Nokia unveils E7 business smartphone

By on Sep 14, 2010 at 7:42 AM
General September 14, 2010

This morning at Nokia World, the Finnish mobile OEM showed some love to their E-series business line by introducing the E7 handset. The E7 — which will be available in Q4 of 2010 — packs a 4-inch, polarized, AMOLED display that has a 640 x360 resolution. The device has a peta-band WCDMA radio, quad-band GSM radio, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and GPS. Aside from enough radios to cook a chicken, the E7 also features a full-QWERTY slide and tilt keyboard, 16 GB of mass storage, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording and dual-LED flash, HMDI connector, and 1200 mAh battery. The device will come with a plethora of preinstalled, business-centric software titles and will be priced at €495. We’ve got the full data sheet for you after the break.

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  • Sith Lord

    If this had Android on it, I might leave my iPhone 4 for this phone. I miss a real keyboard, but not enough for another Android phone over the I4.

    • Tiago

      Granted, this SEEMS like a great smartphone and slapping Symbian inside is most likely a bad career move for Nokia, but why would they ever “surrender” to Android when they’re trying to push Meego in?

      and keyboard-wise, if the E7′s is anything like the N97′s (which is more than likely) it’s an Everlast

  • mingkee

    It looks like a combination of N8 and N97. However, complete NAM 3G is definitely a good thing for the both worlds.

  • Krops

    Very nice looking device there.

  • Elektra

    Looks nice. Unfortunately, Nokia will no longer get my money. Their devices look impressive on paper, but poor on performance. My last Nokia device was the N95. It was the best at that time. Although all phones back then were already good on paper but sluggish and unstable and frustrating and disappointing when you actually use them. But now, it’s either IOS, Android, or even Bada for me.

    • Mark C

      I’m just the opposite, about a year and a half ago, I needed a cheap unlocked phone. For two bills I picked up a 5800. I have gotten my $200 out of it and more. It’s not an iPhone and its not a Droid, but I have beat the sh*t out of it and the SOB and all of it’s features keeps working and working and working.

      It never claimed to take me out to lunch or wash my dog like most phones do now, and never deliver on. It does what it says it can do.

      For my money in terms of value for the buck and being able to avoid being a slave to a bloated contract, i’ll keep looking at Nokia.

  • RAS

    I hope Symbian ^3 doesn’t have the lag I remember from my E71/E90/N95.

    • Johnny Tremaine

      I have a Samsung i8910, the highest specced Symbian up to now, and it’s *still* laggy and slow. I’m done with Symbian; it blows.

      • Frank

        I have an Omnia HD as well and I have not experienced any lag or slowness. In fact my HD is fairly snappy considering it is running Touch Wiz on top of Symbian.

    • Nokia Guy

      Do a software update and master reset your phone. dont leave a 1000+ messages in the phone. it slows it down and unless restart your phone. remember it IS a smartphone and smartphones are like computers. Restart it and itll be alot faster

  • ljp

    For the amount of importance that tech blogs have put on the processor, I find it interesting that there is no discussion about Nokia’s move to not mention the processor in any of these device announcements.

  • bob

    nokia users.. and there are a lot of them.. will love these phones. and the europeans i know would much rather stick with nokia than switch to iphone or android.

  • Gunnar Leon

    hey guys, I am pretty new to SmartPhones, I own a Droid and am a bit curious about Nokia, but i have never seen one, why is it that US carriers don’t sell them? and please don’t tell me they suck, because their a lot of crappy phones on their shelves. And these phone look cool and I can’t believe not one of our 4 main carries will subsidize them, thanks,

    • ThisGuy

      US carriers dont like the fact that Nokia insists on certain services and features are included on their phones. For example, Nokia wants Ovi Maps on all their smartphones. Ovi Maps provides free voice guided navigation. AT&T doesnt want Ovi Maps on any of the phones they offer because, they are making money off their AT&T Navigator application ($10/month from each user). Now if they were to release a Nokia smartphone with Ovi Maps, they will most likely lose alot of the revenue they make from AT&T Navigator, cuz lets face it…..who would pay $10/month for an inferior AT&T Navigator service, when they can get free voice guided navigation with Ovi Maps. Nokia is very adamant about providing Ovi Maps for free on their phones, AT&T is very adamant about making money with AT&T Navigator. In the end, both companies stand their ground and thus you dont see alot or any Nokia smartphones from US carriers. T-Mobile is more likely to carry a Nokia smartphone because they dont have the service offerings the other carriers have….and frankly T-Mobile is more open to these things for their customers. Check out the differences between the Samsung Vibrant (t-mobile) and the Samsung Captivate (at&t).

