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The Nokia Eseries consists of business-oriented smartphones running
Symbian OS
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, with emphasis on enhanced connectivity and support for corporate e-mail push services, as well as enterprise-styled products and many featuring
QWERTY
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keyboards. All devices have advanced office features through its
S60 platform. Phones equipped with
Wireless LAN
A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and bus ...
also provide a
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...
client (
SIP Protocol). Throughout the series' lifetime its main competitors were
BlackBerry
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products from
Research In Motion
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.
The Eseries was marketed until 2011.
Announcements
On October 12, 2005, mobile phone manufacturer
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...
announced what the company refers to as the Eseries, consisting of the three mobile phones, the
Nokia E60
The Nokia E60 is a traditional candybar style smartphone from the Eseries business phone range, an S60 3rd Edition Symbian device. It was introduced on 12 October 2005 along with Nokia E61 and Nokia E70.
Key features
* Symbian OS v9.1, Serie ...
,
Nokia E61
The Nokia E61 is a smartphone from the Eseries range, a S60 3rd Edition device targeting business users in the European market. It was announced as part of the new Eseries business line on 12 October 2005 along with the Nokia E60 and E70. As of ...
and
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. There are two models of this phone, the E70-1 for the world market with tri-band (900, 1800, 1900 MHz) GSM ...
.
On May 18, 2006, Nokia announced the addition of the
E50 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 and
E90 Communicator.
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. Later releases included
E72,
E52 and
E5.
The last Eseries device was the
Nokia E6
The Nokia E6-00 is a smartphone running the Symbian^3 operating system. It supersedes the Nokia E72 as the new Symbian business mobility solution from Nokia following its announcement on 12 April 2011 (same day as Nokia X7-00). It shipped with t ...
from 2011.
See also
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Nokia phone series#List of Eseries devices
References
External links
Nokia Eseries (Product Portal)Detail Information for all Nokia devices*
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