Business Communicator Nokia E7

Nokia is going through difficult times. Behind - a glimpse of a change in a small part of the market, personnel perturbation, a foreign exchange with Linux (in the case of Maemo and MeeGo operating systems) and a clear test of the Apple and Google expansion. Ninishnі realії is a spirited alliance with Microsoft, in fact, it is based on the development of Symbian platforms, and there is no end to it from MeeGo. Maybut is even more vague: not until the end of 2011 will be announced the first add-ons on Windows Phone 7, and for 2012 there will be many deliveries.

Besides, here on the horizon loom the view of the communicator Nokia N950 on the basis of MeeGo, but, I think, for the present, Nokia doesn’t know how the N950 will be sent to the official OS, if The "child" of two companies will be overwhelmed by the opiika depriving one of the "fathers". Dodamo to the whole sensitive about the tablet (nezumilo, on what OS) - and it becomes obvious that the Nokia maybut as a virobnik of top mobile attachments is found for great food.

It is surprising that Nokia has traditionally strong positions in the budget segment, and the very high telephones and allow the company not to fall apart, and how to improve the reputation of the brand (in the middle of the simple Russian ones, especially earlier). Ale such aparati, in general, do not particularly appreciate the respect of prestige and industry. The same arrival from them, mabut, kudi less, nіzh from expensive top-end novelties. In order to preserve Nokia's identity, it is simply necessary to periodically view the high-level community categories. So the Nokia N8 became such a novelty, and in the very end, the role of the flagship was to be transferred to the business communiator E7, but in the end of the second way, it was transferred to the number of months ahead.

The first axis, nareshty, in the end of the birch tree, the company’s shanuvalniks took away the possibility of adding a device, which they called “the last model on Symbian ^ 3”. Now, it has become obvious that Nokia is still launching more models on Symbian, and, moreover, the system itself will be updated. However, the price is not minuscule: Symbian goes to the end of its "life", but it doesn’t happen. Nokia has started to work without a lot of programs, like working on Symbian, and now that the development of the operating system is going to work, then it is not the least (it’s about how it is said, it’s like to have such “cosmetic” ones). So, even at the moment the Nokia N8 was launched, someone still hoped to drive the fact that Nokia didn’t abandon its OS, then now there is still a lot of illusion. If you go to the store for E7, you will be blamed for buying the device on a non-promising platform.

What does tse mean for kintsevoy koristuvach (abstracted from marketing and industrial food)? First of all, the functionality of the apparatus does not improve in principle. For example, the purchasers of the Apple iPhone 3GS could not find out how they could organize the programs into folders and show up for a bug. The price has become possible for the developers of the new version of iOS, which was released as a result of the communication of the communicator. So from the Nokia E7 such a situation, unfortunately, is not possible. In other words, it is unlikely that some third-party developers will actively write new programs for Symbian ^ 3. Why should you write programs for platforms, as it will not develop (and, also, some of them will change during the day)? Thirdly, all fewer and fewer of your known and friends will be addicted to Symbian ^ 3. Now, they will not be pleased, will accept this program, be confused with admittance ...

All tse are minusi. Ale chi is this stink critical? The functionality of Symbian ^ 3 is built in at once, the program for the whole OS has been written in less than a minute, and at any hour it will smell, and all the information you need to know if you do not can not so much needed.

In such a rank, if purely psychologically and no less comfortably you can understand that it is not practical to deliver a purchase of an apartment “without a life”, it is not practical to deliver real problems. So, mabut, I would not recommend kupuvati komunikatori on Symbian ^ 3 team, but earlier I didn’t know about the OS (master it from zero - it’s a waste of an hour and effort). Well, you’re a long-time Symbian, and you didn’t need a comunicator, not in a couple of days, but here at once, then you’ll think in the first place not about the prospects of the OS itself, but just about those, how good the device itself is, and some of them are in your name. And the axis in the whole and tried to grow up, screwing the Nokia E7.

Complete set

Behind the worlds of expensive devices of respectable companies, Nokia E7, the complete set is unsuccessful, even if not say, it's even more abundant. In a small, albeit not trivial box, they knew, except for the attachment itself, a charging attachment, a certificate, a Russian operating instructions (33 sides, I will not describe a stereo USB - USB) and two adapters. The first (from Micro-USB to USB Host) allows you to connect a flash drive to a communicator, the other (from HDMI mini C to HDMI) is required to connect the E7 from a TV monitor equipped with HDMI (smart, you need a standard HDMI cable) ...

