Nokia E7-00 review: The E-series QWERTY-slider Symbian flagship with aluminium build.
The aluminium QWERTY-slider E-series.
Nokia E7 was the E-series QWERTY-slider flagship — a premium aluminium body, AMOLED screen and mini-HDMI out, running Symbian^3 in a market shifting decisively to iOS and Android. A beautiful object hampered by its OS.
01Display
62/10062/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2011.
02Camera
56/10056/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2011.
03Performance
44/10044/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2011 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker battery results among flagship phones of 2011 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 19 points above the cohort average.
06Value
54/100At 54/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 8 points above the cohort average.
- Premium aluminium slide-out QWERTY.
- 4" AMOLED ClearBlack screen.
- HDMI-out for TV.
- Stereo speakers + jack.
- Symbian^3 was outdated against iOS/Android.
- EDoF (no autofocus) camera.
- 680 MHz CPU was slow.
- Sealed 1,200 mAh battery.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 70-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .