Nokia Eseries
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The Nokia Eseries consists of business-oriented smartphones, with emphasis on enhanced connectivity and support for corporate e-mail push services. All devices have advanced office features. Phones equipped with Wireless LAN
Wireless LAN
A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...

 also provide a VoIP client (SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...

 Protocol).

Announcements

  • On October 12, 2005, mobile phone manufacturer Nokia
    Nokia
    Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

     announced what the company refers to as the Eseries, consisting of the three mobile phones, the Nokia E60
    Nokia E60
    The Nokia E60 is a traditional candybar style smartphone from the Eseries business phone range, a S60 platform third edition device.- Key Features :* Symbian OS v9.1, Series 60 3rd Edition* 64 MB internal memory* WLAN with SIP compliant VoIP client...

    , Nokia E61
    Nokia E61
    The Nokia E61 is a smartphone from the Eseries range, a Series 60 Third Edition device with a QWERTY keyboard targeting business users in the European market. As of Q4 2006 Cingular and Rogers Wireless have deployed a similar yet restricted version designated the Nokia E62 in the North American...

     and Nokia E70
    Nokia E70
    The Nokia E70 is a candybar/fold keyboard type smartphone from the Eseries range, announced in October 2005 and released in May 2006 at a cost of approximately $500 with prices in July 2007 around $345...

    .

  • On May 18, 2006, Nokia announced the addition of the E50
    Nokia E50
    The Nokia E50 Business Device is a bar-style monoblock quad-band smartphone from Nokia announced May 18, 2006 as part of the Eseries, intended primarily for the corporate business market...

     to the series, which it refers to as a "business device" rather than a "smartphone".

  • On February 12, 2007, Nokia announced the addition of three new devices to the series; E61i, E65
    Nokia E65
    The Nokia E65 is a smartphone in the Eseries range, a S60 platform third edition device with slide action. It shared many of the features of the N95 released around the same time, but thinner, lighter and without the GPS....

     and E90.

  • On April 11, 2008, Nokia Australia has advised that the E61i will be discontinued in May 2008 and be replaced by a more featured but smaller E71
    Nokia E71
    The Nokia E71 is a smartphone from the Eseries range with a QWERTY keyboard targeting business users worldwide. It runs on Symbian OS v9.2, with a Series 60 3rd Edition, second generation Feature Pack 1. The Nokia E71 succeeded the Nokia E61/61i models, building on the base design and form factor...

    .

List of Eseries phones

Nokia E72 is officially announced on June 15, 2009 – 9:48 am.

Nokia E63

Nokia E71

Connectivity and synchronization

Nokia provides the Nokia PC Suite
Nokia PC Suite
Nokia PC Suite is a software package used to establish an interface between Nokia mobile devices and computers that run Microsoft Windows operating system.-Usage:...

 software that allows synchronization and transfer of data, calendars, contacts, and more between most Nokia phone and a Windows system via USB, Bluetooth or Infrared
Infrared
Infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometres , and extending conventionally to 300 µm...

,the latter two being mostly used with portable systems like laptops,due to lack of Bluetooth or Infrared support in most PC's,specially in legacy systems.

Mac users can access the data on an E-series phone using a bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 connection, e.g. the Bluetooth File Exchange application native to OS X. Synchronizing addresses and calendars is done using iSync
ISync
iSync is a software application published by Apple Inc. It runs only under Mac OS X and is used to synchronize contact and calendar data from Address Book and iCal with many non-Apple SyncML-enabled mobile phones via a Bluetooth or USB connection. Support for many devices is built-in, with newer...

: some Nokia phones are supported natively by Mac OS X, some require that the user installs an iSync plugin from Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

.

Nokia also provides Nokia Multimedia Transfer for managing user content on the device. NMT will synchronize music, videos and photos from selected iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums into the phone, transcoding and reducing the file size if necessary. It also presents the device as a digital camera in iPhoto for easy importing of photos and videos.

See also

  • Nokia Cseries
  • Nokia Nseries
    Nokia Nseries
    Nokia Nseries is a multimedia smartphone product family which is engineered and marketed by the Nokia Corporation.The Nseries devices are known to commonly support multiple high-speed wireless technologies, such as 3G, or Wireless LAN....

  • Nokia Xseries
  • List of Nokia products

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