Nokia E7 Engadget Hands-on

RadioRaiders · Sep 15, 2010

* The screen is simply gorgeous -- ClearBlack may be a gimmicky trademark, but CBD's black levels are no joke. We're definitely talking Super AMOLED degrees of awesome, which means that Samsung's stranglehold on badass mobile displays was pretty short-lived -- unless Nokia is sourcing CBD from Sammy, of course. At this point, we don't know and the Nokia reps we've spoken to have been unable or unwilling to tell us.
* The keyboard is the best we can remember using on any Nokia. Finally: a straight-up great Nokia keyboard without any fatal flaws like an off-center spacebar or a slider that doesn't slide far enough -- it just works. It's rubbery with a ton of clickiness, and in our quick tests, we were able to belt out verbiage without error.
* The slide mechanism is... well, weird. Simply pressing up from the bottom of the display doesn't do any good -- we fiddled with it for a minute before realizing that we could get it to go by prying up on the top side with our fingernails. Turns out that the "proper" technique is two firm thumbs on the bottom, which worked for us, though it takes a little getting used to (and you need to make sure your fingers holding the phone up top aren't in the way).
* Jury's still out on performance. Apparently, the swiping problems on the home screen -- which we also experienced on the C6-01 and C7 -- are being passed off by Nokia as a feature that prevents you from accidentally swiping. Sounds like PR spin to us, but we'll have to wait and see how the retail devices work.
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Nokia E7 first hands-on -- Engadget

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Nokia Europe - Nokia E7-00 - Products

hme83 · Sep 25, 2010

Thank you! It's been a long time since there was a phone worth getting excited about (imo) - hopefully this one will be it.

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