Samsung are keen to keep users coming back for more. But serving, inspiring and entertaining today’s crowd is not enough it seems. So the next step is raising future Samsung users. The S3650 Corby is tech-savvy and fresh – just like its target audience. And this entry level touchscreen seems to quite nicely suit both the user’s liking and bill-payer’s budget. On the social side, the Samsung S3650 Corby offers Facebook, MySpace and Twitter integration, while photo and video sharing are taken care of with direct uploads to YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Photobucket. You can update your status on the various social networking sites and receive updates from your friends via a neat pop-up notification feature. All that is a tap away on the 2.8″ capacitive touchscreen. The plastic construction of the S3650 Corby certainly helps it keep its weight down to a svelte 92 grams. The entire surface is glossy and this definitely does not help you get rid of fingerprints. We’ve played around with the phone for a while to find it is quite resistant to scratches in defiance of it sleek front. Ergonomically it’s very good and the oval shaped back panel makes gripping it easier. The 2.8″ display takes centerstage on the S3650 front. It has a 240 x 320 pixel resolution, just like most previous generation touchscreens by Samsung. Its image quality isn’t as impressive as that on high-end Samsungs with capacitive displays, but it isn’t too bad either.

As promised by the manufacturer, the S3650 Corby comes with social integration disguised under three neat homescreen widgets – MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. All three widgets have similar interface – a big update button at the top, a text field for your current mood/status message and some buttons the bottom.

In the MySpace widget the available options include checking your messages, getting into chat and adding friends. The Facebook widget offers again checking your messages, adding new friends and its last option is poking a friend. Finally the Twitter widget has only two virtual keys – friends and followers. The Settings button is available everywhere offering options for auto-refresh and adding a photo.

Social networking integration stretches even further to having a dedicated item in the main menu. The Communities item gets you links to websites such as Facebook, Picasa and Flickr and the ability to directly upload files. You can also preset your login details so you don’t have to enter them each time you access those websites or try to upload content from the file manager – the S3650 Corby stores your credentials for you.

No matter how limited, the controls available on the Samsung Corby allow you to chat, update your status, post tweets, upload photos and read your friends’ new posts. Despite the lack of 3G, all these are barely traffic-intensive, so you won’t miss HSDPA speeds.

The S3650 Corby is a simple, affordable and attractive touchscreen with modest but very focused feature set. It is designed to be small, to suit the social needs of youngsters and to be trendy. Its styling and Fashion Jackets are quite relevant too. Camera, MP3 player, capacitive touchscreen, neat user interface and distinct design are enough to seal the deal.

Samsung has launched Corby series at the end of September 2009 which entered for medium-low market segment, they are the Corby B3210 and Samsung Corby S3650. This phone is designed with the beautiful style designs, one of them is proved by the adoption of fashion jacket solutions to change the back cover. Samsung Corby B3210 has many features that are appropriate for the youngsters. There are FM radio with recording functionality, MP3 player, fake call, 3.5 mm jack, stereo Bluetooth, 2 Mega Pixel camera, email and instant messenger. The Samsung CorbyTXT B3210 comes with a BlackBerry-like design and feels pretty comfy in your hand. Its overall dimensions are pretty much the same as these of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and it´s slightly bulkier than the original Corby S3650. The screen measures just 2.2 inches and comes with the modest native resolution of 220×176 pixels. Icons and menus appear pixelated and sadly, the display gets virtually unusable in direct sunlight. Its only advantage is called properly saturated colors indoors.

In a nutshell, the Samsung CorbyTXT B3210 is a youthful device with simple, but entertaining interface. Our unit is intended for the Italian carrier TIM and there are certain, albeit minor differences to the unlocked, SIM-free version. Since the CorbyTXT doesn’t sport a touch-sensitive screen, it doesn’t run the motley TouchWiz interface, but the manufacturer has managed to remain true to the overall idea. Just like the other members of the Corby family, the handset features several themes that give the interface a truly colourful appearance, plus there is a shortcuts bar on the home screen where you can place up to 15 icons to gain quick access to important functions.

longside of what you see in phone menus, the camera interface looks downright antiquated, because it doesn’t feature even a single colourful element. Still, it is simple and really easy to use. Snapshot quality is suitable for social networks, but low if you browse pictures on a normal computer screen. The videos are nothing to write home about, not that we expected more anyway, given the maximum video capture resolution is 176×144 pixels and the average frame count – 15.

