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Expert Reviews from other websites (1 review)Nokia E51 Review at Mobile Phones UK (1 February 2008)  Nokia E51 Consumer Reviews (62 reviews)Write a review of the Nokia E51! Please share your experiences to help other people choose the product that's best for them. This is a review site, not a forum, so please don't just ask questions. Please do not use swear words or offensive language, and please, no advertising! Reviewed by Vids on 30/06/2009Great Phone, I've Debranded & Updated the firmware & now its even Faster & more Reliable than ever, Built quality is good with all that Stainless Steel. The only Drawback is the Small Screen. but Its still a Fab Phone. Rating: Reviewed by ansil on 21/06/2009 nokia E51. its a nice busniess phone Rating: Reviewed by mark jackson on 13/06/2009 great phone. Easy to use, good sound quality Only problem it seems to get quite hot when using for long periods Rating: Reviewed by Adrian on 12/06/2009 I like the E51 for its menu and high performance comunications functions. The batery and camera are very poor but as usualwith some nokias. the big issue is a malfunction that was not resolved, the card slot is causing superfast discharge of batery or even bad charging. Also some devices have problems with the hearing that need service. Otherwise excelent business tool and sleek design Rating: Reviewed by Bilal on 10/06/2009 POSITIVES: Very good and solid feel. Voice quality on and off speakerphone is excellent. Keyboard well-laid out and easy to use. NEGATIVES: Predictive text is hopeless. Accessing texts and sending attachments (e.g.) contacts are not intuitive and flexible as in the previous Nokias. Cannot open attachments with internet emails. Browsing is ridiculously tiny. Volume buttons are shabby and unusable. Also software glitches and freezes. I really wanted this phone to be the ONE. Unfortunately, it isn't. Rating: Reviewed by M.SHANKAR on 21/05/2009 I bought this phone a year back and i am very much satisfied with my phone. Usage is very user friendly and lot of times it fell down but it not even got hanged. I am really happy with E51. My friend only sugested this moblie and i thank him for this Rating: Reviewed by mike morrissey on 05/05/2009 now on third E51. Phone itself is fine.This model is incapable of connection to more than one vehicle. I drive a pick-up, tractor, combine harvester and forage harvester all equipped with BT radio,s. Although previous models were capable of auto-connect on ignition switch, this is not !!! Hence the third and most definetly the last Rating: Reviewed by Julian Hicks on 29/04/2009 This is amazing. Period. Versatile. Excellent connectivity. Menus a little over complicated but that also suggests huge feature set. A few things don't work on some providers so be wary e.g. IM client - msn, PTT - t-mobile. Basic camera and average battery life but so what, this is a phone. Rating: Reviewed by nc on 27/04/2009 be warned had my e51 since november 2008 worst nokia i have ever had.software crashes earpeice has stopped working and now the mouthpeice has stopped working.it has been repaired now 3 times for the above faults it works again fine for 2 weeks then packs up again. like the rest of us we need a reliable phone and this is not!! trying now to get a refund on it as i dont want to end up with a recon unit off my service provider! Rating: Reviewed by Rachi on 21/04/2009 now THIS is a phone. i work in a mobile phone retailer and i would recommend this to anyone who isn't too bothered about media and suchlike on their mobile (but even the fact that it has expandable memory means that it caters for most needs). camera could be better but its function is as a good sturdy business phone and that is most definately what it does. plenty of organisers and what not. not the worst battery in the world either as new nokias go. Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 14/04/2009 Just rubbish. Apart from any functionality after 6 months it has literally fallen apart. Dreadful phone. Rating: Reviewed by yuri on 31/03/2009 got the phone on orange 9th of march.it was freezing and reseting itself. got replacement on 23rd- same problems.i am returning it now.otherwise very nice phone.such a shame.battery life is very poor too-average calling-2 days max.my n73 is muuuuuuuuuch better.avoid ! Rating: Reviewed by Sockpuppet on 10/03/2009 I have had this phone for about 10 days so far, Its not the kind of phone I would normally own as I normally tend to get the more geeky or gadgety phones. The phone is a very good all round mobile, good size screen, reasonable size keys, pretty good battery life compared to most of the modern phones. I use smtp to pickup Email, a nice feature is that it asks you how you want to connect so you have the option of picking between wireless or gprs connections. Picking up and reading emails is fine but if you're planning to reply to more than the occasional Email then you need to get a phone with a qwerty keyboard. I was pleasantly suprised about how good the nokia software is as most of the supplied software I have used in the past on previous phones has been so poor and unstable that I have uninstalled it almost immediately. Both my Bluetooth devices connected immediately and easily (Headset and GPS receiver) The phone comes with googlemaps and nokia maps which I haven't really used as I prefer tomtom. The phone has no games but there are loads available, tiger woods 2009 is excellent. The 2Mp camera takes reasonable pictures and the video mode is Ok. Overall I was going to give this phone 4 stars, but the more I think about how easy and hassle free everything has been on this phone, Im going to give it 5 stars. The only small niggle I have is the charger connector which is tiny and looks like it would be easy to break. Rating: Reviewed by Paul - Adelaide on 08/03/2009 I bought mine outright about a yr ago. Have dropped it inadvertantly several times and barely a scratch on it. The LCD screen gets dust under it and scratches pretty quick but every phone i've had has experienced that problem. The camera is ok for bright areas when you are close to the target, but if you want a camera buy a digital one Ability to play pretty much all media types as both media and ringtones is very handy and trumps the Seamens and Sony Ericsons i had previoudly, the sound quiality is poor but it only has a very small speaker so thats to be expected. comparable in ability to a wizz bang new Iphone other than screen size. Supports most internet protocals/flash/wifi/free intenet through providers Has it''s own inbuilt Radio/Media Player given you are using headphones for the radio. Also accepts expandable SD memory cards upto i bieleve 8GB. i have 2GB in mine and it's far more than i need on a phone used primaliry for its basic function Bads * Screen is hard to read in bright locations * Power/Audio butttons require a great deal of pressure to use. * Battery seems to drain 75% everyday with very little use * Screensaver/auto phone lock/display dim cannot be turned off only increased to a 30sec window so if you are using it regularly you constantly having to press 3 buttons to unlock it * periodic/random crashes and auto reboots. Overall for the time when i bought it, it was clearly the best choice in overall price $720 and what it could do. and one yr later the new Iphones aren't much better other than in maybe media functionality and screen size and static memory size Rating: Reviewed by shajila subair from Dubai (U.A.E) on 05/03/2009 Hi! This phone is absolutely amazing. The features are great and you can use it easily. The phone takes a bit too long to turn on, but ifyou think about it, you might as well for couple of seconds and explore great features. The phone is absolutely amazing. Rating: Reviewed by Georges Deffense on 04/03/2009 Very disappointed! Lost my Nokia 6320i and I need a good contact and calender/memo/meeting/etc. system. The E51 seemed to be the solution but it is not. The screen does not go larger. Nothing goes larger except a phone no. one dials but then who dials a no.? One almost always uses speed dial or the contact or previous dialled no. PC suite was not compatible between the 6320i and the E51 and this was frustrating. Finally managed with Outlook express. In contacts forget about view! I had to "pretend" to edit in other to view a number that the screen would not provide. In memo I had one that came up every week and when the task was complete I deleated it - what a mistake! All memos etc. were deleated. This is a lousy phone. This phone is very user unfriendly. The only good point I would give is the daily memos that come up on the screen and for this i give it one star. I have gone back to a borrowed 6320i and happy again. The E51... put it in the bin. Rating: Reviewed by Hilda Frogo on 01/03/2009 i really don't like this phone. it is the worst phone i have ever bought. it is too basic and i hate it!!!!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Michael on 17/02/2009 Hi guys. I bought this phone aprox. 