NOKIA E7

摘要

A reader recently wrote to us about being unable to find a simple phone that included a large Qwerty keyboard (Letters, issue 343). While the Nokia E7 isn't a simple phone to use, it certainly has the full keyboard. Our major problem with the E7 is the same as with all recent Nokia models: the company makes phones that are physically superb and then installs on them the outdated Symbian operating system or its variants. The E7 is a brilliant piece of hardware that is powerful and well designed. But while its Symbian 3 operating system is an improvement on previous versions, it is miles behind the software used on rival phones in terms of functions and ease of use. Nokia itself acknowledged this by announcing that it will switch to the Windows Phone operating system next year (see www.computeractive.co.uk/ 2025770).