For business minded consumers, Nokia's E series is back with its stunning and gorgeous Nokia E71 Black riding on the success of the previous E61 model. This pocket friendly handset is more slender and skilled as that of the previous one with its inbuilt QWERTY expertise.

The Nokia E71 Black has been launched as a network exclusive by Orange in the UK, this means that consumers will only be able to connect this latest E-Series device to the range of Orange pay monthly tariffs.

The Qwerty keypad range of E-Series handsets by Nokia has now expanded to include a further colour variant in the range, joining the existing Graphite Grey and White edition Nokia E71 is a new all black version of this business orientated handset.

The Black Nokia E71 offers the very same features, design and technology as the previous White and Graphite Grey editions but exchanges the exterior casing colour for a new and exclusive gloss black finish.

Retail Package of Black Nokia E71

This handset comes with smallest and faster charger that is much comfortable to carry wherever you go. A microSD card having the capacity of 2 Giga bytes also comes along and then is the leather carrying case for preventing any kind of damages or scratches to the display screen. Along with leather lanyard, comes a CD containing software for PC Synch. Other accessories that are packaged along with handset itself are headset for making hands free conversations and some paper work including quick start guides, user manual and some leaflets.

Construction and Design

Overall designing of the black Nokia E71 is quite impressive with QWERTY style keypad and small display screen. It really pulls some style and makes a lot of difference with its classic outlook and stylish casing of steel stuff.

An earpiece is integrated at the top side of front panel of device. An ambient sensor is flanked at the extreme left of mobile phone while a secondary camera, also best known as video call camera is on the extreme right side of panel. Beneath this is the display screen of size 2.36 inches followed by a keypad of major controls, navigation buttons and the QWERTY keyboard.

On the left bottom corner in the front side of panel is the mouthpiece. On the left side are the ports for infrared, micorSd card and microUSB port. Both holes are sheltered with plastic made lids to restrict dirt and dust and also to keep the outline of handset undamaged. Then on the right side of the Nokia E71, are two volume control buttons and a jack of 3.5 mm for enjoying music to the maximum. Among these, a voice key is flanked that is considered to be used most frequently for controlling the volume level while conversing. For the purpose, other handset of Nokia make use of right selection button, therefore this mobile phone usually performs a pretty good job.

Loud speaker is integrated at the top of panel, and then a red power key is flanked that acts as a shortcut for changing profiles. At the bottom, a hole is there for charger and is a lanyard eyelet.

A 3 mega pixel camera is featured by the black Nokia E71 with a self portrait mirror and dual LED flash, this whole unit is sheltered by a transparent layer that provides utmost protection to the display screen.

Audio Quality and Video Player

Despite of lacking in music features, E71 renders a good frequency response. All readings done to examine the audio quality of this bar are quite impressive. The Nokia E71 Black is featured with a Real Player that makes it possible to play the video clips; full screen mode really makes the experience more enjoyable and pleasurable. For spending leisure time, an FM radio is also equipped with RDS feature; it will greatly help to spend the leisure time.

This mobile phone is basically designed by considering the needs of professional people, QWERTY keyboard clearly shows that. So, opt for this handset and take maximum benefit for expanding your business.

Although initially released as an Orange network exclusive it is widely expected that this new black edition Nokia E71 will eventually lose its excluisve status firstly with independent retailers on Orange and further down the line on other network operators so if you do not want to connect the new Nokia E71 Black to an Orange tariff you may have a bit of a wait on your hands.