A day with CJ and the Nokia E75

[slitchfield]

It seems the E75 fairy missed AAS out (an admin mistake, apparently), but fear not for Clinton Jeff has stepped up to the plate with a nicely opinionated and illustrated look at Nokia's latest Eseries qwerty slider. A man after my own heart, he has torn into the device in his first 24 hours and presents a long list of pluses and minuses.

Read on in the full article.

[clintonjeff]

Thanks for the Mention Steve
If anyone would like to know anything about the E75, do leave a comment here or on the blog and I'll try to let you guys know

[Tzer2]

CJ, can you do a post about how N-Gage feels on the E75?

[stewart01]

I'm wondering if the E75 is memory starved, it has half of what the E71 has.

It reminds me very much of E70 - a great device, but so little memory.

[Tzer2]

Hmm... weirdly they don't list the system RAM of the E75 on its spec page:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/E75

Stewart01, assuming you're right, the E75 would have about 35 megabytes of free RAM. I think that's easily enough for casual and medium users, but possibly not enough for hardcore users.

This would be a lot easier to discuss though if Nokia would actually publish their specs! :-)

[kontraband]

we were just talking about rolling a few of these out for work when they arrive...

What is the expected rel date anyway?

[Tzer2]

Kontraband, the E75 should be in the shops any day now.

Finnish shops are listing them as being available SIM-free towards the end of March.

Reviews dont mention this much, but I seem to remember E75 only had 1000mAh battery. This would be a showstopper for me. So hows the battery life?

[kontraband]

Originally Posted by Tzer2

Kontraband, the E75 should be in the shops any day now.

Finnish shops are listing them as being available SIM-free towards the end of March.

Cheers, yeah I saw some SIM frees out towards the end of the month... so will keep any eye out for them landing..

CJ is the man! His blog is wonderful

[Tzer2]

Reviews dont mention this much, but I seem to remember E75 only had 1000mAh battery. This would be a showstopper for me. So hows the battery life?

1000mah is more than enough for a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, especially on a phone with the latest power-saving schemes.

The only reason the E90, 5800, N97 etc have larger batteries is because their screens are so much bigger.

[clintonjeff]

Originally Posted by Tzer2

CJ, can you do a post about how N-Gage feels on the E75?

Heya Tzer ! It's actually scheduled to post tomorrow morning (in my time) so keep a look out Dont expect much though, only two keys in the whole qwerty keypad are recognised (atleast when I tried it in Asphalt 4) as Game button A and B.
Suprisingly the N-Gage Client on the E75 is also at a higher version than the release that's out right now. But I couldnt find any new changes at all.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Reviews dont mention this much, but I seem to remember E75 only had 1000mAh battery. This would be a showstopper for me. So hows the battery life?

So far it's actually pretty good. I think it'd last as long as the E71, but it's been really long since I trialed one so I cant be sure. If you've read the first impressions I posted, it lasted a little more than a day with full brightness display, hourly email checks though wifi/gprs and a number of other factors

They got as all used to pathetic battery life. Why should it be a norm to charge every day? As E71 has demonstrated, improvement is possible (even then it is just by a small margin). E71 is thin as hell and it still has enough room for all the usual features plus 1500 mAh battery. Given it is now expected that phones casually use GPS as well as have constant internet access, the battery life should be one of the most important features. Having the battery just so-so won't do. If all the features improve and battery life gets worse, I'm not buying. Who needs features when one's out of juice....

[Tzer2]

Why should it be a norm to charge every day?

Taking this as a more general topic, perhaps a lot of the reason is that every time a phone battery gets bigger, so does the feature set.

Five years ago the typical smartphone had a tiny low-res screen, no GPS, a pathetic camera (or no camera at all!), no camera flash, a primitive web browser, processor running at 100mhz, limited RAM for multitasking etc.

Making things worse is that battery technology hasn't kept pace. Per millimetre of volume, a phone battery now doesn't hold much more power than a battery from five years ago. It's better but it's not enormously better.

[clintonjeff]

Hey Tzer, just a short note to let you know that I posted up my impressions of N-Gage on the Nokia E75 over on ZCJ .

Basically, it's nice that it's there but the fact that you can only use the "Q" and "W" keys only, is a downer.