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I received a Nokia E-65 for work. These days, at least in Norway, people don’t get a desk phone. Rather, they get a mobile phone. It does make it easier if you have to move around according to which project you are in, since your phone number then always stay with you.

The initial impression is that’s it’s a really good phone. It feels nice, with the leather back, really light-weight, really clear screen.

Functionality wise, I don’t think there are any complains. It syncs with my Notes calendar, which make it much easier to remember all the meetings you have to go to. The email functionality has also been upgraded, compared to the Nokia N-70. That is, you can custom define the different ports you need to use to email. Wireless works great, and it’s a great way to save money on my the surfing habits. I installed Google Maps on it, and it seems to work pretty well.

E-65 comes with a mapping software, but you need to have GPS receiver, which kinda defeats the purpose, I think. If you have a GPS, you don’t really need the E-65 to show you the maps, do you?

The one thing I don’t really like about the phone is the camera. No, not because it has a “low” quality camera, but that there is a camera on it in the first place. It seems to me that a business phone like the E-series try to be, shouldn’t have a camera. There are places where you aren’t allowed to bring a camera into the office. And a camera doesn’t really fit in to the functionality of a business phone. Not that the camera is that good either. So, it seems Nokia put a camera there just to get past the reviewers that would complain about it, but not that good of a camera that would make it unusable in a business setting (no zoom, no flash etc).

Looking at the Nokia E-serie offerings, they have all cameras. I would love to get a phone with the functionality of E-65 without the camera. But other than that small thing, it’s a fine phone.