Nokia E5 Review

The Nokia E5 keeps with Nokia's style of creating smartphone devices not only for business owners, but also for the more casual user or IT Professional as well. The device has the clever feature of switching among 2 different home screens (Personal/Business) that was first brought on by the Nokia E72. This Nokia E5 review will give you the details.

The chassis is very well made. The back is of aluminum, and the rest is made of a hard plastic that is glossy, yet does not catch fingerprints.

The frontal side of the phone is divided among the 2.36 inch display, and the full QWERTY keyboard. There are some very useful shortcuts on the E5 keyboard, like for instance a bluetooth on/off function, a mute function, and a flashlight option, that uses the E5's camera flash.

Under the hood there are Wi-Fi, HSDPA and Assisted GPS, as well as a 5-megapixel camera that has a LED flash, and plenty of software, under Symbian v3. Ovi Contacts, Ovi Chat are apps included with the device by default. This is also the case for MySpace, Facebook, Quickoffice, YouTube, Twitter, Ovi Files and Ovi Sync.

Facebook has great integration in the E5, because you can link contacts from Facebook to your Sim contacts. You might also link newly added contacts, to their respective Facebook profiles.

A fantastic side regarding the Nokia E5 is the excellent music output. A large selection of file types can be handled mp3, eAAC+, WMA and others and while the sound is OK using the default headphones, it will improve substantially if you upgrade them.

The 1200 mAh battery allows for more than 12 hours talk time, and over 38 hours music time while used for playing mp3's.

All things considered the Nokia E5's full QWERTY keyboard and fantastic music fidelity make this phone well worth looking into, with some disadvantages of the product being no advanced camera features, low screen resolution, and the default web browser that freezes on occasion. We sincerely hope this Nokia E5 review answered most of your questions about the device and helped you in making a decision.