SpecEagle review · Nokia

Nokia E7-00 review: The E-series QWERTY-slider Symbian flagship with aluminium build.

SpecEagle Editorial·Feb 2011·$700
Overall
46/100
Class rank
#41 of 70
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
Look elsewhere
The verdict, up front

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

62/100

62/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2011.

TypeAMOLED ClearBlack capacitive
Size4.0 inches
Resolution640 × 360 px (nHD)

02Camera

56/100

56/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2011.

Main8 MP, EDoF, dual-LED
Video720p
FrontVGA

03Performance

44/100

44/100 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.

ChipsetARM 11 680 MHz
RAM256 MB
Storage16 GB

04Battery

50/100

50/100 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.

Capacity1,200 mAh (sealed)
Standby~ 430 hours

05Build

78/100

At 78/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 19 points above the cohort average.

06Value

54/100

At 54/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 8 points above the cohort average.

What works
  • Premium aluminium slide-out QWERTY.
  • 4" AMOLED ClearBlack screen.
  • HDMI-out for TV.
  • Stereo speakers + jack.
What doesn't
  • Symbian^3 was outdated against iOS/Android.
  • EDoF (no autofocus) camera.
  • 680 MHz CPU was slow.
  • Sealed 1,200 mAh battery.
Cross-shop it against
Nexus 4 (LG)
$299 · score 80/100

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? .