One of the extra features of the Samsung CorbyTXT B3210 is the presence of a 3.5mm jack. The phone comes boxed with a pretty cool stereo headset that offers above average audio playback quality, but there is surely room for improvement here. Fortunately, you can always plug in a better pair. The CorbyTXT is equipped with loudspeaker that delivers surprisingly proper sound quality for an affordable handset. If you get bored with the music you´ve transferred to the phone, you can switch over to the FM radio with RDS.

The most important advantages of the CorbyTXT are, without doubt, its affordable price tag and appealing overall look. For a device in this class, it offers proper texting and relatively decent audio playback capabilities. What you hear during calls is loud, but rather sharp voices that tend to get monotonous at times. The situation is slightly better on the other end of the line, but as a whole, the in-call quality is a tad below average.

What are the odds of youngsters getting at their parents over the Samsung CorbyTXT B3210 until they finally get what they want? Pretty decent actually, not to mention we won´t be surprised to see adults give in to the temptation as well.

Sony Ericsson W960 is aptly the big gun in the Sony Ericsson portfolio of music-centered handsets. Gifted with the scorching 8GB of storage space and a large touchscreen TFT display, a 3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities, the W960 easily stands out in the Walkman crowd. Powered by the Symbian OS and UIQ user interface, it delivers one-of-a-kind Walkman experience with rich fullscreen visualizations and advanced track filtering. All this is enough to have us drooling over the specs sheet, eager to get our hands on this smarty Walkman and see what it’s made of. The W960i is predominantly black with a white strip running around the sides, which reminds us of a penguin. When we tilt the phone at an angle with the bottom edge toward us, the reflective coating of the numerals and letters on the keypad stands out significantly. It looks nice, but doesn’t serve any practical purpose. We also noticed that the white backlighting on the keypad is uneven, with most of the light concentrated at the center column.

There are three touch-sensitive music playback keys between the keypad and the LCD on the W960i. These are visible only when the Walkman player is active. Unlike the LG Prada phone which uses a capacitive display, meaning it could register finger strokes but not stylus input, we could use both methods to control the three music keys on the W960i.

Above that is the 2.6-inch 240 x 320-pixel touchscreen LCD that is flush with the surface. The screen is protected by a layer of plastic, so you are not actually poking at the display. What we are more concerned with is the glossy vinyl black surface that catches smudges and facial oils.

The handset’s menu is very similar to some of the touchscreen models we’ve seen like the M600i and P1i. The default user theme shows the Walkman player on the screen. That can be turned off if desired. Menu options that appear on the bottom of the 2.6-inch screen change according to the different settings. While we managed to get away with using our finger or thumb on the panel most of the time, typing a text message via the onscreen keyboard still requires a stylus. The latter is stowed away on the top left corner. Speaking of which, we wondered if Sony Ericsson could have bundled a more solid (metallic) stylus instead of a plastic one that looks like a steal at a bargain store.

Because there’s no directional keypad or joystick on the W960i, navigating the Walkman interface requires the use of the jog dial. The menu icons are lined in a column with the usual sorting by artists, albums, compilations, tracks and playlists. There’s also a Moods option where songs can be tagged to the different tempo of the music, for example, happy, sad, energetic or chilled. This lets us pick one that suits our mood for the day.

The W960i promises a lot as a music player, but unfortunately, isn’t quite the complete package as we thought it could be. It doesn’t have a built-in 2.5/3.5mm audio port. Perhaps we are used to having such an option, especially on some of the Nokia Nseries sets. We thought it’s about time Sony Ericsson does some justice to its Walkman phones as well. That said, our review set comes with a 3.5mm adapter. We just didn’t like the hassle of dealing with the extra length of cable.

Although it’s from the Walkman series, the W960i isn’t a minion when it comes to digital imaging. It has a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera with a pair of LED photolights. Pictures can go up to a maximum resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 pixels and videos in QVGA at 15fps. The video part was a bit of a disappointment since there are smart phones on the market that are capable of shooting motion images in VGA resolution at 30fps. There’s also a secondary front-facing camera for 3G video calls.

On the connectivity front, the triband W960i is 3G-enabled (UMTS 2100) and equipped with Bluetooth with A2DP support and Wi-Fi. Other features on this Symbian UIQ Walkman include FM radio with RDS, an Opera Web browser, support for RSS feeds, TrackID and organizer functions.

