The Nokia E5 including a powerful camera

The Nokia E5 provides a powerful camera which is capable of capturing great images regardless of the surrounding light and also able to shoot DVD quality videos, all of which can then be seamlessly shared with friends over the internet including on social networking sites such as Facebook, while stored on the phones internal memory or microSD cards, capable of providing up to 32 gigabytes of expandable storage.

The handset can quickly access the internet through either a 3G or Wi-Fi connections available dependent upon local service capabilities, and the Web can be viewed in full with the Nokia Web Browser (OSS), and ability to download documents on the go as well. Social networking is also possible, and both Facebook and Twitter feeds from contacts can be seen and shared alike.

The user can keep on top of all their latest emails through the free Ovi Mail Service provided, while it is also possible to configure mail for up to ten personal email accounts including popular services such as Google Mail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. Meanwhile, business users are also offered Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. Messages can be quickly typed using the QWERTY keyboard featured, as can instant messaging also available for many of the popular services such as Windows Live Messenger and Google Talk.

The E5 includes a 5 megapixel full focus camera with an LED flash to help aid the light conditions and still take a great high-resolution image in the day or night. The camera consists of different flash modes including Red-eye reduction while also offering many other impressive image capture and scene modes before allowing the user to edit still images. The video capturing is high quality also, supporting recording (and playback) at 15 frames per second. Both are supported further by up to three times digital zoom.

The user can find their way around when using this handset due to its Assisted GPS integration as well as the preloaded Nokia Maps 3.0 with free navigation forever through free updates. City Explore, Life Caster and Friends Finder are among the other location based applications preloaded along with easy route planning services from A to B and turn-by-turn voice instructions.

The Nokia E5 is a powerful phone with a full keyboard and fantastic camera onboard along with many messaging features and preloaded applications, along with the capability to download more, and its music storage also. It is a compact and lightweight contender fro the Finnish giant manufacturer to other smartphones on he market.

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