Five powerful weapons: full analysis of Nokia E7 business functions

IT168 Review At the Nokia World conference held in London, England last year, Nokia released its E-series new generation business flagship E7-00. This machine became the focus of everyone's attention when it debuted. After months of waiting, this most powerful model of Symbian system has finally landed in the domestic market. Based on the tradition of the E series and the characteristics of the Qwerty full keyboard, the Nokia E7-00 is obviously a heavyweight tool for business people. Today, the author will take you to understand the business functions of this phone from five aspects: email system, browser, full keyboard, social network, and map.

▲Nokia business flagship E7

The first weapon: email system

Email is one of the very distinctive functions of the E7 business system, and it cooperates with Microsoft The provided Mail for Exchange provides a rich and complete mail system. Combined with the WCDMA 3G network, business people can send and receive emails quickly and conveniently anytime and anywhere.

▲E7’s mail system provides a variety of domestic mailbox options by default, but even if the user’s mailbox is not listed here, it can be perfectly supported through Exchange mail synchronization

▲Sending and receiving mails Interface

▲E7’s email system provides very complete email function support

▲Copying, adding attachments and other functions are all available

▲Bringing support Emails with HTML content are also well supported, and the email content can be zoomed through multi-touch

The second weapon: multi-touch browser

The browser that comes with the E7 system The main interface of the browser is not much different from the built-in browser in the previous Symbian system, but support for multi-touch has been added to E7, which greatly improves the browser experience. However, this browser still has many shortcomings in terms of functionality, such as poor support for multi-page browsing and cumbersome operations.

▲The operating interface of the system's built-in browser is not much different from the previous Symbian system. The picture on the right is not a multi-page switch, but a forward and backward function. It looks cool but is a bit cumbersome to use.

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▲The system’s built-in browser can support multi-touch

UC has a strong user base in China. It is a very good supplement when the E7’s built-in browser is slightly lacking. choice. Compared with the built-in browser, the biggest advantage of UC is that it has an extremely powerful multi-page browsing function, and the tabbed page switching method has a good user experience. Excellent page compression capabilities can not only greatly improve the browsing speed of web pages, but also greatly save user traffic.

▲The UC of S60V5 runs perfectly on the E7

▲The UC browser is stress-free and fast when browsing multiple pages

▲There are also a variety of browsing Modes are available, but unfortunately multi-touch is not supported

The third weapon: Qwerty full keyboard

This configuration of full keyboard is not the first to appear in Nokia E series mobile phones. The predecessor of the E series, the E90, used a flip-top full keyboard design. However, this time the keyboard structure used by the E7 is very similar to that of the N97. After the slider is pushed out, the screen will form an angle of about 30° with the keyboard.

▲When pushed open, the angle between the screen and the keyboard is about 30°

However, due to the design of the fuselage, the E7's slider feels a little laborious when pushed open. Unlike side-sliding phones such as Milestone and Desire Z, the screen of the E7 is almost completely surrounded by both sides of the keyboard when it is closed. It is almost impossible to tell that this is a side-sliding phone when the slide is closed, and the screen is not It's parallel to the keyboard, so when you push the slide open, you feel like you don't know which direction to push. From the author's experience, it is easier to slide it open if you press down a little.

▲The rear structure of the slider

The E7's full keyboard does not have independent navigation keys, but has four direction keys similar to a computer keyboard. Thanks to the oversized body, the keyboard key area and key spacing of this phone are very satisfactory, and there is no such feeling as the MOTO milestone keyboard that cannot be used. It is also worth mentioning that the E7 buttons feel quite good, with full elasticity and moderate softness and hardness.

▲When the slider is closed, both sides of the E7 keyboard will wrap around the screen

▲The wide keys feel very good

▲The E7 uses four rows Button settings

The fourth weapon: social network

Social networks have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. For business people who have more social needs than ordinary people, Said that social networks are even more important. Nokia's Ovi service has been deeply customized for this function in the E7.

▲You need to log in to your Ovi account before using social networks

▲Online communities currently supported

The social network of E7 is a mobile phone system function In part, all online communities are integrated under the social network application and managed using the same Ovi account. However, the only community currently supported is Renren. It is believed that it will gradually be further enhanced in the future.

▲The functions in the Renren community are very comprehensive

The fifth weapon: Ovi map

A useful map software can help our travel To bring great convenience, the Ovi map service built into E7 is provided by Navteq, one of the world's largest electronic map developers. This company has been acquired by Nokia for US$8.1 billion in order to provide free services to Nokia users around the world. map application.

▲Ovi map has multiple viewing modes

▲Navigation and odometer functions

Nokia Ovi map data is all built into the mobile phone, so the loading speed is very fast It is fast, the operations of zooming in and out are also quite smooth, and the huge map library can provide users with global voice navigation services. In addition to basic navigation, search, positioning and other functions, the biggest feature of Ovi Maps is that it has built-in many third-party map-based applications, combined with these applications in Ovi services, such as Sohu Bus, Dianping, Qunar, Ctrip, etc. , which can bring very powerful map functions to users.

▲Ovi map is integrated with many third-party applications

▲Ticket booking, travel, etc. can be completed through Ovi map

▲Bus travel, All movie viewing information is available