It also has just a 680MHz processor, and lags well behind other phones in the same price range. The colours aren’t true and images were often blurry even in good light. While its hardware is solid as a rock – it’s aluminium all the way – the 8MP camera just isn’t that great, even with flash. It’s not just the software that lets the E7 down, though. Even some apps that we would consider near-necessities don’t show up in the Ovi market - there’s no IMDB app, no Kindle, and no official YouTube app. The Ovi store also leaves a lot to be desired, both in terms of its interface and available apps. Worse than that, the only way we could access the regular menu was by going into the applications menu from the home screen and then hitting the ‘back’ button. The E7’s version, Symbian^3, has a home screen, a regular menu and an applications menu, rather than integrating them into one. In short, it’s the most unintuitive smartphone operating system we’ve used. We’ve expressed some grievances with Symbian before, and nothing much has changed there. If you’re likely to be on the road for days at a time without much of a hope of charging your phone, the E7 can go the distance. Since high-flying business folks are always on the run, there are a host of travel apps – including some travel-related games – and the phone has an exceptionally long battery life. You certainly wouldn’t want to be reading long financial reports on it, although Nokia seems to think you would – there’s a Bloomberg app to keep track of business news and stocks. Between the resolution and lacklustre font smoothing, reading on the E7 just isn’t that great. It has a resolution of 360 x 640, which is high-ish for a smartphone. The AMOLED screen isn’t the biggest we’ve seen, but it’s still pretty large at four inches. We’ve used Quickoffice for Android before, and on the Symbian operating system – Nokia’s own OS which it has recently abandoned* in favour of Windows Phone 7 – the office suite is just as intuitive. As such, it comes with a bunch of office apps installed, including Adobe PDF, the Quickoffice suite, a file manager, and even a dictionary. The E7 is very obviously designed with business users in mind, who travel a lot and need a full QWERTY keyboard and big screen to tap out lengthy emails and documents. The Nokia E7 actually has the screen slide up to reveal the keyboard, but the effect is the same. We can practically hear the angels sing about tactile, responsive buttons. If there’s one thing we like about a smartphone, it’s the reassuring click of a keyboard sliding out from underneath.
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