Nokia E51 – unique features. Memory, memory cards

Currently, the undisputed leader in the production of mobile phones is the Finnish company Nokia. First of all, this is due to the fact that the corporation is in constant development, and its products have significant advantages and benefits. The phrase “Buy Nokia” has firmly entered into everyday life and has become a household word for many. Indeed, Nokia phones and smartphones open up unlimited possibilities for the user. After all, you see, it’s very convenient when your phone is simultaneously a camera, voice recorder, video player, game console, etc.

Now one of the most popular options is watching videos on your phone. We travel a lot, endure long waits, and at such moments we really want to distract ourselves and watch our favorite movie. However, Nokia phones do not support all downloadable video formats. In such a situation, a video converter for Nokia phones comes to our aid.

This is a special program that allows you to convert a video into a compact video file that will match the settings of a specific Nokia model. We recommend using the program 3GP Ultra Converter from AMS Software. The product is universal converter video for Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, LG, etc. phones includes more than 230 ready-made video presets with the necessary settings, and also supports high data processing speed. The video converter for Nokia phones allows you not only to convert video, but also to trim and merge video fragments, extract sound, and also process video using special filters. The program supports more than forty Nokia models (Nokia 2700, 5130 XpressMusic, 5230, 5800 XpressMusic, 6300, 6700, C7, E51, N70, X2, etc.). The video converter for Nokia phones is equipped with a user-friendly interface and a detailed help system, making working in the program easy and comfortable.

In order to convert video to 3GP, you need to follow a few simple steps. First add the video file to convert. Next, open the menu section "Convert for" and select "Nokia". Enter your phone model and click the button "Start conversion". Video converter for Nokia phones allows you to manually set parameters created video, as well as process several video files at once. All that remains is to open the folder with ready video and download it to your phone.

Today we got our hands on the Nokia E51, a new business-class smartphone and the long-awaited continuation of the Nokia E50 and Nokia 6120 Classic.
Slim body and classic design, multiplied by wide functionality. All this takes business machines to a new level. It’s all the more pleasant that the Nokia E51 takes into account the shortcomings of previous models. But let's talk about everything in order.

Available in 3 colors: Black Steel, Pink Steel, White Steel

Nokia E51 design and materials

The design of the device has a classic outline and makes you remember the models of the past. In particular, the fit in my hand reminded me of the 6210. Business hit of 2001. The device is available in three colors: chrome, bronze and classic black. One cannot help but rejoice at the widespread use of stainless steel in the housing construction. The outer edging surrounding the front panel and the battery compartment cover are made from it. The build quality is at a very high level; no creaks or play were detected.
The middle part is made of hard matte plastic. On the right side there are volume buttons and a microphone mute key, which is also responsible for the voice control function. On the left side there is a button to turn on the voice recorder. On top panel There is a power and mode button. The buttons are made of hard rubber and are embedded in the plastic of the case. Here lies one of the unpleasant disadvantages of the device. The buttons are very hard and require a lot of force to press.
All the connectors are located on the bottom of the Nokia E51. They are standard for new Nokia models. Mini USB, slim power jack and 2.5mm headset jack.
When connecting regular headphones, the device offers to use its microphone to receive calls. Everything is thought out and convenient.

Most of the back panel Nokia E51- This is the battery compartment cover. I would like to talk about it separately.
It is made of stainless steel. Each color scheme has its own profile design. On chrome trim these are dots. The black one has a longitudinal notch. The bronze version is lined with radius notches. All this affects tactile sensations. Holding the phone in your hand is very comfortable and pleasant.
Above the battery cover there is a camera module, it protrudes from the body and is made of glossy plastic. The protruding side protects it from scratches. Above the camera module there is a call and speakerphone speaker. At first this raised questions. How will the call be heard when the phone is on the table? Practice has shown that, due to the protruding camera module, there is enough space between the table and the back panel for the call to be clearly heard.

Let's go back to the front panel. The protective glass of the display is slightly recessed into the body, which will protect it from scratches when the device is lying face down on the table. It hides a very bright and contrasting display. I don’t see any point in talking about it separately. It is completely identical to the displays, and. It may seem small to some, but the flexible font adjustment system will allow you to work with it quite comfortably.
Keyboard. This is one of the biggest advantages of the model. The keys are large and slightly convex. They are made of matte plastic, very pleasant to the touch. The pressing force is average. For my taste, the most comfortable. Pressing is accentuated and clear. Well, it’s nice that the shortcomings of the 6120 have been eliminated. There is no “Pencil” or Multimedia key, but there are buttons for direct access to applications. There are three of them. They are responsible for three applications: phone book, calendar and mail. Each button has two functions. Short and long presses allow you to open different applications.
For example, a short press on the button responsible for the phone book opens it. Long includes the option to create a new contact. The best part is that all functions can be reassigned. This is a definite plus!
It is also worth noting that the designation of the standard buttons has changed. For example, the Menu button is now indicated by a small house (Like in WM), and the “C” button now resembles the erase back key on a computer. By the way, finding the delete button under the joystick causes inconvenience at first, but this goes away in literally half an hour of communication with the device.
The backlight is even, white. It is controlled by a light sensor, the operation of which has not caused any complaints. In the light sensor window there is led indicator. Its task is to provide light notification of missed calls, text messages, emails and multimedia messages. All four functions can be disabled. It is also possible to set the notification period, from five minutes to infinity (5min-15min-30min-1hour-2hours-no limit) A very useful function.
In general, the keyboard can be described as very comfortable. Perhaps one of the best.

Multimedia speaker Nokia E51 medium volume. On par with the Nokia 6120 Classic, but quieter than the Nokia 6300. This is enough to hear the phone ringing in most cases, but not enough to listen to music in a noisy room. However, this is unnecessary for a business-class device. The sound of the speaker can be described as pleasant. It does not evoke negative emotions. The voice speaker sound is excellent. There are no problems with volume or intelligibility. The vibration alert is of average power, but its operation does not cause the body to rattle, which was so annoying in the 6120.
Now let's get under the battery cover. The VR-6MT battery, with a capacity of 1050 mAh, lives there. What provides autonomous operation about three days. With 30 minutes of calls, using the Internet for an hour, listening to music for two hours and transferring 10 MB via Bluetooth. Without using additional functions, the device can operate for up to 4-5 days. Excellent result for a smartphone.
There is also a slot for a hot-swappable memory card. Finding the slot under the battery cover could have raised questions, but none arose. The cover can be removed conveniently and quickly, and access to the slot is not difficult. The SIM card slot can be described as convenient.
The overall impression of the case is more than favorable. Unfortunately, photographs cannot reflect the full impression. The device looks much more solid in real life.

Menu
Software-wise, the Nokia E51 smartphone is presented with S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1. This includes all the standard applications inherent in this system. Enhanced active mode supported

The pre-installed themes are made very well, but are extremely monotonous. However, this can easily be fixed by installing third-party

Phone book: the calendar and calculator have not undergone any changes.

Player:
Also standard for this platform. It's really worth noting the sound quality. It has definitely gotten better. Excessive noise disappeared and power increased. In tandem with
The Sennheiser CX-300 device showed decent sound quality. There is support for the AD44 adapter with the ability to adjust the volume, receive calls and control the player (Play, pause, jump between tracks and rewind) All functions are supported only by the standard player. On third-party players, it only works in active mode. When using an adapter, the volume is reduced by forty percent. No explanation has been found for this factor, but it is a very big minus for the headset.
The player has a minimum of functions. Standard media library, repeat and equalizer. But this does not cause any inconvenience: everything basic is there.

Alarm:
Allows you to program alarms for each day of the week. World time can be set. Everything is extremely convenient. Finally, there is no need for third-party alarm clocks.

In general, there is no point in considering all the capabilities of this platform. Everything has been described more than once. The differences in this part from the Nokia 6120 are minimal. Moreover, we always have the opportunity to install third-party software, the choice of which is quite large.

The hardware properties that a smartphone has are much more interesting.

Some characteristics of Nokia E51
ARM 11 processor clock frequency: 369 MHz precisely provides the speed that was so pleasing in the 6120.
I was no less pleased with the built-in memory, of which 130 MB is available. Which is more than enough to install Themes and Applications.
About 50 MB of RAM is available after downloading. So there are no problems with the RAM.
There is support for micro SDHC cards. I didn't notice any lags with the 4 GB card.
Bluetooth is Class 2.0 and supports EDR. Real transfer speed up to 140 KB/s
Profiles supported: AVRCP, DUN, FTP, GAVDP, GOEP, HFP, HID, HSP, OPP, SAP
A2DP support is present.
Thanks to all this, productivity is at a high level. The speed of the menu is at the level of the S40 platform. Absolutely no lag.
Video playback with QVGA resolution and a bitrate of 512 kB is clear and smooth.
The test took place on DivX Player 0.88 Rus.
I would especially like to note the presence Wi-Fi standard 802.11g. What E50 users were missing. All functionality is similar to E65.
Also, IrDA support, which is so rarely found in modern devices, will not be superfluous.
The speed of GPRS did not cause any complaints. Communication is stable on all Russian operators.
The device will be able to operate in GSM and HSDPA networks almost all over the world. It supports American 3G and GSM communication standards.

Nokia E51 camera
Perhaps the weakest point in the device. It is impossible to consider it more than an option. The lack of flash cannot be considered a plus either.
Available functions:
Night photography.
Photoshoot.
Timer.
It is possible to configure:
White balance (auto, sunny, artificial lighting and fluorescent lamps).
Color tone (sepia, black and white, negative).

Video quality is at the level of Nokia 6120.

Nokia E51 Camera Specification
Maximum photo resolution: 1600x1200
Focal length: 4.9mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Focusing distance range: 70 cm to infinity
Digital zoom: 4x
Image format: JPEG/Exif
Maximum video resolution: 320 x 240
Frame rate: 15 fps
Digital zoom: 4x
Video format: MPEG-4 Video, 422 kbps,
Audio format: MPEG-4 AAC LC, 48000 Hz, 72 kbps, mono

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Pros of Nokia E51:

1. Stainless steel in the body construction.
2. Ergonomic keyboard with additional functional buttons.
3. Availability of all types of communication, including Wi-Fi.
4. Powerful battery.
5. Sufficient amount of built-in memory and support for micro SDHC up to 4 GB.
6. Supports all communication formats.
7. Excellent call quality and voice dynamics.
8. Excellent screen (even despite its modest dimensions)
9. Overall thoughtfulness of design and construction.

