Box, exterior
The package also had a microUSB cable, a stereo headset, a charger, some manuals and a CD inside. And inside the phone we’ve found a 4GB microSD card, which is a generous gift, even though I would have liked to see a leather case with a business model. The most important part of the whole package is of course the phone, our first impression of this being that it’s quite heavy.
Well, that’s no wonder. The Finnish guys were generous with metal, the back panel is made of stainless steel and the rim of the front panel is also made of metal, so we can feel that it’s a high-quality product. The one we had for testing didn’t have its back panel perfectly mounted, but we were told that this is a unique problem, and potential customers are more worried about the cover having some play. We won’t be annoyed by that, as in the case of E75 this is absolutely minimal, and otherwise the handset is well-assembled, massive phone, we might somehow feel that it “lasts forever” and that’s even a requirement of a device that costs about 470 euros.
The fact that the phone is relatively chubby is due to the cover sliding sideways and there is a full QWERTY keyboard underneath. Nokia didn’t have such a phone previously, other similar and well-known devices are HTC Touch Pro, Samsung F700 and LG Prada II. I’m not completely satisfied with the Finnish keyboard. Of course this is a matter of taste as well, but the keys are on the same plane, there are not bumped and it’s not the same experience we get from other manufacturers, even though the buttons are pleasant to touch. There is only a minor problem with the backlight, the blue letters (which can be accessed with the function key) are a bit faint, but basically this is not a serious issue. The keys have a proper size, there would have been space for a couple more on the sides, but the Nokia guys didn’t want to overcomplicate things.
The thing I love about this handset (and for example this has been the same on HTC Rose) is that we don’t always have to slide it open, as there is a full phone keypad on the front, which looks just like on any other recent Nokia smartphone. Here the designers have completely filled up the space they had, so in order to press the bottom keys we should support the phone with another finger in order to avoid dropping it. The keypad on the front of course takes space from the display, but the QVGA screen is still not small, as it has a diagonal of 2.4”.
Below the display there are the navigation controls known from E66, the five-way button in the center is easy to use. This has a gloomy backlight to tell us in the dark that the phone is alive, the rhythm and frequency of the light changes if the phone warns us of a missed event. On the left side of the closed phone there is a rubber door, this is where we can find the microUSB connector and the memory card slot. On the right there are the volume control keys, the voice commands hotkey between these, and on the bottom we can see the camera’s hotkey.
On the bottom of E75 there is the good old little Nokia charger connector, but the Symbian-based Finnish smartphone can be charged via a USB connection as well. There is a bonus awarded for that, but on the other side we have to note that USB charging should be available on all models since a long time ago. It’s another great thing that on top of E75 there is a 3.5 mm jack. The back panel looks really good, it’s a real fingerprint-collector, while in the top corner there is the camera’s lens, a little mirror and a LED flash.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
