lume: 95.9 cc
Weight: 126 g
Length: 108.8 mm
Width: 53 mm
Thickness (max): 21.8 mm

Display: 262,144 colors, 176 x 208 pixels with automatic brightness control

Price: $315.00 - $399.95

The N70 unit we tested with was supplied to us by Vodafone, and naturally enough, it works on Vodafone’s 3G network under the Vodafone Live! banner. Outside 3G coverage areas, that’ll drop down to standard GSM coverage and a limited subset of the Vodafone Live! offerings. From a technical perspective, it’s a GSM 900/1800/1900 phone. The N70 also comes with integrated Bluetooth and supports Pictbridge printing for ease of photo printing.

The Nokia N70 aims to try and bridge the gap between the business class smartphone with something you’ll be happy to place on the bar next to your pint. Firstly the N70 is now a useable size measuring 09 x 53 x 24 and weighing just 126 grams, it’s a smartphone that’s been on a sensible diet. Its style is best described as professional chic but some may say it’s only part way along its evolution and you can still see the slabiness of the outgoing Nokia 6680. Good use of materials makes the N70 feel good in the hand and the silver bezel around the large screen focuses the eye.

This slightly dubious design is due mainly to Nokia wanting to get a good screen and also a useable keypad on the front of device without resorting to sliders or flips. The only side action on the Nokia N70 is the cover for the camera on the rear of the handset, but we’ll get to that later. The 262k colour screen has a respectable resolution of 176 x 208 and its clever ambient light sensor means that the N70 can adjust its backlight so you should always get the best view in all lighting conditions. To see the power of the backlight you’ll need to take manual control in a dark room and use the screen as a torch, it’s very powerful and there are a number of freeware applications which allow you to do small tasks like this easily on the Series 60 platform.

It should be noted that the 2-megapixel camera on the N70 is a standard CMOS camera, not the same as the Carl-Zeiss-equipped N90. However, picture quality remains good for both still and video captures. The shutter lag has been reduced compared with previous Nokia phones, but the camera still doesn’t take too well to movements during a shot.

The N70’s display is good and clear in both bright and dark conditions. The inclusion of Realplayer, combined with 3G downloads allowed us to test video quality on the display as well. While it’s not quite up there with the Sony PSP or Apple iPod Video (and that’s partly to do with the Realplayer codec as much as anything else) video trailers and music clips were clear to view, albeit a little noisy at full volume.

Key features:
2 megapixel and up to 20x digital zoom
Create slideshows complete with music
Enjoy FM radio and MP3 with support for Visual Radio
Send and receive emails and attachments
Transfer data wirelessly with Bluetooth connectivity

Multimedia:
Visual Radio*: Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
RealPlayer Media Player
Download and play multimedia files (video and music)
Stream media files from compatible media portals
Full-screen video playback on the phone to view downloaded, streamed, or recorded video clips in larger size
Played formats (decoding): MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV, Nokia Ring Tones, AMR, AMR-WB, AMR-NB, AU, MIDI, H.263, JPEG, JPEG2000, EXIF 2.2, GIF 87/89, PNG, BMP (W-BMP), MBM, MPEG-4 and eAAC+

Browsing:
WAP* 2.0 xHTML/HTML multimode browser
Supports HTML 4.01, including support for elements such as image maps, background images, and frames
Small screen rendering option including a faster page-up/page-down scrolling style
Full-screen mode, download progress bar, and adaptive history list
OMA Digital DRM 1.0 - including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution

Imaging:
2 megapixel camera, 1600 x 1200 pixels with 20x digital zoom
Second VGA camera, 640 x 480 pixels with 2x digital zoom
Dedicated shutter key and camera activation slide
Settings for night, brightness adjustment, image quality, self-timer, white balance settings, and color tones
Flash modes: on, off, automatic
Advanced camera modes: still, sequence, video
Video call, real time video sharing
Download and upload images and video sequences
Integrated flash LED
3GPP H.263 video playback and streamlining
Video and still image editors
Six possible capture scene settings including scenery, portrait, night and sports

Messaging:
MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips
Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
Instant Messaging
Predictive Text Input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia Pacific

Volume: 74 cc
Weight: 115 g
Length: 105 mm
Width: 49 mm
Thickness (max): 15.5 mm

Display: Active-matrix QVGA color display (240 x 320 pixels) with color support for up to 16 million colors
Display contrast and brightness control

Price: $429.99 - $540.99

The E65 comes equipped with every connectivity feature you could ever need. There’s support for quadband GSM, 3G, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g with VoIP support), EDGE, USB, infrared and Bluetooth version 1.2. Nokia has stuck with the S60 Symbian operating system, and this latest version is easy to navigate and has most functions located in the menu items you’d expect them to be.