Cons of Nokia E51:

1. Hard buttons on the side panels
2. Weak camera
3. Missing Pencil key
4. Price (we hope to decrease)

Equipment:

1. Charger AC-5e
2. Battery BP-6MT 1050 mAh
3. Instructions quick start
4. User's Manual
5. USB cable DKE-2
6. Wired stereo headset HS-47
7. CD-ROM with Nokia PC Suite
8. Cloth for cleaning the case

Conclusions:

Nokia E51 is an excellent business-class device. Compact and stylish case with an abundance of steel parts. Rich functionality and high performance. It will definitely appeal to fans of the E50 and 6120. I think it can attract fans of the 40 series as well. It was also nice to see that most of the blemishes of previous models in this segment have been corrected. Of course, the much anticipated E51 fully met my expectations. An excellent update to the E-series.

Prices for Nokia E51

Contents of delivery:

• Telephone
• Battery BP-6MT
• AC-5 Charger
• USB cable DKE-2
• Wired stereo headset HS-47
• CD with software
• Instructions
• Velvet cloth for wiping the screen

Positioning

In the preface to this review, we looked at why the Eseries devices were not successful in the market. If you missed this material, I recommend that you read it to understand the positioning of the Nokia E51, which we will talk about here. The company's dithering resulted in the Nokia E65 entering the market positioned for a wide audience, and not at all for the corporate segment. They didn’t even have time to add the originally designed functionality to the model, quickly opening applications with one keystroke. Pay attention to the key block in Nokia E65 and Nokia E51. The similarities are obvious, but the lack of software support in the Nokia E65 made the additional keys very simple.

The Nokia E51 model was supposed to appear on the market with a short interval (up to 3-4 months) after the Nokia E65. But this did not happen, since the slider was rushed to the market. There was an ideological gap in the product line that was not filled by anything. This once again proves the simple truth that Eseries is not developing according to a predetermined plan, but lives in the mode of plugging current holes. The early release of Nokia E65, limited demand for the model with an initial cost of 400 Euros - all this prompted Nokia Enterprise Solutions to actively reduce the cost in order to support sales. In less than three quarters, the price of Nokia E65 decreased by 15 percent, in fact this is the maximum level of price correction, if you do not take into account products that were not selling in principle or the crisis situation (at that time Nokia adjusted all prices by 7-11 percent, this also happened).

Other Eseries devices were not popular at this point. For example, the Nokia E60 model sold so “well” that all mention of it was removed from the company’s website, except for support pages. In fact, only the Nokia E65 and Nokia E50 were able to cross the million unit sales mark. This is a very modest result within the company as a whole, to say the least.

If you have any doubts about this, then try to explain to me how functionally similar models Nokia E51 and Nokia E65 can cost the same. At the moment, the cost of Nokia E65 in most European countries is 320 Euros, in the Russian market – approximately 320-350 Euros (up to 12,000 rubles). At the same time, the cost of Nokia E51 is 340-350 Euro. Are there a lot of people who want to buy this model compared to its older brother? In a more prestigious design, a different form factor? Who would dig into the specifications and find out that the phone is built on a different hardware platform? The answer is simple - almost no one. The user characteristics of these two products are completely the same: cameras, WiFi, and availability pre-installed applications, and business functionality.

The early release of Nokia E65 broke the cards in another aspect - the Nokia 6120 Classic model appeared on the market. And it appeared before the Nokia E51 at a lower cost. In fact, the mass consumer is in search of inexpensive smartphone on Symbian, will pay attention to this model, the price difference of 70 Euro is too great. The fact that this model is sold with a minimum margin, and the reserve for reducing the price is almost exhausted, will not worry buyers.

When positioning the relatively expensive Nokia E51 in such a situation, there is only one proven method - active advertising campaign, which can make the model recognizable and desirable. But within Enterprise Solutions, budgets for product promotion are more modest than in Nokia Mobile Phones, and they are distributed unevenly. The bottom line of this story is simple. An active campaign for Nokia E51 is planned only for the month of April. There is logic in this, since the manufacturer plans to withdraw the Nokia E65 from the market by the second quarter of 2008. And this despite the fact that the model is the “shock” offering in Eseries today.

Looking back at this picture again, we see that hasty action to correct the situation has mixed up all the cards and plans for Enterprise Solutions today. But in the preface we said that Nokia E51 is unique, what is its feature?

In the case of the Nokia E50, the company created a thin, small smartphone, and this is precisely why it attracted attention. The Nokia 6120 Classic model is built on the same principle, plus it is the most affordable Symbian product from the current line. What is unique about the Nokia E51 compared to these solutions?

Let me say a seditious phrase for which I will be ridiculed long and hard. Maybe. But what looks like nonsense at first glance becomes reality upon closer examination.

The Nokia E51 model is built on the Symbian operating system, and according to this feature it is a smartphone, but it is an ordinary phone. This is a phone, and the product was created as such. The features inherent in smartphones are just an additional and optional bonus. It is necessary to consider the Nokia E51 in the aspect of a regular phone and only in that way.

Here, he expressed a heresy. Is it uncomfortable to feel that someone is calling a functional smartphone some kind of ordinary phone? Perhaps, I would have had exactly this reaction at the first moment to such statements, especially if I had not had a Nokia E51 in my hands for a long time.

Over the years, phone manufacturers have become so caught up in the arms race, competing in additional features, that no one paid any attention to special attention the main application of the phone, namely calls. No, technologies for improving speech appeared, codecs changed, since users are able to hear such changes. But the ergonomics of solutions in the field of calls and controlling the phone during a conversation did not change in any way. Pick up a business device from 5-7 years ago and a modern model - the principle of their design is the same. Side volume keys, numeric keypad, possibly a side voice recorder key.

Due to the fact that for Enterprise Solutions competition within Nokia was strictly limited - you can’t go into multimedia, here Nseries, you can’t go into photography either - it was completely banned at the beginning. There was a unique way out: to improve the basic functionality, that is, to create a phone for calls. Using the Nokia E51 as an example, we see that they coped with this task.

Nokia E51 – unique features

What scares many people away from smartphones? Complexity of controls, incomprehensibility, confusing menus, abundance unnecessary functions. All the research in this area says so, and manufacturers respond by trying as much as possible to make their products look like regular phones. Let's remember the company Sony Ericsson and a product such as Sony Ericsson W960i. It sacrificed a number of strong features just to make it look as much like a regular phone as possible. In the case of Nokia E51, everything is exactly the same, but with a positive result.

The first thing that catches your eye is that a key with a picture of a house has appeared on the keyboard. This button is more familiar from Windows Mobile products than from Nokia smartphones. The reason for the “borrowing” is not that Windows Mobile devices suddenly began to occupy a huge market share, and it is necessary to adapt to them. Not at all. The reason is that Microsoft has done more than a pound of salt on the ergonomics of software solutions and knows how to create solutions that are intuitive to the average person. However, for desktop OSs, unfortunately, Windows Mobile is not an intuitive solution.

The house key is a good design, simple and clear. Gradually, this designation will appear on other Nokia smartphones. The old menu icon causes difficulties for most ordinary, average users, those who are not familiar with technology.

Another visual change can be considered the disappearance of the C key; it was replaced by a left arrow with an inscribed cross. If button C meant erasing something, then visually the new designation is similar to computer keyboard, as well as canceling the action, because the key has this functionality as standard. If my memory serves me correctly, for the first time such an icon (key designation) appeared on communicators, now it is the Nokia E90.

The work that has been done on such an “insignificant” part of the device as the symbols on the keys is simply gigantic. For the average person who is not familiar with the S60, this device is much easier to learn and start using, it is understandable.

The phone's signature feature is 4 separate keys (including the Menu button), which by default are responsible for quick access to the calendar, phone book, and email. Moreover, the buttons support two types of presses, short and long. A short press takes you to the general list of the phone book, mailbox or see a calendar for the month. The long one creates a new entry, it can be a contact, a calendar entry, or an email. Pressing the button again returns you to the main menu. Each button has its own designation, everything is simple and clear.

For those who want to reassign keys, there is such an option in the settings. You can set your applications to call a similar function.

In standby mode, you don’t need to go into the menu, which on most S60 models is so confusing that the devil himself would break his leg, here everything is simpler. It's faster than using Active Standby, a hardware key quick access always better. During a conversation, you understand the beauty of the keys in all its glory, especially if you speak through a headset. Literally with one touch you get to the desired section, there is no need to go into the menu and call the desired function. I will make a reservation that there is a standard view of all menus, it is exactly the same as in other products on the S60.

There are also other goodies for talk mode. So, on the right side there is a paired volume key, but there is space between the buttons. There is a Mute key inside; by pressing it, you can mute the microphone during a conversation. The function is not unique, but on other models it could not be used with one touch without looking at the device. Even on the Nokia E65, which has a similar key, it was moved to the front panel, meaning you need to look at the phone.

On the left side there is a voice button, in standby mode it is responsible for voice commands, including voice-independent dialing of a name from the phone book. During a conversation, you can use this key to activate the voice recorder. Again, an almost perfect implementation, the function is mapped to a key.

Traditionally, Eseries has an indicator light that signals missed messages, calls or new emails. It is configured in the menu and can work for a certain interval. This strong point device, it does not interfere with you by feeding sound signals, but it is always clear that there are some events.

We can stop here, since the above is enough to understand: Nokia E51 is today one of the most convenient devices with which you can make calls and carry out standard operations (messages, organizer, phone book). All thanks to hardware keys to access these applications and buttons used during a call. The described functionality will be of interest to ordinary users, not familiar with what a smartphone is. To study the described functions, even by scientific poking, will take at most ten minutes.

For those who are at least somewhat familiar with phones and smartphones, the possibilities for comfortable work are even higher. On the screen in Active Standby mode there are several modules for setting up voice mail, email, and VoIP telephony. By entering the Setup Wizard for a particular item and filling out all the fields, you will receive a working application, and the Wizard itself will disappear from the main screen.

