The Nokia E60 is a business-orientated 3G SmartPhone. There's no camera and it looks like a brick, so teenagers stop reading now!

OK, if you're still reading, then we'll say straight away that this is an excellent phone for the business user. There's really nothing missing, and plenty to recommend the E60. Let's start with the outside. It's a smart functional design - nice and square - not too big or heavy, but solid. The keypad is excellent with nicely separated, good-sized keys, and a precise 5-way navigation key. The screen is a good size and is fantastically sharp. Nokia have pulled out all the stops with this one. It's an active matrix display with 16 million colours and the highest resolution currently available on any SmartPhone: 352 x 416 pixels. This is clearly designed to enable document reading and web browsing, and it works well. If the font is too small, then you can easily zoom into a document, as well as rotate and pan with ease. It's the next best thing to having a laptop and it impressed us.

The E60 packs in almost every business function that exists, including a few novel ones. Naturally the basics are covered - integrated speakerphone, vibration alert, voice commands, voice recorder, email, web browser, Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Then there are some less common but valuable features - 3G, Symbian applications, Push to Talk, an attachment viewer for browsing Office documents, Wireless LAN and a memory card (plus a generous 64 Mbytes of internal memory). Finally, there are a couple of novel features that might or might not prove useful. The first of these is the capacity to make VoIP calls via the wireless LAN connection. Making free calls is probably not top priority for the average business user, but this could still prove be a useful feature. There's also a feature that people will love or hate: Talking Caller ID. This means that the phone will speak the name of an incoming caller as part of the ringtone. Could be useful (or embarrassing!)

We can't find any negatives with the E60. It's a great all-round phone for business use. You'll want another phone for the weekend no doubt, but during office hours you won't go wrong with the E60. Highly recommended!

Features of the Nokia E60 include:

* Series 60 3rd Edition SmartPhone
* Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 352 x 416 pixels with zoom function
* Media player (audio & video)
* Handsfree speakerphone
* Voice commands
* Voice recorder
* Push to Talk
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, email (POP3, IMAP4 & SMTP)
* Talking caller ID (the name of the caller is spoken with the ringtone)
* Attachment viewer for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel (Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003)
* Symbian and Java� applications
* Caller ID with image
* Support for internet calls over WLAN
* Compatible with Nokia Wireless Keyboard
* Connectivity: Bluetooth 1.2, USB & infrared, WLAN
* Memory: 64 Mbytes plus 64 MB Reduced Size Dual Voltage MultiMediaCard
* XHTML web browser
* WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
* Vibration alert
* Triband plus 3G (WCDMA)
* Size: 115 x 49 x 17mm
* Weight: 117g
* Talktime: 2.3 hours
* Battery standby: 240 hours

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