than my old iPAQ had) and the fact that Nokia managed to cram all this into a package that isn't much bigger than an Ericsson T610 I used to own. The E70 impressed me by having broad support for all the things a business person most needs and dispensing with alot of bells and whistles. The E70 has broad support for Email (supports: POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP plus it will sync with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes and it is Blackberry enabled), chat clients are available, it has a (very) basic word processor and spreadsheet editor, a PDF reader and the web browser is actually quite usable!! Features I haven't tested yet include: what appears to be quite good VPN support which is essential for accessing corporate networks and a WLAN interface. From my point of view as a business user it's biggest shortcoming is actually the camera which sometimes results in it being confiscated by security personnel.
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Reviewed by hannah chorley from england on 20th Jun 2006
i bought this phone for its nice looks and practicality, but when i got it home i was very dissapointed, the whole set up was the biggest pile of ********* i have ever seen, then the **** store would not return it or give me a refund so i was stuck with this phone and ended up buying another one a month later do not buy this phone
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Reviewed by zamra from united kingdom on 6th Mar 2006
this has enough memory to last a life time unlike the n91 it does not have a 4gb hardrive but style makes up for the specs with a 2mp camera. I highly recomend this phone becouse i've had mine for amonth and it is a superb phonewith a qwerty key boured
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05-Jan-2007, 01:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,715 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	ew: Nokia E70 Reviewed by oiltec from uk on 22nd Dec 2006 good all round mobile, does more than i realy need,but best to have to much. not happy with the size and the opening part of the keybord is to flimsey so am changing to the e 60 Rating: Reviewed by johnson from uk on 12th Dec 2006 this phone is great its much better than the privies 6820 and 6822 also it has a 2mp camera (like before it was 0.3mp a poor camera) and the display too. this phone is just as good as n70 but no were as good as n73 n80 and k800i the 3MP phones Rating: Reviewed by saha from france on 11th Dec 2006 fantastic!!! one word simply fantastic i dont have 2 say any more about the phone just go out there and buy one !!! NOW !!! Rating: Reviewed by Richard Fell from UK on 4th Dec 2006 Note to the blind: the top of the 'submit a review' page says: "Love your mobile? Hate it? Please share your experiences to help opther people. . ." But what happens? These reviews are full of half-assed illiterate postings by morons who don't own the phone they're "reviewing" and who condescend to tell the rest of us that such-and-such is "brilliant, man!" because they've half understood the tech spec. "Get this phone now!" they scream. . . and then sit back wondering if they'll ever be able to afford a replacement for their 3310. Pathetic. Anyway. This is my account of my experience with an E70. 1. It's a great concept. 2. It's badly executed. 3. The hardware lacks precision and no amount of "learning curve" brings the reassurance of consistent, accurate performance. 4. I had the E70 for almost a week and lost count of the number of times it didn't do what I wanted it to because of an input mechanism that's as wayward as a small boat in a Force 10 gale. 5. So it was returned to the supplier. If you want tech specs, have a read elsewhere of all the posts from all the people who don't own the E70 but would wish you to believe they're experts that know what they're talking about. Yeah. Right. If Rating: Reviewed by Jemma Hawtrey from UK on 25th Nov 2006 I've owned - in order - Ericsson R380, Nokia 9210, Sony Ericsson P800, Nokia 9300 and finally the E70-1. Dont ask me what the '-1' means - I assume that it refers to the colour version (mine being the silver model). Of all the phones I have had so far its probably the best of the lot. Its pretty much got all the functionality of the 9300 PLUS it has a decent camera. The lack of camera is what kills the 9300 stone dead as anything other than a business phone - it wouldnt have killed Nokia to have put a decent camera in the 9300i - but I digress... The phone is well built and is a lot less intrusive in a pocket than the 9300. Its keyboard is a little trickier to use mainly because of the 'natural keyboard'-esque split which houses the screen and selection joystick & ok/cancel controls. I had gone into the shop with the intention of getting one of the D900 samsung handsets. I