The Nokia E5 is the latest entrant to Nokia's venerated E-series family of business phones
Pros:
- Excellent Productivity Features
- GPS,Wi-Fi & 3G Support
- High Value for Money Quotient
- Powerful Battery
- Excellent Call Quality & Hands-Free
Cons:
- Average Screen
- Average Camera
- Difficult to Configure & Use E-mail over Wi-Fi
Page 1: Introduction, Features, Productivity
After a long gap of close to six months since the launch of the Nokia E52, we finally have a new phone in Nokia’s E-series line-up of business phones in the form of the Nokia E5. However, unlike other E-series phones such as the E71, E72, E75 or even the E52, it’s quite clear that unlike its predecessors, the E5 doesn’t take itself too seriously. Everything from its looks, build and features suggests that the E5 isn’t just aimed at executives but also consumers looking for a little bit of everything from their smartphone.
If you are used to the S60 interface of the older E-series phones, then you will warm up to the E5 very quickly.
Features
The Nokia E5 might not cost the earth, but it doesn’t hold back on features. Its hardware specs are respectable with a 600MHz processor, 256MB of RAM and 250MB of internal storage (expandable to 32GB of microSD storage). The E5 supports Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS and uses Symbian v9.3 as its OS and the S60 v3.2 UI. The UI has been slightly changed from the ones found on the older E-series phones.
Multimedia is taken care of by a 5MP fixed focus camera with an LED flash that can also record VGA videos at 15fps and a media player that can playback MP4, H.264, H.263 and WMV videos and MP3, WMA, WAV and eAAC audio files. The Nokia E5 comes pre-installed with a bunch of interesting apps and you can always get more apps from the Ovi Store.
Productivity
While the Nokia E5 might have a bunch of social networking apps for Twitter, Facebook, Hi5, YouTube and Friendster, it doesn’t forget that at the end of the day, it’s a business phone. For productivity purposes, the E5 comes with the QuickOffice Premium suite.
QuickOffice Premium Suite comes pre-installed on the Nokia E5.
This is probably the most comprehensive suite out there as the E5 could view, edit and create Excel, sheets, Word documents and PowerPoint presentations in the best possible way that you can do so on a mobile phone. The E5 also comes installed with Adobe Reader making it easy to read PDF documents.
QuickOffice lets you work with XLS, DOC, PPT & PDF files
The E5 also has a full-featured organizer and calendar and very good contact management features. When it comes to e-mail, the E5 allows you to setup multiple e-mail accounts and supports Microsoft Exchange. However, I faced plenty of issues when trying to setup my Gmail account over Wi-Fi. I finally had to resort to using my GPRS connection for the same but then after the setup was completed, the E5 resolutely refused to download my mails either over GPRS or Wi-Fi. After multiple tries, I still didn’t stumble across success and finally, gave up. I still don’t understand what the issue is but I did come across several people online having the same issues with e-mail on the E5 using Wi-Fi.
You can setup multiple e-mail accounts from different e-mail providers on the Nokia E5.
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