The W960i ships with a standard 950mAh Lithium-polymer cell that’s rated for 9 hours of talktime and about 15 days on standby. In real-world conditions, the battery life performance was dismal. With our usual pattern of making calls, sending text messages and listening to music during commute, the cell gave up on us in less than 1.5 days. Be prepared to charge it every night if you don’t want to worry about it dying mid-day.

The M600i could easily be thought of as a scaled down version of the upcoming P990 QWERTY smartphone, with which it shares many features and internal workings. While the P990 looks to cram modern day specs like a 2 megapixel camera and WiFi into the same basic P series form factor as the older models, the M600 instead tries to offer the core functionality in a smaller and more conveniently sized device. It lacks WiFi and a camera of any sort, but supports the same GSM and UMTS bands and touch-screen while shedding 40g (1.4oz) and being far smaller. Quite possibly the ideal size for a business phone, the Sony Ericsson M600i is but a hair’s width from scoring full marks in the messaging, productivity and browsing departments, hampered only by the smaller-than-the-competition sizes of its otherwise excellent touch screen and thumbboard. It also delivers a solid impression in every other department, with the near-sole disappointment being its lack of a bundled USB cable and USB charging support. Add good battery life and nice touches such as a scroll wheel, stereo Bluetooth audio and a clever, agenda-style standby screen, and what emerges is a winning recipe.

Call audio quality was good in general, though the squelch/noise reduction system seemed to be a bit agressive at times, almost clipping off the very start of word sometimes. The speakerphone’s audio qualities seemed pretty good. The M600 has no real profile support, but does have a silent mode that can be quickly turned on by long-pressing the # key, and an airplane mode that can be enabled when powering on of off the device with the power button.

The Sony Ericsson M600 works pretty well as a regular, day to day phone thanks to decent battery life, good reception, and a “normal” form factor. It managed 6 hours of talk time in our 1900MHz GSM tests that had a voice track playing continually to keep any power saving functions from kicking in. That’s pretty respectable. Sony Ericsson claims over 14 days of standby time for the M600, which seems hugely optimistic. That is not to say that I was not pleased with its standby battery life, because that is certainly not the case. I think people can easily expect to get a few days of calls and standby out of a full charge, which is pretty good. In addition to the 1900MHz GSM band that we tested on, the M600i also supports the 900 and 1800MHz GSM bands as well as the 2100MHz UMTS 3G band.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini should be nothing more than a shrunken version of the Xperia X10 – but in reality it’s a whole new phone that gives Android a complete makeover. Sony Ericsson isn’t joking when it says the Xperia X10 Mini is the same size as a credit card. Obviously it’s a lot thicker, but the overall size and weight of the super-small Android phone is about equivalent to a packet of Swan matches. The Mini is the follow-up to Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone, the Xperia X10. The Mini feels like the X10 snapped in half, but it has many of the same features, as it also runs version 1.6 of the Android operating system.

Sony Ericsson has tweaked the user interface to suit the 64mm (2.5-inch) screen. For example, the on-screen Qwerty keyboard has been ditched in favour of an alphanumeric keypad. That means you’ll never be able to text as quickly on the Mini as you will on most other smart phones. But, considering the size of the phone, the keypad is well designed.

The keypad buttons are large and finger-friendly, and it’s easy to swipe between different keypads that feature letters, numbers and symbols while you’re typing — an innovation that we’d like to see on more touchscreen phones. Unfortunately, the keypad doesn’t work in landscape mode, so it can’t take advantage of the full height of the screen.

The home-screen area is equally well suited to the small display. You’re able to swipe between a selection of home screens that you can load with one widget each, and four shortcuts sit in each corner of the screen too. The Mini doesn’t offer the X10′s Mediascape feature, which shows the videos, photos and music on your phone. But it does have an ‘infinity button’ in its music player app that loads related content from YouTube and PlayNow, Sony Ericsson’s music store.

Because Sony Ericsson has tweaked the Android OS for the Mini, it’s fallen behind the breakneck Android update schedule. Consequently, the Mini is running Android 1.6, rather than the latest version, 2.2. That won’t make much difference to most people, especially if you’ve never used the newer version of Android, because you can still download apps and use Google features like Gmail and Maps.