3 months ago. At first look the design looked a little bit too sober for me, but after that I found it ok too. People are talking about that the phone would freeze and restart etc. until now I have not experienced anything like that.Wireless works great and I enjoy free mobile internet acces. REAL GOOD BUSINESSPHONE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME BY READING STUPID REVIEWS, BUY IT. Rating: Reviewed by Erick on 13/02/2009 This is one of the most effective connectivity devices on the world market and one of the most efficient smartphones. The fact that it retails for less than some plastic junk mobiles available on the market is amazing representing stunning value for money. If you don't require satellite navigation or a sophisticated camera module this is all the smartphone you will ever need. Ideal for someone who wants a competent device and refuses to put up with having a miniscule qwerty style keypad to pretend to type lengthy documents. The T9 on here will suffice for mobile emailing. Strongly recommended and built to last. Rating: Reviewed by James on 10/02/2009 Bought this phone sim free several months ago and could not be happier with it. It is excellent for all business type uses including push email and acrobat docs etc. Obviously don't buy it if you are chasing the latest camera phone,but if you require a complete communication centre the it is for you. Only downside is lack of GPS but not sure how useful this really is in a phone at the moment with all the various gps units out there. Rating: Reviewed by E on 04/02/2009 This phone looks nice, but handles poorly. I had a Samsung previously and it felt like I was taking a step backwards in quality. The audio is poor, the system is slow and the camera is pathetic. And like other Nokia owners, I often am unable to access the main menu and am forced to switch off and on the phone to remedy it. If you are in the market for a new phone, may I suggest you consider something another brand (Samsung) or expect to be disappointed. Rating: Reviewed by Kaz on 30/01/2009 I have my E51 about a month and it has broken already :( The keypad locked and the buttons have frozen , don't work at all, I tried taking the battery out to turn it off because couldn't use the on/off button with the keypad locked but when the fone turned back on it switched on with the keypad still locked. I tried removing the SIM as well but this just turned the fone offline and when put the sim back in the keypad is still locked and the screen just says "continue using fone in offline mode?" but i can't access it because the keypad is still frozen. It unfroze for about 30 mins but then the same happened to it :( and it hasn't changed since. Very disappointed Rating: Reviewed by YY on 23/01/2009 I've owned this phone for about 6 months now. It's a great phone as I was searching for a simple business phone. The Mail for Exchange feature which can be installed directly from the phone's wizard was great until I found out that sending e-mails took about 3 hours to really have them sent (not to mention one time where it took half a day), but receiving e-mails is very fast, even faster than the pc, so it keeps me updated. Yet if u're almost always mobile and constantly need to send e-mails, this isn't the phone for you. Btw the Mail for Exchange suddenly didn't want to connect anymore these past weeks so I think it's time for a change myself. Rating: Reviewed by martini on 17/01/2009 not bad phone... had phone for nearly a year... i have the US version and bounce btw UK and USA often...the updates bugger it up...so i am selective with what i add...basic features work well...camera is not great but i don't use anyways...internet is slow even in 3G...symbian is nice once you get a hold of it...much better than other software on the market apart from the iphone software (beautiful)...battery life is adequate but when connected to wlan it drains fast...call quality good...keys starting to mess up now...the center down button is getting sticky...overall pleased with phone... but if you want it for email,vids, pics, or anything visual i would recommend a larger screen... this phone is ideal for travel, connects almost anywhere and quality built... but for business purposes you need more screen Rating: Reviewed by Esteban on 07/01/2009 I bought this mobile phone (unlocked/no carrier) 3 weeks ago, and I have to note a couple of things: the wlan is great, its use combined with Fringe is fantastic... but it freezes with Youtube, and stochastically the "menu" button provokes a complete freeze (switch off+on is