14 DAY TRIAL // The next flagship Symbian^3 smartphone makes its debut in Europe in December, but Indians will have to wait one more month for the device. Announced earlier this year at the annual Nokia World event in London, Nokia E7 will be available in India starting January 2011 for a price that is yet to be announced.
Although previous announcements placed the launch date of the E7 somewhere around Christmas, Nokia decided to postpone the phone's release for unknown reasons.
The delay might be related with the recent news about the company's lower market shares or the recently power energy issues of the N8 smartphone.
Nokia E7 can be pre-ordered through various online retailers now, but it will start shipping in early 2011. However, it looks like the price of the device is much higher than what the Finnish manufacturer initially announced.
Indians can expect to purchase the E7 for a price ranging between Rs. 25,000 to 30,000 ($547 to $657).
Nokia E7 is powered by an ARM 11 680 MHz processor (3D Graphics HW accelerator) and comes with a 4.0-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors and 360 x 640 pixels resolution.
Other key features of the smartphone include: multi-touch input method, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, scratch-resistant surface, touch sensitive controls, handwriting recognition.
The E7 boasts an 8-megapixel camera with fixed focus, dual-LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilization, video recording capabilities (720p@25fps) and secondary VGA camera for video calls.
It also embeds 16 GB internal memory, 256 MB RAM and 1 GB ROM, but lacks a microSD card slot for memory expansion.
In terms of connectivity, Nokia E7 is a complete tool with features such as HSDPA 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP support, microUSB 2.0, USB On-the-go support, GPS with A-GPS support (Ovi Maps 3.0).