      • Allen Walker

        I agree.. Although the Captivate is really fun and an awesome device. It really makes me mad that AT&T wouldn’t allow Samsung to add on a front facing camera and a flash in fear of “ruining” iPhone sales…

        That little fact came from a Samsung rep..

      • dipshit

        Handsome devil….

      • blkrabb1t

        The pure irony is that there’s stuff like Google Maps on Android that has comparable service to Ovi Maps. And I’m guessing that carriers will be a little bit more open to Nokia now that they had to make those concessions and allow stuff like application purchases and navigation without having to go through the carrier.

        And yeah, ATT is a bit overprotective of the iPhone. Even more reasons for them, to lose exclusivity of the iPhone, and Apple would probably sell more phones that way too.

      • variaatio

        Same goes for voip and other heavy data applications. Many of the nokia devices support sip and skype is available for symbian (so no minutes for carrier) and for example with joikuspot software you can turn symbian phone to a unlimited wifi hotspot. Also Nokia phones have had tethering capability since gprs was developed. Carriers don’t want to allow this kind of heavy data features, because it makes them dumb data pipes selling bulk data plans, so they don’t take Nokia’s to their catalog very often.

        Also Nokia makes only gsm based phones. So they can’t be sold by carriers who use cdma networks.

  • tomnewtn

    so this will work on TMO’s 3g US network?

    • rich

      I’m not sure but i believe this phone might have the similiar specs as the N8 which includes all the bands used in the US. TMO and ATT compatible i believe

    • bob

      yes from now all ALL nokia phones will work on ANY 3G network in the WORLD

      ATT, TMOBILE,VODA,ORANGE etc…

  • equator

    If you use maps and navigation a fair amount, there is none better than Ovi. I had an E90, E66 and now have a Desire and there is absolutely no comparrison, Ovi hands down over Google Maps. Also the Symbien platform is much better with Outlook as well as the sync and apps. I need to carry a battery pack all day to keep my Desire fuled with energy. I will probably buy this mobile when it’s available..

  • Name

    I’m impressed with the looks of the E7. I’d love to have this phone when I was searching for something to replace my Communicator 9500.
    I had been deeply frustrated with my choice of the Xperia X1 and Windows Mobile 6.1.

    I came back to Nokia with the E72, which is neither sluggish nor do I lack something especially with Symbian S60 3rd ed. FP2. Honestly, I don’t quite get the trashing of Symbian that goes around on the mobile phone forums. Mostly, it appears like a meme and people seem to follow the Android hype.

    Because of my job, I’ve got personally experience with Android (incl. the Samsung Galaxy i9000 and iPhone (1G – 4G)). I’ve also got to “play” with the HTC HD2.

    However, if texting is your preference, apart from Swype and similar software I’ve yet to see something that beats a Blackberry style keyboard factor (which I do have on my E72, too, although not quite in Blackberry quality).

    Opera on the E72 is about as fast as Safari on a 2nd to 3G (no GS) gen iPhone, which is decent enough for me. Rendering isn’t all in terms of mobile browsing speed – you’re going to need good connectivity, mind you.

    However, I do also love to take photo, and the cam on the N8 is superior… and…

    … I’m actually holding my breath for a Meego N9 right now! I’m really in hope of a free OS that isn’t monitored by the all-seeing Eyes Of Google, and I neither want the experience the iRony of what 1984 isn’t going to be like 1984.

  • os

    that thing is sexy

    • os

      BTW I heard nokia is still keeping it up with symbian and that symbian^3 is just a half done version of symbian^4, which nokia says will blow your mind

  • Q

    I’m tired of every body saying they wont touch the phone because Nokia wont put android in the phones the market is already saturated with android phones you cant put android in every device we need a little diversity

  • Fanboird

    Too bad there is no OS on this…

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