Recently, we took you on a hardware tour of Nokia’s latest communicator phone, Nokia E7. And as you might have guessed, we are here to summarize and share with you the experience of our play time with Nokia’s QWERTY based phone. Details after the break.


Before we share with you our favorite and not so favorite features of the phone we would like to bring your attention to the hardware profile of Nokia E7:

  • 680 Mhz processor
  • 4 inch AMOLED touch-screen (360 * 640 pixels) with
  • 8 MP camera with dual LED flash and fixed focus support
  • HD video recording at the rate of 25 FPS (frames per second)
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 16 GB internal storage
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth

If there is one thing everyone relates Nokia with, it is their unmatched ability to produce consistently excellent and high quality hardware carrying smartphones. Nokia E7 isn’t any different. The moment I got this smartphone in my hand , I knew it was from the Finlanders and that was all due to the feeling one gets from holding the phone. One thing which I as well as my some of my friends didn’t like was that the phone was a bit too much on the weight side.

Nokia E7

But what I did like about the phone was that it had a high quality surround sound speaker. I compared its audio quality with that of my first Android phone, HTC Desire and found out that the the Symbian 3 was ahead of its competition. However, Nokia could have done better by placing the speaker in a better spot, because in its current position, its voice gets reduced noticeably when the phone is placed on a flat table/surface.

Nokia E7

Another hope I set with Nokia E7 was with the Symbian 3 powered communicator’s 8 megapixel imager and the camera didn’t disappoint. It produced high quality, bright and crisp photos be it in the day time or night time. Color balance and exposure were magnificent to say the least. What pleased me the most was the impressive video recording result in low light.

Nokia E7

Coming to the part of what I didn’t like about the phone Yup, you guessed it. The OS running on the impressive hardware profile carrying phone wasn’t up to the mark to say the least. Yes, Symbian 3 has the home screen feature which the Android users have become so fond of, but it still didn’t feel right may be it was due to the sluggish navigation among the screen. Some apps that caught our eye were Photo/Video editor, Ovi Maps, which according to us is a perfect replacement for Google Maps, and an impressive looking Twitter client in Gravity.

To wrap up this review, what we would say is that Nokia can use the experience behind Nokia E7 to build Windows Phone handsets. In fact, they could use the hardware design of Nokia E7, to produce their first QWERTY based Windows Phone device. Have you used Nokia E7? What’s your verdict about the handset. Use the comment box below or if you wish you could go social with us on our Twitter and Facebook channel.