Why not whistachaє? First for everything, without even setting a bi-disk (or a flash drive) with the Nokia OVI Suite program. Apparently, it is possible to blacklist from the Internet (and it is possible to bring the work, if the phone is connected to the computer), ale koristuvachev bulo b kudi simpler, as the program is already included in the kit. Cover the other, but it’s not a mess. In the kit of Nokia N8, in a whole much alike, there is a silikonovy chokhol. Immediately, mabut, zekonomiti was violated. On the other hand, the E7 chokhol is not particularly needed, and there are some splinters in the new claviature.

Design

The name of the viglyad of the device did not overshadow the one that is the direct successor of the E7, but the N8 itself. At the first glance, the stench is created by twins. Alec, vividly, є, and smut of them - the visuvna QWERTY keyboard in E7. Through it, the device is important, lower N8, and three times more on the day (the region has not practically changed, which is a great plus). However, the size of the size is not to be inserted into the keyboard styles (there are no more options for them), but the screen is from a diagonal of a choice of inches (the N8 has 3.5 inches).

Three inks, below N8, rosetting roses and buttons, if you want the same dial for the same (for one hundred vinyatk). From the top, there is a Micro-USB, a HDMI mini C rose, a plastic cap, an on-off button (small and not even handy, but then it’s not really good) and a standard (3.5 mm) rose for headphones ...

On the left side there is only a button for blocking the screen, and at the bottom of the roses and buttons there is no sign.

On the right, there is a slot for a SIM-picture (trochi nagadu that, in the iPhone), a goydalk for regulating guchnostі (pratsyu when rozmovah, as well as listening to radio and music) and a camera button.

On the front panel, right before the screen, there is a menu button, and at the back there is an 8 Mp camera with a sub-sleeper.

Otzhe, what does it mean? Apparently, the size of a slot for a microSD memory card. Nokia N8 has win buv, there is no yogo here. There is a special cover, vrahoyuchi, a built-in memory, available for files koristuvach, only 16 GB. For the worlds of top companies, the price is no worse (the iPhone 4 youngest model - 16 GB, the older one - 32 GB; the memory of more competing devices is expanded for the microSD store). True, you can vikoristovuvati flash-accumulative, but you won't be constantly pulling a flash drive and an adapter with you, right?

All the merit of some praise: і HDMI (great variety of expensive models), і Micro-USB charger for charging the phone, and a sufficient number of hardware keys (in contrast to the installed Apple mods on the mini-hardware devices)

The E7 case is made of anodized aluminum, which guarantees the owner the visibility of the troughs, and those "belonging" to the plastic attachments. At the same time, it’s okay, E7 doesn’t inherit the iPhone 4 anyway, but it doesn’t quite expose it.

The planned design of the whole apartment will be ideal for an older person, who will be able to change the quality, superiority and classic style. Just as you can compete with the E7, so BlackBerry Torch, about which you were told in the Bereznev issue. Alas, sub'active, Nokia E7 looks more overkill and solid, not the flagship of the RIM company. I already exactly in the new sound of the keyboard.

Keyboard

Oskilki visuvnoy QWERTY-keyboard є head vіdminnoy rice E7, about not varto say okremo. The keyboard hangs from the screen (and not from the bottom, like in the BlackBerry Torch), and for the sake of the need for singing music. In principle, having attached it, it is possible to visuvati with one hand, but more easily, robustly with two hands. The problem is that the mechanism is tight enough, and if you are thrown into destroying the keyboard from the moment, it’s fast going straight ahead, as if you don’t need to use your hand, you’re afraid of the plastics for the whole hour.

Again, I repeat, there are signs on the right. Until then, it’s not turned on, so in an hour the mechanism will break up. Click the buttons themselves to wick positive emoticons. Smell to finish the great and even take it on the dot (vikorystovutsya progumaniya material). The tab is made manually: on the large keys, there are Russian letters (below) and English (above) letters, and we will (on the right in the mountains) - signs of the upper register (number, symbols, ). Є Okremі keys Ctrl, Shift, Enter, Backspace, as well as keys with arrows (down / up / left / right), buttons to go to the upper register and wikliko screen keyboard of symbols.

For a long time I have already seen from the physical keyboard in the communists - the sensory keyboard is the standard de facto. But the Nokia E7 really wants to use the very physical keyboard, and it’s unconsciously shorter than the keyboard, right down to the BlackBerry keyboard.