The E65 is a ’slider’ and, with dimensions of 105×49x15.5 mm and a volume of just 74cc, is one the smallest S60 devices announced thus far. The styling and design of the device add to this feeling; with rounded edges and soft materials, the E65 feels (subjectively) small in the hand. This is often more important than the actual physical dimensions of a device. The E65 is as small, if not smaller, than many of the standard feature phones that it might be competing against. It also compares favourably with the E60, which was a good device but was a little larger than many standard phones.

Marketed as a business phone, the E65 comes with several office-based applications such as Quickoffice’s document reader or Nokia’s Team Suite organiser, plus you’ll always stay connected with the instant messaging feature. You can’t create Word or Excel files on the go, but this would be frustrating given the limited 2.2-inch display and lack of a full QWERTY keyboard.

The E65 is an attractive smartphone and shows a lot more style that the first generation of Eseries devices (the boxy E60 springs to mind). The front is a mixture of a rubbery-feeling plastic (on the sides) and a plastic housing (on the front) for the screen and control keys. The back features leather-like material (battery cover) and the same rubbery plastic from the front (camera housing). These materials add up to a phone that is easy to grip and which feels comfortable to hold.

Another front button mutes the E65’s microphone, while a third you can set up to do anything you like and simply pressing it calls up the configuration software.
A very important aspect of the Nokia E65 is built-in Wi-Fi. This is increasingly common on handsets and smartphones, and in Nokia’s E series handsets it is a staple. But this time around there is a twist. You can get the phone to search for networks in the vicinity at regular intervals and report its findings on the main screen. Or you can manually search for networks by selecting an option on the screen. Once you’ve found a network and are connected, Voice over IP calls and Web browsing are a couple of button presses away.

Key features:
Get more out of your workday with a range of business features: conference calling, voice recording, notepad, integrated handsfree speaker, talking ringtones, and Nokia Team Suite
Send messages using an extensive range of options: SMS, MMS with distribution lists, instant messages, and email
Access business functions quickly and easily: One Touch keys for conference calls, mute/unmute, and contacts
Talk around the world with quad-band coverage on up to five continents
Show your sense of style with the slim, stylish slide design
Work hard, play hard – listen to your favorite tunes or watch video clips with the music and media players
Take snapshots with the 2 megapixel camera

Multimedia:
Video and audio streaming (3GPP & Real Media)
RealPlayer (MP4)
Music player (MP3/AAC) and media player
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) 1.0 with forward lock

Browsing:
HTML Nokia browser
xHTML browser (HTTP stack)

Imaging:
Take snapshots with the 2 megapixel camera

Messaging:
Read email with attachments: Supports POP/IMAP, SMTP, IMAP4 with idle protocols, Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email 8.0 and a variety of third-party email clients: Mail for Exchange 1.5 (delivered via Nokia Downloads! Application), Visto Mobile v5.5, RIM BlackBerry Connect v2.1, and Good Mobile Messaging (email clients are dependent on operator variant)
Instant messaging client (OMA IMPS 1.2)
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS, ver. 1.2) for text, voice clips, video clips, and still images
SMS and MMS with distribution lists
Predictive text input T9

Volume: 68 cc
Weight: 138 g
Length: 107 mm
Width(max): 45 mm
Thickness (max): 17.5 mm

Display: 262,144 colors TFT 208 x 208 pixels display

Price: $680.25 - $1250.00

Clearly Nokia have gone for better materials than 8810 which it aimed at the luxury market but somehow saw fit to use a plastic silvered slider rather than metal and worse still it scratched within minutes of sitting in your pocket next to a set of keys. Still this 8800 is made from a metal slider and there is even a scratch resistant screen to ensure this expensive model stays looking it’s best.

We’d compare the Nokia 8800 to a luxury hotel, the best hotels in the world look the part and have those special touches that ensure you are happy to pay a premium, for example the slider on this model is reportedly made from Porsche technology and has a very smooth and satisfying action. However much like a hotel if you can’t get a good nights sleep then the colour of the wallpaper means nothing and you could have stayed at the YMCA for a tenth of the price.

The phone-book size is limited by the available memory (the SIM card holds an additional 250 contacts), with room in each entry for five numbers; e-mail, Web, and postal addresses; and notes. For caller-ID purposes, you can pair a contact with an image, a group ID, or one of 64 polyphonic ring tones; the phone also supports AAC and MP3 ring tones. For messaging fanatics, you can send text and multimedia messages, as well as instant messages and e-mail (SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4). The 8800 has the usual PIM functions, such as a calendar, a to-do list, a calculator, a countdown timer, and a stopwatch. The company also throws in a couple of extras: a translator, as well as the Mobile Wallet 2.0 application, which lets you store personal information–such as credit card numbers, receipts, and more–and can be password protected. Business users will be pleased to see the inclusion of integrated Bluetooth, a speakerphone, voice-memo support, and PC syncing with the Nokia PC Suite. There is also a WAP 2.0 wireless Web browser with support for EDGE speeds.

