[3GScottishUser]

Nokia Press Release: 11/10/2005

Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 combine the power of 3G and WLAN with advanced voice services and mobile email applications in a variety of designs for every employee

London, UK/ New York, NY, USA - Nokia announced today the addition of three new models to its portfolio of business-optimized devices. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 - the first of the new Nokia Eseries - are distinctively different in design and allow businesses of all sizes to mobilize their workforce. Nokia Eseries models combine attractive and easy-to-use designs that appeal to individual business users with new underlying technologies that allow IT departments to effectively manage security settings, corporate applications and data. Each of the devices is designed to accommodate must-have mobile applications needed in today's business world like mobile email and advanced voice calling functions. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and the Nokia E70 will be available in the first quarter of 2006 worldwide.

The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 support today's most popular and newly announced corporate mobile email solutions like BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink from Good Technology, Inc., Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail and Visto Mobile.

The new Nokia Eseries devices are built on the latest edition of the Series 60 Platform, the world's leading smartphone software platform. Series 60 3rd Edition together with Symbian OS v. 9.1 provide an identical application environment for the Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70. They include a variety of GSM frequencies and 3G (WCDMA) cellular network support for seamless roaming across different countries, as well as a range of local connectivity options such as WLAN, Bluetooth and Infrared and are USB 2.0 compatible.

The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 also feature superior voice functionality and quality when compared to other devices that combine PDA-like features with a mobile phone. The devices support advanced voice services, such as Internet (Voice over IP) phone calls, Push to talk, and other SIP-based rich call services giving businesses a variety of ways to make it easier for employees to collaborate or respond rapidly in or out of the office. Companies deploying an Avaya or Cisco IP PBX can connect the new Nokia devices directly to their corporate phone networks, enabling functions employees have come to expect from a corporate network like four-digit dialing and assisted call answering.

"When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles," said Niklas Savander, senior vice president of Nokia's business device unit. "We understand what mobility means for business. These devices embody our extensive knowledge of user-focused functional design, security and cutting-edge wireless technologies. Our goal is to make it easy for our customers to choose Nokia devices for all their business mobility needs."

The new business-optimized devices are the first in the industry to support remote device management based on OMA DM* giving the IT manager powerful tools to remotely control and protect corporate data on the device and configure devices via device wipe, device lock or task management, application management and customization, for example. Nokia's well established competence in network security addresses strict corporate requirements covering information stored on devices, back-office systems and transmitted over networks

The Nokia E60: A classic design with unmatched voice features
The Nokia E60 provides the uncompromised look, comfort and usability of a classically designed mobile phone. Supporting an array of advanced call features from integrated speakerphone and conference calling to voice-aided applications like Push to talk, and IP-based telephony, the Nokia E60 is the best mobile device for active voice communications - in and out of the office. The Nokia E60 offers fast and flexible data connections with WCDMA enabling wide area connections and WLAN offers a cost effective option for local access. Although optimized for one-handed use, its large color screen makes email and calendar entries easy. The Nokia E60 operates in GSM900/1800/1900 and WCDMA2100 networks.

The Nokia E61: Built for mobile email
The Nokia E61 is designed in the familiar style of today's most popular mobile email devices. Yet it is incredibly slim and packed with powerful new functionality. A cinch to use with either hand, the device has a four-way joystick and full keyboard combined with a wide 16 million color screen making mobile email easier than ever before. Supporting multiple mobile email clients like BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile, the Nokia E61 provides seamless and encrypted mobile connectivity. Full attachment handling (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF viewer and ZIP manager) and an editing function (document, spreadsheet and presentation) are included. The Nokia E61 also includes the same advanced business call features and IP-based telephony functions as the Nokia E60 and Nokia E70. The Nokia E61 can send and receive emails, even when on a phone call. The Nokia E61 operates in GSM850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA2100 networks.

