Nokia E65

The Nokia E65 is a smartphone in the Eseries range, a S60 platform third edition device with slide action targeting business users. It was followed fairly quickly by the E66, which was very similar but gained an FM radio, a newer release of S60, A2DP bluetooth, GPS and 3.2 mpixel camera.
Slider handsets can be very small and light — indeed, this is part of the appeal of the format. This is not the case with the Nokia E65. It weighs in at 115g, is 49mm wide and 15.5mm thick. Most notably, it's quite a tall handset, in fact almost as tall as an ordinary candybar phone at 105mm. When the slider is opened to reveal the number pad, it grows to 135mm tall. The 2.25in. 240-by-320-pixel screen supports up to 16.7 million colours. Nokia has chosen a rather dull grey background to its theme, but there is nothing to stop you downloading and applying an alternative.

The E65 ships with a soft slipcase, PC connectivity software and a USB cable, a mono earbud, a printed quick-start guide and a printed user manual.

The Nokia E65 is a quad-band GSM phone with 3G support. It lacks a second camera for two-way video calling, so use of 3G is limited to activities such as mobile email and web browsing. As well as catering for POP, SMTP and IMAP4 email, the handset supports the popular push email services. It includes readers for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and for PDFs, and has a Zip file manager among its other preloaded applications.

The Nokia E65 includes infrared, Bluetooth 1.2 and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. The presence of Wi-Fi in mobiles is less rare than it once was, but the E65 goes a step further than other Nokia handsets we've seen in terms of making it usable. There is a Wi-Fi 'sniffer' on board, which can be set to check for networks in the vicinity at set intervals. A notification of Wi-Fi status can be placed on the handset's main screen. Effectively this can be used to ensure that you are always aware when Wi-Fi is available, and it takes only a couple of key presses to join a network.