A camera-free Symbian email phone with a QWERTY keyboard, document editing and quad-band EDGE.
Screen
–
Display
LCD
Chip
–
Memory
–
Storage
–
Main camera
None
Zoom
–
Battery
1,500 mAh
Weight
144 g
What reviewers say
Both reviews like the readable screen, spacious keyboard, email tools and call quality, but notice software delays and awkward spreadsheet editing. Computerworld finds setup straightforward and gets about four days per charge. PhoneArena finds Symbian harder for newcomers and persistent messaging hesitation after an update; its longer talk and standby results used different conditions.
Landscape active-matrix TFT, 16 million colours, 320 × 240 pixels and 56.9 × 42.7 mm active area in the exact owner guide; not a touchscreen. Production reviews call it 2.8 inches, while GSMArena lists 2.9; no headline diagonal inferred.
Cameras
Main camera
None
Ultra wide camera
None
Telephoto camera
None
Optical zoom
None
Main camera
No camera; camera-free business device
Battery and charging
Battery
1,500 mAh
Wireless charging
None
Battery life detail
Removable BP-5L 1500 mAh; exact guide's battery chapter calls it Li-Polymer, while its accessory list says Li-Ion. Maker claims up to 5.5 hours GSM talk and 14 days idle; launch release says approximately five hours. Review tests use different conditions, not video playback.
Wired charging
Separate battery charger connector; AC-4 travel charger and DC-4 mobile charger in the exact guide. No charging wattage inferred.
Design
Type
Standard
Weight
144 g
Thickness
16.2 mm
Height × width
116.5 × 69.9 mm
Weight detail
144 g with battery and 116.5 × 69.9 × 13.9–16.2 mm in the exact maker technical table; headline thickness uses its upper bound. Secondary database's rounded 117 × 69.7 × 14 mm is not substituted.
Materials
Silver metal enclosure in PhoneArena's exact production review
Buttons
Backlit QWERTY keyboard, joystick, email/menu/call/end and soft keys, side volume and voice key, top power key; email indicator and light sensor
Speakers
Built-in loudspeaker and stereo audio playback in the exact guide; PhoneArena hears distortion at maximum loudspeaker volume
Software
Operating system
Symbian
Software at launch
Symbian 9.1a with S60 Third Edition, release 3.0 in the exact guide
Software features
Maker launch and exact guide support creating/editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, PDF viewing, HTML/WAP browsing, email, instant messaging, VPN and synchronisation. Guide/launch carrier services may no longer operate; not a promise of present network support.
Release detail
Announced by Nokia/Cingular on 12 September 2006 with US retail planned for 29 September; contemporaneous actual-sale coverage confirms Cingular shipping that day. Month precision retained because an earlier worldwide first-sale day is unresolved. Separate regional E61-related hardware, not an inferred successor.
Performance
CPU
32-bit RISC ARM9 in the exact maker guide; no clock speed or chip identity inferred
Memory
Greater than 80 MB total user memory in the exact guide; Computerworld reports 80 MB and PhoneArena 75 MB. Installed RAM and an exact internal capacity are not established, so omitted from configurations.
Storage type
Hot-swappable miniSD beneath the rear cover; exact maker accessory list supports 3.0 V cards from 64 MB to 2 GB. Not microSD, RS-MMC or full-size SD.
Connectivity
Mobile network
Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900; EGPRS/GPRS/HSCSD/CSD in the exact owner guide. No UMTS, HSDPA or other 3G radio.
Wi-Fi
No Wi-Fi, confirmed by both production reviews; not the E61's WLAN hardware
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 2.0, up to six simultaneous connections in the guide; headset/hands-free, serial/dial-up, file/object transfer, remote SIM and imaging profiles. No A2DP inferred.
USB
Mini-USB, described as USB 2.0 in the exact guide; separate headset and charger connectors, plus infrared. No Hi-Speed transfer rate or headset-jack diameter inferred.
Positioning
Exact guide lists optional LD-1W wireless GPS module; PhoneArena tests an external Bluetooth receiver. No built-in GPS inferred.
Storage options
Storage
–
Pros and cons
Pros
+Backlit QWERTY keyboard and landscape display
+Supplied document, spreadsheet and presentation editing
