At first sight, it's a downgrade from (for example) that in the E72, since it's a fixed-focus, no focussing necessary, affair, despite its 5 megapixel resolution. The former has glorious colours indoors and potential power savings, while the latter offered a whole new way of interacting with the device. But at least here there was an obvious trade-off. Witness the OLED-equipped N85 and N86, or indeed any of Nokia's touch-driven devices. Some have pointed out that there have been plenty of other Nokia smartphones with screens that don't work well in sunlight. This is clearly a case of cost-cutting - I'd love to know what the relative costs of transmissive-only versus transflective screens of the same size are - anyone know? Regardless, this inability to work outdoors is a dealbreaker for me and, I suspect, for many others. The QVGA display is a cheaper transmissive-only TFT (the E61, E61i, E71, E63 and E72 all used a Nokia standard transflective screen), meaning that it looks similar indoors but washes out to nothingness outdoors in any degree of sunlight. No, the big compromises made for the E5 are in the screen and the camera. This in turn does have some implications for specification, in that the Eseries stalwart BP-4L battery would have been too tight a fit, so instead we've got a 1200mAh BL-4D battery - although an obvious compromise, in practice it makes little difference, since typical E5 users will still see an easy two or three days use per charge. And now it's time for 'human curvature', to nick Sony Ericsson's term - rounded corners, rounded back and a generally 'comfy' feel. We've had 'industrial and square', we've had 'plastic with silly keys', and everything in between. It seems that every couple of years a new 'look' emerges from Nokia's design departments. I used the term 'design language' intentionally above. Sales package: Nokia E5-00 phone, Nokia Battery BL-4D, Nokia Connectivity Cable (CA-101), Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-8), Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-102), Nokia 2GB microSD card (MU-37).Initially available in five colours: Carbon Black, Chalk White, Sky Blue.Up to 250MB of internal memory, 256MB of RAM, microSD card slot.BL-4D (1200mAh) Li-Ion battery, support for both microUSB and 2 mm power port charging.5 megapixel 'full focus' (EDoF) camera with LED flash.2.4 inch screen 320 x 240 pixels resolution. 115 x 58.9 x 12.8mm in dimensions (75 cc volume), 126g in weight QWERTY candy bar form factor.
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