The concept is clear, but its implementation is at an average level, not everything is simple for the average person, similar setup may cause difficulties. However, this is definitely a huge step forward, because many people are not even aware of some of the functions of phones.

Summarizing all of the above, we can say with confidence that the Nokia E51 is a unique product in which the telephone component is maximally enhanced, and the smartphone component is present, but not dominant. The company has created an excellent device for basic functions, and he copes with this with a bang.

In favor of the fact that it's not too much comfortable smartphone For advanced users, the presence of a small screen makes it difficult to read large amounts of mail on it. Rather, such a screen is intended for a quick acquaintance with letters, but not full-fledged work. This is a completely acceptable scenario for using the phone for the vast majority of users.

Due to a number of random coincidences that worked out well for the Nokia E51, this is the first device in which the simplification of the interface while maintaining functionality is visible to the naked eye. For Nokia, such product changes are of primary importance; they will occur in other models, but not so quickly.

Having talked about the fact that this is a phone, and not so much a smartphone, let's move on to considering standard features apparatus.

Design, dimensions, control elements

The model is available in three colors: black, silver and bronze. In each case, the texture of the case and back cover is different. For example, for silver it is dots, for bronze it is circles, and for black it is stripes. It will hardly be possible to see the dots on the black body; the texture of the cover is correlated with the body.

The build quality of the case is good, there are no gaps, the device fits into your hand like a glove. There are enough metal parts in the case; they are all made of stainless steel. This is the back cover, the frame around the body on the front panel. Despite such a massive use of metal, the weight of the device is 100 grams, which is quite comfortable. At the same time, the phone feels in your hands, it feels pleasantly heavy and pulls your hand away. The dimensions – 114x46x12 mm – are not too large; this is one of the smallest devices of this class.

On the front panel there is an indicator of events, for example, received messages, missed calls. You can set the interval during which it will work, the brightness of the LED is maximum, it is bright and clearly visible.

On the left side there is a voice function key (dictaphone), the button is rubber, the finger fits comfortably on it. On the right side there are two volume keys and a microphone mute button (it also activates voice dialing). The on/off button is located on the top end.

At the bottom end you can see a connector for connecting a standard charger (2 mm jack), a headphone jack (2.5 mm), and a miniUSB connector. On the back surface you can see the speaker hole, plus the 2-megapixel camera lens.

Display

The screen has a diagonal of 2 inches, resolution – 240x320 pixels (31x41 mm), displays up to 16 million colors. The picture is bright, the colors are vibrant. The model differs in that the display is very, very good, comparable to modern models.

The picture is visible in the sun (TFT), which helps protective glass, since it is tinted. Another thing is that sometimes it starts to glare, then you have to look for a comfortable angle. Unfortunately, due to the relatively small diagonal of the screen, it is impossible to talk about maximum comfort outdoors; this is always a compromise. The same applies to all phones from other manufacturers with a diagonal of 2 inches. For a smartphone, such a diagonal does not look optimal; it is always a concession in favor of the size of the device.

The screen brightness is adjusted automatically using a light sensor.

The screen can accommodate up to 9 lines of text and up to three service lines. The font size is comfortable in most situations; for a number of sections the user can choose the font size.

Keyboard

The design of the numeric keypad is traditional, there are no special frills. The keys are located on a small platform, but at the same time they have a good travel and medium hardness. The keyboard is pleasant to use. In this parameter, the device differs for the better from many modern models.

The keys are backlit in white, it is activated by a light sensor and is clearly visible in different conditions.

We will not describe individual keys for calling up the phone book and other functions here; that was done above in the description of the unique features of this device.

Battery

It is constantly mentioned that this device has one of the most “powerful” batteries, which in people’s minds translates into a long operating time. If we approach the question formally, then yes, there is a 1050 mAh Li-Pol battery installed here. According to the manufacturer, it is capable of providing up to 13 days of standby time and up to 4.23 hours of talk time.

In Moscow networks, the device worked for about 2 days with an hour of calls, a couple of SMS messages, up to 2.5 hours of listening to music, and WiFi was used several times to download mail in the city. We can talk about two days of reliable work; for those who will not use additional functions, but only voice, it will be about 2-3 days, depending on the number of conversations.

If we compare this device in terms of power consumption with products based on the S40, then it will lose to them. The operating time in standby mode will be less, as, indeed, in other modes, the difference depending on the model will be either greater or less, but the gap will be at least one day in standby mode (with comparable battery capacity). But for a phone like the Nokia E51, the standard battery life is excellent. The device does not have an extended capacity battery.

Full battery charging time is about 1 hour 45 minutes.

Bluetooth, USB, WiFi, IrDa

USB. The connector in the device is miniUSB, not microUSB, as on a number of recent models. The 2.0 standard is supported, the data transfer rate is 800 Kb/s. In this case, you can choose one of 2 operating modes (Nseries also has MTP, plus Image Print):

• Data Transfer (Mass Storage USB) – both the phone memory and memory cards are visible, no drivers are required, the OS itself recognizes the phone. Data transfer speed is approximately 950 Kb/s (USB 2.0).
• PC Suite – work with Nokia PC Suite, access to all functions of the device, backup of all information, and so on.

Bluetooth. The Bluetooth version of the smartphone is 2.0 with EDR support. The device supports the following profiles:

• AVCRP
• BIP-ImagePush
• DUN-GW
• FT-Server
• HandsFree-AG (1.0)
• Headset-AG
• OPP-Client
• OPP-Server
• SIM Access-Server

The data transfer speed via Bluetooth is on average 100 Kb/s. We tested the transmission of stereo sound to a headset such as the Sony Ericsson DS970; managing songs, rewinding, and skipping works without problems, but at the same time the name of the current song is not displayed on the screen.

WiFi. The device supports Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g). All security standards are supported (WEP, WPA, WPA2), the settings are maximum. Unlike the Nseries, the device does not support the Universal PnP (UPnP) standard. There is a Wi-Fi network wizard; it can search for them in the background and, if necessary, connect to such networks.

The infrared port operates at speeds up to 115 Kb/s.

Memory, memory cards

The phone has about 128-130 MB of memory, accessible to the user. Volume random access memory is equal to 96 MB, after downloading on a “clean” device, about 50 MB is available to the user. Slot for microSD cards located under the battery compartment cover, hot-swappable cards are supported. The volume of cards that can be used with the device is unlimited; we tried working with a 4 GB card and there were no problems.

Performance

By updating the hardware platform, performance has increased compared to previous devices, and the large amount of RAM has also had a positive effect. Otherwise, the phone is comparable to current models from Nokia.

Camera

The phone has a 2-megapixel camera without autofocus, its quality is average, which is typical for similar products generally. This quality is quite enough for viewing photos on a phone, but not enough for viewing on a PC. Three file compressions are available (High, Normal, Basic), as well as resolutions of 1600x1200 pixels and 640x480 pixels.

From additional settings You can note serial shooting, a timer set at intervals of 10, 20 and 30 seconds, effects (Sepia, Black&White, Negative), night mode, white balance (automatic, Sunny, Incandescent, Fluorescent).

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Video. Video recording can occur in three resolutions - 320x240 pixels, 176x144 pixels and 128x96 pixels. At maximum quality, the video is acceptable, but nothing more.

Applications, themes

The interface in this model is no different from other products on the S60 of the third edition of Feature Pack 1. There is no need to describe the standard functions; this is done in a separate material.

Here we will talk about the differences, which are very significant and show the positioning of the device. In the Office section, you can find local search for all categories in the phone, and this previous version In my opinion, it is worth installing the latest program, the same one used in the Nokia N81, it is available on the manufacturer’s website (but not in the catalog for the Nokia E51).

QuickOffice– a program for viewing MS Office files, differs in that this device is supplied with an incomplete version. It is intended only for viewing files; editing mode is disabled. You will have to pay extra to get all the features of the program. This is an indicative touch; the company does not consider this device oriented towards active use with office documents, maximum reading them and nothing more. Which is true with such a screen diagonal.

ZIP– archiving files and extracting them from the corresponding archives.

Adobe PDF– viewing files in PDF format.

Surprisingly, this model has it as a utility Note, so Active Notes, although in most devices one replaces the other.

Themes simple, there are no frills, but they look nice.

Musical Features the devices do not look very strong, this is a typical product on the S60, there is an equalizer, there is a 2.5 mm jack, which will require an adapter to connect your headphones. In general, listening to music is acceptable, but the model is completely inferior to modern devices both in terms of convenience, functionality, and sound. For Eseries, a weak multimedia component is traditional.

Team Suite. In the application you see a list of commands that you create yourself and complete with subscribers from the regular phone book. For each command you can create group messages, implement one-touch conference calls. From additional features– viewing a log of communications with your colleagues, plus entering a directory of links for a specific team. This application is an add-on to the usual functions; on other phones, similar functionality is achieved by spending more time and nothing more. Here it is implemented more conveniently, especially for those who really need such functionality.

113x43.5x15.5, 104 Metal body elements Yes No Yes Display 2 inches, TFT, 240x320 pixels, 16 million colors 2 inches, TFT, 240x320 pixels, 262K colors Battery BP-6MT, 1050 mAh BL-5B, 890 mAh BL-5C, 970 mAh Operating time (stated while waiting, talking) Up to 13 days, 4.23 hours Up to 9 days, 3.1 hours Up to 9 days, 6.8 hours Operating time at the same load 2 days 9 hours 2 days 2 days 7 hours Playing music (maximum volume, standard headphones) 12 hours 40 minutes 10 hours 11 minutes 11 hours 20 minutes Built-in memory 130 MB 35 MB 70 MB RAM (type, total, free for user) SDRAM, 96 MB, 50 MB SDRAM, 64 MB, 20 MB SDRAM, 32 MB, 16 MB Memory card microSD of any size microSD of any size microSD up to 2 GB VersionS60 3rd Edition FP1 3rd Edition FP1 3rd Edition CPU ARM11, 369 MHz, Freescale ARM11, 369 MHz, Freescale ARM9, 235 MHz, single-chip solution Camera 2 megapixels 2 megapixels 1.3 megapixels (version without camera available) FM radio Yes Yes No IR port Yes No Yes WiFi Yes No No Key remapping Yes for 4 No Yes with a third party program SAR (V/kg) 1.4 1.18 0.86 Price at the time of release 350 Euro 260-270 Euro 280-300 Euro

The first thing that catches your eye is the presence of metal panels in the Nokia E51, however, this also results in the maximum SAR level. For the platform of this device it is not too small, but here it is actually maximum. On the other hand, you should not pay close attention to this parameter, harmful effects when talking on the phone for hours and without using a headset, it is obvious, although not proven in experiments. My advice is to use a wired headset or Bluetooth, especially if you talk for more than an hour a day.