Also in front, we find a 262K colour TFT display with a resolution of 208 x 208 pixels, providing crisp and clear colours in a Series 40 setting. The phone’s menu is reached by pushing at the centre of the 5-way navigation pad, where Nokia now actually has incorporated a button to improve usability compared to navigation pads found in so many of its earlier models. We still found it a little bit hard to use, however such issues remain ever-present in petite fashion phones.
Besides its strong focus on fashion and design, the Nokia 8800 offers a long list of features such as Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE and GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz for data and voice connectivity. Multimedia features are also present, represented by the aforementioned 0.5 Megapixel camera, an FM radio and also a digital music player supporting AAC and MP3 formats. The quality of pictures taken with the camera is average, and the same goes for the quality of audio produced by the music player.

There’s no doubt the Nokia 8800 makes a striking first impression, with its eye-catching silver chassis and complementary black and carbon gray accents. It’s also thin and compact at 4.2 by 1.7 by 0.6 inches, which is enough to slip into a pocket, but its stainless-steel body puts it on the heavier side at 4.8 ounces. With its sleek look, we wouldn’t be surprised to find the 8800 making cameos in TV’s Alias or a James Bond movie (it actually appears in Michael Bay’s The Island); in fact, if it weren’t for the Nokia branding above the screen, one couldn’t be sure it was a phone at all, since there isn’t a visible keypad or typical phone features. The 1.7-inch-diagonal display is bright and gorgeous, displaying 262,000 vibrant colors and a 208×208-pixel resolution. We had an easier time reading the 8800’s display in sunlight compared with other phones we’ve tested, but it tends to hold a lot of smudges and fingerprints, as does the phone as a whole.

Key features:
Sensuous curves inspired by nature translate to an ergonomic masterpiece that fits the hand perfectly
Signature thumb rest promotes ease of use
Gleaming stainless steel body frames a host of exclusive features and functions
Sophisticated slide mechanism uses premium ball bearings crafted by the makers of bearings used in high performance cars
Premium user interface
262,144 color TFT display protected by scratch-resistant sapphire coated glass
Integrated 2-megapixel camera
128 MB internal memory
Crystalline designer ring tones composed by renowned composer and ambient music innovator, Brian Eno

Multimedia:
Integrated digital music player for MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+ and WMA formats
Integrated FM radio

Browsing:
xHTML browsing over TCP/IP
Full OMA Digital Rights Management - including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution

Imaging:
Integrated 2-megapixel camera captures images of up to 1600×1200 pixels
3D image engine for enhanced graphics
Video recording and streaming

Messaging:
Multimedia Messaging Service for image messages creating, receiving, editing and sending
Send messages in 47 languages - support for all major languages for Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols
Instant Messaging and Presence-enhanced contacts: check the status of your friends before you call them
IMPS Instant messaging functionality

Weight: 4.94 oz. with battery
Dimensions: 4.21×1.77×0.63 in.

Display: 320 x 240 pixels, 2” TFT (thin-film transistor) QVGA display supporting up to 16.7 million colors .

Price Range: $645.00 - $700.00

Combined with the warmth of its glass and stainless steel body, this “heartbeat” transforms the Nokia 8600 Luna from an inanimate object into a trusted companion with an organic, virtually alive form. When a call does beckon, the signature slide movement is carefully balanced to smoothly raise the ergonomic keypad from within its glass cocoon.

The Nokia 8600 Luna is a stunning handset which is also known as black beauty due to its distinct black glossy casing & eye catching keypad cover which allows the keypad to glow beneath the smoked glass cover. The phone comes with a 2 Inch colour screen which displays up to 16.7 million colours on a QVGA thin film transistor screen. The screen provides the user with a clear & colourful display on this fashionable handset which focuses on its imaging & media capabilities. The handset in slim & easy to handle with an overall casing size of 107mm high by 45mm wide by 15.9mm deep. The Nokia 8600 Luna weights 140 grams including the battery which feels good to hold & operate in a single hand.

The Luna is black with a white backlight to the number and other keys which is subtle rather than overly bright. Even the usually green and red Call and End keys get the white treatment. Silver edging to the screen and outer keys and also between the upper and lower sections of the handset finish things off hardware-wise. The glass front means that when you close the slider after taking a call the white lit keys are still visible for a moment before they dim down. This is a small feature in the scheme of things, but oh so cool to look at.

