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The Nokia E7 smartphone with QWERTY and touch screen is here; with a punch line success doesn’t need a desk. Those who were eagerly waiting for this mobile handset in India can now rush to their nearest Nokia dealer and can buy one. Some network companies like Vodafone have also come up with some exclusive offers for its customers.
The Nokia E7 comes loaded with social networking application and mobile office solution. So no matter where you are you can always make sure you carry your desk with you.  The Nokia E7 can help you edit, create and view office documents. You can check emails and also access Twitter and Facebook. There are thousands of applications that one can find on Ovi Store.

The E7 is powered by 680 MHz ARM 11 processor, Broadcom BCM2727 GPU and running on the Symbian^3 OS. Those who have already been using the Windows 7 mobile OS and the Google Android may not be comfortable using this phone.

This handset comes with 8 MP digital camera that can shoot pictures in 3264×2448 pixels resolution, the camera also features the dual-LED flash. The camera comes with other features like face detection and geo tagging. Video can be recorded in 720p@25fps the secondary video is VGA.

The main highlight is the Nokia clear black display with Scratch resistant Gorilla glass and QWERTY keyboard. The handset also features multi touch input method.  The display type is AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that supports 16M colours and of size 101.6mm.

The phone also houses a Proximity sensor for auto turn-off and Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate.  This Nokia E7 mobile phone supports GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB (microUSB 2.0 with USB on-the-go support).

The phone gets power from Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4D) that can last for up to 432 hours in standby mode and up to 9 hours in Talktime.

The Nokia E7 is priced at Rs. 29,999/- for Vodafone customers they can avail 3G/EDGE services of 2GB per month for 6 months.

Though the Nokia E7 looks good and has decent number of features the weak point is its operating system. I had used the Nokia 9500 before but after using windows mobile OS and now the Google Android OS, Nokia E7 Symbian^3 OS does not excite me.

Symbian is just about to be knocked off the top-spot as the market-leading smartphone platform. Worse yet, while loyal users are still sitting on a fence about replacing their E71/E72s Nokia is deciding whether to euthanize Symbian. Question marks have been hanging over the platform’s approach to touchscreen since day one. And now it’s got WP7 at its very doorstep. It’s the worst of times for the Nokia E7. But it’s up to it to show that the Eseries are still open for business.

Key features
•Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
•Penta-band 3G with 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA
•Anodized aluminum unibody
•4" 16M-color ClearBlack AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
•Scratch resistant Gorilla glass display
•8 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash
•720p video recording @ 25fps
•Symbian^3 OS
•680 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 256 MB RAM
•Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
•microHDMI port 720p TV-out functionality
•GPS receiver with A-GPS support and free lifetime voice-guided navigation
•Digital compass
•16GB of on-board storage
•Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
•DivX and XviD video support
•Built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor
•Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
•Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter
•microUSB port with USB On-the-go
•Flash and Java support for the web browser
•Stereo Bluetooth 3.0
•Good quality audio
•Smart and voice dialing
•Office document editor preinstalled
Main disadvantages
•Symbian^3 is still behind Android and iOS usability standards
•Ovi store content is inferior to Android market and App Store
•Fixed-focus on an 8 megapixel camera is just wrong
•Camera interface is decidedly outdated
•Battery is not user-replaceable
•No microSD card slot
Now, Nokia reconfirmed their commitment to Symbian in the short-term, but that doesn’t mean much. If the platform is to be scrapped, users will learn it the hard way when regular updates stop coming in. Occasional bug-fixes is the best they can hope to get. And good software support is among of the main reasons why people still choose Nokia.

However, how much short-term can stretch depends on the success of the current Symbian^3 devices. So if the Nokia E7 does at least as well on the market as the N8, it might as well buy the platform a few extra years.

As you can see from the lists above, the Nokia E7 is basically a larger N8, trading the camera bulk for a a larger and better display and a full QWERTY keyboard. To be honest though, when we reviewed the N8 it was mostly the camera we were delighted with. Then, that was five months ago and the bar is set higher now.

Business as usual for the Eseries is a cliché – thank you very much. But the kind that makes the world feel right. The Nokia E7 could’ve been just another Eseries phone. Oh well, that wasn’t meant to be. The latest is implicitly the greatest but, in the case of the E7, the latest may simply be the last......