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If you're even in the market to get yourself a smartphone, chances are you'll gravitate towards one of two things: you'd either be getting something that's quite familiar for you, or something so different that it would excite you to get to know something new and unfamiliar once more. The Nokia E7, for all intents and purposes, is the familiar aspect of acquisition. As can be seen on some other Nokia E7 reviews, the E7 is a smartphone that's very comfortable to use because of the familiar interface that you've come to expect of Nokia phones: not necessarily a bad thing, right? It really just depends on what side of the fence you're coming from, and for most people, familiarity and comfort equals efficiency, and efficiency will always be a good thing. The Nokia E7 is a Symbian OS 3 toting smartphone. It has a slide out landscape keypad underneath it that glides out very easily. It's encased in anodised aluminium that just captures anyone's attention. The physical keyboard doesn't detract from the E7's slim appearance at all, and the keyboard itself was a pleasure to use; they are both spacey and large, and are an amazing relief from those wafer slim keyboards. Having to use a real keyboard on a Smartphone is just dandy, as using virtual keyboards can be a pain sometimes, burdened as they are with spell checkers that are more time consuming than they're worth. The E7 comes with an 8 megapixel camera and takes shots wonderfully. Viewing them on the E7's screen may be a disservice to the photos themselves, but seeing them on the computer monitor screen will elicit appreciative nods from any mobile shutterbug. The E7 also comes with an FM radio, an mp3 player that can play multiple formats, a high speed USB interface that can also double as a quick charger. Surprisingly though, the E7 doesn't have an external card slot of any kind. Although it has 16gb if internal memory—plenty enough for a lot of songs and media—the absence of a microSD slot is very unusual, smartphone or no smartphone. Like most good smarphones though, the E7 also features a proximity sensor and accelerometer for orientation detection and its sharp 360 x 640 pixel is made from the world famous Gorilla glass display, which makes it scratch resistant: a potent combination for Nokia's famous toughness. Its capacitive screen is quite responsive and shows no lag time—a pity because according to a lot of Nokia E7 reviews, its Symbian OS platform seems to be the one pulling down the E7. It has been said many times that the Symbian platform's time may have already come and gone, and it can barely keep up with the more popular smartphone platforms in the market namely Google's Android, Apple's iOs and Palm's WebOS. The widgets come out as clumsy, the interface for the settings is unnecessarily cumbersome when it should be inviting and the Nokia OVI online store is not as well stocked as the Apple's App Store and the Andoid Market. A real shame as Nokia used to be in the lead in the mobile communications market well before Apple or even Google came ashore. Thankfully, Nokia's basic features remain unhindered with Symbian's awkwardness, and any Nokia E7 reviews will point out that longtime Nokia user will just feel right at home—something that might be strange to adventurous tech savvy kids, but serves a lot of people just right. Learn how to get the best mobile phone deals or take a look at our easy to follow mobile phone unlocking guide.
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