The hardware and software (software version) of Nokia E51 and Nokia 6120 are similar. The difference is in the amount of RAM, it is larger on the Nokia E51. The main changes include support for infrared (this interface is interesting target audience), the presence of Wi-Fi, plus configurable keys and a message indicator.

The difference in cost is 70-80 Euros, this is the price of Wi-Fi, metal parts of the case, and a number of other changes. Is this difference justified? Yes, but for extremely not large number people who know what Wi-Fi is and how to use it. Expect demand for this model thanks to the Wi-Fi module via at least naively, most companies do not have corresponding corporate standards. There are also practically no pioneers in this market. There remains a mass market and a visible advantage in the form of a metal case, which dictates the reliability of the device in the eyes of the buyer.

Impression

In terms of connection quality, this is a typical model from Nokia; there are no failures or special achievements. This is a very typical product, everything is at the level of conventional devices, and it couldn’t be any other way given the similarity of the hardware solutions, their identity with the same Nokia 6120. The ringer volume is sufficient to hear the device in various conditions, it sounds good. The vibration alert is average in strength.

Does this product have competitors on the market from other manufacturers? In my opinion, there is none. The reason is simple: this is an expensive model, intended primarily for those who only plan to make calls and are drawn to the traditional candy bar form factor. The release of such a device by any other manufacturer would mean its death even before entering the market; buyers would not accept such a phone. For Nokia, due to the popularity of the brand, the situation is different.

But we cannot count on this device becoming widespread; the model is aimed at those who clearly understand what it can provide and what it is intended for. As a regular phone, this device is unique and extremely convenient. In terms of a smartphone, it is just as inconvenient and not particularly necessary. This product should be treated as a phone with added functionality from smartphones, and this is proven even by the scanty set of programs from the manufacturer, which is not typical for such devices. In terms of multimedia, the phone is also not impressive, lagging behind the market by a year or a little more.

It turns out that Nokia was able to create an excellent phone for calls, but by no means a universal product for everything. The high cost will scare off many buyers, and perhaps the moment will be missed. The price reduction for Nokia E50 clearly shows that the company is not ready to dump below the cost of the product, which is easily explained. You shouldn't expect that the Nokia E51 will reach the price level of the Nokia 6120 Classic in a short time. The model is designed for a life cycle of about 15-18 months, at the low point its cost can be about 280-290 Euros, but hardly less. To aggressively reduce the cost, the device must either become a super bestseller (this will not happen with the Nokia 6120, Nokia E65), or not sell at all (also an unlikely situation). Sales of the model will be moderate, it will occupy a good share of the market for calling phones, and this is not synonymous with budget phones, as many people perceive it to be. For example, Nokia 8800 is just such a phone for calls.

If we were Nokia, it would be worth advertising this device as a regular phone with smartphone capabilities, but not trying to position it as a business solution with a bunch of additional features that do not look strong for the consumer. This phone is an excellent business solution for calls, one of the most convenient today. The model can be safely recommended as a second device, a phone designed for calls, especially if the issue of price does not bother you. If the functionality of communicators and smartphones is not necessary for you, and you are used to listening to music on a player, the camera is also not important, then this phone is quite suitable for the role of the main one.

The trend set in the Nokia E51 will be continued in other models of the company, primarily Eseries, such devices are becoming easier to learn. The presence of Wi-Fi, which is talked about with asphyxiation for this model, is in reality only needed by a part of the audience. This clearly shows the preservation of the IR port; it is in demand by some of the buyers of this device and is not an anachronism for them. Putting an infrared port on one side of the scale and Wi-Fi on the other, two technologies from different times, we get a very contradictory portrait of the buyer. On the one hand, a conservative, on the other, a technology pioneer. IN real life This never happens, such obvious opposites do not converge.

As a final argument regarding the low prevalence of this model, it is worth pointing out that Nokia practically does not use corporate sales channels for Eseries devices, but tries to promote them like regular ones. Cell phones, through retail chains. This is not a good approach if there are direct competitors within your line, when the products are on the shelves next to each other and the consumer can compare them.

The phone is already available on the European market, while in Russia it will appear only in early January, but in significant quantities. If one of the distributors manages to deliver the device in December, it will be in small quantities and at prices significantly higher than 350 Euros.

The SAR value for this model is 1.4 V/kg. I would like to dispel one of the myths that have already developed around this device. The high level of SAR for the model is not due to increased transmitter power, or the presence of technologies that provide better communication than on others serial models companies. This is a consequence of a different platform and antenna placement in the upper part of the phone, opposite the ear, compared to the previous generation of devices. In many modern models, the antenna is placed closer to the bottom end of the device. The platform's contribution to the SAR value is maximum, the antenna location is secondary.

Do you have a Nokia smartphone and want to convert your movies for it? This is easy to do using the Lucky program Video Converter!
Lucky Video Converter is absolutely free Nokia converter with an interface in Russian. Lucky Video Converter allows you to convert AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, MPEG and other formats for your Nokia smartphone, and even more: with Lucky Video Converter you can cut audio from videos. Convert your video to MP3 format and enjoy your favorite soundtracks on your smartphone!

So, let's start converting the video:

Step 1: Download and install the program

Step 2: Add a file to transcode

Launch Lucky Video Converter. Drag the file you want to convert into the program window. Or:

• click the button add file;
• select the desired file in the window that opens;
• click the button Open.

Step 3: Select a ready-made profile for Nokia

Select the profile for Nokia from the list of formats. A list of formats is located below the add file area.

Step 4: Set the save folder

Go to the program settings and specify the folder where the finished video will be saved.

• Click the button Settings. It is located in the lower left corner of the converter window.
• ... on the list Outgoing folder.
• Select existing folder or create a new one.

Step 5: Start the conversion

Click the button Convert, and your video will be converted to a format compatible with most Nokia smartphones.

Step 6: Copy the video to your smartphone

After the conversion is complete, a button will appear Open target folder. When you click on it, a folder with the finished video will open. Now you can copy it to your smartphone and enjoy your favorite movies anywhere.

Nokia E51 comes in three color options: silver, black and bronze. Most of those surveyed are waiting for the silver color option: of our friends, one wants black, one wants bronze, and four want silver. Approximately this situation can be obtained by monitoring communication on the Internet. However, it is possible that if silver phones were the most popular, then the ratio would change. One way or another, today we are considering the “silver” option.

Dimensions. In fact, the E51 is noticeably wider than the E50, and the E51's lack of tapering at the bottom of the body further enhances this difference visually. However, this does not strain the hand, and after a short time, the eyes. This is also helped in no small part by the feeling that the device is very thin. It is slightly longer than the E50, but the difference is not significant. The E51 is definitely not small or miniature, and only its very small thickness saves it from being considered “large”.

Probably, if we had only published photos of the Nokia E51 next to the Qtek 8300 and Sony Ericsson M600, the feeling that the E51 is small would hardly have appeared.

And looking at it from a different angle, the picture dramatically changes: the E51 again seems small. So we repeat: it is its small thickness that saves it. If it were thicker, it would not be elegant, and would feel like a rather large device.

We'll look at the keyboard in a little more detail in other sections of the review, but here it's worth mentioning just a few general details. Firstly, despite the fact that we like the joystick more than the navigation key, we have to admit that replacing the joystick with a key in the E51 is a good decision. Here this button is well balanced, there are a minimum of unauthorized clicks. This is not even a button, but two buttons: the central square one and the silver bezel - this is a 4-position key. They are almost completely independent of each other.

The smartphone seemed to have acquired new keys, and lost one old one (more on this later). The bottom row of keys feels a little better to press than on the E50: they're further back and the keyboard is softer, but they're smaller so the improvement is barely noticeable. The “Rise” and “End End” keys have not changed much in size, they are still small, but they have become a little more convenient - due to the fact that the internal keys are recessed more.

The backlight is no longer so bright, white. Everything is more interesting on a black keyboard, and light letters on light keys (E50) are very difficult to see in certain lighting conditions. But here there are two points: first, it is not very uniform, second, sloppy gaps between the keys are already visible, and, apparently, with increasing service life they will become larger and more ugly. And the E50 that is shown here in the photo is already more than a year old, and there are no gaps.

On the side, between the volume keys, there is a new “Mute/Voice” key. She is perhaps a little small, although this is not very annoying. The voice recorder key has moved to the left side. These two keys are perhaps associated with one pleasant aspect of the phone's operation (will be described later). The “Power” key is in its usual place (by the way, the hardest), and the “Pencil” key has disappeared.

The abundance of shiny surfaces allowed the phone to become very easily soiled, and the manufacturer was able to include a cleaning cloth in the kit. However, the silver version is less easily soiled. A little stronger is black, and the most easily soiled is bronze. The design of the battery cover significantly contributes to the fact that fingerprints are not so noticeable.

A strap holder is provided (the E50 lacked this). True, the design is somewhat unique and, unfortunately, does not give the impression of being very reliable. And one more thing - if you remove the cover, the strap definitely loses its holding surface, and can easily detach from the mount. So before using the strap, we would think about how best to secure it.

Let's take a closer look at the body

Not immediately, and probably with unequal strength on different copies (all the E51s that we saw were from different batches, and were quite different from each other in this parameter), but it will become obvious that the width of the side gap between the front panel and the side insertion here changes according to some complex law. Let's show it on the device that was photographed: along the entire length of the edge of the case, the gap has a different width. Let's start from the top edge: it is obvious that the width of the gap near the button is different from the width of the gap on the other side. This upper distortion, unlike the side ones, is approximately the same for everyone.