The Mini has Wi-Fi and A-GPS on-board, and it also has HSPA for fast Web surfing over 3G. There’s only a paltry 128MB of built-in memory, which could be an issue if you’re installing loads of apps. But, for storing music, video and other files, you can slap in a microSD memory card of up to 16GB. The phone we tested came with a 2GB card, as well as some snazzy, interchangeable back covers.

For geeks with plenty of extra cash, a SIM-free Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini would make an ideal party phone. It’s tiny enough to take out on the town, but you still get all your Android apps, and your contacts and other data will be automatically synced with your main phone over the cloud.

The Mini is also a good choice for anyone who wants a small handset, but still wants to dip their toes into the world of apps and other smart-phone perks. The lack of a virtual Qwerty keyboard means we can’t recommend it for serious emailers, texters and social-networking fiends, though.

Equipped with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy text messaging and built-in social networking tools and features, LG Cosmos allows customers to keep their friends in the know while keeping up with life on the go. Verizon Wireless offers the largest voice service and 3G data network which serves more than 91 million customers. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD) and Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ). LG Cosmos has an embedded 1.3 megapixel camera and an image editor. It can zoom up to 2X. The camera renders three different resolutions. It has customizable brightness and comprises of communication options like SMS, chat, e-mail and gives internet social networking features. This phone has a metallic finish and gives very high voice quality. It has shutter/cue sound and an image editor.

The camera which is 1.3 megapixel allows us to take clear and nice pictures. The phone has a good metallic finish . Internet can be accessed with the help of LG Cosmos. The uploading of photos can be done instantly onto online albums. Users can print photos and send calendar events. It has a GPS support and a Micro USB port. The access to social networking sites gives the privileges to share and experience the magic to keep in touch with our closed and dear ones. LG Cosmos has a QWERTY keyboard.

Special dedicated keys included in the QWERTY keyboard allow us to stick to some special functions. LG Cosmos provides us with the Bluetooth handset. The GPS facility is via VZNavigator and a speakerphone is also included in this phone. LG Cosmos gives enhanced location accuracy. The voice quality is so superior that the auto adjustment clarity is based on the surrounding noise level.

There is instant messaging facility for all the users and web based email. Along with zooming, the camera includes three different resolutions. The camera works on the principle of noise reduction in low light environments to improve image quality. Picture and text messaging along with voice messaging which are the primary requirements of any phone are also provided in it.

Users can crop, rotate and zoom any image with the help of an Image Editor. USB charging can be carried out with the help of a computer. After a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement LG Cosmos has been made available from March 25 this year in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores for $29.99. It is also made available at www.verizonwireless.com. They accept debit cards and can use card as cash anywhere. The rebate will be available as a debit card.

The new Pantech Jest TXT8040 from Verizon Wireless follows in the line of the preceding Razzle TXT8030 and Blitz TXT8010 models, as it is a messaging phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. Included in the retail package is the Pantech Jest TXT8040 phone, 920mAh battery, wall charger with detachable microUSB cable, and user guide.

Design

Located on the front is a nice sized 2.6” 320×320 pixel TFT display, capable of 262K colors. This is a welcome improvement from the Razzle and Blitz, as both have a smaller 2.2” 220×176 pixel display. Images and text on the Jest looks quite good and there are no jagged edges. Below it is an optical d-pad that senses movement up/down and left/right, but you do have to physically press it in to make menu selections. The optical d-pad is a novel idea, but in practice it doesn’t work that well. Even though we changed the sensitivity level from the default setting of medium to high, it still had trouble picking up our thumb movements, and most of the time we have to move our thumb 4-5 times in the same direction for it to register. After a while, this became quite annoying, and we would have preferred a more traditional d-pad like what is used by the Razzle and Blitz. The left and right softkeys are also touch-sensitive, but those worked well, despite not being backlit. The rest are traditional push-buttons for send, send, music, and clear. Around the sides are the volume rocker, speakerphone key, 2.5mm headset jack, microUSB port, camera key, shortcuts key, and microSDHC memory card slot that supports up to 16GB cards.

Features

The Pantech Jest has a generous 1,000-entry phone book with room in each entry for five numbers, two e-mail addresses, a street address, and an IM screen name. You can add a photo to a contact for caller ID, and you can assign him or her to a group too. There are also 26 different ringtones and alert sounds that you can use to customize each contact.

