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Reviewer: Bob - UK
Date: 9th Jun 2010

Yes it is good, back to what you know to get the job done. Just got rid of my iPhone & found out you don't need to charge a phone up every day! E52 is a great phone.

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Reviewer: Glen B - Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 26th Nov 2009

Recently my beloved Nokia 6267 got stolen here in Zurich (seems to be a rash of that of late). I had really gotten used to that unit's ease of use & anyone who's been through this knows you're suddenly confronted with all these decisions, do I move up? Down to something simpler, to an iPhone, or one of its clones?

Well in order to try to approach the 6267's great combination of biggish screen & large keys (I.e. Not designed for a 12 year old girl's fingers), I got an E52.
I am astonished.

This phone is the worst piece of over engineered, user hostile piece of junk I ever saw from Nokia. Compared to the 6267 (or the 6131, 6310i or venerable 6150! ), it's hard to believe it's a Nokia. First off, the most obvious & clear advantages of a folding phone.

- You can get a big screen & a big keyboard into a compact package.
- Both screen & keyboard are protected, by default (see below re unlocking).
- When open, earpiece & microphone are comfortably near ear & mouth, respectively.

I should say at the outset that I worked in mobile engineering (GSM & 3G) for 7 years, in engineering, but also that I see a mobile telephone basically as a tool for making calls & texting, it's the mobility that attracts me, not the bells & whistles.

Most of my gripes with the E52 have to do with texting (SMS).

A BASIC, OBVIOUS FUNCTION, you can't 'use detail' on an incoming SMS, I.e. Someone texts you a telephone number, you have to WRITE IT DOWN, you can't just 'use number' & call it, store it, etc. THIS IS ASTONISHINGLY STUPID. When you receive & SMS, the stupid phone asks how you want to reply, instead of just defaulting to SMS (the obvious & logical choice). WHY WOULD I WANT TO RESPOND BY EMAIL TO AN SMS? Maybe there's a reason, I don't know it, but the default should be. SMS. DUMB. You can't delete all SMS in the Inbox, you have to step through menus to mark them & then delete them. DUMB, the 6267 was super easy in that regard. While typing, you want to insert an emoticon (smiley face), the E52 DOESN'T HAVE THEM.

Business phone? Well, I send lots of business SMS, sometimes a smiley face is useful to tailor a message or adjust the tone. Not to mention private use. Not having them is a needless step backwards. This leads to the next issue, symbols. If I want a smiley face now, I have to type it :-) trouble is, the symbol list, sort of a symbol cache, on the E52 is DYNAMIC. So (for a simple example) if I use a divisor sign, equals, ampersand, +, *, @ & a few other symbols, the :-) are pushed off the cache list & I have to - you guessed it - tap more keys to get find them & get them back. DUMB, the symbol function was great on the 6267.

You trigger the camera, & there are all these %&+§$ KEYSTROKES to DO the OBVIOUS, TAKE & SEND the PIC TO SOMEONE. The reason to have a camera in a mobile phone is to make it EASY to send someone a photo of something RIGHT NOW. I don't want a Windows experience when I try to do that. Or better, a DOS experience (for those old enough to remember). I could tailor the 6267 'top left button' to list all kinds of functions I use every day (in box, missed calls, alarm, etc) In the highly Advanced Sophisticated E52, I have to step through complex menus to find this stuff, & there's no means to set up a pre set list similar to the 6267. & along with all this, it seems like all I do is unlock the keypad, the stupid thing shuts off in SECONDS. This was something else that was great with the 6267, you flip it open & OPEN that SMS! Invariably the E52 has reverted to the menu list & to answer an incoming SMS, you have to:

- Press the upper left-hand key.
- Press the upper right-hand key (to get the keyboard unlocked).
- Press the SMS icon (if you're lucky enough that the phone has reverted to that, else you have to tap around to it).
- Tap down to the Inbox icon. In this time I would have already been answering the SMS, or had already sent it, with the 6267!

The list goes on & on, but I want to cap it off with one of the most irritating of all: the beloved old standard Nokia ring tone has been replaced by a sappy mood music version, a fitting theme indeed. Meanwhile, try to find a used 6267. Talking to people in phone stores confirmed my suspicions, the 6267 was well liked & sold out immediately after production ceased.

WAKE UP, Nokia!

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Reviewer: Harr - Jakarta, Indonesia
Date: 8th Sep 2009

I have bought this phone about a month ago. I was E51 user.

Positives
- Phone's weight lighter than E51
- There is a torch (in video mode). I like it best :)
- Battery life about 3 to 4 days in normal use
- Wi-Fi automatic connect :)
- Monitor turn off 100% when standby
- Office could be edited :)
- Cable charge the battery when plug in to USB :)
- Stable for modem user (open the back casing 4 reduce hot effect)
- More respond application, thanks to 600 Mhz

Negative
- No autofocus
- Ear sound not really pretty good
- Speaker phone not really loud
- Quality music sound with speaker worse than E51
- Material looks cheap
- GREY colours make the number & alphabet not clear enough
- Bad standard theme :(
- Blinking notification like the Nokia e71

Okay, hope it could help you to decide to buy this one. Cheers.



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