On the sides the picture is similar, but not quite: here the gap is stronger near the center, or more precisely, near the side keys. Near them it is simply huge! It seems that the phone is swollen in the center. On the other three samples that came into our hands, everything was a little more decent, but not much. It is useless to squeeze the device in these places; this does not reduce the gaps.

Another example: the gap near the side keys. For clarity, we placed the memory card there, without any effort. This is a gap closer to the top edge, and near the keys themselves, if desired, we will probably insert this card inside the case. And this despite the fact that, as mentioned above, on this side, but below, a needle can hardly fit into the gap.

All? No, we'll move on. The side keys are made of rubberized material, that is, they wrinkle and do not press. The photo below shows what else they “can” do. Understand correctly, we did not bend them with a screwdriver to show this possibility (but in what other device can you take a key and bend it like that?), especially since in the photographed sample they already look as if bent is their natural state . But just to give you an idea: where and, most importantly, how much dirt and dust will accumulate in the presence of such gaps and such “extraordinary functions” of the side buttons.

There is an opinion that the distortions are justified and are caused by poorly tightened screws, and at the maximum - that is, near the side keys - by the technology of soldering the hard plastic of the case and the soft keys. But on the sample we tested, the screws were tightened all the way, and the ridiculous technology would probably be better replaced with something more attractive. All the side keys, by the way, are quite difficult to press, and not because the rubber is hard, but because they have a small “running gear”, and the button itself is located quite deep. That is, it’s easy to press with a fingernail, but it’s difficult to press with a fingertip. The toughest (inconvenient) in this regard is the power button. In 99% of cases you press it with your fingernail, otherwise you have to squeeze the phone too hard.

Many were pleased with the battery cover on the Nokia E50: no play, no squeaks. Many will be pleased with it here too, but on two devices we encountered such a thing as a poorly closing lid. In both cases, it looked like they had missed the mark and placed the release button further from the edge than it should have, and the corresponding hole in the lid did not reach it. In both cases, the lid had to be closed “overclocked.” Let us note the nasty creak of the locking button on these samples. We changed the SIM card often, and the memory card too, so it is unlikely that this problem (if it occurs) will go away after a week or two of use. The photo below shows the lid in a fully closed state (left), and the position in which it stops closing if done slowly (right).

It is acceptable that such models were received, and that most of the devices will be without any of the listed disadvantages, or even without them at all. But at the moment, reviews about gaps and hard side keys are not uncommon. What you should do: when purchasing, just carefully check these points: gaps, creaking of the side keys and closing of the lid.

And if you look at the Nokia E50, from which many are planning to switch (or have already switched) to this model, you can see that there are none of these problems; Moreover, “your hand is happy” when you take it after the E51: the side keys seem like perfection, and you can look for any gaps with a microscope.

Interface (and a brief overview of the changes using the E50-E51 as an example)

Let's start with the most important thing - with what allows a smartphone to be a phone. First, let's look at dialing. It is quite difficult to say where the implementation is better: the E50, obviously, has smaller numbers, and decreases in size at the 15th digit, while the E51 has slightly larger numbers, does not decrease in size, but even a standard 10-digit number is dialed in two lines, and general string input is an order of magnitude shorter. Critical for those who often dial a number from the keyboard, and at the same time the area code is more than three digits. If you work with the program, you can increase/decrease the numbers used when dialing a number, and if you use the program, then it doesn’t matter how the number is dialed by default. Thus, despite the initial differences, there is no clear difference.

:: for E50 - 12 characters on the left (standard number), 13 characters on the right

:: for E51 - 12 characters on the left (standard number), 13 characters on the right

A font size setting has appeared; you can choose one of three size options. This function works, however, not everywhere: for example, the font size in the main menu or in the soft key labels will not change. However, it is clear that this feature refers to improvements specifically telephone service, as it affects the font size in applications such as Contact Book, Messages, Journal. However, the joy of innovation, as always, is overshadowed not only by unimportant details, but also by very important ones. For example, it is clear that when the font in the Contact Book is enlarged, the font in the Search bar does not change, and it cannot be called large even with a good desire.

As in the E50, there is a light indicator, although not so massive, white, in the left top corner. It is configured in the same way as on the E50: the duration of the alert and four events to which to respond. Note that when making a call in silent mode (when everything, even vibration, is turned off), the phone, as is customary with Nokia, actively flashes the display backlight, making it difficult to identify the caller. What prevented this function from being transferred to the indicator, since it is there and can also blink?

There is also a light sensor located here, which is responsible for the brightness of the keyboard and display backlight, depending on the lighting.

Very significant changes have taken place in the menu. The appearance and fonts are all as they were: that is, switching between the “list/matrix” display and the poor, ugly font without anti-aliasing, which on the E51 also became bold. However, problems with font aesthetics are corrected by the program mentioned above (FontRouter); There are a couple more options - replacing fonts, FontMagnifier - they are simpler, but less effective. By the way, it can be seen that from the menu for the “menu consists of 12 or fewer items” option, the inactive scroll bar, which was superfluous there, was removed, and now this bar appears only if all the items do not fit on the screen at the same time. Digital menu navigation remains the same - 12 keys (numeric keypad and “*” and “#” keys).

Other changes to the menu deserve single word. Firstly, such a concept as “Animation” has been added: icons can become movable. It looks like a half-spread of the picture when you hover the cursor. It’s clear that the icons of third-party programs do not rotate (at the moment in 99.9% of cases). In addition, take a closer look at the screenshots below: on the left - animation is on, on the right - off. Definitely, the icons in the picture on the left are crooked. Conclusion: look at this so-called animation for five seconds and forget it.

Secondly, the badges are back running programs: An icon appears next to the program icon again, indicating that this program is now up and running. Such icons are also placed near folders that contain currently running programs. This almost appeared once in Nokia smartphones, but quickly faded away.

Thirdly, something has definitely changed in the display of Java application icons. Now they are visible a little better - larger. Unimportant, but nice. In the screenshots below: on the left - Nokia E50, on the right - Nokia E51.

And lastly, we added a function that allows you to create folders within folders. Now - oh, miracle - you don’t have to use tricks so that the “Move to folder” item appears in the folder menu. However, as always, there is an unpleasant moment: you still cannot move folders to other folders. What kind of pathological reluctance to do convenient control- it’s not clear, despite the fact that it has long been known: folders can be moved, and there is only a normal means, but only improvised ones.

By the way, now when you remove the memory card or when you delete an application installed on the memory card, the cursor in the main menu does not jump to the upper left position, but remains where it was. This slightly changes the procedure for “tricky” folder transfer: now you need to place the application that will disappear under the cursor, and to the right of this application - the folder that you want to transfer. Such problems, and all because Nokia has been too lazy for many years now to add the “Move to folder” line to the context menu for folders. They will probably mature in OS version 9.4 or 9.5.

A nuisance was noticed: some icons have a habit of disappearing, that is, they stop being displayed after the smartphone is rebooted. In addition, the cursor on these disappeared icons begins to slow down. For some it is something built-in, for others it is an installed application. Usually the display is restored if you open the menu on the selected application or turn on/off animation. Most likely, this animation is glitchy somewhere. The glitch doesn't seem to be widespread. Probably will disappear in subsequent firmware. Below is an example.

The active standby mode is still developing, although not at a rapid pace. In this model, you will already see an impressive list of additional active mode modules, and if you activate them all, there will be no free space on the display. As usual, there is a minus: if there are more notifications than there is space on the display, the top ones push out the bottom ones, and they disappear both from view and from access, that is, scrolling is not provided. And then the inability to change the order in which notifications are displayed becomes the main nuisance. So, the WLAN item is the last one and cannot be pulled up, and if this item is important to you and there are a lot of notifications, you will either have to lose this item or turn off some notifications.

Let's look at the screensaver service. Firstly, the standard “Date and Time” screensaver has changed: the background is now black. It occurred to someone at Nokia that the hard-to-read date and time on the screensaver was due to the light background, and not because of the small size of the clock. The size of the latter, however, has increased slightly, insignificantly.

However, if you want to have something readable and decent, you need to install either a third-party screensaver program, or something like a screen saver built into the program (that’s what we use).

A new version of the screensaver has appeared - animated; You can select a SWF file (flash animation, flash-lite) as the screensaver. Additional parameters include the video display time (1..60 seconds) and the backlight duration (0..30 seconds). After the end of the cartoon, the standard “Date and Time” is turned on. The screensaver settings menu has now been moved from the theme settings options to a separate item, as a result, you will no longer be able to configure the screensaver for each theme separately, as you could do in the E50. The same applies, by the way, to background picture: it is now common for all design themes. That is, everything has become more convenient and beautiful, but less functional. (E50)

The main visual changes to the interface revolve around two things: the remapping of the keyboard and the redistribution of menu items in the Settings app. The first concerns the disappearance of the “Pencil” key, the replacement of the joystick with a five-way navigation key, the introduction of additional customizable control keys “Contacts”, “Messages” and “Calendar”, and the appearance of an additional side key - “Mute”.

The four new keys consist of three new and one old renamed - previously it was the key for switching between running applications and standby mode, as well as for launching the task manager. She changed the icon. The solution is aimed specifically at new users, while old ones were easily managed and with a more obscure icon. It's a shame to see things go away that have remained unchanged for years. Now the “Menu-Desktop-Tasks” button is indicated by the “house” symbol, but the functionality remains the same. The other three keys are programmable; A short or long press can be used to call up a program or some events (which are available, presented in the list), for example, creating a new contact or message. It is quite difficult to overestimate the benefits of this option for expanding controllability.

The disappearance of the “Pencil” key is very frustrating for people who are accustomed to this magic language menu button. And this will really become a problem if you are accustomed to the full use of such programs as, for example, which, with the disappearance of the “Pencil”, lost such necessary functions as “Shift”, “Shortcuts” and copying/pasting text when editing text files (more precisely, I haven’t completely lost it, but now it’s after a kilometer of running through the menu).

Therefore, you should resort to a saving program that will allow you to emulate this key. Interestingly, it is on the Nokia E51 that the convenience of this program can hardly be overestimated, since there is a “Mute” key, which is not used 99% of the time, unless, of course, you constantly use voice dialing.