required). Many good features as bad ones. The SAR is really high but if you're not a heavy user, don't pay attention. Otherwise you can use it as a heater during the winter. In general lines, is a good phone with problems to solve. Rating: Reviewed by Cameron on 06/01/2009 I'm on my second E51 now, my first one lasted about a year of really heavy use. I was/am very happy with the phone. I often use it bluetoothed to my laptop running a 3.5G internet connection whilst at the same time talking on it for an extended period of time...it's about as heavy as you can get. One major issue I have is that the phone gets so hot after about 10-15 minutes of talking that I find it uncomfortable to talk on. In fact, I got my new E51 today and my first call was 20 minutes and it heated up to the point I finished the call. I might check with Nokia tomorrow if this is normal. A front facing camera would have made sense for video calls. SMS's for some reason - when you turn the phone on and get an SMS it timestamps it at the time you turned the phone on and not the time the msg was sent. Being a heavy user, I would really like to see an extended life battery option but they don't have one. I don't like or use the Nokia voice recognition software...it's simply messy. But E stands for Enterprise and this is a genuine Enterprise phone that I am rolling out to most other senior people in our company. It runs Blackberry Connect very well, the wireless is good and it runs all bands + 3G and 3.5G. I'm an office worker but after hours I am also in an Emergency Service. My phone gets wet, shaken, vibrated, thrown, dropped and forgotten about and I'm yet to have a breakdown. Oh once when it got very wet but I simply let it dry out :-) I do like how slender it is. It fits in my shirt pocket very nicely and it's a good size to actually hold on to. Need to work out the overheating however. Hope this helps. Rating: Reviewed by Amos on 04/01/2009 Have been using it for 1 year now and this phone is just great. 100 Marks!!! Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 02/01/2009 Excellent phone. Good battery life. Excellent signal levels. Actually works really well with Mercedes Benz car, but you need to get the more expensive Sim Access profile (SAP) adaptor to get the most out of its abilities. Wish it could still be this small but have a bigger screen size (impossible I know but then it would be PERFECT). Rating: Reviewed by Umaima Bint Zia on 23/12/2008 This phone's the best in the affordable, feature-rich business class phoneS! The camera gives rather grainy and black-turning-into-green photographs, but no one's buying an E51 for the camera anyway =) and while on negatives, the E65's keys are compartively way better than E51's! 'have been using it for quite a while (4 months) and I haven't come across a single problem. As I'm not tech literate, so, cannot really comment on the technical positives/negatives, but, the fact that I haven't come across any problem proves it's totally worth the money! Rating: Reviewed by Elvin on 21/12/2008 I bought this phone a week ago and have to tell you that although some ppl leave bad comments about this phone I would highly recommend it to every single business user simply because it does every single job you need!!! Rating: Reviewed by Rod on 09/12/2008 What a gem of a phone. It's big plus point is its size - it's perfect to slip into any pocket, it look great and is a very powerful mobile tool that out-guns many much more expensive and bigger phones. The camera is very basic - yet functional. All in all, the best phone from Nokia since the 6310i and I recommend it 100%. Rating: Reviewed by no1 on 09/12/2008 basically yh if ur into old fones and simple fones den get this, its sumfin dat grannys can use lol in a gd way coz its simple and easy to do fingz, i prefer complicated fones Rating: Reviewed by Rich on 05/12/2008 We got four E51 for the company - we are mobile engineers - they keep locking up our hands free kits, they are being changed tomorrow!