Tomi's second complaint has been for watching videos (c.f. Rarely has the native resolution of the device been an issue. I've spent hours browsing around on the E7 and the main issues have been bloated sites with mountains of unnecessary javascript and Flash - a common rant from me and one good reason to use Opera Mini instead. Most web sites now assume something like a 1200 pixel wide monitor/window these days - so whether the native horizontal resolution of your device is 800 or 640 pixels is largely irrelevant - either way, you're going to be zooming in and out a little (in the E7's case, really easily, with multitouch) to see text at a level you can read. If all modern web sites were coded for 800 by 600 pixel screens still then I'd agree with Tomi, but that was what desktops were using back in 2000, ten years ago. not fast) and also ignores the improvements made in terms of sizing and zooming for Symbian^3. Taking browsing first, where the E90's raw 800 pixel horizontal resolution is, numerically, larger - that ignores the underlying speed of the older device (i.e. Tomi's two main resolution demo use cases (compared to the E90) are for browsing web sites and watching videos. He's got a point, even my ageing eyes can spot pixellation in small text and icons, but I'd argue that the vast majority of users won't find it an issue - they'll just be glad that the screen's big and clear. Tomi's next complaint is about screen resolution, with the 4" display having the same resolution as the 3.2" display from the Nokia 5800 over two years ago, namely nHD, 640 by 360 pixels. But the way the application and its descendents work has changed in the intervening 15 years. Yes, Tomi, I know that searching on Contacts worked in all fields back on the Psion 3c in 1996 - I used to use it too. The quick match search in Contacts is now meant for just that - quick matching names in the appropriate fields. I'm sorry, but this is deliberately ignoring a major feature of Symbian from the last few years - the Search widget and application, shown below, which searches all applications, in parallel, for any text string, however short or long. Next in Tomi's firing line is that he couldn't find a search clue in his Contacts, text that wasn't a name in one of the name fields. Tricky for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) perhaps, but easily good enough for Tomi's 'memory' use case, I reckon. Doesn't look good enough, does it?īut zoom in by double-tapping (or using multitouch) - or use the E7's onboard photo editor to crop to the middle bit and we can now see: Here's my snap of some recent tickets, snapped at about a foot or so on the E7. While I too would have preferred a traditional camera, EDoF has also been growing on me, as you might have guessed, and it's simply not true, Tomi, that the E7's camera can't capture ticket stubs and receipts for casual 'memory' use later. He quotes a number of use cases for traditional Communicator auto focus cameras, claiming that EDoF is useless compared to even the 3 megapixel camera in our beloved E90s. Camera capabilitiesīut Tomi and I start to differ when he complains about the 8 megapixel EDoF camera. A clear physical bottleneck that really shouldn't have been an issue if a card slot and the traditional 2mm charging jacks had been included in the hardware - somehow. It's not only impossible to plug in both the external HD display and the USB on the Go adapter at the same time, the same port is also used for charging the somewhat anaemic 1200mAh battery. The big ones are the fixed battery, the lack of microSD card slot and the triple purpose microUSB port. And he's right about some of the E7's physical limitations rather getting in the way of realising this dream.
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Tomi's also right about the E7 being perfectly pitched, in theory, to be the centre of a mobile office setup, with Bluetooth peripherals, HDMI monitor out, and so on. Tomi's point about the E7 being aimed at the Nokia loyalist (as opposed to brand new smartphone users or existing Android, RIM or iOS users) is a good one, the two of us aren't alone and there will be many Symbian die-hards looking to move on from the E90 and eyeing the E7 up. Nokia E7, part 6 - Navigation, Utilities, Homescreens, Wrap-up Nokia E7, part 5 - Internet, Security and Productivity Nokia E7, part 4 - Communications and PIM Nokia E7, part 2 - Camera and Camcorder functions Nokia E7, part 1 - Overview and Detailed first impressions First of all though, note AAS's original review parts: