Packing a redesigned edition of your much-maligned Symbian operating plan, the E7's qwerty keyboard and slick, rapidly computer software could attract organization mobile customers in the direction of the Nokia camp.

The styling all round owes a complete lot in the direction of the N8, a cell phone that Nokia happen to be displaying off for a while, but is only just coming to market. Just about every phones share the similar running program - Symbian 3. Symbian three is Nokia's newest version of their platform, that up till now has not made it the superior street. As an OS we've heard a fantastic offer, it really is been talked about an incredible deal, on the other hand it has not had the genuine planet testing that may permit us know regardless of no matter whether men and women will like it or not.

Symbian 3 packs many social features, tying your cell phone as well as your contacts to Facebook and Twitter. It delivers three household screens, which you might customise with widgets displaying every single factor from the e-mail to news headlines and Internet Tv. Symbian 3 also appears within the new Nokia C7 and paying price range C6-01. For extra on Symbian 3, browse our initially impressions of your software in our C7 preview.

But does the E7, together with Symbian^3 in addition to the Nokia N8, have what it normally takes to re-establish Nokia as being a name to become feared inside the international cellular cell phone markets? We take a look to uncover out...

If you've witnessed any movies or shots in the E7 you'll realize that it might be a extremely equivalent looking system to the Nokia N8 (113.five x 59 x twelve.nine mm). Really, their anodised aluminium chassis are quite significantly identical in terms of model and form, however the E7, at 123.seven x 62.four x 13.six mm, is slightly bigger and has that slide-out Qwerty keyboard also.

The facet with the mobile phone consists of a physical lock swap, also as the on-screen lock. The amount vital to the side in the mobile phone is definitely a sliding change that springs back again for the middle anytime you pull up or down, as opposed to two flat buttons.

Generating a slight departure from your typical organization specs (and 1 from the reasons we're not overly convinced this is actually a smaller business enterprise cell phone) you will also uncover an HDMI port around the conclusion, with assistance for Dolby Digital Plus, so you'll possess the capability to output your articles in glorious surround sound. Employing an HDMI cable you'll be able to play back again High definition content materials you might have saved around the unit or captured with all the 8-megapixel video digital camera about the back again. We have observed some sample pictures from your N8 (and we'd guess the E7 would give the identical digital camera performance) plus they seemed wonderful, but we'll need to examination whether or not it lives as a lot as Nokia's billing when we get the telephone in for any complete critique - along with the identical applies to video clip.

We do have one matter, even though, applying the E7's model, and that is the Qwerty keyboard's sliding mechanism. Place shortly, it is really difficult to open. Throughout screening we passed it about the office to find out if other individuals expert similar problems to us. Needless to say, no one managed to accomplish it incredibly to begin with time - it does get a complete great deal simpler with practise though, so do not be concerned also a great deal about this.

You might also discover that the on-screen keyboard is relatively slick, acquiring a landscape providing that's big adequate and appeared responsive enough. Flipping the mobile phone to portrait sees the telephone swing into a standard 12-key keypad providing, making use of the regular predictive text. Strangely you will find no portrait keyboard choices, you've the keypad and that is certainly it. The E7 copes accurately on landscape and portrait, with most menus switching around to match the feature of the unit - some smartphones will not re-orient the menus, so this could be a neat touch.