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Adnan from UAE on 26/11/2008 Once a sudden, my E51 is not working. I send it for repair and they told me that the PCB is bent due to mishandling and therefore; it is not covered by warranty and can not be repaired even outside warranty. The phone was never opened before and was never been subject to heavy impact. Is that possible? Or just they want an excuse for not repairing under warranty. Rating: Reviewed by A K NANDA on 25/11/2008 I am the proud and satisfied owner of NOKIA E 51 model phone for last one year .Thank u NOKIA. Rating: Reviewed by zaphod on 17/11/2008 I was tempted by this phone in the Nokia Shop Terminal 5 Heathrow. I have the version without the camera which suits me just fine. Being unlocked is handy too as I can swap between contract and PAYG sims as I need. So far I have found this to be a well designed full featured phone that has a better battery life than my contract Nokia 6500 classic (selected in a moment of madness when my old and fabulous 6230i packed up). I keep forgetting that the dedicated 'Clear' button is just under the five way switch and is not the top right button but that is just habit from a 'mobile life time' of using Nokias. I also cannot seem to make the strip of icons along the top of the screen longer than 5 functions as you can with the 6500 but that is a minor gripe. At least can can customise them to suit. I really like the flashing white led that reminds you of a missed call, text or email. Saves you forever picking up the phone and checking I also do not get this warming effect, also a criticism of the 6500 Classic. One explanation is how far you are from your nearest base station. As I am sure everyone knows the mobile phone is instructed to vary its transmit power to produce reliable communication without unnecessarily thrashing the battery. If you are in area of poor coverage or deep inside a building it is possible that the phone is turned up to maximum transmit power and as a consequence possibly getting warm. This should be accompanied by a shorter talk time than might be expected otherwise. One final thing that I have noticed and may be well known but then I had been happy with my old 6230i until very recently. Predictive text spelling choices.. the phone seems to learn which choice of words is the most used and presents that first.. nice Rating: Reviewed by JB on 17/11/2008 I've owned this phone for 10 months and it has been quite reliable over this period. I bought it while living in Asia and now use after moving back to Europe. Use it daily for e-mail, SMS, VOIP, WiFi. It has been seemless in connecting to my car, GPS receiver and home desktop PC via BLuetooth. Excellent with either Nokia Maps or Google maps. I prefer the Google app here. As well, works great with VOIP and I have had no issue with installing/using the Fring software. I am a frequent business traveller and find the overall quality/performance of this phone exceptional. The Nokia E90 is collecting dust simply because this phone has most of the features (except Qwerty keyboard, better camera...) but is packaged in an ergonomically friendly, stylish & professional manner. Nokia hit the ball out of the park on this one (E51). Rating: Reviewed by Manoj on 16/11/2008 I am using this phone for 2 months now. No issues so far. I use WLAN very often and it works like a song. Battery life is also quite good Rating: Reviewed by Tanner Seals on 15/11/2008 this phone is awsome i bought one off my friend its GREAT,,its got gps bluetooth mp3 player its sweet,,,its a tough little phone to the stainless steel covers and the screen is strong to!!! this is the best phone i have ever had!!! Rating: Reviewed by m4q on 13/11/2008 Great phone - very configurable and easy to use at the same time!As for "Menu button problems" - simply assign 'left navi key' to other-than-menu function and everything is going to be OK (You can access menu via 'Home key'). Rating: Reviewed by jojojojojojojojojo on 11/11/2008 One word rubbish Not even worth of a star Rating: Reviewed by JohnneySul on 11/11/2008 No real problems with the fone, good reception and battery life is great. The lan connection 802.11.xx is great but the feel of the fone is poor, rubber buttons on the side are horrible and you have to remove the cover to get at the memory card. I would not buy it again!!!!!!! Rating: Reviewed by Prasant on 06/11/2008 this phone is great i like it. I thought this will be my best phone after a month i found this is crap it is worse speaker i can't hear properly that is fastest damage things i never get this kind of problems on my previous phones. it is not worth to buy from my side Rating: Reviewed by Umaima Bint Zia on 06/11/2008 @Carmel.. Urmmm... I think you have to get your set changed... because no one's by far is having this problem and I personally don't have the problems mentioned in my E51 as well!! Rating: Reviewed by ted on 05/11/2008 i bought this mobile a month ago, its very practic , internet very fast , navigation system very advanced and a good camera, . i think nokia has done a god job i