Phone settings

Unimportant to the appearance of physical keyboard, the screen of the Nokia E7 is touch-sensitive. Moreover, the blame for the AMOLED technology, so that the image is more beautiful, but not on the extraordinary TFT screens with a TN matrix. The response to the dots is vin chuyno, the picture is bright and chitka, the color is good. However, the first two furnishings, as you will be more skeptical, look at the screen E7. In the first place, the building is separate. Choose to set 640 × 360 pixels, but the price is not the same as for modern smartphones (the standard for top-end Android models is also 800 × 480, and in Windows Phone 7 devices the price is different). In another way, the AMOLED-matrix of the boolean is relevant for the second time. Today, if Apple uses IPS (the same one with the most popular distribution), and Samsung - Super AMOLED Plus, it is not solid to write on the AMOLED screen.

The more cheap Nokia N8 has a smaller screen, but the E7 has the same matrix and the same size, but a smaller size (so the image is clear). It’s sizable, but all the details, nuances, like without sawing, and you cannot see the call. Ale the flagship device is a fault for those and the flagship, but we are guilty but we will reduce everything (as the minimum is not better, not analogous models of competitors). If Lyudin paid more than $ 700 (at the first days they sold for $ 900), then it means that the most details and nuances are important for new - and for the first time, paying bi-less and taking the bi-model of Troja is more or less new. The top model is from simple good to be perceived as a nuance, ale the same nuance in the sum and in the background of the enemy.

Hardware configuration

Nokia does not advertise the processor frequency, but some third-party dzherela appear, but in E7 installations the ARM 11 processor, which works at a frequency of 680 MHz. As a matter of principle, it’s smart, what Nokia should do about it: the processor with such a frequency is not the top-end segment, but the budget segment itself. Deyakі mobile attachments of competing virobniks, during this spring and summer, will be equipped with two core processors with a frequency of 1 GHz, and for one core, 1 GHz frequency has become the norm in the middle of the last rock i E7).

However, we have already said more than once that the processor frequency itself is not so important.The main thing is that the operating system and the supplements did not galvanize, but the battery did not drain very quickly. To do this, a good balance is required between the demands of the processor and the amnesty of the battery. And as if to be amazed on the side, then go, the Nokia engineers were choosing the optimal way: for a spy robot OS, the performance is full of power, and the battery of a small power is not too busy.

It’s a bit of a problem for the Nokia N8 to scream, because the device responds to commands in the operating system with a deyakoi zaprymkoy. For example, E7, having spent time on the test, did not mention such problems; without any problems the processor copes with the video from the separate building 720r. Alle in deyakie supplements - for example, in a text editor or in a browser - the galaxies are still present. It may be that the problem is tied to specific files (for example, websites have a browser), albeit, so there is a small margin of productivity without getting bi. Whenever there is a need for it, the battery will be replaced.

There are no problems with the games: the Nokia E7 comes with a premium graphics processor with OpenGL 2.0, which allows you to play comfortably in the game. For example, Angry Birds had no problems with us, as well as some kind of prigalmovan.

One of the main advantages of the Nokia E7 is its wide navigation possibilities. There are GPS and A-GPS modules in the device. Yak a supplement for navigating vikoristovuyutsya Karti OVI. If you don’t want to use the style traffic, the picture can be added to it from behind (no-strings attached from the official Nokia website; є including Russian pictures, which borrow about 500 MB). Motorists would like to think about locking up voice prompts (the stench is also available without koshtovno). When looking at the Nokia E7, it will be converted to a stand-alone GPS-navigator, which can be used either in a car or during a walk.

Comunicator of equipments with compass and accelerometer for correct orientation to the screen, protector accelerometer allows only turning the device against the clock. Turn the device over 180 degrees even without gaps. Nezumіlo, navishno tsі mezhennya (the owners of the attachments of Apple will be unhappy), but the Nokia N8 has done so by itself.

Operational system and add-ons

Nokia E7 has been working on the management of the Symbian ^ 3 operating system, as well as the Nokia N8. There is not a lot of insight here, so for a more detailed description of the OS, please read the article about Nokia N8. Significantly deprived of the middle of the installed documents (except for standard and obvious speeches, such as a browser, E-mail client, contacts, etc.) є the official QuickOffice package, which allows you to view and edit MS Office files, photo editor and video (vocabulary can be added via the Internet), ZIP archiver, client for Facebook and Twitter, Adobe Reader and file manager.

Before the speech, you can use the file manager, through the new one you can quickly launch any type of files, including music and video. In addition, if it starts up, if you connect the flash drive to the USB host (you can also create files without the middle, without re-blowing, as the communicator is "pink").

