Nokia E62

The e62 is keeping other smart phone designers awake at night — and for a good reason.
The e62 was created for the user who is always on the run — for the person who needs first class access to their e-mail, appointments and documents in a portable device of manageable size.

As for size, the e62 is a little larger that Verizon/Motorola’s Q phone but a lot smaller, thinner and lighter than any Palm Treo.  And forget about comparisons with most other smartphones.  The Nokia is smaller (4.61 by 2.76 by 0.63 inches) and lighter (5 ounces).

The e62 is a quad band, GSM/GPRS/EDGE world phone which utilizes the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands. It comes with a big, hi-res color screen (320 by 240 pixels) and a full QWERTY keyboard on the front. It also has a dedicated e-mail button and flashing message light.

Nokia says talk time is between 4 to 5.5 hours with a stand-by time of up to 14 days. As for connections, there’s the now ubiquitous Bluetooth 1.2 and a USB port. Internal memory runs 90 MB plus there’s a miniSD card slot for as much as 2GB of expansion.
The e62 deals with multimedia files by utilizing Real Video, MPEG4, 3GPP formats for video and MP3, Real Audio and MPEG-4 (ACC) for audio. Saved MP3 files can double as ring tones. A suite of office programs should be able to handle any documents you thrown at this device.

Nokia’s e62 is the first smartphone which runs on the Symbian (formerly known for Psion PDAs) operating system (S60, 3rd Edition) and the first that can handle nearly any type of push e-mail you can throw at it. The e62 comes with software that lets it communicate properly with Microsoft Exchange servers, plus Blackberry Connect, Intellisync Wireless Email, GoodLink, Seven Always-On Mail and Visto email technologies. That’s in addition to the standard POP, IMAP and SMTP formats.

The e61 can handle WCDMA connections. That’s the high-speed data technology used in Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region and will soon be rolled out in the United States.  WCDMA is called EV-DO by Verizon and Sprint. The best the e62 can do is EDGE — fast but not really fast.

The e61 also can do Wi-Fi. That means it can do lots of things without having to connect to a cellular phone network. What some carriers fear most is the e61’s ability to handle VoIP calls when you’re near a friendly wireless network. That’s why we won’t see Wi-fi on the e62.