Steve reviews the N71, Nokia's S60 3rd Edition clamshell. He finds a device with some foibles, but a unique form factor. With the first S60 portrait QVGA screen, clean and stylish lines, good camera and both Snakes and Quickoffice viewers built into the ROM, Steve is impressed. It might not be the media darling of the Nseries, but it packs a powerful mobile punch.

Review extract: 

A year or so ago, you knew where you were with a Nokia S60 smartphone - it would be about a certain size and be a 'candy bar', with later models even foregoing a wacky keypad design. Since then, we've had the 'transforming' N90, the gullwing E70 and the thumb-keyboarded, wide-screened E61, to name but three. The N71, then, doesn't come as so much of a shock.

I was going to write about this being Nokia's first S60 clamshell device, but then I remembered the 6260. And the N90 itself, each of which could be configured in clamshell mode. But this is a true clamshell, in that it can only be used in this one form factor. As with other clamshells, there's the advantage of more screen and keypad real estate, and a better position during calls, at the expense of slightly greater thickness and (probably) fragility.

Side by side with the older 6260, plus the 6670 and N70.