Nokia Launches QWERTY Equipped E61 VOIP Phone

Nokia E61

Nokia E61

Nokia's E61 is the email oriented member of the new Nokia Eseries of devices designed for enterprise business. It assumes the traditional "Blackberry" form factor, and as a Series 60 3rd Edition device, it runs the new Symbian v9.1 operating system. The QWERTY keyboard equipped E60 was designed to provide a great email experience for its user, due to its keyboard and varied push email support that includes: BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail, and Visto Mobile. The E61's multitasking abilities means that you can send and receive email while you are in the middle of a phone call.

Its large 320x240, 16M color TFT display should make reading email a dream, and an offline mode will allow you to read and compose those email messages while the GSM/WCDMA radio is off, avoiding problems in airplanes. The E61 has about 75MB of internal storage memory available, and can have more storage added through its miniSD memory card slot (64MB card included). The E61 also has support for many corporate VPN systems, and can link up with Microsoft's ActiveSync for IMAP4/POP3/SMTP email, as well as Contacts and Calendar synchronization.

The SIP based VOIP client allows the E61 to hook into compatible WiFi based PBX systems and act as a normal office extension, supporting all of the same features and dialing modes of a regular office phone - including 4 digit extension dialing. OMA DM compatibility means that IT managers can control where their company's data goes, and protect it from prying eyes. The over the air management capability let's IT managers do things such as wipe the data from the phone, or lock the phone all from a remote location.

On top of the voice and email connectivity features, the E61 comes with Yahoo, AIM, and OMA IM clients. Bluetooth v1.2 support includes the Synchronization profile, and IR and USB connectivity are also available. Bluetooth, IR, USB, and WiFi (802.11i/e/g) connections can all be used at the same time, and the Bluetooth system can support up to 6 simultaneous connections.

The E61 comes complete with viewers and editors for most of the common Microsoft Office document types and includes such features as a hands free speakerphone, a MP3/AAC music player, and vibration alarm.

The Nokia E61 is a quadband GSM device (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) that also supports the 2100Mhz WCDMA/UMTS band. It weighs 144g (5.1oz) and measures 117mm x 69.7mm x 14mm (4.6" x 2.7" x .55") in size. The 1500mAh battery should be good for 4 to 7 hours of GSM talk time, or 9 to 11 days of GSM standby time.

The E61 email device should be available in Q1 of 2006.

 

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