The Nokia E70: The all-in-one messaging device
At first glance, the Nokia E70 looks like a modern smartphone. Open it up and find a full messaging keyboard for fast and easy thumb typing, a generous color screen for viewing emails, plus attachments (document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF viewer and ZIP manager) and an editing function (document, spreadsheet, presentation) for staying up-to-date with the inbox. Like the Nokia E60 and Nokia E61, the Nokia E70 supports a common set of applications like advanced voice and email. Nokia will offer two versions of the Nokia E70 - one optimized for mobile networks in Europe and Asia (GSM900/1800/1900/WCDMA 2100) and one optimized for mobile networks in the Americas (GSM850/1800/1900), yet both versions are able to roam in GSM networks across regions.

(Nokia E61 Pic below)

http://press.nokia.com/PR/200510/1015195_5.html

[Hands0n]

More info here ...

Exciting stuff for next year



The Nokia E-Series consists of three business-orientated 3G handsets, sharing some technologies with the N-Series, drawing on technologies from other Nokia handsets and taking some inspiration from elsewhere too!



Full article here --> http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-eseries-051012.htm

[davidlove]

Details here http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5325

Could the BlackBerry's days be numbered?

[Ben]

They really do look the part, don't they? Again Nokia presses on with it's 'a mobile for everyone' approach, but finally it looks like we can see some direction coming from the Nokia naming camp. Different, distinctive 'series' of handset, intended for different audiences.

The VoIP support is certainly going to rattle some cages!

Also more here: https://talk3g.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1629

[Hands0n]

And more here .............. -->




Nokia E61 - "Nokiaberry"

The Nokia E61 is a Blackberry style smartphone running the Symbian
Series 60 Operating system, plus 3G and WiFi. On paper the "Nokiaberry"
certainly looks better than its main rival - but is it enough to make
the E61 a success?

http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-e61-051012.htm


Nokia E70 Messaging Device

The Nokia E70 features the fold-out QWERTY keyboard of the Nokia 6800
series, but really it's a radically different device - a powerful 3G
smartphone with WiFi support and expandable memory.

http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-e70-051012.htm


Nokia E60 - 3G For Business

The Nokia E60 is a business-orientated 3G smartphone, containing and
interesting mix of features and omissions. It this what businesses
really want, or just a technical mishmash?

http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-e60-051013.htm




"Nokiaberry" ROTFL :D

[Ben]

LoL!

That E60 could be a massive success. I agree with their comments:

"The unusual camera-less configuration of the E60 also gives it away as a business phone.
In fact, the E60 is a remarkable sophisticated phone for its size - and an unusual one at that. At Mobile Gazette, we have waited a long time to see a true successor to the classic 6310i - but perhaps the son of the 6310i is something a little different from what we expected.. perhaps the Nokia E60 will be the next, classic phone for business?"

No camera = top marks as a business phone from what I have gathered over the years. It's a Series 60 smartphone but that is so focussed on corporate needs that, if the price is right, could really transform 3G and move mobile technology on a lot faster than the Vodafone's of the world would really like.

If takeup is huge (ie Vodafone starts pushing it) then business customers are going to be using the 3G network on a large scale. Business customers matter, and so the networks will have to ensure the 3G systems perform optimally. For consumers that'd be a superb result.

[solo12002]

Ben I agree

For to long users have not been able to aval of all the services on offer, some users want to have 3G, wi-fi, bluetooth and yes E Mail access all on the same mobile. The Nokia phones look well and im glad to see they have found their feet again after lossing track of were they were going.

I only hope the networks will aval of this and permit ppl to have access to push e mail etc on contract and pay as you, I for one have a number of 3G mobiles one is the Z500 and Im dam sure I dont know how to gain access to E mail on it.

[Hands0n]

Exciting reading for any corporate IT peeps who are in charge of the biz's mobile voice/data facilities (often separate, which is daft!).