Otherwise, the disappearance of this key looks like this: the long press on “#” has been removed, and the transition to the “123” input mode is now only possible by typing this key. In addition, the system function “Shift” hangs on it, and copy-pasting now works using the combination “# + soft key”, and not “Pencil + soft key”. Of course, in applications where the “#” button is somehow used, the “Shift” function will either be absent completely or will be very limited. The language menu now hangs on the “*” key: a long press - an additional symbol table, a short press - the general menu. There is an inconvenience: when working with T9, to call up this menu you have to leave the word you are typing, since the “*” key here, as a standard, sorts through options from the dictionary.

However, switching languages ​​was inconvenient before, and is inconvenient now, so it would be nice to immediately install at least a program that allows you to switch input languages ​​by holding down the “*” key. Whatever one may say, the disappearance of the key really doesn’t help anyone, and a lot of troubles have appeared, and the “*” and “#” buttons are overloaded - there’s nowhere else to go. Although someone, of course, will not notice anything.

:: on the left - switching languages ​​through the menu, on the right - by holding down the "*" key

A few words about changes to the settings structure. Firstly, the settings of some applications are made “under the general roof”: they can be quickly accessed from a special section of the “Settings” application. Secondly, there is a separate section for setting up the appearance and some properties of the interface, called “My Style”: there, in addition to the usual settings for the display, accessories, date/time and standby mode, there are items related to setting up themes, signals of the current mode - also a kind of gathering of everything in one place. And the settings for all kinds of connections were subject to approximately this “unification” - USB, WLAN, access points, Internet telephony, and so on.

This is a forced step, again aimed at new users, and designed to make it easier for them to get used to it after regular phones, where, as a rule, all the settings are stored in one place, this is just one item in the menu. And the absence of such a place in Symbian smartphones, coupled with the dispersion of settings for various applications, and even provided that all these applications are not tied to a specific place or folder in the menu - all this often caused active misunderstanding among those who “did not grow up together” with this ideology. It’s enough now to know that the settings of many applications are duplicated within the Settings application.

And the last thing regarding the interface: we introduced an additional value for another key in standby mode. Now, in addition to "0" and "#" (browser and silent mode), “*” also works - turning Bluetooth on/off. The most convenient thing. If on the Nokia E50 you had to use third-party programs for this, here the switch is already built-in.

So E51 = E50 + 1? No, E51 = E50 * 2

This section of the article more or less clearly presents exactly how much faster the E51 is, in what it is actually expressed, and not just by the numbers of all kinds of test programs. Let's see how programs are launched, how they are installed, uninstalled, how smartphones are turned on - everything that happens in the everyday life of every user, not just Java or 3D gamers. And along the way we will make a few comments. But first, of course, a small comparison of performance characteristics, on the topic of comparison.

If you often install new programs or remove old ones, you must be familiar with such situations when the certificate has expired and the installation procedure needs to be started again, or something else like “Error during update” messages. All this takes a lot of time, programs are not installed in half a second. But on the E51 all this happens faster. For comparison, let’s take several programs so that their installation time ranges from a few seconds to a couple of minutes, and install them on the E50 and E51, and compare the time.

!!! on the right in all the plates there is a comparison of speed, not time spent. You understand: the time graphs look exactly the opposite, it’s just more convenient to compare the speed. The graphs are based on the average value.

Installing programs	E50	E51
Yandex Maps	0:20.01	0:10.00
Opera mini 4 (java)	0:29.65	0:14.01
SMS BOX (java)	0:30.11	0:14.07
Jimm MIP (java)	0:35.02	0:14.09
Office Suite 4.5	1:27.94	0:34.66
irRemote	2:14.50	0:51.14

As you can see, everywhere the difference is twofold, or even more. Approximately the same picture awaits us in all other comparisons. True, in some places the difference will be even greater. Let's look at uninstalling programs. There is almost no need to go into the application manager in the E51, although here it is not such a terribly slow process as on the E50. Therefore, we consider deletion as the time elapsed from the moment you press the “C” key on the icon of the program to be deleted until the “Deleted” message appears.

Instead of time for E0 and JAVA applications, the table contains dashes - and this is not just like that. JAVA applications are removed from E50 in a very ridiculous way. So the value is about 10 seconds to see the message “Unable to delete” and remember that you cannot delete a JAVA application with the “C” key, plus another 5-35 seconds (depending on the number of installed programs) to enter in the task manager, and then another time to search for this program there and delete it, and another 5-35 seconds to wait for the list of installed applications to be automatically rebuilt. For example, it took us 1 minute 37 seconds to remove the SMS BOX program on the E50 - and this is against six seconds on the E51. By the way, who doesn’t know, when the application manager builds a list of installed programs, the phone freezes quite a bit - in the sense that other actions with the smartphone become unavailable, so all this is quite critical.

Let's look at the speed of launching programs. To make the time more indicative, we will take all measurements after a reboot (for each program). That is, let's take the most complex, slowest case. So, the startup speed is the first startup immediately after rebooting the smartphone.

Let's say a few words about working with JAVA applications. Mostly, of course, they are interested in Opera mini and JIMM - it is this tandem on the E50 that works in such a way that you don’t even want to use the word “work”. The E51 has plenty of RAM, unlike the E50, so there are no problems running a large number of applications, including JAVA, at the same time. For comparison: on the E50 we launch Opera mini - and the memory is almost out of order, we launch JIMM - and that’s it, opera is already taken out of memory. And on the E51 everything runs without problems, several Symbian applications, several JAVA applications, and two mini-operas, and there is still as much memory left as there will not be on the E50 even immediately after a reboot (on the left - E50, on the right - E51) .

Not all parameters are explicit. For example: how long does it take to turn on the phone? The parameter is as important as restoring communication after it is lost (for example, in the subway). But it fits into the theme of the speed of the smartphone, and the first one is even very good. What was done: the average startup speed of the smartphone was determined based on the results of 10 checks. The time was measured from the moment the power key was pressed until the call was established to the first number from the Call Log list (SIM card, memory card, installed programs - all the same). The shutdown time is from pressing “Power” until the display turns off completely, that is, until the moment when you can turn on the device again.

To complete the picture, we launch different programs, open some files, also everyday actions, and those that are definitely not described in the technical specifications.

Here I would like to comment only on the work of the built-in office. The QuickOffice that is available in the basic version (for the E51 is version 3.8) can only read files, and does it disgustingly: large files It doesn’t open, there are problems with formatting, it doesn’t see pictures. The Premium version, which costs about 1000 rubles (for version 4.5), is a completely different conversation, it is a normal competitive option even for such a nice program as Office Suite (costs about the same). In addition, starting with version 5 (another 500 rubles), QuickOffice now supports MS Office 2007 documents, and if the Office Suite developers don’t help, QuickOffice will become the only choice for those who need Office 2007 in their smartphone.

Multimedia

This service is presented in the E51 as follows: media player, FM radio, RealPlayer, Flash player (FlashLite 2.0), Voice Recorder, 2 MP camera, 3D Signals application and standard Gallery. Of course, the list is expanding - with additional players and the like. In addition, the media service includes the included headset and the presence of an audio jack (2.5 mm mini-jack).

As for the headset, here we have three problems. Firstly, this is, of course, a toy: no sound, no controls. Even comparing the sound through these ears with several others that were found nearby, we can say: for a radio the size of a matchbox, it’s just right. But if you want to listen to music, you need to buy something more serious and an adapter for 3.5 mm mini-jack. And here the second problem arises: at the moment, as far as we know, there is only one adapter of this type with a remote control - from the Nokia 5700 kit. So, most likely, you will have to make do with good headphones and an adapter without a remote control.

And the third problem is that the headset doesn't work very well. The test sample revealed such a thing, for example, as poor recognition of voice tags: on the phone, recognition passes 20 out of 20, and from a headset it’s almost 0 out of 20. It’s clear that everyone’s voices are different and mine might not “fit”, but it's not a matter of working like that. It is acceptable that this is an isolated case, as long as it is not possible to check anything else. In addition, there are reviews about problems (apparently software) with canceling a call using a button from the headset. This was not noticed on the test headset.

The fact that this smartphone, as we have seen, is very fast, does not prevent most programs for playing music and video from being terribly slow on it. For example, VikingPlayer (however, the player itself is not ideal, and there is nothing to worry about) constantly froze and unloaded while searching for music. It is the interface that slows down, which we will return to later. Or, say, MobileDVD: the picture is catastrophically behind the sound, even for a 320x240 video, while 640x480 videos are played “on the spot” - in the sense that the picture barely moves.

:: Viking MP3 Player and MobileDVD

The built-in player, LCG Jukebox, and Core Player work well as audio. In terms of sound, the situation is this: the E51 sounds better than the E50, but slightly worse than the Nokia 5500. The media player is unremarkable and has no additional settings, except for a five-band standard equalizer. However, if we compare it with the player in the E50, the latter clearly wins because of at least the normal arrangement of control elements, and there is no need to “run in a row.” Audio formats - AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI Tones (48-polyphony), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV - not counting those that can be played by third-party players (for example, OGG or tracker formats such as S3M or XM).

:: Jukebox, Core, Media player

Benchmark tests were made for Core Player (based on their standard test video fragments), for resolutions from 640x480 to 320x240 (there was no point in going lower). Nokia E51 showed much better results than Nokia E50, but still not enough to watch everything indiscriminately. The maximum that the smartphone can handle is 512x384 with not very high bitrate audio (up to 128 kbps). It's all a bit bad, but it's still watchable. A little higher resolution or audio - everything, continuous brakes, crackling, half of the frames go into the astral plane and so on. The sound, interestingly, is quite enough to watch a video: the midrange frequencies output from the E51 speaker are quite shrill. By the way, the film “For Family Reasons” (AVI, MPEG4×512×384, 25 fps, MP3×128kbps) tested for testing brought quite tangible pleasure, and the sound of the player was quite clearly audible from the kitchen. But I couldn’t watch the film with MPEG4×640×480 (it was “Pokrovsky Gates”) normally: crackling, cycles, brakes... just listen to it, and even then, not quite as it should be. In full-screen mode everything is better, but still bad.

