Nokia: E61

Steve Robertson, Essex, on August 20th, 2006
It may be an overstatement to say this is the phone of the future. The only thing going against it is the lack of a camera. A 3g phone with wi-fi and a querty keyboard. Great screen, and not too big to make comfortable phone calls. IR and bluetooth options are a great addition. Word processing, and creating spreadsheets is simple. The standard business options are all there, such as Outlook syncronisation and push email. After a few tweaks you can set-up email and wi-fi using the wizzard provided. A few more key pushes, and I made sure the phone was not draining the battery by looking for local wireless networks every couple of minutes. More applications are being made available every week, as the phone runs on Symbian S60 v3. Software bundled with the phone includes Realplayer and a fantastic browser. Soon all phones will be like this.