Some of the phone’s basic features include a vibrate mode, a speakerphone, a calculator, a tip calculator, a calendar, an alarm clock, a stop watch, a world clock, a notepad and an e-diary. You also get an interesting app called Self Icon that lets you to create your own icons and banners via a dot-matrix layout. Other features include USB mass storage, voice command, a mobile Web browser, GPS with VZ Navigator support, and Bluetooth profiles for A2DP stereo, Object Push, and File Transfer.

Camera

The 2.0-megapixel camera on the Jest can take pictures in five resolutions (1,600×1,200, 1,280×900, 640×480, 320×240, and 160×120). Other settings include six white balance presets, brightness, a self-timer, four color effects, and three shutter sounds with a silent option. There’s also a video recorder, and it can only record in 176×144 resolution in either 15 seconds for MMS or an hour for storage.

Battery Life

The Pantech Jest has a rated battery life of 4.6 hours talk time and 15 hours standby time. According to the FCC, it has a digital SAR of 0.893 watt per kilogram.

iPhone 3GS is the most sophisticated mobile phone nowadays. The more advance a gadget is, the more power it needs. Although iPhone 3GS battery can reach up to 300 hours standby, but still it doesn’t include the power need of each application we use. Moreover, people always get careless sometimes, like when you leave the charger at home and your iPhone’s battery power is getting lower, or you’re on the way with the charger, but you can’t find a place to charge it. If you’re in such unlucky situations like that, you should follow these steps to save your iPhone’s battery power.

1. Set the brightness Low the brightness level. Go to settings -> brightness. Or use Auto-brightness and the phone will adjust automatically with the exposure condition where you are in.

2. Turn off Wi-Fi system Turn off the Wi-Fi new networking, so the phone will stop searching Wi-Fi signal automatically. Go to settings -> Wi-Fi.

3. Turn off 3G system If you’re not in 3G signal area, you’d better turn it off. Go to settings -> general -> network.

4. Limit the games application Do not play the games, especially 3D games. Or you can turn off the vibration if you still want to play it.

5. Do not download any applications If you want download any applications or music, do not do it when the phone’s battery is low. You can download it later on PC.

6. Set the auto-lock Set the auto-lock for 1-2 minutes. Go to settings -> general -> auto-lock.

7. Turn off push email Deactivate push email feature.

8. Turn off Bluetooth If you’re not in process of transferring music or file, turn off the Bluetooth. Go to settings -> general.

9. Turn off GPS tracking If you’re not on the way or in a time finding out where your position is, deactivate GPS location service. Go to settings -> general.

10. Use Car-Kit charger Activate your car-kit to charge the phone while driving with a car.

For some people, smartphones are not an option – they’re either too expensive, too fancy or too complicated. And this is understandable, especially when you consider the pace with which mobile phone technology changes and shifts. However, feature phones are now providing a bridge between the two worlds of traditional mobile phones and smartphones. The Sony Ericsson Elm, which is made out of recycled materials and comes with minimal packaging, is a feature phone that has a lot of the features you’d expect with a high-end smartphone, such as Wi-Fi, 3G, email, apps etc – just without the hefty price tag. Upon opening the box you’ll realise that the Elm isn’t going to break any hearts. That said, it isn’t a bad looking phone and once you’ve had time to get used to it, you might even begin to quite like it – particularly if you’re into more classically designed mobile phones. From the front, the Sony Ericsson looks like a regular kind of candybar handset, with an unassuming matt black front panel. The side and rear view is where you get the bodywork flourishes – it has an elegant convex curve bowing along the silver back panel and edges that give it a smooth, classy feel that works well with the workmanlike front furniture. Measuring up at 110 x 45 x 14mm at its thickest, and weighing 90g, the Elm feels slim in-hand and pretty lightweight. The Elm is kitted out with a large numberpad with rounded convex buttons that are tidy to look at and easy on the fingers.

Its display is an average Sony Ericsson mid-level 2.2-inch QVGA (240×320 pixels) 262K-colour LCD, so is smaller than you’ll find on the average touchscreen device, but it’s adequately bright and clear enough without really wowing. The buttons are familiar Sony Ericsson, with an efficient rectangular central navigation D-pad flanked by more comfortably curved buttons.

There’s a pair of softkeys, Call and End buttons plus a Clear key, and an Activity Menu shortcuts button that fires you straight into a tabbed list of useful shortcuts to functions and apps (such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi), browser bookmarks and other information. Although it comes with decent music player software, Sony Ericsson hasn’t built in a standard 3.5mm headphone socket on this model, relying on its usual proprietary multi-connector socket on the side.