:: video on Core Player

To complete the experience, here is a comparative table for the benchmarks of this player (non-indicative characteristics of the report, which, in fact, have nothing to compare with, are not included in the table). It can be seen that films compressed to 320x240 will run perfectly. We couldn’t see even this on the E50, but here it’s at a completely proper level.

	640×480-1500-128		640×352-1024-128		320×240-512-128
	E50	E51	E50	E51	E50	E51
Average speed (in%)	33.19	59.72	45.04	79.66	75.44	127.28
Time (original 2:31.46)	7:36.312	4:13.609	5:36.312	3:10.141	3:20.719	1:59.000
Frames (original 24 fps)	7.97	14.33	10.81	19.12	18.10	30.55

FM radio. It's a regular radio, but with built-in support for Visual Radio. It still doesn’t exist in Russia, and this particular function can be left aside. There is, however, a benefit: access to a server with radio stations, from where you can download any stations for the selected city. Of course, they will work correctly in the city where they are selected; this service should not be confused with Internet radio, this is just a database of names and frequencies. There is no RDS function.

And if you want Internet radio, use the LCG Jukebox. For what? For example, to listen to country music, which no station broadcasts here. Or something like that.

When you connect a headset from the kit, it is immediately identified, and if you connect something else through an adapter, the phone will offer two options to choose from: “Headphones” and “Music stand.” For some time it was not entirely clear what the clear difference was, since there were no differences in power. However, there was one difference: when connected as a “Music Stand” in the FM Radio application, such a function as “Loudspeaker” disappears, that is, it will not be possible to send sound to the phone rather than to the headphones.

By the way, it was not possible to send radio sound to Bluetooth stereo headphones, which is a pity. When you turn on the radio in these headphones, you can only hear the application's welcome signal (I would like to know why this is needed), and the sound is coming either into the phone speaker or into the headset.

Support for FlashLite 2.0 is as follows: there is a pre-installed player (you can also install a third-party one). Both have pros and cons. The third-party works better (fewer errors, easier to deal with heavy files, faster), but is not associated with SWF files (even forced through X-Plore), and therefore for it all flash content must be in certain folders, from other places it Can't open files. And the built-in one, accordingly, is better integrated into the system (who would doubt it), but it works slower and does not understand many things. The most severe (and frequent) error messages from these players are “Insufficient memory to open the file” (even though there is about 38 MB of free RAM) and “Content error”. These players do not yet know how to work normally with memory. And they don’t understand Flash version 8. Well, and the controls: the vast majority of flash games use keys, which, of course, are not present in the phone, and there is no emulation of mouse movement. In general, you can play, but in the most primitive games, where you need to move the cursor left and right. This applies to regular Macromedia Flash, of course, and not FlashLite.

And just a few words about the 3D Signals application. This thing appeared a long time ago, back in the Nokia N73: it plays the selected melody on a call, providing it with a number of so-called “surround” effects. But there it fully justified itself: two speakers, good spacing. Why is it in the E51? It's flat, with one microscopic tweeter, what kind of 3D sound is there? Although, of course, if you receive calls through a headset (stereo headphones or stereo Bluetooth), then you can catch all these sound transitions from one channel to another.

Camera. No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find any clear qualitative differences between them and the E50 camera. The only thing: the interface is a little nicer, and the picture is always clear while shooting, and not only after the frame has been taken (as on the E50). However, there are probably fewer overexposed areas in photographs from the E51 camera. Next, for comparison, are screenshots: on the left - what is visible in the viewfinder of the E50 camera when shooting, and on the right - in the E51.

Unfortunately, the improved viewfinder image did not affect the quality of shooting. The E50 camera takes pictures into purple-pink shades, the E51 camera turns them into green, and too much so. Sharpness is zero in both cases. There is a lot of noise. Honestly, to compare these two mobile cameras, any one frame was enough, because the second, third, and so on do not add any value, and without them everything is clear. But since the photos were taken, we will publish them.

A few more photos for comparison:
e50-photo005 and e51-photo005
e50-photo007 and e51-photo007
e50-photo012 and e51-photo012
e50-photo013 and e51-photo013
e50-photo014 and e51-photo014
e50-photo016 and e51-photo016

Other apps and features

There's a little bit of everything here that's truly worth mentioning. Let's start with the Internet browser. Let us rejoice: the stupid old-style browser (which was called “Services”), which intercepted all requests to links and interfered with normal operation, has finally disappeared. Next: the browser menu has changed a bit. Some items are distributed more competently, and there is no need to constantly jump between the items “Functions”, “Tools” and “ Additional functions", trying to remember where everything is.

The browser was unable to completely get rid of artifacts remaining from the time of its predecessor. So, until now the “Transfer” function works by transferring a link in the form of a file called “WAP bookmark”. And there is probably nothing that Nokia would complete to the end, introducing any improvements. The browser can rotate the interface - yes, and also has the “Full screen” function. But it just doesn’t work in Landscape mode.

Yes, by the way, the device has learned to rotate the interface normally. On the E-series, the E60 and E70 models did this well, the rest either did nothing or did it crookedly. So if this annoyed you on the E50, you'll be fine on the E51. True, there is no separate application for rotation, but if the application has such a function, then rotating the interface works normally.

:: interface rotation using the example of Active File and the built-in browser

But let's return to the browser: it has learned to save pages (previously only an old-type browser could do this). True, you will not have direct access to these pages, or more precisely, to their content, but you can easily download them without connecting to the network. A control element called “Toolbar” has appeared. Some control functions like page search or the “Back” function were included there. Unfortunately, there were and still are no “Save As...” functions, as a result, downloading and saving files that the phone does not understand becomes impossible. To do this you need to use the Opera browser.

The browser has learned to catch images on the page that are placed exactly as pictures (in the IMG tag). That is, there is a “Show Pictures” function, which displays a list of all pictures of this type that turned out to be some kind of edge or completely fall into the current visible area of ​​the page. Finally, at least some service that at least somewhat replaces the “Save as...” function.

And three more useful new features. First: now there is storage of input in forms. In other words, entering a nickname/password can be repeated from the suggested options, much like in browsers on a PC. The second is remembering passwords for pages. And thirdly, this was as pleasing as the disappearance of the old type of browser - while the page is loading, the same menu is now available as after loading, and not a simplified set of four useless items.

A few words about the office. Something about the work of the built-in QuickOffice has already been said above: all the good that can be said about it is expressed by the phrase “can open office documents" Therefore, immediately, without hesitation, you need to either install the Premium version of this program (4.5 or even 5.0 - version 4.5 in the screenshots below), or . In the latest versions, these programs are well matched in terms of interface and functions, and in terms of working with Quick Office formatting, in some ways they are even better. The second office program - Arcobat Reader, more precisely, Adobe PDF - quite acceptably opens and displays *.PDF files. As usual, version 1.5 costs, 2.5 is offered for purchase.

There is one significant addition to the organizer - the application, and one significant change: in the Clock application, you can now set up several reusable alarms, rather than just one one-time alarm. There is no call repeat setting, as is done in Series40 phones.

Phone applications - no changes: Contact Book, Groups, Messages, Journal, Speed ​​Dial, Modes, Voice Assistant - everything is standard for S60 smartphones. The same applies to Communication and Synchronization Applications: Connection Manager, Bluetooth, Modem, Data Transfer and so on. A manager is preinstalled for WLAN, and an active desktop module is also provided.

The Search application is pre-installed - quick search data on application databases, such as Messages, Contact Book, Calendar, Files. You can get a rough idea of ​​how this works by looking at the review of a similar application for UIQ 3.0 -.

The Nokia Maps application is preinstalled - a program for working with GPS. You need to use an external Bluetooth GPS module as a receiver (in in this case GlobalSat BT-338 was used). It is also interesting that a link to the Nokia E51 support page is available in the browser, where you can download applications for this model: Mobipocket Reader, Psiloc Wireless Presenter, Wellness Diary, WorldMate (not the PRO version). All these applications are free, in the sense that they will be free for you from the Nokia website; but in general, for example, the same Wireless Presenter costs 50-70 USD, another question is whether it is needed.

In use: calls, communication and everything else

1 . In new models, Nokia phones now give short signal vibration motor; It was noticed that this is a good signal that the download has started successfully - we turn on the device, almost without looking at the display. It’s a pity that we didn’t think of adding this, but when establishing a connection during a call, so as not to wait with the receiver next to your ear until some sleepyhead finally picks up the phone on the 20th ring.

2 . Many users who have already worked with the E51 note such a thing as a quieter and more dull sound conversational dynamics. Yes, there is such a thing high frequencies, compared to the sound of the Nokia E50 speaker, it is 15 percent less, and, perhaps, the sound is about that much quieter. The sound is definitely quieter and less harsh; Those for whom the E50's speaker volume was a critical lower threshold will probably not like the E51's speaker volume. We can say: on the E50 the dial tone was quite audible if you hold the phone at a distance of 35-40 cm from your head (this is if the room is not very noisy, of course). But on the E51, this no longer works. There's nothing you can do about it, and you can consider a headset as an option.

3 . Ringer/music speaker. About the same can be said about it: a strong shift into the mid frequencies, and the absence of highs and lows - and this is compared to the E50, which lacked stars from the sky. In reality, you can raise the volume: we have already said that when we tested the video service, the sound of the film could be heard in the next room. The same, by the way, applies to the operation of the speakerphone: compared to the E50-v, there is no particular difference. But it is the ringing volume that is underestimated. In addition, the speaker is not on the side, but on the bottom. As a result, when the phone is in your pocket, the speaker is almost certainly covered with material.

4 . Vibrate alert. For the company of the speakers, he also decided to become weaker. The vibration motor of the E51 is approximately one and a half to two times weaker than that of the E50. The vibration alert pattern is the same, so this did not affect the comparison. What this really means: On our E50, we had about one missed call in every 20 calls when the phone was in a jeans pocket, and about one in ten when it was in a jacket pocket. And with the E51 the situation is this: in a jacket I miss one out of two, in jeans - one out of ten. The situation is considered when you are moving, that is, it is when walking that these indicators are observed, and not when, say, you are standing in line. However, you can’t hear the E51 from the bag even standing still.

