Say, is that new mobile device a BlackBerry or a Palm? Wait a
second. From the side it looks as slim as a RAZR phone or
BlackBerry PEARL. What is it?
You have not seen this type of smartphone before. It's the all
new Nokia E62 mobile device for Cingular Wireless. The silver
chassis has a resemblance to the Palm Treo, with a full QWERTY
keyboard located below a large rectangular color screen. The full
keyset might also have you thinking this is a BlackBerry product.
Oh, it supports BlackBerry email all right. But it's a Nokia. Call
it a PDA, a mobile productivity device or a smartphone if you like.
It handles all of these tasks and more.
The first technology advancement you'll notice is the form
factor. The Nokia E62 is just 0.6 inches case thickness. This puts
it in the same league the BlackBerry Pearl and the slimmer cell
phone designs. Other dimensions are 4.6 inches tall and 2.8 inches
wide. This is a 5 ounce package for easy portability.
What you won't notice is a protruding antenna. Communications
electronics are completely internal, including quad band GSM cell
phone capability, Cingular EDGE cellular broadband (to 144 Kbps)
and Bluetooth wireless. This Bluetooth supports both wireless
headphones and synching your calendar over-the-air. In fact PC
synchronization options include USB cable, infrared, Bluetooth and
over-the-air via BlackBerry Server.
Email deserves special mention. The full featured email supports
both BlackBerry Connect and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. This is
in addition to the the standard POP3 email. Up to 10 accounts are
supported.
Equally valuable to road warriors is the ability to both view
and edit email attachments in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Viewing support is provided for PDFs. Zip file support is also
included.
SMS and multimedia messaging come standard. Also included are
instant messenger clients for AOL, Yahoo! and ICQ. The E62 allows
you to send a slideshow to other SMIL (Synchronized Media
Integration Language) compatible phones. Web browsing is done using
a full HTML web browser. The phone book is organized to allow
multiple numbers per name, email addresses, web address, IM handle
and more for each of your contacts.
The full QWERTY keyboard will be appreciated for extensive text
creating and editing. The color main display measures 320 x 240
pixels and displays over 16.7 million colors. An enhancement to the
display electronics is an ambient light sensor that will adjust
display brightness to save battery life.
All of these features run on a Symbian 9.1 operating system with
Java application platform. The processor is a Series 60 r3 Texas
Instruments processor running at 235 MHz. Built-in memory is 80 MB
with miniSD card expandability to 2 GB.
Battery life wasn't compromised to include this advanced
technology in such a slim package. Talk time is rated at up to 330
minutes or 5.5 hours. Standby time is up to 336 hours or a full two
weeks away from the charger.
Learn more about the
Nokia E62 with Cingular Wireless service now. Or, if you prefer
another model wireless device or cell phone you can find what you
are looking for at
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