There are Nokia phones, there are smartphones, and there are Nokia smartphones. One such Nokia smartphone is the Symbian 9.1 series 60 version 3.0 operated Nokia e61i. This phone was released in the year 2007, and what really stands out when looking at it is the resemblance to the the almost any BlackBerry phone, but this is thanks to the full QWERTY keyboard which was given to it. See an image of it right below.
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The screen is almost as big as on a Blackberry, 2.8 inches, however the difference is that this display has a a more clear, sharp image thanks to the 16 million color depth -just like a computer screen. But what will this help the user with? The camera will take better pictures, even if one has only 2MP, the videos played will look somewhat better, and the same goes for the visited websites.
The games, Java based, which you can download, will also look better on this bigger and more colorful screen. You can view the office documents as well, but sadly there is no editing, not on the Nokia e61i anyway.
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But why have the Blackberry devices even been mentioned in this review? Because this cell phone can connect to one of those in order to give the owner more functionality and more freedom. Probably this function was added in order to make up for the very limited available memory: internally only 60 MB and only 2 GB on the microSD card.
One very important feature hasn't been mentioned and that is related to the main function of the phone: phone calling. The phone calls can be done over 2G or 3G protocols, and using these networks: GSM, EDGE, UMTS and GPRS and surprisingly even the WiFi internet connection can be used.