Key features

• Slide open the glass cover to reveal the keypad and camera beneath
• Light your way onto the scene – the keypad glows subtly beneath the polished glass cover
• View your pictures on the brilliant, high-resolution display, supporting up to 16-million colors
• Capture life’s special moments on video or with the 2 megapixel camera(1600 x 1200 pixel resolution)
• Enjoy music and videos anywhere with video playback and streaming, built-in FM radio, and the music player(FM radio requires wired headset, stereo headset may be sold separately)

Imaging and video

• Integrated 2 megapixel camera with up to 4x digital zoom
• Landscape camcorder and video player
• Image formats supported: JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG
• Video and still image editors
• Video recording and playback in QCIF format with sound
• Video playback and streaming supports the following formats and codecs: 3GPP, H.263, and H.264

Music and multimedia

• Video playback supports H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, and 3GPP formats and codecs
• Integrated FM radio
• Integrated music player supports AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MIDI, AMR, and WMA audio formats

Volume: 91 cc
Weight: 115 g
Length: 100 mm
Width: 46 mm
Thickness (max): 21 mm

Display: Active matrix 262,144 color display (320 x 240 pixels)

Price range: $283.95 to $425.90

The Nokia 6288 offers consumers the many benefits of 3G in a practical and affordable device,” says Aage Snorgaard, Senior Vice President, Broad Appeal, Mobile Phones, Nokia. “With its strong set of engaging features, world-class video capabilities and an attractive design, we believe the Nokia 6288 will fast become a favourite on the markets this fall.”

The Nokia 6288 also includes dedicated camera and zoom buttons making it even more convenient to record a video or snap a picture of family and friends. Videos taken with the Nokia 6288 can be edited then sent via MMS and email, while Bluetooth technology lets you print pictures directly to any compatible picture printer. The Nokia 6288 weighs 115g and is available in striking cool-white and black colors.

The first impression of the phone is that it is a bit bulky (thick), although it’s width and height are completely normal. The sliding mechanism works very well, it is really easy sliding the phone up and down without much effort. When exposed, the numeric keypad feels very solid and it’s very easy to type with it. On the right side of the phone you will find the miniSD slot, the speaker and the PTT button. This button can not be re-assigned for another action. On the right side, there is the Vol+/Vol- rocker button and the Camera button. At the bottom of the device you will find the pop-opt port (handsfree, USB) and the power port (same as in the E61 and N800). On the top of the device there is IrDA and the On/Off button that also brings up the profiles menu. Profiles supported are: General, Outdoors, meeting, Flight mode, Silent and two user modes.

The beautifully sleek 3G mobile phone comes with a 2 megapixel camera which can located on the back of the mobile handset. The camera feature comes with user friendly camera & photo controls which allows the user to enjoy a full screen experience. The user can use the built in flash & digital zoom to ensure they get the snap the are longing for. The camera function can be used in the landscape mode which allows the user to access the dedicated zoom key & camera key easily like they would do on standard digital camera. The Nokia 6288 comes with a second camera which is used for the two way video calling feature. The second camera is a VGA camera which can be located on the front of the mobile handset. The user can have a face to face video call with any 3G video calling mobile phone users. The user can play & record high quality video footage on their phone which the user can share with others. The phone comes with a 3GPP video streaming feature which allows the user to enjoy live footage on their mobile phone.

The user can use their 6288 as a mobile jukebox which will store & play music when or where the user desires. The built in music player is easy to access from the main menu & allows the user to enjoy their taste of music when they are on the move. The user can download MP3, MP4, AAC & eAAC+ music file onto their Nokia 6288 & enjoy a lively music experience. The phone supports MP3, eAAC+, AAC & polyphonic ringing tones & the user can change their ringing tones & message alerts to suit their choice of music. The user can enjoy a visual experience with the video ringing tones feature.

Key features:
Styled in sleek, polished black or white finishes with innovative slide, user-friendly design
Enjoy viewing videos or photos on a high resolution color display
Two integrated cameras: 2 megapixel camera on the back with landscape camera mode and flash. VGA camera on the front for video-calling
Save memorable videos and photos on inbox miniSD card
Video ringtones
High-speed connections with 3G and EDGE

Multimedia:
Integrated music player for MP3/AAC/eAAC+ formats

Browsing:
WAP* 2.0 xHTML/HTML multimode browser
OMA Digital DRM 1.0 - including forward lock for content protection, combined delivery, separate delivery and superdistribution

Imaging:
Integrated VGA 2.0 megapixel camera with up to 8x digital zoom
Flash modes: on, off, automatic
Landscape mode
Video call and video sharing
Video streaming and recording
3GPP H.263 video playback and streamlining
Familiar landscape (horizontal) camera orientation with full screen viewfinder
Drag and drop your pictures from phone miniSD card directly to PC with USB cable or Bluetooth technology

Messaging:
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
MMS 1.2 for image message creation, receiving, editing and sending (100k)
Nokia Xpress audio messaging: Send a spontaneously recorded voice clip via MMS