The Mid Caps can now have the power of Eseries with the Sexy Sleek E51. For some time now I had kept my E51 aside as I was enjoying my N82. But this weekend when I had to open a meeting with an introductory speech for helping finding ways to fight against the evil of Female Foeticide I instantly thought of taking my E51 for the occasion. A second thought to this may ponder you to the initial conclusion that the E51 was actually built for these occasions and guess what, it certainly is. (Now, a lot of Modern Day advancements in medicine are sure to blame for sex related abortions and surely it is a hot topic in Obstetrics centres all over the country.)

So wearing a Black Suit for the occasion I had just the perfect device with me – E51 Black. The Sleek n Stylish E51 does not register any unwanted creases/shapes on your suit and is practically invisible to other only to be found when you get a call A lot of my fellow mates were amazed with the sleek design and the feeling of grandeur it gave. Well, Now the difference between the two devices can be accessed instantaneously and I mean it. So in this post ill write about the amazing points that made me go back to my E51 from the N82.

Switching between Nseries and Eseries is not that hard a task thanks to the unisex GUI which is so easy to get familiar with and at the same time helps you get most advanced features at your finger tips. With this you may assume that the transformation would feel the same as I did until now when in reality I actually did it, things felt altogether different. Your personality reflection really changes with your changing mobiles.

I have reviewed the Nokia E51 briefly below highlighting some basic but at the same time very important points that you should know. The picture gallery follows the review for you to take a quick look at my E51.

1. Design:
Technically from the reported dimensions of the phone, which are 114.8 x 46 x 12 mm, 61 cc with a weight of 100g you may assume it to be big but it real life it sure feels much sleeker.
I personally love the design of the phone. When you hold the phone it grips your hand gives a very complete feeling when you hold it. I have no qualms about saying that this is one of the best looking Eseries phones that Nokia has come out with; Nokia has been able to fit in so many features including Wi-fi into a very stylish and compact design. It comes in two colours black and silver, the back one (I have) has a very elegant finger sensitive design on the back cover. The images below will show. The keys are another high point with dedicated keys for calendar, phonebook, messaging along with the gallery keys which I really like about the Eseries.

2. Display:
The E51 boasts of a TFT, 16M colours and a screen size of 2 inches and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The size being a factor I think the screen resolution is really good though web-browsing sometimes is a little difficult, but then this phone will cater to those people who want full features and dont want to compromise with the size and design and I dont see them complaining about the web-surfing experience. To sum up the screen heres one word Beautiful.

3. Features:
This phone comes with a lot of features that you make your eyes wide open. I can bet that most of my friends out there surely dont use these features as most of them are unaware that the very sleek E51 is actually capable of them but I can assure you that dont go on the size as this is a revolutionary phone which has packed in it almost all the latest features you can think of in a phone. With the power of Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI the phone features Wi-fi (WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, VoIP over WLAN), the web-browser is WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML. 2 MP, 1600-1200 pixels, video (QVGA@15fps) [Well this is where I feel Nokia could have done a little better], Push to talk, Java MIDP 2.0, MP3/AAC/video player, FM radio, Document viewer, T9, Voice command/memo, PIM including calendar, to-do list, Integrated handsfree, 3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, Infrared port, USB v2.0 miniUSB.
So you can imagine for yourself that it is indeed a very power packed device and I really didnt miss my N82.

4. Battery:
This is the best part of the device and I really love it for this. Amazingly long battery backup provided with the Standard battery, Li-Ion 1050 mAh ( BP-6MT) battery a makes you go on without the worry of recharging the phone every now and then. I just love the battery of this. You have to use it to experience it.

5.Memory:
The phonebook can practically store unlimited entries and fields, call records are stored for a max 30 days. The card slot is microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB, hotswap, the Phone memory is huge 130 MB user data memory 96 MB SDRAM memory and the phone comes with a ARM 11 369 MHz processor. We’ll to make it all easier you will never have a problem with the phone functioning. It rarely hangs, all applications run very smoothly on the phone.

6. Pictures

Conclusion:
Nokia with the E51 has been able to come out with an effective mid-tier phone. This phone has a swanky design and all most all the important features required in a good business phone. This phone is in my view an endeavour to combine functionality and looks.

So the points that made me go back to the E51 from N82 were:

1. Sleek Design 2. Long Battery Life 3. Dedicated Shortcut Keys 4. Need for a Change 5. Affordable Price

After that quick review you must be thinking that now that I am using the E51, how was the experience so different and is there anything that I miss from my N82?
Well, yes I would certainly throw some light on these issues. Firstly, the transformation made me feel happy the most important thing. And then there were other features like size ratio drop and compactness that made me wonder how the little thing would manage all functions, which it surprisingly did and that to pretty well. Then with the help of dedicated shortcut keys you could work your way faster through various applications. The best part is the ability to turn on the Bluetooth with just pressing the * key, which is amazing feature distinct to E51. Pretty intelligent function added by the E51 team.

For the things that I really missed were the Camera, GPS feature which rendered me helpless to use Nokia Maps and sports tracker and the absence of a 3.5 mm jack. These were the things that I missed the most.

Well, here Ill make a quick move leaving the rest of the story for you to complete. Have you been in this situation? Do you feel I missed out on anything? And finally do you want to find out for how long will I stick to the E51? Well, leave your comments below and participate in the discussion.