am very very glad that I didnt because this E70 is amazing. This illustrates one important consideration when going into a retail shop to purchase a new handset. Do your research first because there will most likely be a handset that will match you perfectly but dont expect the salesperson to even know that it exists.. not through any fault of their own, but the number of handsets available. Put simply if you want a handset that can handle web, email, wifi - has a qwerty keyboard - with the plus of a very reasonable camera and built in video recording & MP3/MP4/AAC playback there is not another phone on the market that even comes close. Nokia have done their job with this handset brilliantly - their only mistake - no-one actually really knows it exists! Rating: Reviewed by Easilyled from UK on 21st Nov 2006 I had the phone on trial from my service provider, fortunately. I managed to use it for a day before becoming totally frustrated with it. The first problem is the 5-way selection key. Great in theory but rubbish in practice. Unles you press it EXACTLY straight down, it tends to slide off up, down, left or right before registering the select, thus you get whatever option is above, below or alongside the one you actually want. It needs a separate button in the middle and certainly the one I had was virtually unusable. I hope Nokia take note. A simple 2nd key somewhere programmed as "select would help then you could use the (tiny) joystick, I needed to use my fingernails to move it, 4 ways only and dont bother with the "perpendicular press". In 2 years use with PC and laptop, my wireless router has never missed a beat over wifi. At first I could only get the E70 to connect with no security on the wifi at all. Gradually I turned security on, 1st access control (only approved MAC addresses) then encryption. The E70 would not work with non-broadcasting wifi name. The router had to be set to broadcast its id. Well I got it to work eventually but 24 hours later, no joy again. As a phone its a flawed concept, too big for a phone, to small for a PDA and how do you keep the screen scratch-free so you can see the admittedly amazingly clear small font? Nice idea. Not for me though. Rating: Reviewed by NJSS from UK on 13th Nov 2006 A great 'phone in principal, but not yet fully debugged. Mine was very slow, and communications by cable or Bluetooth to PCs were patchy. A firmware upgrade was recommended and carried out by the local club Nokia depot. This improved the speed somewhat but spoilt the keyboard mapping - hitting the + key have an @ sign etc. After four firmware upgrades in a couple of weeks - all done by the Club Nokia shop the 'phone won't communicate at all. It has been returned and I have gone back to my excellent Nokia 6810. My recommendation is to avoid 'phones with the Symbian O/S and stick with those with Nokia's own O/S. Rating: Reviewed by kevin from england on 23rd Oct 2006 this fone is amazing it can e-mail and even send stuff by bluetooth coooooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by honshud from korea on 2nd Oct 2006 this phone is a junk phone DID NOT LIKE IT U COULD BETTER NEXT TIME NOKIA Rating: Reviewed by Dave from UK on 29th Aug 2006 Nice phone just sent to market too early. I have had an E70 for about 3 months, as an eval blackberry replacement. We liked the keyboard and the screen but at launch it had no Blackckberry client. Now there is a client but it needs a software update, no software updater yet for this phone. So for the last month I have used it as a phone....not as a replacement for my blackberry, how retro is that. You can't connect it to your PC via the out of the box cable and charge the phone. You need another cable for that. It plays mono out of the box, want stereo then there is another cable for that. Want a car kit that doesn't use bluepoop, well its not out yet. This will be a great phone for business when Nokia finally get all the bits we need in the box on day one. At that time we will by lots of them. Until then we will be deploying blackberries. Rating: Reviewed by W2C from UK on 11th Aug 2006 I have had the E70 for a week now. Initially the keyboard takes some getting used to but once you've used it for a while it quickly becomes comfortable (I'm writing this review from the phone). Initially I found the phone very frustrating because it kept running out memory especially when using the web browser. I had it flashed to the latest firmware by a friend and it no longer does this anymore. It also used to take a lot of time & memory to switch screen orientations. This is much faster now (although still a bit slow). Anyway now it is a pretty good phone plus email plus browser machine. wifi works very well. it is much snappier than my 9300. the screen is very nice and the fonts and pictures are very clear with the onboard camera (atleast for taking pics of whiteboards) BUT it is much smaller than the 9300 internal screen. Best function is the voice control that lets you turn on bluetooth or change profile after long pressing the voice key - use ful in the car. Biggest disappointment is that the Blackberry software doesn't work with the new firmware but that should be temporary. But I'm taking a star off because I need that functionality & my company does not support other push solutions. Overall a keeper if you get the new firmware. Rating: Reviewed by André from Switzerland on 7th Aug 2006 The Nokia E70 is one of the best "technically performant" mobile phones on the market today. It currently has one the finest screens, sporting 352x416 pixels (totalling 146'432 pixels). This allows it to show more information than other handsets, which usually have around 40'000 pixels, maybe 80'000 for the better ones. Another strong selling point for this phone is its ability to connect to WiFi. Data connection costs can be very expensive; for example, by simply loading the CNN web page on the phone browser, one could be billed as high as $1. Thanks to WiFi, the the phone user can take advantage of wireless hotspots and surf online for free. Furthermore Wifi is much faster than the connection from the service provider. One might be disappinted by the absence of built-in FM radio, however an add-on accessory, the HS-2R Nokia headset, could be used to provide such functionality. The built-in camera has also received some criticism: it has no auto focus, which means that a photography of something close, like a page of text, might be too blurry.There is an application being developed (Mobile Scan) to address this issue, allowing using the camera as a scanner. Also criticized is the lack of a frontal camera (the camera on its back can be used for video calls, but that would be a little cumbersome, requiring tricks like pointing at a mirror for the callee to be able to see the caller), and somewhat bulky and "inelegant" looks under certain angles. The phone is available in two colors, silver and black. It should be overtaken, in terms of capacities by the soon-to-come Sony-Ericsson P990i. Rating: Reviewed by the gimp from england on 31st Jul 2006 best fone ever must buy!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Sree Kumar from sree@ziksa.com on 23rd Jul 2006 I have a small review of the fantastic browser on the Nokia E70 at www.missaticum.net/mobileblog/. Rating: Reviewed by nerd from Iceland on 21st Jun 2006 This is pretty much a phone for a business person looking for something like a Blackberry 87xx but in a smaller package, a super compact communicator. I traded in a iPAQ PDA phone running Windows Mobile for this one and so far the E70 can do anything my PDA phone could and more. I particularly liked the E70s impressive connectivity features, the fold out QWERTY keyboard with which you can type obscure Scandinavian, German, French etc... letters without having to jump through flaming hoops, the display which makes up for it's small size with a resolution of 352x416 pixels (which is actually a greater resolution than my old iPAQ had) and the fact that Nokia managed to cram all this into a package that isn't much bigger than an Ericsson T610 I used to own. The E70 impressed me by having broad support for all the things a business person most needs and dispensing with alot of bells and whistles. The E70 has broad support for Email (supports: POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP plus it will sync with Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes and it is Blackberry enabled), chat clients are available, it has a (very) basic word processor and spreadsheet editor, a PDF reader and the web browser is actually quite usable!! Features I haven't tested yet include: what appears to be quite good VPN support which is essential for accessing corporate networks and a WLAN interface. From my point of view as a business user it's biggest shortcoming is actually the camera which sometimes results in it being confiscated by security personnel. Rating: Reviewed by hannah chorley from england on 20th Jun 2006 i bought this phone for its nice looks and practicality, but when i got it home i was very dissapointed, the whole set up was the biggest pile of ******* i have ever seen, then the store would not return it or give me a refund so i was stuck with this phone and ended up buying another one a month later do not buy this phone Rating: Reviewed by zamra from united kingdom on 6th Mar 2006 this has enough memory to last a life time unlike the n91 it does not have a 4gb hardrive but style makes up for the specs with a 2mp camera. I highly recomend this phone becouse i've had mine for amonth and it is a superb phonewith a qwerty key boured Rating:**

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