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Nokia E75 is a new business-oriented side-sliding cell phone with the latest version of Symbian, excellent connectivity and many user-friendly features.

Overview:
Nokia E75 features 2.4” 16M-color display, fast processor, standard, 3.5m audio jack, some built-in memory and a 4 Gb memory card in the box. Moreover, the phone has a GPS receiver, FM radio and digital camera. And as it is a phone aimed at businessmen it, of course, has document viewer and editor right out of the box.

Nokia E75 pros:
+ 2.4″ 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
+ Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g with UPnP technology
+ microSD card slot, 4GB microSD card in the box
+ Four-row side-slide, comfortable QWERTY keyboard
+ Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G (with HSDPA) support
+ Symbian OS with S60 3.2 UI
+ 369 MHz ARM11 CPU
+ 3.5mm standard audio jack
+ VGA@30fps video recording
+ Steel battery cover
+ FM radio with RDS

Nokia E75 cons:
- Fingerprint-prone poor-looking front
- Quite expensive (over 350 euro)
- Terrible camera key
- Controls around the D-pad are too small
- Poor camera performance

The design:
Nokia E75 measures 112 x 50 x 14.4 mm and weighs 139 grams so for this class of device it is quite small. The phone is made of high quality materials, yet the front makes rather poor impression at the first sight. The steel back, however, looks very solid and durable. What you will see first on the front of Nokia E75 is the 2.4-inch display and the D-pad below it. Still below the D-pad it the alphanumeric keypad, yet the buttons seem too small and not responsive enough to assure comfortable use. The right side of the latest Nokia cell phone houses volume rocker, camera key and voice command key along with the lanyard eyelet. The left side features the microSD memory card slot and the microUSB port. At the top you will find the standard 3.5m audio jack, whereas at the bottom you will only see the charger port. The back of Nokia E75 is home to the 3 megapixel camera lens (with no protection) LED flash, self-portrait mirror and a loudspeaker grill.

Performance:
The 2.4” display might seem a bit small for a business mobile phone but it sure does the job very well. The screen has good colors and is legible even in direct sunlight on a very sunny day. The QVGA resolution assures clarity and so even elaborate web pages are rendered well, but more on that later.the battery in Nokia E75 is quite powerful and according to the manufacturer it will last for about 260 minutes of talking, or over 250 hours in stand-by. Although, as I mentioned before the alphanumeric keyboard is not the best the full QWERTY keyboard is excellent. The buttons are not only well placed, but also just the right size and are very tactile.
Messaging with the Nokia E75 is very pleasant. The phone has three different message editor, but t is easy to get your way through it. All e-mail settings are downloaded automatically so if suffices to provide your address and password and you are ready to send messages.
Also the built-in GPR receiver works very well and as it comes with 3 months of voice-guided navigation for free and Nokia Maps 2.0 it will do the job just fine for most users.
The GPS is sensitive and doest’ get too long to track your locations.

Multimedia:
The music player in Nokia E75 is just OK. It supports plenty of file formats and allows you to sort tracks by artist, genre, album and so on. There are a few equalizer present to improve the sound quality. There is also Radio and Video player. The videos look good but the phone does not support DivX/Xvid. The audio quality is good.
The most disappointing feature of Nokia E75 is its digital camera. Although the 3 megapixel could suffice with good optics the overall image quality is terrible. There is not enough detail, the images are noisy and the colors are not nearly precise enough. Strangely, the video recording function works a bit better, but still at VGA resolution at 30fps it is nothing out of the ordinary.

Menus / ease of use:
Nokia E75 runs on Cymbal S60 with Feature Pack 2 which means that menus are fast, responsive, and thanks to plenty of plugins and applications online it is highly customizable. The main menu has only two different view modes: 4 x 3 grid and a list. The phone has also only two themes, but you can download a few more for free.as the phone has a built-in accelerometer the screen gets rotated automatically. Nokia E75 features the Remote Lock function which will hopefully never be used, but still it’s good it is there.
Selected Nokia E75 features and specifications:

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