E61 Nokia Mobile Phones

Think 'mobile e-mail' and you probably think 'BlackBerry', especially if you happen to be thinking about mobile e-mail in a corporate setting. But Nokia might be about to change all that, with its E series handsets.

There are four devices in the series at the moment, and the one that is causing the most stir is the E61, because it is the one that looks most like a BlackBerry handset.

Based around Symbian Series 60 third edition, there isn't a lot that this handset can't do right out of the box. Wi-Fi and infra-red are here, in addition to Bluetooth. The handset is 3G as well as quad-band GSM. The 64MB of built-in memory can be boosted with miniSD cards. And the built-in software includes e-mail, MMS, SMS, calendar, contacts and tasks manager, Web browser, music player, picture viewer, and viewers and editors for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Yes, that's right, you can create PowerPoint presentations on the E61, though without all the fancy features of the desktop version. There's even a utility that can send these presentations to a projector, should you need to do that.