This is the first smartphone with a QWERTY-keypad, targeted at business users for working with e-mail, Internet and MS Office files, is equipped with a WLAN, WCDMA module and a QVGA display.
Class:smartphone, 3G, business
Position in the line: above Nokia E60
Rival phones: Motorola Q

Specifications

General features
Announced in 2005 , official announcement on the 13 October 2005
eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA
Battery type 1500 mAh Li-Ion (BP-5L).

Battery life:
talk mode from 4 up to 7 hours
standby mode from 9 up to 11 days
High-contrast graphical display, 16? colours (TFT), the resolution of 240x320 pixels (QVGA)
5D navi button
The phone is run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface Platform 60 ver 3.0)
Weight: 144 gramms
Dimensions: 117 x 69.7 x 14 mm

Memory
75 MB of memory are dynamically shared among a phone book, a calendar, messages, images and applications
Expansion slot for mini-SD, you can use hot change of cards
You can assign to names in a phonebook a photo
For a name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. You can add any number of fields fields.
Unlimited number of groups, you can assign a name to several groups at the same time
SIM-card entries are stored separately, viewing them with memory phone numbers is impossible
Call lists, no restrictions on the number of entries, all records have date and call duration, but its type specified. You can set storage period for calls in the list(by default that is a month)
Call management, ringing tones
Vibracall
polyphonic call melodies, True Tones, supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
64-tones call signal, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
Voice dialing independent of the speaker's voice, no need in in recording tags preliminarily
Speakerphone
Call duration is shown during a call
Melody editor, you can assign melodies to names in a phonebook

SMS
Predictive text input ?9
Message templates (10 preset, also you can change them or add own ones)
Sending and receiving graphical messages
Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Connectivity
WAP 2.0
Bluetooth v.1.2
WLAN
IrDA
HSCSD
GPRS class 10
EGPRS (Class:B, Multislot class 10)
HTML, xHTML, cHTML
E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
MS ActiveSynch
MMS v.1.2
Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth
SyncML
SMIL
USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
PoC or PTT
Instant Messaging
Organizer and extras
User's profiles (5), temporary profile
Time, date
Calculator, currency converter
Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer

Organizer with support for events of various kinds, setting reminders
To-do list
Dictaphone (works in the talk mode)
3GPP Video Streaming
RealOne Player: playing RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
Photo album - improved gallery
Viewer - an application for viewing on the phone files MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Exel
PDF
MP3 player
MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
load Java applications
Games

Review

The Nokia E61 boasts a vibrant and sharp screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a full array of wireless options (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UMTS). The Symbian smart phone also has good call quality, a speakerphone, the ability to view and edit Office documents, and robust e-mail capabilities.