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Nokia unleashed its two email optimized enterprise monsters yesterday. Here are the demo videos of the E66 and the E71. All the mobile phone enthusiasts were eagerly waiting for these two phones, especially the E71, which some say can kill the QWERTY monster, BlackBerry. Enjoy the demo videos!!!

After much of leaks and demonstration pages being up and running for the 2 new enterprise phones from Nokia, the E66 and the E71 have been officially launched by Nokia. These phones will start selling through retail stores located in major geographies. To start with I will tell you about the E66, which was launched along with the E71. The E66 is a slider enterprise phone from Nokia’s stable. The E66 is a one up on the old enterprise slider, the E65. The E66 has an accelerometer that gives auto screen rotation feature. The E66 has customizable screen and giving enterprise users some stuff that they will be happy with. The phone has also some good features when it comes to multimedia, it has a 2.5 mm port like the XpressMusic phones, a 3.2 mega-pixel snapper, QVGA quality video recording and it also has bulit0in microSD slot. The phone is Wi-Fi enabled with A-GPS functionality. The phone will be retailing at $540. Other features of the E66 are - Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), Dual-band WCDMA (850/1900MHz, 900/2100MHz, or 850/2100MHz), Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS and Nokia Maps preloaded, 2.4″ QVGA display, 110MB of internal storage, microSD card slot, Measures 107mm x 49mm x 13mm (4.2″ x 1.9″ x 0.5″).



The other enterprise phone that became official today was the E71. E71 was also one of the most rumored phones from the Nokia’s stable. Lot was said about the E71, including leaking of its official launch date, even the demonstration page of the phone was up and running on the Nokia site, which was pretty surprising. I think, this has not happened with any other Nokia phone. OK leave it, I will tell you about the E71, which is supposed to be one up over the E61i, which did well when it was launched. The E71 is a smart phone with QWERTY keyboard in a slim package, not broad like the E61i. Nokia has improved on the size factor with this enterprise phone. The phone is a skinny and slender piece of gadget. The E71 is a better multimedia phone than the E61i, as it has a 3.2 mega pixel snapper, QVGA recording functionality and microSD slot that can support upto 8GB. There is also a rumor that the future versions might support 32 GB, says Symbian Guru. The E71, like the E66, will be retailing at $540. Other features of the E71 are - S60v3, Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), Dual-band WCDMA (850/1900MHz, 900/2100MHz, or 850/2100MHz), Wi-Fi, GPS with A-GPS and Nokia Maps preloaded, 2.4″ QVGA display, 110MB of internal storage, microSD card slot, Measures 114mm x 57mm x 10mm (4.5″ x 2.2″ x 0.4″).

Two new E Series devices of Nokia, the E66 and the E71, leaked in the last 4 weeks. The demonstration pages of these devices are up and running, with BGR giving the hands-on review of one of these two phones, the E71. With all these rumors and even authentic leaks happening, Nokia kept quiet on this issue; but now I think Nokia has decided to break its silence with Nokia’s Senior Executive confirming to the Scientific American that, the company will start selling a group of E Series devices along with the state-of-the art multimedia device, the Nokia N96.

Nokia is doing pretty well in enterprise phones, especially with its E61i and the E90 models. Recently a lot of information, videos and pictures leaked about two enterprise phones of Nokia that have not been officially announced by the company. The E71 was supposed to be launched in May but nothing happened. The other phone, which I am talking about, is the E66, an enhancement over the Nokia E65, which is a slider enterprise phone. Like the E65, E66 is also a slider with some better specs like 3G functionality, fast HSDPA connectivity, 3.2 mega-pixel snapper and there is also a front camera for video calls. If you have noticed one thing, Nokia’s enterprise phones didn’t have good multimedia features, like the E61i’s 2 mega-pixel snapper was not that impressive and same was the case with the enterprise slider E65; But in both E71 and E66, Nokia has made sure that they have embedded a 3.2 mega-pixel camera, which is, I think the need of the hour. By the way Nokia E66 is supposed to be getting launched officially in the month of June, but after looking at what happened to the launch of E71, I don’t think June will see the official release. Nowadays like these two E Series phones, many other Nokia phones like the Supernova series is getting leaked before getting official.