Smartphone Reviews: Nokia E75

Posted by Geronimo Boosh on March 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Getting a first look at the Nokia E75 you may think it is a poorly made device. Not so ! It is just a little different. Take a look at it here as we plunge into this E-Series Nokia.

The Nokia E75 phone is a really good looking even classy looking device. It comes in three pricey looking colors; “Silver Black”, red and copper. The size is a tad over what smartphones are down to, but it is still pocketable. It is 4.4 inches ( 112 millimeters ) tall and just over half an inch thick. It feels good in the hand, but the Dpad has a few quirks that need to be taken care of. It seems to be marketed to those that do plenty of messaging or texting.

The Nokia E75 screen is a bit smaller, thanks to the form factor of this phone. It is just 2.4 inches in size. It is bright and clear and uses the older LCD style of technology. The clincher for quality of the screen is that it is able to display sixteen million different colors. That type of quality is usually only found on upper-quality smartphones. It is not a touchscreen phone. The navigation is done using the DPad. The back of the E75 is high quality with a brushed-metal battery cover. It weighs just under five ounces.

The manual keyboard slides out from under the screen easily and looks great. It has very big keys that someone with large fingers will not have a problem using. It is laid out with the QWERTY system. The spacious layout is a relief from the smaller keyboards that are usually cramped for space. Tactile feedback is good and there are no negative surprises in the Nokia E75 keyboard.

The software used to control the menus is the ever popular S60 Symbian. This is a solid operating system. It is predictable and easy to get around with. This has push features for all services such as email. It has no problems with having to wait for anything to open or close when required. The E75 can switch between two home screens. This is convenient to separate your “work2 from your “play” by just changing your screen. The processor helps the speed of the Symbian system by running at a frisky 369 megahertz.

There is a lot of memory available in such a small package. The E75 has 85 megabytes of internal memory that is also available to the user for personal storage. If you need more, it has a MicroSD slot to install up to sixteen gigabytes ( with a “G” ) of extra room for video or music.

The camera on the Nokia smartphone is better than most. It is rated at just three megapixels, but has a bevy of features. It has LED flash, a timer with extra timer functions, scene modes, red-eye correction, macro mode, white balance and autofocus. It takes videos at VGA resolution. The audio category is not too shabby either. The E75 has a stereo FM radio and a 3.5 millimeter connector for headphones. MP3 files are played, along with eAAC+, AAC+ WMA, and AAC files.

The calls are connected with “world wide” quad band GSM networks, as some call them. It can also use WCDMA networks in most of the bands. If this smartphone is used in the United States, it will have the 850 megahertz band for WCDMA. Other countries will find this band unavailable. All the popular data connections are present. It has WLAN ( Wi-Fi ) in the “B” and “G” modes. Bluetooth is up the version 2.0 in the E75.

The battery is a bit small in the E75. It only has 4.3 hours of talk time, thanks to a battery that is just 1000 mAh in size. If you are using 2G networks to talk on, you can squeeze in some more minutes. It comes with games installed. The phone is expensive, but is a very pleasing machine to own and use. The copper version looks rather desirable over the regular “black and silver” scheme. It is a “thumbs-up” type of smartphone for most people.