Highlighting in the article by me, where it caught my eye as being of particular interest;


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The three E-series phones Nokia unveiled yesterday seem to have been designed to prove the point that the great acronym race of recent years wasn't a problem for the company. While the competition hasn't stood still, with the JasJar (reviewed here) offering an impressive tick list of features, the veteran mobile manufacturer has simply taken them in its stride.

All three phones in the E-series range support the latest high speed networks including Wi-Fi in its 802.11g, 802.11e and 802.11i flavors, and W-CDMA 3G. Push To Talk is supported on all models, and a previous taboo, IP telephony, is now touted as one of the strongest selling points. It is indeed a potential 'killer app' for enterprises, and we'll deal with this in a moment - but first of all, let's look at what the E-series means to the pound phone in your pocket.

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Alongside a no-nonsense model, the E60, is a BlackBerry knock-off, the E61. Previously, Nokia has been positively Lutheran in its determination to segment its market between one-handed phones and its two-handed 9000 Series Communicator. Now it seems to be saying: "hey, if you want a BlackBerry clone, we'll give you a BlackBerry clone".

And Nokia's secret weapon, the design most envied by its rivals, finally appears in a Symbian version: the fold-out, "mousetrap" keyboard. Most BlackBerry users send messages shorter than 100 characters, suggesting that the device is used primarily for reading. But when a reply is needed - and usually it's a very quick acknowledgement - the market has voted for QWERTY keys.

This mousetrap design first appeared in the 6800 two years ago, and combines the best of both worlds: one-handed, it's a compact phone; two-handed it offers a keyboard better than what any of its rivals such as RIM, Palm or HP currently offer
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Anyone concerned that the smartphone business (or for that matter, the MP3 player business) was becoming commoditized should take heed. Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia all seem to want to remind us of the old engineering maxim: anyone can build something with 100 parts, but to do it with say, just six, requires great engineering.

That's not all. The new models also boast up to 7+ hours talk time - a consequence, we suspect, of the decision to base development on the Symbian 9.1 real time EKA2 kernel. This is not only vastly more power efficient than rival Linux, WinCE and Palm rivals but allows Nokia to put baseband GSM radio onto a single chip too, which means a cheaper bill of materials.
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Remote configurability is also much improved from four years ago, and almost as a footnote Nokia points out these devices support the first generation of OMA DM, so the "desktop" can be pushed out to the remote client, and the device can be locked down quickly from the IT help desk. [The corporates will love this. Ed.]
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Rather than positioning the E-series as a killer device, Nokia's more subtle approach seems to be rather, "if you want to do X - and we know you do - then this is the best value way of implementing it". .....
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Commoditised smartphones (or any handsets for that matter), aaahhhhh and not before time too. In a market where the public are starting to carry around two and sometimes even three handsets these can no longer be viewed as elite or exclusive (and charged for accordingly!). Come on peeps, stack them high, sell them cheap, lots of them.

These new Nokia devices look set to storm the business/corporate and technically savvy end user markets. Again, the killer for these devices will be the ridiculous data charges levvied by the mobile operators. This is changing, but not quickly enough (it needs to be in advance of such devices for 2006) nor radically enough. Almost a sign that the device manufacturers and the mobile network operators are working at odds with eachother at best, and at open defiance of eachother at worst!

Cynical? Maybe, but £45 a month for data access is plain unaffordable to the individual and very many small businesses. Corporates negotiate substantial discounts against these kind of rates, making the concept of mobile data out of reach for the [bulk of] mobile network users.

Does this make any sense at all? Particularly in 3G terms? The Conspiracy Theorist in me says it is all some kind of hold-down plan. Well, someone explain it to me, please, because I don't understand the rationale at all :)

But light at the end of the tunnel is beginning to show through in the form of the red-branded network whose name begins with a "V" and ends in an "E", it seems. Lets have more please. Plenty more.

Full 2-page article here --> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/13/nokia_eseries_analysis/