That means the plug in connector for the in-box earphones is relatively bulky and awkward compared to other more widespread connector alternatives – and it’s not so easy to upgrade to higher quality headphones.

A camera button is included on the side, along with volume keys, while the camera lens peeping out of the back panel is accompanied by a small LED flash. A quick flip open of the back cover reveals a MicroSD slot – cards of up to 16GB can be slipped in to supplement the 280MB of onboard storage. No card is supplied in-box, however, and the back panel can be fiddly to take off.

The Elm uses Sony Ericsson’s own proprietary Java-based OS, and while we’re more used to Android and Apple, we didn’t have any complaints with the Elm’s more than capable platform.

The Elm also ships with a hell of a lot of useful applications and features crammed into its petite body such as location services, games, calendar, email, RSS Feeds, web browser and even an organiser. In addition to this, there are also built in apps for Facebook, NearMe, Twitter and YouTube.

Granted, the browser and web experience on the Elm won’t win any prizes, but we don’t think Sony Ericsson intended to do so with this device anyway – and this is the whole point of the Elm.

It’s a smartphone for people, that for one reason or another, don’t want a smartphone.

In this sense then, the Elm is a purely “middle-ground” device and while it may never win any awards or revolutionise anything, it’s certainly a safe bet that can always be relied on to do its job – it’s basically the Cold Play of the mobile phone world.

Another cool aspect of the Elm is that you can upgrade its storage capabilities to 8GB, which makes ample room for music, video and documents – although this will cost you.

One of our only gripes with the Elm is its Sony Ericsson proprietary headphone and charger connection, which means you cannot use standard 3.5mm Jack headphones with the device – only the ones that Sony Ericsson approves of.

The reason we don’t like these non-universal connection ports is that, more often than not, they’re rubbish and break, or malfunction, after limited usage, which obviously makes charging your device difficult and listening to music impossible. Sony Ericsson has really shot itself in the foot with this aspect of the Elm.

Other than that, the Elm is a well-rounded feature phone that even gives a few smartphones we’ve tested some strong competition. In short, if you want a decent handset that’s reliable, straightforward and does what you want, when you want, then the Sony Ericsson Elm is for you.

Much like the E61/E62 models that have also been sold in the U.S., the E71 includes a QWERTY keyboard rather than the more typical numberpad. However, you should understand that Nokia learned from mistakes with those models and has made the E71 very close to being the best smartphone available today. Being a business centric device, the E71 comes with a full complement of office, email and PIM software, including a feature to switch on the fully between business and personal accounts, complete with separate mailboxes and home screens. We’ll confess to being spoiled by the iPhone’s touch interface — while there is more customizability and more power at your fingertips with the standard, d-pad controlled S60, there certainly seem to be an abundance of button presses to accomplish even simple tasks, though we never feel lost or confused by the OS. Some of the truly powerful features include Nokia’s impressive Maps 2.0 application, the WebKit-powered S60 browser (which even includes an easy-to-use feed reader), and a strong integration with online photo services such as Ovi and Flickr, the former of which even includes geotagging for your photos. Nokia’s own music store doesn’t yet support the United States, but while the media-playback interface pales in comparison to today’s more music-centric phones, playback support is certainly there, including true YouTube and Flash support.

The screen isn’t particularly stunning, only 2.36-inches diagonal, QVGA and none-too-bright, but it certainly gets the job done and leaves room for all that QWERTY. Battery life is basically a non-issue, with 20 days of standby, and 10.5 hours of GSM talk, though the 4.5 hours of 3G talk might pose an issue. We didn’t really put the processor to the test, but load times for just about everything were quite zippy, especially compared to the E62′s consistent sluggishness in loading up simple things like recent calls and the address book.

Overall it’s all about your OS of choice and what exactly you want to do with your phone. If music and video playback are key, the E71′s screen and interface are going to pose a challenge, and if typing is paramount you might need a slightly larger QWERTY keyboard — though our typing speed after about a day was roughly equivalent to our iPhone speed after about a year of use. As for accomplishing what it sets out to do, the E71 manages it all with style, providing a plethora of features in a speedy, beautiful and miniscule device. Since Nokia won’t be working with American carriers right away on subsidizing the E71 — thouch we can keep hoping for an AT&T berth — you’ll have to spring about $500 to bring one home, but it might just be worth it.