I Got Myself a Nokia E63

At the beginning of this year, I wanted to have another phone and I fell in love with the Nokia E63. It was still priced at Php20k that time. But because my O2 is still useful as a PDA and I still got my Nokia Classic 6120 and Sony Ericsson W760, I practiced my EQ and forego buying another phone. But come June I purchased a sciphone which is an iphone clone. After three weeks I sold it to a friend coz it failed to wow me. I was having a hard time playing with its apps. The only good thing about it was the fact that I didn’t purchase a real iphone otherwise it would have been a complete disaster and a huge financial mistake. Then October came and I had to renew my line with Smart which I never had the time for. I tried renewing it last November in Megamall. But the line was so long and I had to get home for work. Then last weekend, we did some groceries at Festival Mall and I suddenly remembered about the renewal of my postpaid line! So I dropped by the Smart Wireless Center there. Lo and behold, there was no line! My number was immediately called and the  rep at the counter asked me what phone unit I want. I told her I’ll just get whatever they have available that’s free. She said they only have E63. Of course, I can no longer remember what E63 looked like. So she pointed to me the model they had on the window. Voila — it was the one I wanted all this time! Woopee!!! I was jumping for joy inside! The one in the display window was color red and she said that what they have available is the one in blue. All the more that I went ecstatic deep down. I love midnight blue! Woopeee!!!

I’ve been using it for a week now and I have no complaints. Even after the first hour of my using it, I was already pretty happy with it. It’s so user friendly plus it has the capabilities I want — email set up, wifi, 3G plus the normal applications like video, phone, camera, radio, etc.It’s like a blackberry and more!

So anyway, that’s how I got to have the phone I want. The law of attraction really works!

Here are the rest of E63’s specs:

Technical specifications

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 Physical features, power and memory

Physical features, power and memory

Size

• Form: Monoblock with full keyboard
• Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 13 mm
• Weight: 126 g
• Volume: 87 cc
• Full keyboard
• High quality QVGA display

Display and 3D

• Size: 2.36″
• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
• Up to 16 million colors
• TFT active matrix (QVGA)
• Two customisable home screen modes

Security features

• Device lock
• Remote lock
• Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content
• mobile VPN

Keys and input method

• Full keyboard
• Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
• Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability
• Accelerated scrolling with Navi^TMKey

Colours and covers

• Available in-box colours: Ultramarine Blue and Ruby Red

Connectors

• Micro-USB connector, full-speed
• 3.5 mm standard AV connector

Power

• BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery
• Talk time (maximum): GSM up to 11 hours; WCDMA up to 4h 40 min
• Standby time (maximum): GSM up to 18 days; WCDMA up to 20 days;WLAN idle up to 170 hours
• Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory

• microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
• 110 MB internal dynamic memory
  

 Communication and navigation

Communication and navigation

 Operating frequency

• E63-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100
• E63-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900
• E63-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100
• Offline mode

Data network

• CSD
• HSCSD
• GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)
• EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
• WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100, maximum speed 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
• WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
  - WLAN Security: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2
• TCP/IP support
• IETF SIP and 3GPP

Local connectivity and synchronisation

• Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
  - Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP
• MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support
• Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)
• Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket
  connection to any specified port (a.k.a HP
  JetDirect™).
• Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon
  protocol (RFC1179).
• Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Call features

• Integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Automatic answer with headset or car kit
• Any key answer
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialled, received and missed calls
• Automatic redial and fallback
• Speed dialling
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)
• Fixed dialling number support
• Vibrating alert (internal)
• Contacts with images
• Conference calling
• Push to talk
• VoIP

Messaging

• SMS
• Multiple SMS deletion
• Text-to-speech message reader
• MMS
• Distribution lists for messaging
• Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced contacts
• Cell broadcast

E-mail

• Supported protocols: IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP
• Support for e-mail attachments
• IMAP IDLE support
• Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
• Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN
• Easy Email set-up

Web browsing

• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML,CSS
• Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP2.0
• TCP/IP support
• Nokia browser
  - JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
  - Mini Map
• Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation

• Nokia Maps application

 Image and sound

Image and sound

 Photography

• 2.0 megapixel camera (1600 x 1200 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
• CMOS sensor
• digital zoom
• Focal length: 4.5 mm
• Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
• LED flash
• Flash modes: Automatic, Off, Forced
• Flash operating range: 1 m
• White balance modes: automatic, daylight, incasdencent, fluorescent
• Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
• Viewfinder
• Active toolbar
• Share photos with Share on Ovi

Video

• Main camera
• 320 x 240 (QVGA) at 15 fps
• 176 x 144 at 15 fps (QCIF)
• Digital video zoom
• Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
• Audio recording formats: AMR
• Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
• Scene modes: automatic, night
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
• Clip length (maximum): 1 h
• RealPlayer
• Video playback file formats: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
• Video streaming: .3gp, mp4, .rm
• Customisable video ring tones

Music and audio playback

• Music player
• Media player
• Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+
• Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+
• FM radio 87.5-108 MHz
• Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com
• 3.5 mm Standard AV connector
• Nokia Music Manager
• Nokia Music Store support
• Nokia Podcasting support
• Customisable ring tones
• Synchronise music with Windows Media Player
• Navi™ wheel support
• Voice Aid

Voice and audio recording

• Voice commands
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)
• Voice recorder
• Audio recording formats: AMR-WB, AMR-NB
• Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, and AMR-FR
• Text-to-speech

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

• Customisable profiles
• Customisable ring tones
• Customisable video ring tones
• Support for talking ring tones
• Customisable themes
• Customisable home screen content in Business and Personal modes