Nokia unveil new E51 handset
Amongst all the iPhone non-news today, Nokia has chosen to announce it’s new E51 business handset.
According to the company, the slim and elegant Nokia E51 adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device. An all-round device, Nokia E51 is ideal for business professionals who require reliable, real-time access to business and people, need to manage time effectively and value a single device that is easy to set up, maintain and use. Nokia E51 users with Nokia mobility solutions can experience mobile telephony, mobile email and messaging, office phone functionality, and cost savings – with the convenience of one phone number, one voice mailbox, one dial plan – in a single device.
“Business users increasingly need one device that they can count on to work productively and which offers them the level of efficiency that brings more freedom and balance to their personal lives,” said Antti Vasara, senior vice president, Mobile Devices Unit, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia. “With the new Nokia E51 device, we are responding to this need with a business smartphone that combines the latest advances in business mobility and a classic, stainless steel design, at a price that makes it perfect for company-wide deployments.”
Amongst other features you’d expect from a business handset are Wifi and VOIP support, Intellisync for email synchronisation, plus something quite neat to do with business VOIP that supports Nokia Mobile Unified Communications solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco and Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel. These solutions deliver desk phone calling features – such as extension dialing, hold, transfer and conferencing – to a single, mobile device. Companies can also reduce their international call charges by routing the call over the corporate IP networks.
The E51 has also got an FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera. Which is nice.
Estimated launch date is Q4 2007, with an unsubsidised retail price of 350 euros.
