Nokia E51 > Reviews > A Hidden Gem

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Look & Feel
Durability & Robustness
Reception quality
Battery standby time
Value for money
Range of features

Advantages:	Compact, powerful, easy to use
Disadvantages:	Battery Life, 2mb Camera

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

To begin with, I am not the business person this phone was intended for. This review comes form someone who is an average mobile phone user.

I originally bought this phone based on a review from a very well known revies phone reviewer. It was time I got an upgrade so I chose this one, and I haven't looked back since.

Firstly, this phone is very nice looking. It is incredibly thin but still relatively sturdy. It stood up to being dropped on numerous occasions and is in perfect working order, minus a few scratches.

Second of all, the buttons are very well placed; even with my big fingers I can still comfortably push all the keys, even the smaller shortcut keys. This brings me to my next point, the shortcut keys are a very good idea. They are buttons with pictures on them, and when you push them they perform a pre-designed task. For instance, there is a phonebook key that can be pushed, and it takes you to…you guessed it, your phonebook. But if you hold it in, it whisks you away to the "New Contact" screen. Little features like this that brings the phone to life.

This, however, is just the beginning of the feature list. You can access the internet with wifi. You can create message groups, which would be good for a work environment. You can make skype calls. You can view pdf's or office files. The list really does go on. It's really is just an all rounder…but incredibly good at it.

It has quite a large screen so everything can be viewed at a nice resolution. This helps to create a comfortable view, which is nice, especially if you plan to use it a lot.

My first real quibble with it is the battery life. Because the phone is so thin, it needs a lot of energy to keep it going. This means that I have to charge it every other day. If you charge it during the night though this leaves no big problem, unless you forget of course. Talk time is rather good though, I can manage around 4 hours from it, which is more than I'll ever need.

This has to be the best phone I have used for a long time (including my old k800i). I would highly recommend this phone to anyone. For some reason no-one really has..or even knows about it, so it feels like a very original phone to have. If you are a business person, then I would say this phone is a must, it is full of useful features which would compliment that job type perfectly.