14 DAY TRIAL // There weren't too many rumors about the release date of Nokia's E7 smartphone, but recently a Nokia official has confirmed that the device will start shipping on December 10th. On a Nokia's official Twitter account, he responded to a user who asked about E7's availability.
The message unveils the launch date as being December 10th, but also mentions that it can depend on the customers’ location:
“E7 is scheduled to ship starting from Dec10. Exact availability varies country-by-country. Check your local nokia.com site.”
Nokia E7 has the same build quality as its Nokia N8 predecessor, but is much heavier, as it weighs 176g (battery included), compared to N8's 135g (battery included).
The reason Nokia E7 is heavier is the fact that it comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and is larger than the N8.
This will be the fourth device running Symbian^3, Nokia's latest iteration of the operating system, after Nokia N8, C7 and C6-01 have already made their way to store shelves.
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).