Nokia E65

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Powering the E65 is the Series 60 3rd edition operating system, with various business and collaborative software such as Quickoffice and Team Suite preinstalled. What the Nokia Team Suite does is manage a group of people, or contacts, into "teams". For example, you can select some of your colleagues to form a team and you can then call either the whole team or to selected team members. Likewise for sending text messages. Quickoffice is what Piscel Viewer is to the Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone edition. It doesn't allow you to create new documents, but you can view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text files.

Connectivity-wise, the E65 is pretty much well-equipped with quadband GSM (800/900/1,800/1,900MHz), 3G, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g with VoIP support), infrared and Bluetooth 1.2. The handset also doubles as a modem when connected with a compatible computer and comes with Mobile VPN for connection to corporate intranets and services via IPsec technology. To read your emails, this Nokia supports POP/IMAP, SMTP, IMAP4 with idle protocols, Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email 8.0 and various third-party clients. But with a small screen and the absence of a QWERTY keyboard, the E65 is best for reading emails and less often for replying.

We tested out Google's Gmail service for mobile clients via the built-in browser which provides an acceptable browsing experience despite the small screen. While it's convenient for occasional use, a 2.2-inch display still doesn't provide enough screen estate for prolonged viewing or reading extensive Word documents.

The E65 is not entirely without multimedia goodies. The installed RealPlayer plays your MP4 files while the onboard Music player croons your MP3/AAC tracks. Disappointingly, there's no FM radio. There is also a Flash application and Gallery where you can browse through all your media files using a tabbed interface. If you're up for it, there are several other trial programs which you can download via Nokia Catalogs, such as Digitizer, F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus, Psiloc Wireless Presenter and Wayfinder Navigator. The onboard message reader is a hit-and-miss situation. On the one hand it's convenient to have the program read out text messages, but when we were using it outdoors we could barely hear what it was saying until we brought it close to our ears.

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