News - Nokia E7 set to finally appear in the UK

[HEXUS]

After an eventful six months, the business equivalent of the N8 is arriving in April.

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[DeludedGuy]

I played about with the N8 today, its awful, its choppy, slow, unresponsive. The camera is nice, physically the phone looks good however the operating system and all of the software is slow. If they had released it a year ago it would still be disappointing. We have cheap Android phones knocking about which outperform it, thank god Microsoft bought Nokia out.

[rs4847]

Was going to upgrade my E72 to the E7, when I say upgrade I mean purchasing a simfree unsubsidised handset again like I did with my E72, the Microsoft deal has changed my mind and it looks like my E72 will be my final Nokia handset.

[Brewster0101]

Look at those costs... Who in their right mind would get this phone. £500 for a phone that is outdated the second you turn it on.

There are two cheaper and better alternatives than this. The HTC Desire z and Motorola Milestone 2. And too be honest the Milestone 1 can be used as a modern business phone still.

Nokia should not even release this phone and wait to port WM7 on it. Its shooting themselfs in the foot. All reviews will pick on the fact it runs symbian which is a huge negative. It will no doubt suffer from all the slowness issues like the N8 too.

Pushing this into the public domain is just gonna make Nokia look even more pathetic compared to HTC and other competitors.

Think Nokia's days are numbered, gonna be one of those big companies that slowly get sold over and over again because of the name but eventually will be no more...

[[GSV]Trig]

That needs Android really..

[chrestomanci]

Back in the Autum when the Nokia E7 was announced I was interested in it. I might have brought one back then if the price had been sensible. I have had an Nokia E71 for about two years now and it has been a very nice phone, so an E7 looked like a great update.

Since then Ellop has made his announcement and burned all his bridges with Symbian, and the price has climbed to outrageous levels.

Any smarphone need apps, and it needs ongoing support. There are not a huge number of Symbian apps out there, but there are some, and for business users the selection is reasonable. Thanks to abandoning Symbian, the third party app developers are abandoning the platform. Nokia recently sent a mail to their registered developers basically pleading with them to carry on developing and releasing apps for Symbian. Why would anyone do that? The platform is on End Of Life, no one wants to learn it any-more. Anything release for it now needs to make a fast profit in a few months, as soon there will be nothing.

The situation is similar with support from the manufacturer. Nokia need in house Symbian experts so that they can be pushing out firmware updates and bug fixes for the next few years. The problem is that all the competent Symbian experts in the company will be busy re-training to learn windows mobile, or will have left the company to work on iPhone or Android. Very soon there will be hardly anyone left who knows the OS properly.

If the E7 where priced a lot lower, perhaps at £250, then I might buy one, as I think it has a nice form factor despite it's short product lifetime, but at £500 then I would only consider it if it will have life beyond Nokia cutting off support. Perhaps they can make it dual boot to Android or Meego?

NB: I used to work for Nokia, but quit a year ago.