Nokia designed its latest E-series, the E75, based on the older Nokia 9300, its first mini-communicator. But the E75 uses a side-slider with full keyboard design and looks much better.
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It comes with Nokia’s new e-mail user interface, which includes folder and HTML e-mail support, expandable views and options to sort according to date, sender and size.
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You can easily add and access your Ovi Mail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Mail accounts from the Nokia Messaging menu. The E75 can deliver your e-mails automatically for up to 10 addresses.
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And if you use folders in your Web-based e-mail service, Nokia Messaging lets you select up to 10 folders that will appear in your phone.
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I tried the service with Gmail and Ovi Mail. All I had to do was provide an e-mail address and key in the password. The e-mail setup was ready in a jiffy.
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To type out your e-mail, or any typing for that matter, you have a choice of a numerical keypad or slide-out Qwerty keyboard. Though the keyboard is quite flat with hardly any space separating each key, the keys are large enough for comfortable typing.
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What I like about the keyboard is that the characters that I often use such as the question mark (?), at sign (@), apostrophe (‘), quotation mark (), comma (,) and full stop (.) have their own key and don’t need a two- key combination. It just makes typing a message easier and faster.
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The keyboard also slides out effortlessly and snaps into place, thanks to the smooth sliding mechanism.
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There’s also the option of two home screens that you can customize — one for work, the other for personal data, for example. And there are dedicated one-touch keys for Home, Calendar and Email.
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Another thing I like about the E75 is its size. For a phone…