The red plastic power button up top is the only jarring design element, everything else is the best of Scandinavian design. Our review unit is deep metallic gray with a bright silver metal back panel and smoky mirrored front. Watch our 3 minute video walk through of the Nokia E66: Fortunately, it's easy to clean, unlike high gloss black plastic phones like the Diamond. And yes, it holds onto fingerprints like crazy. Not a bad upgrade! It's certainly an attractive and sexy phone, though the mirrored front that takes its good looks up a few notches also hinders outdoor viewing. The E66 is a slider that follows in the footsteps of the Nokia E65, but it's much thinner, runs a newer S60 version, has a faster CPU and a GPS. Unfortunately, Nokia has announced that they'll no longer be developing BlackBerry Connect for E Series devices, so the E66 is out of luck. Since this is a business phone, the E66 supports Exchange ActiveSync, Intellisync, iSync and Mail for Exchange. There's quite a lot packed into this 4.27 ounce phone: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus lens, music player, FM radio and US 3G. Nokia was one of the first companies to catch on that business users like stylish devices that can shoot photos, and play music and video too. Though it's a business phone, the Nokia E66 is slim, stylish and packed with multimedia features. These accelerometer-based features can be turned on and off in settings. The phone uses the accelerometer in two other cool ways: like the HTC Diamond, simply turn the phone face down to silence incoming calls (and snooze reminders) tap the phone twice to silence it. The phone has a few new features like Modes (a way to switch between 2 customized themes) and automatic screen rotation when the smartphone is turned (via an accelerometer). With Feature Pack 2 phones like the Nokia N78 just starting to ship, we were surprised that the E66 still runs Feature Pack 1, but it has demand paging for improved speed and enough other tweaks that we don't mind. It runs Symbian OS 9.2 and Nokia S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 with enhancements. The E66 represents the latest evolution of Nokia's E series business smartphones. The US version could be available as soon as July 2008. For those wishing to order the Nokia E66 once it becomes available, this is the E66-2, type RM-345 (the dash at the end of model number indicates region when there's more than one regional version sold and each Nokia variant has a "type" too). The US version is a quad band unlocked GSM phone with US 3G HSDPA on the 850/1900MHz bands. It's raining Nokia S60 smartphones here lately, and we were lucky enough to receive the US version of the recently announced but not yet released Nokia E66 for review. Home -> Phone Reviews -> Nokia E66 Nokia E66 (US model E66-2)
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