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Nokia E7

Based on 63 reviews

Excellent:

7
Good:

17
Average:

14
Bad:

25

Pros

Solid hardware, bright display, tactile keyboard, attractive industrial design
Premium design; Fantastic QWERTY keyboard; 8-megapixel camera takes excellent pictures and video; Good battery life.
Beautiful hardware all around. Terrific camera and camcorder. Plenty of business connectivity.
Qwerty keyboard makes Symbian^3 niceto use; excellent build quality; good battery life; Ovi Maps; nice OLED screen; HD video recording.
Gorgeous hardware, Excellent battery life, Strong camera performance
Looks Great, Solid Build Quality, Excellent Keyboard, Very Good Display, Plenty of Productivty Features
Excellent email, free sat-nav, decent touch-screen...
Build quality, display, sound, battery life, QWERTY keyboard
Great design and build, exceptionally comfortable typing experience, large display, HDMI out, USB On-the-Go, HD video playback, good camera and video recording quality
Superb hardware, excellent camera.
High build quality body, good screen resolution, good HD video recording
Good display, Symbian^3 performs well, HDMI port, 8 megapixel camera, QWERTY keyboard, Decent browser, Unified email, 720p HD video recording.
Solid construction quality, beautiful screen.
Great HD video recording, audio quality,and build and design. Lots of features.
Solid, distinguishable industrial design, Comfortable physical keyboard and screentilting, Powerful loudspeaker

Cons

Poor camera, frustrating user interface, sluggish performance
Symbian platform falls short of the competition; Sluggish performance; Low-resolution display; No expansion slot.
Frustrating UI. No microSD card slot. Short battery life. Very expensive. OS is doomed.
Symbian^3 still has many quirks; platform's longterm future is bleak.
Symbian is a disaster, EDoF is a mistake, Low pixel density
Phone Operation isn't Snappy, UI Still Feels Behind the Times, Camera Takes Disappointing Photos, Default Browser is a Mess
Occasional lags, clunky Symbian OS, lack of apps, bloated homescreen setupLook and Feel...
Camera, No expandable memory
Expensive, a bit long and bulky, no auto-focus in camera, no expandable storage, cannot play video files over 2GB
Symbian, even ^3, is far behind modern mobile operating systems like Android, iOS and webOS.
Poor performance, basic camera
Pricey, A tad on the heavy side, Lack of memory expansion slot
Big & bulky, based on the aging Symbian OS, hard to open keyboard
Third-party applications are limited. Fixed focus featureis a letdown.
Pricey, A tad on the heavy side, Lack of memory expansion slot

By PCWorld New Zealand on August 29, 2011

If there’s one thing we like about a smartphone, it’s the reassuring click of a keyboard sliding out from underneath. We can practically hear the angels sing about tactile, responsive buttons. The Nokia E7 actually has the screen slide up to...

40
By Mobile-Review on August 09, 2011

There is only one speaker, but it is loud and clear. Ringtones can be easily heard from pockets. I like tremolo of the vibro, but the majority will find it weak. There are no complaints about the connection quality. Now let's move to the main...

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By Fonehome on August 08, 2011

Premium Nokia build quality and one of the finest Qwerty keyboards around, but the E7 is marred by that substandard Symbian...

60
By 5FWD on July 20, 2011

Despite that, we still find ourselves liking the Nokia E7. The excellent build quality and proper keypad make it feel like an old-school business smartphone – a feel further enhanced by the slightly old fashioned operating system. If you can live...

60
By IT PRO on June 22, 2011

A few fiddly aspects aside, the Nokia E7 is a lovely piece of hardware, but the Symbian^3 operating system is just out of its depth when compared to the competition — and the fact that Nokia has also lost faith in Symbian is hardly encouraging...

50
By Computeractive on June 06, 2011

There is a good phone inside here but the operating system and keyboard let it down...

40
By InsideHW on May 26, 2011

It’s been well over seven months since Nokia’s E7 was first announced. In the world of today, using the PC analogy, it would be the same as if someone had just presented a PC with a 1 GHz CPU and 256 MB RAM. The rhythm imposed by Android...

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By BrightHub on May 20, 2011

The Nokia E7 is a great phone to have and a welcome change to the Nokia E Series family of business oriented smartphones. The design is excellent with its options for a hardware QWERTY slide out keyboard making this phone much easier to use....

80
By Expert Reviews on May 20, 2011

A beautifully designed, well-built phone with an excellent camera and a full QWERTY keyboard, but as the OS is on the way out there's little point in buying a Symbian phone....

40
By Tracy and Matt's Blog on May 10, 2011

The bottom line, for me, is that I wanted to like this phone. However I couldn't and wouldn't recommend it. Not to my father or anyone else. It's too big, it's too slippery, the OS is just too outdated and it hasn't even worked...

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