Nokia E70 Review - flip with a difference

Rafe · #1 22-07-2006, 04:24 PM

Steve reviews the enterprise focused Nokia E70 and finds two sides in more ways that one. With its innovative flip over mechanism to give a full qwerty keyboard and a decent camera module the E70 has a lot of promise, but it is not the perfect communicator and is let down by a few niggles.

Read on in the full article.

MarcTGFG · #2 22-07-2006, 10:00 PM

Is it rue, that it takes up to 10 seconds to open messaging depending on whether you access it from the active homescreen ot the menu? That was the main complaint of german magazine Connect when they reviewed the device...

slitchfield · #3 23-07-2006, 05:26 AM

No, not true, Messaging is its usual self. The only thing that's slow here is the mode switching.

Steve

krisse · #4 23-07-2006, 08:12 PM

I wonder why so many mobile review sites totally contradict each other when reviewing hardware. Could it be that they review prototypes as if they were final products, in their eagerness to be the first ones with a review of that model?

MarcTGFG · #5 23-07-2006, 08:47 PM

Thats what I thought too, when I read the Connect review. It pictured the E70 several times and on ech pic it had a QWERTY keyboard instead of the german QWERTZ. So it either was an english version (maybe with a german ROM) or Nokia is seriously disrepspecting the large german market by releasing a device with a nonm-german layout. At CeBIT I personally saw an E70 with QWERTZ and german umlaute (ä, ü, ö, ß).

nj7 · #6 23-07-2006, 08:57 PM

In fact a lot of differente taste, when look at E70. MobilCZ, said it´s wonderfull and predicts it gonna be a top seller! Other, are not so positive...

Rafe · #7 23-07-2006, 10:56 PM

It is worth bearing in mind that everyone has a different opinion and thus does explain some differences. That and there are different variants / firmware etc.

We do try and make it clear if we are (p)reviewing prototypes (the give away is it usally called a preview).

krisse · #8 24-07-2006, 10:19 AM

--It is worth bearing in mind that everyone has a different opinion and thus does explain some differences.--

Oh yeah, that's true, but the contradictions I had in mind were the instances where sites give out specific technical information that just doesn't tally with each other.

--We do try and make it clear if we are (p)reviewing prototypes--

All About Symbian do that because they're cool and groovy and nice, but some lesser sites don't, they post "reviews" of devices that are many months away from being shipped, sometimes as much as six months.

There's one phone website which shall remain nameless (but is situated in eastern europe if you want a clue) which reviewed the 5500 in May, but the phone had a Q3 2006 release date and still isn't out yet. They must have been reviewing a non-final version, but there's no clue to it in the text of the "review".

mob453 · #9 24-07-2006, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by krisse

There's one phone website which shall remain nameless (but is situated in eastern europe if you want a clue) which reviewed the 5500 in May, but the phone had a Q3 2006 release date and still isn't out yet. They must have been reviewing a non-final version, but there's no clue to it in the text of the "review".

www.onedaymobile.co.uk

mobiles, nokia 5 series,

Quote:

Nokia 5500 Sport - £322.99 In Stock

spinspin · #10 25-07-2006, 09:00 AM

Steve, try exiting and relaunching the task manager after opening/closing the flip. Check the amount of free RAM after relaunch of Taskman => The huge memory leak that you mentioned is not the complete truth.

E70 has it's share of RAM issues but not of the magnitude you suggested by observing the task manager.

slitchfield · #11 25-07-2006, 10:53 AM

Thanks, investigating now - it seems I might have to re-do my text and video reviews 8-)

This is fascinating though - SysExplorer does the same, with the OS not reporting free RAM properly until the utility is restarted! I wonder which other applications this affects in terms of day to day operation?

SpinSpin, can you elaborate please on "it's share of RAM issues"?

Steve

Lacero · #12 25-07-2006, 02:14 PM

This was linked from the my-symbian forums (from a thread I think you started).

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?p=224637

It's a little more worrying than it just running out of memory

I think I'll buy one anyway though, it seems like it would be good for me, nice review.

TerraMobilis · #13 31-07-2006, 04:12 PM

A very similar observation can be made when launching Gallery/Images on the N80, which also involves a switch from portrait to landscape orientation : delay and a drop in memory of about 4 MB (from 11MB to 7 MB). This is undoubtedly caused by the same phenomenon : switching screen orientation seems to put a heavy burden on the Symbian OS!