Well, there’s a lot of foreign feuds from the Symbian ^ 3 victorian, then, as if it’s the OS, it’s won’t sound, ala, on the view of the new-fangled iOS and Android, Symbian ^ 3 is rooted in the smartphones shvidsya on the corystiuvichyvich, I’m before the era of the iPhone. In the morning, it is no longer obvious (from the point of view of the iPhone-generation) of the operation of the Viconati's demand, to rewrite the music library from the computer to the phone. The Nokia OVI Suite PC add-on is not very handy in the whole plan, with iTunes it is possible to navigate not intermittently. Then - you can just drop the music into the Music folder without any middle programs. Allegedly, the organization of the phono library in E7 is not a matter of less gostro (especially if you need to rewrite the music from the CD, there are no inserts in the picture, name the tracks, etc.).

Before food about music: like Apple, the Nokia company should place an online music store, moreover, on the page from the iTunes Store, which is available in Ukraine.So, the assortment of the store is three times smaller than that of the iTunes Store (ale, sub'active, larger than the store, including the most serious western competitors of the iTunes Store), but prices are lower. The new album can be bought for a sum of $ 3, including new items. For example, the most recent (at the time of writing the article) "The Beginning" of The Black Eyed Peas group is on sale for $ 3, I would like to revenge 12 tracks (ok, if you can buy a track for $ 1, if you do not mind, please, see the album) ... Є in OVI and free singles, including the number of singles. Zagalom, for the music lover, happiness.

Camera

The Nokia E7 has two cameras. One in front, for VoIP-spilkuvannya (in the OVI Store you can add Skype and other programs), її distribution of the warehouse building ї 640 × 480 pixels. Іnsha camera behind - for photo and video zyomki. Vona 8-megapixel, with mobile light-one sleeps and digital extras (two-fold for photographing and three-time for video). The quality of the photographs is average, but especially the sum, when you ask about the big picture of the 12-megapixel camera in the Nokia N8

Ale on the right, obviously, not in the separate building, but in the typical defects of the chambers of the mobile annexes: the size and noise, especially on other objects, the neural transmission of color. The insights on the streets are better than the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S.

Know in the primitive pre-help sleeps, ale vin, in your own devil, strongly minyak colori: for example, the black firka grows brute green. It doesn’t let the signs of noise and emissions go to sleep.

Kudi more happy video - I would like to see a defect in my eyes, but I still have 720p (1280 × 720) video cameras, but I would like to see more video cameras on mobile annexes (I would like to see more of 720p in iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S).

In general, for the photo and video capture, the novelty of Nokia is programmed for the top models of competitors (Apple iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy S), and the powerful N8. To that, if the N8 can be called a camera phone, then in the E7 the function of photo-and-video capture is implemented on a typical budget device. However, as brothers for business aparati itself, in the middle of them the E7 in the whole plan is completely normal, and to avoid and bypass the actions (for example, close to the BlackBerry Torch positions and positions).

Battery

The battery in Nokia E7 is not even smaller, 1200 mA ⋅ a year, but with such a processor is enough. In addition, judging from us, the engineers and programs of Nokia unscrupulously tweaked it, so that the device was more economically charged. In the case of a child's bag, it’s possible, with a standard victorian, that the transmission of an average number of phone calls written by SMS, a change to be sent a couple of times a day, and a couple of times a day, and some web surfing, and also turned on. Zrozumіlo, vіdeo and іgri to unload the commissar on the nabagato shvidshe. Ale kupuvati E7 zaradi іgor і fіlmіv is unlikely to be.

Varto obmovitsya, but the standard battery icon shows the charge is not correct. Alle in the shops of additional OVIs third-party outlets, but they allow not only to know exactly how much the charge has been surplus, ale and intelligence, on some of the factories for an hour the communist is wiped out.

Visnovki

Nokia E7 has lost the mind of the enemy. This is not an unambiguous product, if I wouldn’t have risen to name it madly far away or far away. For all the parameters (body, roses, hardware "filling", software, etc.) there are great pluses and details and great minus. If you have tried all the same to make a fortune and win recommendations for the quality of the purchase of E7, then you will be able to say: the whole device has gone as a minimum to the market, as if to look at it itself as the flagship of the Nokia line. At the same time, there is a classic design, which for the whole auditorium is guilty of buty kudi more adorable, but not the design of non-stop pseudo-iPhone virobes. Those are the ones to miss the functionality of Symbian ^ 3. So, the hour of the OS is going to work, if you don’t marry everything that is relevant, but you just want the device to give your power supply, and to see your add-on for Symbian sounds. The Nokia E7 is not quite the same nasty option.From only the price to the new one, it is reduced from the minimum to $ 600, the device does not show the competition with the Nokia N8.