Nokia E51

It you are an executive in the market for a suitable cell phone, Nokia’s E series offers the best bang for the buck. The Nokia E51 is the latest from the venerable E series, and an apt successor to the hugely popular E50 model, which it will eventually replace. The E51 brings in new features at a price that’s hard to beat.

The keypad is completely revised, with dedicated keys for Contacts, Calendar,E-mail and Home. The soft menu keys, however, are too small for comfort. The rest of the keypad is a delight-good tactile feedback, and key spacing is immaculate. The rubberised keys for volume up / down, push-to-talk and power are hard to operate, though.Nokia cell phones have nokia mobile software on various purposes .Like n73 mobile themes, nokia E 51 also have cool themes available online.

Features of E51:

The E51 feels peppy—it uses the same processor as on the flagship N95. With 130 MB of memory on board, you can do a lot of multitasking without the phone getting sluggish, and the memory can be expanded to 4 GB via the microSD slot (a 512 MB card comes bundled). The E51 runs on Symbian OS Series 60, and crams in lot of features besides the standard set. Most of these will go down well with executives—for example, the Advance call manager lets you manage incoming and outgoing calls efficiently. In addition, WorldMate, an application for frequent fliers, comes bundled.The E51 is a 3G, quad-band phone with HSDPA, Wi-Fi (802.11g), Bluetooth, Micro USB and an infrared port. There’s a switch to turn Bluetooth on and off on the main keypad. Multimedia features include a good MP3 player, a 2MP camera with still and video shooting, and I’M radio.The phone supports various mobile themes.

Signal reception is good. as is voice clarity. Internet browsing speeds are faster than with the E50 or E61, thanks to the revised Web browser. The camera is above average, but loses performance in low-light conditions. The speakerphone is clear, with little or no echo on the recipient’s side. We got around three days of batten-life with nominal usage and a terrific seven days of standby time.

Bleu 555x

The Bleu 555x is one new entrant in the cellphone market from the popular computer peripheral brand. Let’s take a look at what it offers.

The 555x is a candy bar phone with a shiny front that is coated with transparent plastic which adds its own reflectivity to the phone’s body. The keypad layout is simple and quite comfortable to use. There are the usual number keys, with a 5-way navigation pad and two soft keys on the side. Additionally there are volume control buttons on the right edge of the phone with a media key right under it. This media key launches the media player in standby mode and works as the shutter button in the camera application- Under these buttons is a port flap that reveals a connectivity port for the headset, and usb cable. The left edge of the phone has a micro SD slot that is covered with a rubber flap, and a slider to unlock the rear panel of the phone.

Features of Bleu 555x

The 555x has dual-band support with 900 and 1800 MHz networks. The rear of the phone features a 1.3 MP camera that has a portrait mirror and takes decent pictures. The camera application has controls for White balance, Exposure compensation, and supports burst mode.

The phone has a simple grid-based menu layout which supports the use of number keys as shortcuts to select options. The connectivity menu allows the user to switch Bluetooth on and off — we’d like to mention here that the phone supports A2DP and thus can use stereo Bluetooth headsets for conversations or listening to music. Further in the ‘Extras’ menu there is a Planner App, a Perpetual Calendar, a voice recorder, photo editor, drawing board, calorie counter, world clock, currency and unit converter, and a stopwatch. There are the usual alarm features and a WAP browser that works well with EDGE support. The phone supports Java with the JWTI specification and the applications appear in the Java submenu in extras.

The phone features 60 MB of internal storage and the multimedia menu displays files stored in the phone and card memory; this also shows the amount of space used. However these files can not be opened from inside the media player, and have to be accessed from the multimedia file browser. The multimedia features of the phone also include the FM radio which can be scheduled to record transmissionsdirectly into the internal or external sttMJ in .Amr format.

Battery life is a decent 2 hours of talktime and 50 hours of standby intermittent use of multimedia feature i The package also includes an extra bad that can be used to double the uses of the phone.

The phone is a decent option albeit from a lesser known brand. -; j it does not skimp on features ana pre capabilities comparable to any other phi in its class.

articles by: Chip
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Digital media has been growing exponentially for years and isn’t showing any sign of slowing down. As the world becomes better connected through high speed Internet and downloadable media, the days of Dvds and Cds may soon be obsolete.

Downloadable movies have shown a huge increase in the movie market over the past couple of years. The industry has grown so big that it was the primary cause in the recent America writer’s strike (where the writer’s demanded more money on digital media).

Downloading movies is taking the same turn music took a few years back, where the trend is growing so fast that it is taking away from sales of the traditional forms of the media. Services such as iTunes have made it tremendously easy for people to get movies instantly, without the hassles of going out to the store and buying a movie.

Not only that, but movie downloads are often cheaper in price due to the lack of packaging costs. If someone really likes cd art and covers those are available most of the time for download as well so that one can virtually make a replica of the real dvd if they wish to do so.

Downloading movies is a lot more versatile compared to ordinary methods of getting a movie. Portable players and mp3 players all boost digital movie sales due to ease of use. Buying dvds and putting them on mp3 players can be irritating due to problems with file format and converting files to the right format. It is much easier to just download the movie in the correct format and upload it onto a video player such as an ipod.

The iTunes program will even automatically upload the movie to a connected ipod once it is downloaded, so that the user doesn’t even have to do anything. Some mp3 players such as the ipod (as well as the iphone) allow users to download movies and other digital media straight through the player so long as a wi-fi connection is available in the area.

Even video game systems such as the Playstation Portable (PSP) have led to the growth of digital movies. Due to the small size of the unit, the PSP has its own mini-disks for movies and games. It also supports Sony’s memory stick for multimedia. From the user’s perspective it is much more convenient to download a movie and put it on a memory stick to watch instead of buying a special PSP minidisk.

There are several reasons behind this. First of all, it is cheaper to download the movies. Also, the downloaded movie can also be watched elsewhere whereas the minidisk can only be viewed on the gaming system.

As the world looks to the horizon, it looks like digital media will become the norm; there aren’t really many good arguments that can be made against it. Even renting movies is becoming digitized. Apple has come out with a new service called Apple TV where users can directly rent movies from their television by using a credit card.

This eliminates the need to go to the video rental store and/or the mailbox for a movie. On top of movie rentals, Apple TV also offers Youtube, music, and photos on the user’s television, basically making it like a computer running iTunes.

Downloadable movies are just more convenient and flexible in their uses. Is it really surprising that the media market is becoming more and more digitized? If recent patterns continue, tangible media will be gone or very limited very soon.

By: Daniel Millions

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