5 . Side key "Mute". Yes, undoubtedly, a useful button that allows you to turn the microphone on and off during a conversation without looking. However, it was noticed that the microphone turns off half a second after pressing the button, and turns it on after one and a half seconds. This despite the fact that through the menu, turning it on and off occurs instantly. In a word, this key works ugly: some ridiculous delays. The same key (hold) is assigned to enable voice tag waiting (voice dialing), which made it possible to remove this function from the “Voice Recorder” button, and as a result, random (and so frequent!) short presses on this button stopped and finally turned on constantly Dictaphone.

6 . Changes in work voice dialing. Unfortunately, they do not concern the ability to create voice tags yourself: just as there was an autosynthesizer here, it remains the same, although, perhaps, recognition has begun to work better. But the dialing system has also changed a little. Previously, after pronouncing a tag (for example, “Light Hunger”), the dialing was either canceled (if the tag was not found) or dialed immediately (it didn’t matter whether the device picked the tag correctly). Using the E50 as an example:

Suspecting its not unconditional competence in determining the subscriber, the synthesizer offers a choice of a list of those subscribers that seemed worthy of attention. He puts first the subscriber whose name is most similar to the pronounced tag, and apparently places the rest in order of decreasing probability of a correct match. If you do nothing, then five seconds after the list appears, the first number will be dialed. It picks up the first mark quite well, but “similar” ones are sometimes as similar as a rabbit to a boa constrictor (see the screenshots below).

7 . Oh, miracle, Nokia has made leaps and bounds - now, when connected via a cable in data transfer mode, the smartphone does not switch to “Offline” mode, but continues to work normally. Not only that: if the E50 is not accessible with such a connection (neither go to the menu, nor anything), then the E51 works as it should, only access to the memory card disappears. However, this is not without marking time: if fonts or something similar to FontRouter are installed on the memory card, be prepared for the fact that you will not be able to connect in data transfer mode, and the phone will report that the memory card , they say, is busy with another application. There is nothing that can be done as usual, except perhaps restart the smartphone without a memory card, then insert it, and only then connect the cable.

The speed of operation in card reader mode is not particularly impressive. For comparison, we transferred files from/to the phone via a cable, and the same for this memory card via a card reader. Memory card - SDC 1Gb ​​Kingston, input - USB 2.0. The card we used was not a high-speed one, but it’s already clear that the speed is limited by the phone, not the card’s capabilities. So there’s nothing to talk about speeds here, and there’s really no point in chasing super-fast memory cards, and there’s no point in using the E51 as a normal card reader.

8 . Internet calls. At the moment we can say the following: while the client has been fully tested, it worked fine. It worked better than it did on the E61, which is apparently due to both the higher operating speed of the smartphone itself and better Wi-Fi performance (see below). In particular, Fring itself, as well as Sinnet and Skype, were tested on the Fring client. Calls back and forth went without any problems. There is, however, a review that turning on the G711 codec prohibition creates problems in the client’s operation (constant call drop), but this was not noticed on the test sample. As for the built-in client for SIP telephony, it is still difficult to say anything definite about it. There are several reviews that are quite contradictory. And on the test sample the result is completely zero. This issue will apparently be discussed a little later, in a separate article.

9 . The Wi-Fi connection was checked, in addition to regular access to the Internet and Internet telephony (by the way, it worked much nicer than the E61/E70), using the SymSMB 2.0 program. The main thing I wanted to know was whether something had changed in the speed of operation of Nokia phones via Wi-Fi, or whether everything remained the same as before, namely - slow-lennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt. Let us note that support for 802.11b/g is declared, where 802.11b is data transfer at speeds of up to 11 Mbit/s, and 802.11g - up to 54 Mbit/s. Leaving the files back and forth, we get:

10 . Oh, another miracle, another miracle: after a reboot, previously detected Bluetooth devices with which at least one data transfer session took place no longer disappear from the quick access list. That is, if on the E51, before rebooting, when transferring a file, we immediately receive a list of devices, then after the reboot it will be the same .

:: for E50 - left before reboot, right - after

:: for E51 - both before and after reboot

11 . Remote control. In smartphones on the S60 we use the Bemused program (to control Winamp + triggered by incoming calls, a habit, you can’t escape it) and irRemote (control the center via the infrared port). Actually, center control is needed to ensure a smoother change in volume, because Bemused has a very large step. Both programs, when not active, do not interfere with life. And both were tested on the E51. For Bemused, as usual, you need to redraw the skin (design), but it works without any complaints. And with the infrared port the situation is this: the E50 and E61 “shoot” to our center from one and a half meters in a straight line, and no more than a meter if the angle is more than 20 degrees (approximately). A little further, namely half a meter, “beats” the E51. And half a meter further away is the Nokia 5500. So the 5500 model remains the “home remote control”, but these programs are removed from the E51. The infrared port is considered not the weakest, but unsuitable.

12 . Operating time on one charge and communication. The battery used is BP-6MT, 1050 mAh. It is quite difficult to take measurements in a short period of time, especially considering that we have been observing the E50 constantly for more than a year. At the moment, the following picture emerges: with a constantly connected Bluetooth headset (Plantronics Discovery 640 was used), using the screensaver from Handy Clock, 30 minutes of calls and four to five SMS per day, both devices last for about two days. If we take the same thing, but without a headset, for the E51 it’s 3.5 days, for the E50 it’s about three days. There are no complaints about the quality of communication yet: no failures or glitches were noticed in three weeks.

13 . Hooray for the recorder! Firstly, it is turned on with one button (the corresponding side key) during a call. Secondly, he writes in acceptable quality. Thirdly, the minute limit was removed, and now he can write up to an hour. And finally, fourthly, it does not beep while recording. In a word, all third-party voice recorders, if this is exactly what was required, are retired, since Nokia's built-in voice recorder copes with its task quite well. The interface, of course, is poor, it’s not at all, but there’s nothing you can do about it. During recording, pause is activated by the same key. After the end of the conversation, the voice recorder does not turn off automatically.

14 . Let's welcome another innovation after many years of waiting: now, finally, auto-keyboard lock is a built-in smartphone feature. Functionally, it’s almost the same, except that it can’t operate from standby mode. On this happy note, we will end the main part of the review, and only the endurance test and a list of what inevitably caused negative reactions will remain.

Endurance test and a few words

To complete the picture, here's an endurance test. The simultaneous operation of the player, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPRS was checked, namely: the LCG Jukebox program was connected to the network via Wi-Fi, receiving music from the radio station server (quality - 128 kbps, 44 kHz), and then this music was sent via A2DP (stereo bluetooth) into Plantronics Pulsar 590 headphones; In addition, mobile ICQ () was constantly working via GPRS (MTS-Moscow), to which a message was received every five to seven minutes, accompanied by a response to it. Of course, the volume was set to maximum everywhere. At the same time, some other actions were performed with the phone - moving through the menu, responding to SMS, and photos were sent to the computer several times via Bluetooth. There was a screensaver from, and you’ve probably already seen what such screensavers do with battery energy.

Along the way, the patient’s temperature was monitored: it was constantly rising. Forty minutes after the start of the test, the surface of the phone showed 36.9, an hour later - 37.3, after another 15 minutes - 38.3, another quarter of an hour - and already 39.6. That is, it heated up well, then this process slowed down, and eventually, by the time it was completely discharged, it reached 41.6. In total, the phone worked in this mode neither more nor less - 3.5 hours. It is difficult to say how the test apparatus could have been loaded even more.

And... despite the fact that the next point will be one complete negative, you can summarize your experience of using the Nokia E51 smartphone: after this you don’t even want to pick up the E50. Because the E51 feels nicer in the hand, works twice as fast, has a lot of memory on board and supports Wi-Fi and A2DP. You will become partial to the first, you will get used to the second and third quickly, the fourth and fifth, if not needed, are not worth your money - you will not want to return to the E50. Even one installation of a program, one attempt to launch something like Opera mini - and that’s it, you will be surprised how you used to tolerate an unimaginably slow smartphone... This, we repeat, will be summarized below.

And let’s put together everything that we definitely didn’t like

1 . Interface flaws. We’ve already talked about disappearing icons, and I also don’t like the white stripes in some applications. There is something wrong with the interface; in some areas it is not perfect. And okay, when it’s in third-party applications, you can always blame it on the “clumsy hands of the developer” of the software or design themes. But when in your applications, on your themes, on a smartphone that is already on sale, this is unacceptable.

2 . Several more programs were noticed that did not want to work and crashed with errors. It was disappointing that they also included a program like PhotoAcute, which can work with a series of frames, obtaining a more or less tolerable resulting image. For a device with such an inconspicuous camera, to put it mildly, this program would be a good addition.

We also encountered that letters disappeared. This glitch manifested itself in two ways. The first option - the letters remained, but lost their width and began to stick to each other. Second, they disappeared completely. This is apparently due to the incorrect operation of the FontRouter program on the new device. What does all this mean: the transition from 9.1 to 9.2 did not become completely “painless”.

3 . Frankly, the weak vibration and quiet ringing are not pleasing. Weaker than the E50 and quieter than the E50. However, the hefty E90 vibrates as powerfully as ten E51s. It is clear that the device is thin, and this is at least half the problem. However, if we recall the supposed vibration alert of the Sonerik W880, the E51 immediately seems like a jackhammer. But it doesn’t change the essence of the matter: calls began to be missed much more often.

4 . No Pencil key. For the first two or three days I actually wanted to smash my phone against the wall. Of course, the issue can be solved by installing third-party software (for example), but whatever one may say, even in the most painless option, some of the functionality is lost.

5 . The side keys are hard and, to put it mildly, not very nicely made, and the gap between the two halves is (un)uniform. As long as tons of dust and dirt have not accumulated there, there is nothing particularly to worry about. Some people have a smaller gap, nothing creaks, and the side keys are completely satisfactory, but this does not change the fact that everything is wrong on the test sample.

6 . Frankly speaking, I am very tired of this behavior of the memory card in Nokia smartphones, when the fonts installed on it interfere with the connection of the phone as a card reader (data transfer mode).

7 . The lack of flash for the camera, even the most trivial one, is frustrating. The room is not as bright as during the day, and that's all, the camera is of little use. The camera is weak and takes very poor pictures without lighting.

Let's end the review on this note. What conclusions can there be? They have already been done a little higher, in the previous section of the article.