The Nokia E71 was a real surprise, with Nokia managing to achieve the same excellent balance of practicality and fun that has made Blackberry phones so popular. The Nokia E63 is a slightly scaled-down version of the E71, offering slightly fewer features for a much lower cost. Although at times it does feel a little cheap, with such a small price tag, you still get great value for money.The Nokia E63 looks pretty much the same as the E71, and that isn’t a bad thing, as they both look great. They have enough little changes from the traditional Blackberry design to make them stand out from the crowd and overall the E63 is a good looking phone.Once you get it in your hand though, you will find where some of the cost cutting has been made from the E71. Rather than the metal body of the E71, the E63 comes finished in plastic. It does feel a little lightweight and cheap, it does still sit nicely in the hand. It is a little thicker than the E71, but a gram lighter.
The real winner on the E63, like on the E71, is the QWERTY keyboard. Blackberry phones may have popularised this design on business phones, but the Nokia keyboards blow Blackberry’s out of the water in terms of ease of use.The E63′s keyboard is is actually a slight improvement on its predecessor’s, as it is a couple of millimetres wider, with slightly larger keys.
The original wasn’t a pleasure to use, and this one is a even more so, with rounded keys of rubberised plastic offering good purchase and just the right degree of feedback.
Central to the Nokia E63′s functionality is that big QWERTY keyboard. When you combine such easy typing with the messaging brains which offer auto-correction, predictive typing and all manner of other aids to an already easy experience, you get a mean messaging package.On top this, email setup is extremely easy. To set up push email account, all you’ll need in most cases is your email address and password and it works with most of the major email standards, including Microsoft Exchange, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and others, though not BlackBerry Connect.
The web browser is about as good as it gets outside of sophisticated smartphone browsers. It does exactly what it needs to with a minimum of style but that makes it all the easier to use. Zooming, address bar and keyword search can all be accessed via shortcuts on the numeric keypad and there’s a useful option that breaks down web pages into sections for easy navigation.
Nokia in association with Microsoft officially launched a suite of Windows Live services on compatible Series 60 handsets in eleven countries. The suite was already available in Sweden for testing purposes, and now Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, UK, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are added to the list.The suite enables access to Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Spaces.
If you live in one of the mentioned countries, you can grab it. The included Windows Live Messenger client alone is already worth the effort.
Usage will be free at first, but customers may be asked to pay a monthly fee (about €2 according to Microsoft’s Phil Holden) at some point in the future. The list of countries is expected to expand during the next couple of months and customers who purchase Nokia Series 40 handsets in 2008 will also gain access to the Windows Live services.
We’ve seen the N97 already, but apparently, Nokia has another touchscreen-enabled phone set to follow in the footsteps of the 5800 XpressMusic phone. The Nokia 6208 Classic is another touchscreen-equipped phone and features an alphanumeric keypad as well for dual-input support. It comes with a 2.8-inch TFT 240×320 pixel display, 3.2-megapixel camera, quad band GSM, GPRS/EDGE connectivity, 27MB internal memory and has a modified S40 operating system that supports the touchscreen interface as opposed to the S60 5th edition found on the 5800.
Nokia E63 mobile phone : Nokia announced the latest addition to its E-Series mobile phone range, the Nokia E63, designed for people who need to manage their business and personal lives equally well. Building on the success of the Nokia E71 business mobile phone, the company's flagship messaging phone, the Nokia E63 brings the QWERTY keyboard form factor to a broader audience at a great price. The Nokia E63 mobile phone also includes Files on Ovi, a service where people can get remote access to their Personal Computer files even when their computer is offline. Anyone buying the new Nokia E63 handset will have access to 1GB of online file storage for free.
