Nokia E7 handset now on sale in U.S.

By on Apr 7, 2011 at 4:59 AM
mobile April 7, 2011

Finnish mobile giant Nokia has quietly made its business-centric E7 handset available to U.S. consumers. Released overseas in early February, the Symbian device packs a 4-inch, polarized, AMOLED display with a 640 x 360 pixel resolution, peta-band WCDMA radio, quad-band GSM radio, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, 16 GB of on-board storage, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording and dual-LED flash, HMDI connector, and 1200 mAh battery. The E7 is available from Amazon.com for $649, or Nokia USA for $679.

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  • AT

    Na way to get android to run on that hardware?

    • Pooch

      Is it really too much to spell “any”? Are you too lazy to add a “y”?

  • Tim

    Pretty sure this launched here a few weeks ago! I wish there was a retailer carrying this so I could try it out. I would be interested if the software ran smoothly.

  • Anonymous

    Too high price, too tired UX, too old/slow hardware, too low resolution.

    Nokia ain’t going to ship a lot of these in the US.

    • Anonymous

      Umm… that’s the full retail price. Check out the full retail price on most high-end phones these days, and you’ll see that it falls right in line. There’s no mention of processor or RAM (my two major concerns), but other than that, the only place this phone could be said to fall short is screen resolution. Nokia’s hardware is just killer, always has been.

      Plus, it’s a true world phone: if you’ve got a band, that thing will connect.

      • Anonymous

        It’s a N8 without the awesome camera and with a keyboard. It has a 680mhz arm11 CPU which is The same type as the one used in the aluPhone and the iPhone 3G. 256mb of ram and a broadcom bcm2727… Although I wish they went with at least a cortex a8 in this, the device can still playback 720p media without any problem.

      • Anonymous

        It’s a N8 without the awesome camera and with a keyboard. It has a 680mhz arm11 CPU which is The same type as the one used in the aluPhone and the iPhone 3G. 256mb of ram and a broadcom bcm2727… Although I wish they went with at least a cortex a8 in this, the device can still playback 720p media without any problem.

      • Anonymous

        It’s a N8 without the awesome camera and with a keyboard. It has a 680mhz arm11 CPU which is The same type as the one used in the aluPhone and the iPhone 3G. 256mb of ram and a broadcom bcm2727… Although I wish they went with at least a cortex a8 in this, the device can still playback 720p media without any problem.

  • http://twitter.com/benighted benighted

    @AT: Android isn’t fit for this. I’m speaking from bitter experience. I lost my e72 and got some android thingie to replace it. Android utterly fails at business and productivity features. The “telephone” and “contacts” apps are godawful. And the battery life is miserable if you stay connected. With the same apps constantly connected, my E72 lasted for 3-3,5 days while the android thing lasts for 11 hours. So there ;)

    • Anonymous

      Would you… care to elaborate? What’s so terrible about the phone and contacts as compared to Nokia’s offering?

      And while your E72 could certainly last for a very long time, was it as connected as an Android phone, in terms of syncing and whatnot?

      • http://profiles.google.com/kodekon Kode Kon

        I’ve been using Nokia’s Symbian phones for years, although not exclusively (SonyEricsson also). My current phones are Nokia N82 (Symbian), Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) and ZTE Blade (Android 2.1), and I’ve also used Nokia’s 5800, E71 and Communicator 9300 a bit.

        Even if Symbian has been a bit old school for a while, and maybe even a bit complicated at times, it still has been very usable OS with a lot of functionality in it. I’ve actually been a bit surprised how unusable Android has been. It’s shiny and feels modern but some of the settings are buried quite deep in the OS, and the GUI in itself is quite confusing. Sure you get used to it, but then you’ve already gotten used to Symbian also. iPhone probably has the most usable GUI, but that’s because of its simplicity (and I hate the cult so no iPhone for me; maybe when Jobs dies and Woz replaces him I might consider returning to Mac which I used to use solely for 16 years, but got annoyed by the monster Apple had grown into).

        I really like the latest desktop view of Symbian with its grid of widgets. Android has loads of widgets, too, but because their size and appearance varies so much it’s easy to make the desktop look really messy, but of course nowadays there are more widgets to Android than Symbian, probably. There’s really no fault in Symbian with the phone book and the contacts, and you probably get used to Android as easily, too. Symbian has had pretty much all the social media in it by default or with outside apps for years. It’s funny that many people seem to think that Symbian is some simple OS and that iPhone and Android are years ahead of it. Well, they are really not. Of course Nokia messed up pretty badly by not making changes years ago, and just laid still when iPhone and others came. Now they are with MS which I’m not personally happy about at all. I’m still hoping the deal is cancelled, but that’s just wishful thinking.

  • Brian

    Used to be able to try more Noks here in the states as a last resort in the few stores maintained in large cities but that’s pretty much dead and gone. Until Nok WinPs enters the carrier pipelines trying one of these devices is going to require a long commute and/or a good friend that has purchased one on faith or made the commute for you. For me the camera on this beast was a tolerable compromise when coupled with a display legible in sunlight, USB hosting, HDMI out, real keyboard, free stand-alone mapping, etc. but without being able to put the device in hand and convince myself……
    At ~ $600+, a faith based purchase for a phone with an OS that has had its OS announced as being scheduled for retirement is farther away than ever.
    On top of all that I’m obligated to support a US GSM carrier so unless the E7 prints dollars that are actually worth something or better yet Wonka Chocolate Golden Tickets I’m married to Andy/iOS/WinP.

    • Anonymous

      Nokia’s problem was never hardware or software – it was always marketing, particularly in the us. Their model while having a sticker shock to some is not subsized, and can be used on any gsm carrier. The closest thing would be tmo’s even more plus which is a bargain. Apart from some tmo love, they are genuinely disregarded in the states which is a shame because their devices are truly amazing.

      I don’t see being tied to gsm as a bad thing – in fact, I see it as an advantage. All the best phones are gsm first – its simple suplly / demand. Fyi – android ios and winp7 are just as tied if not more so to gsm.

      If I was in the market for a new device this would probably be at the top of my list.

  • Anonymous

    A little slow there BGR, huh? These have been out a week ago and starting last night, amazon is doing a sale for $599.

  • Anonymous

    Been using my E7 for a couple of weeks now and I love it!! Best Nokia I’ve ever owned.

  • Freygrimrod

    Again Nokia releases the best phone on the market 6 months late so no one cares…

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