Nokia E75

Traditionally, entertainment isn't seen as a priority for Nokia's business handsets – that's the all-singing, all-dancing N-series' department – but the E75's media player covers all the basics more than well. It can play MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+ formats and gives you options to create playlists and download podcasts. You can also view video in Flash, 3GP, H.263, H.264, MPEG 4 VSP, RealVideo and WMV9 formats, all in landscape mode.

His'n'Hers

The headphones, which have an unusual, braided covering to the wires, are bog standard, quality-wise, and distinctly bright and tinny in tone. There's a very basic, six-preset equaliser to help correct this, though it's easy to add a better set of headphones thanks to the 3.5mm headphone jack. You can also leave the music playing while you perform other tasks, such as creating or viewing QuickOffice documents or reading PDFs, all supported here.

The E75 has one of Nokia very fine FM radios on board with up to 50 station presets as well as an internet radio player though you'd be advised to only use this with a WLAN connection – using it with a mobile connection can deliver some seriously scary data charges.

Other useful items include Assisted GPS with Nokia Maps and, deep in the Media section of the Applications folder, what wonder is this? N-Gage games on a Nokia business phone? Well, lots of business folk seem to have more time on their hands these days…

Battery life wasn't great by Nokia standards, though we still got a good two days of moderate use out of it, with Wi-Fi turned on and a fair bit of browsing and music playing. Call quality was entirely decent.

Verdict

The main disadvantage of the slide-out keyboard is bulk, but this is one of the thinnest we've seen, though some others are a bit easier to use. But with good email and browser services, document creation and viewing, a decent camera and music player, aGPS and N-Gage games, plus access to loads of additional Symbian apps, this all adds up to a very powerful phone both for work and in-between jobs. ®

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