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Nokia E71 is doing everything that a sequel should do, and so with bravura. But the more slim format is for the expense of usability.  

The predecessor E61 has been a small but loyal popular among people who want to use their mobile phones for a little more advanced than writing SMS.

E71 is a few steps further. Among other things, slimmed down slightly, especially in width. Now, it can almost pass as a regular candybar phone size. But it has unfortunately not been entirely painless. The interface is a variant of Series 60. Comparatively, it can be described as the N-series running Windows Vista with all graphics activated, while the E71 uses a desktop that was deliberately trying to emulate Windows NT, despite the fact that they can more or less the same things. Very disturbing.

The predecessor E61 lack camera, which was corrected in a later versions of the phone. E71 has a powerful 3.2 megapixel camera with built-in auto focus right from the start. Not directly a high end, but quite okay. Just as before, there is also wlan built-in, which this time also been joined by a GPS receiver (approximately the same as all other Nokia phones now).