compare this mobile with a mercedes Rating: Reviewed by carmel on 04/11/2008 got an E51 in August 2008 & all i have had with it is problems. Bluetooth only works when you switch off bluetooth, take out battery + switch back on Cannot select add receipent when you want to send a text. (u must enter no) contacts lists has numbers missing( left as blank spaces, which you cannot delete. CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME. Rating: Reviewed by akis from Greece on 26/10/2008 A smart buy for it's money. I beleive it worth every euro. I would like a little bigger screen. Rating: Reviewed by Andrez on 21/10/2008 I have two complains about Nokia E51 : 1. Power button, PTT button, n Volume button (too hard to be pressed! Why didnt Nokia use non-rubber for its buttons?! Rubber is very quick to get broken!) 2. Speaker (although this phone is sold for business, but it still need entertainment too! Nokia... Why did u always make a series60 OS with single speaker? For the speaker quality, N-Series lose by Nokia 6270, 7390, etc!) Rating: Reviewed by sikandar on 20/10/2008 i like this phone Rating: Reviewed by Umaima Bint Zia on 20/10/2008 DEFINITELY worth a buy and deserves nothing less than a 5 star! Rating: Reviewed by anoko on 18/10/2008 i have had this fone for 1 month now but i used it for only 10 days i am very dissapointed abt the phone not only is it so complicated it gets so hot once you talk above 10 mins, 7 days into the new phone the mouth piece went back i took it to nokia care they took it from me, and kept the phone for 3 weeks and returned it to me the same way, no work was done on it. i took it back to nokia care today and i have been informed to wait another 3 week i am very upset abt it.i wld not recommend this fone to my enemy Rating: Reviewed by Alex on 17/10/2008 been using this for about 10 months and consider arguably the best phone I've ever had Rating: Reviewed by Rob on 09/09/2008 Okay, Nokia, when they first came out making mobile phones in the 1980s we all thaught, great, a easy to use phone, and today, that has not changed! Is Nokia is a very smart 3G with video calling phone, especally from a company, who promised us that the Nokia would keep its extremeist looks and features, annoyingly thou, this has not happened. I know people who read my reviews think, "Oh Dear, Rob got an issue about the design". Lets be honest, it isnt the best looking phone around, but the phone itself, is great, people buy this good looking expensive phones, but 99.9% of those phones hardwere and useability are rubbish. This phone isnt, it's in a totaly different league, for the better I think. I recommend this phone, for everyone! Rating: Reviewed by Andy on 25/08/2008 Great as a mobile SIP based internet phone. Easy to configure with your wireless home network, or free hotspot if you are out and about. Mine is configured to be used in conjunction with a sipgate.co.uk account. Rating: Reviewed by nick on 18/06/2008 exelent Rating: Reviewed by thumper on 14/05/2008 its a wierd phone this one for video calling it can be done but it uses the main camera for that function ,so you need a mirror so you can see the phones screen to see the other person you are talking to , a good party joke :) would have been perfect if it had a front camera but sadly did not , last its far better than the 6210 clasic which has a bad cheap housing which looses the silver within a week Rating: Reviewed by Claire on 23/03/2008 This is a lovely phone. So quick to respond to the buttons pressed. Very cute phone. Well done Nokia. Rating: Reviewed by bob on 14/03/2008 Users of this phone do not need a front camera:) They are clever enough to use it without watching at lcd:) Great phone, for serious users and pros! Can do anything u want, exept ...cofee:) Rating: Reviewed by Ajmal vk on 21/02/2008 Good phone .. the problem i noticed is the lack of front camera. with out the front camera how can we make avideo call? second one is menu button is very small and not easy to press. but the numeber kry is good. all other things are verygood and effective Rating: Reviewed by charles on 17/02/2008 great phone, good battery, can do anything for pro users Rating: Reviewed by mike on 09/02/2008 Well done nokia. Welcome back with serious phones for pros!!1 Rating: Reviewed by antonis on 31/01/2008 At last, a mobile with good batery Rating: Consumer Reviews from other websites (100 reviews)Nokia E51 Reviews at Mobile Phones UK (100 reviews)Nokia E51 LinksNokia E51 Nokia E51 Silver
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