Nokia E65

Although I have not had that many mobile phones I would say that the Nokia E65 is by far the best. It is stylish without being flash and is light and compact so is easily carried in a trouser or jacket pocket. Although it only has a 2MP camera it takes pretty good pictures and video. Although I currently qualify for a free upgrade with my operator, I can't think of any reason to upgrade

Although I have not had that many mobile phones I would say that the Nokia E65 is by far the best. It is stylish without being flash and is light and compact so is easily carried in a trouser or jacket pocket. Although it only has a 2MP camera it takes pretty good pictures and video. Although I currently qualify for a free upgrade with my operator, I can't think of any reason to upgrade

Nokia E65 Review - I am extremely pleased with this phone. No problems or concerns. But I do charge it every night.

On balance this is the best phone I have ever owned. (out of the 30 or so I have used).. It just feels right and is the perfect balance of features and physical characteristics. Small, great key pad that can be used one handed. Great speaker phone, easy to use mute button and conference calling is easy with the software. I read the other reviews and well I cant believe they are heavy business users. I know of at least 5 others that have now bought it and they all love it.

Overall a good phone if you can put up with battery life. The Nokia E65 is well equipped and easy to use once used to features (worth reading instructions well). There are a number of useful free downloads such a 5 day weather forecasts on Worldmate.

The phone feels nice to hold. Not too small and awkward. Being a slide phone it can be used either closed or fully opened, which is useful when you're in a noisy environment. This means you don't have to keep moving the phone to your ear to listen and mouth to talk.

Reception is clear and loud. I've had no problems having a conversation in a noisy office, street, or even a bar with blaring music.

The menus are fast and responsive without any noticeable delays, and the screen is nice and sharp, and text easy to read.

The main selling point for this phone has to be the built-in wi-fi. I have managed to connect both to my own wireless network and to hot spots to both browse the web using the excellent Nokia full browser, and to read and send emails.

The camera takes quite clear sharp pictures, and there is only around a 1 sec delay after pressing the shutter and waiting for the picture to be taken (ie. not moving the camera until the picture is saved). The camera sound cannot be turned off unlike most other phones.

So what's bad about the phone, if anything?

Well actually quite a lot. For starters, the battery life is no where near the stated 8 to 14 days standby. I have not managed to get more than 2 days out of this phone, even with only 5 minutes of calls and a few SMS messages. This makes it pretty useless as a business phone which is the market it appears to be aimed at. No one wants to have to charge up their phone every night, especially if you're away on business. I have no idea how Nokia managed to get 8, yet alone 14 days out of this phone!

PC Suite is very bad. I could not get it to work with Bluetooth which seems to be a problem others are having. There is also no way to sync your SMS messages with your PC. My Nokia 6310i could be synchronised with PC Suite 4, and then disconnected. All the SMS messages and contacts on the phone would still be accessible on my PC and I could archive them, or go through them. This isn't possible with the E65. You can only view SMS messages while your phone is connected to PC Suite, as they are only 'shown' on the PC and do not sync across to it. This means there is no way of saving or archiving SMS messages with this phone.

The MP3 player is pretty much unusable. Nokia have opted to use a standard phone connection rather than a proper earphone connection. The problem is that the connection keeps coming loose, even with little movement. There's no way you can have the phone in your pocket as the connection will come apart. I gave up using the phone as an MP3 player after a day.

The menu system is fixed. You cannot move items onto the main screen menu or remove items, so you are stuck with the items on the screen even if you do not use them. The Team Suite is the first icon on the screen. I never use it, but am always accidentally selecting it. I should be able to remove it.

The keys on the keypad are only slightly raised, and are very fiddly and take time to get used to. Business phones need a decent keypad. The 6310i has one.

Would I recommend it? Well, it's not usable as a business phone due to the poor battery life. It's not usable as a media phone due to the poor outdated earphone connection. The wi-fi is about the only thing it has going for it. I do like it, but it should have been so much better. I would not recommend it though.