Nokia today quickly chased its early press info with the formal launch of the E63 (link active soon). A budget alternative to the E71, the full QWERTY smartphone is geared towards the same audience as the Blackberry Curve but also the growing audience of those who want a smartphone without the usual cost. It's for users who may be updating their social networks in addition to (or in place of) checking Exchange e-mail from work, the company argues.
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Nokia's just dropped the E63 onto the scene, based on the E71, and aimed at bringing "the QWERTY keyboard form factor to a broader audience at a great price" according to Nokia itself. The skinny BlackBerry-alike candybar is also designed to meet the needs of a business phone and personal phone in one device, switching between corporate email/calendar mode and personal email/websites/photo mode. It also comes with 1GB of cloud file storage on Ovi so users will always have access to some of their files, and has Wi-Fi connectivity. We also know it has a camera, 3.5-mm audio jack and is in blue or red but Nokia's not revealed much else about its innards. Debuting in Europe for around $250.
With the Mobile Phone market offering a wide range of phones, acing in looks as well as in functionality, choosing one among them can be quite brain rattling. There are many phones that sport similar form-factors, like the Nokia E63 Mobile Phone and theBlackberry Niagara 9030 Mobile Phone. Only a close introspection of their specifications can help decide a winner. They are both monoblock structured with almost similar dimensions. A brief comparison between these smartphones is presented here.
The design achieves this by switching from the part-metal casing of the E71 to plastic that also lets Nokia adopt brighter colors: the launch versions will ship in blue and red rather than black or silver. HSPA-based 3G is also dropped in favor of quad-band EDGE and for using the phone's Wi-Fi for faster networking on hotspots. A lower-resolution two-megapixel camera is also standard. Home users are accommodated through a native 3.5mm headphone jack and Nokia's more recent media player software.
Storage is handled chiefly through a microSDHC slot, though Nokia says it will give all E63 owners free access to 1GB of space through Files on Ovi, a sync service that lets users put their computer's files online for access from the phone.
Where Nokia will release the device is unknown, though the wide frequency range includes the 850MHz band needed for North American carriers like AT&T, Rogers and T-Mobile USA. The company also intends to price the E63 aggressively and plans to ship it in "coming weeks" for 199 euros ($251) before carrier subsidies and may be available for a low price or free with a contract.
