but its screen, camera and OS are vastly out-dated, and so what its its targeted towards 'BUSINESS USERS'. Belard - Tuesday, Novemlink This phone does look great.But even then, the 600Mhz ARM11 CPU seems to struggle to carry anything more than the weight of Symbian and the E5’s default apps. To imagine the default browser is actually webkit-based! Most of these issues can be readily remedied by downloading an alternate browser such as Opera Mobile 10 a point made blatantly clear by the fact that it is one of the most popular apps in the Ovi App store. Nevertheless, it is the one feature that proved useful in a browser that should otherwise be avoided. Initially, I actually thought of them as being real tabs, but soon I realized they were just snapshots of the previous pages I had visited (the default browser doesn't have support for tabs). There was however one feature of the browser that I liked clicking on the “Back” menu option in the browser shows a “tabbed” view of the previous pages you visited.

The default browser (left), Opera Mobile 10 (center) and tabbed view of “history” (right) And because you are constrained to the D-pad and soft-keys for browser navigation and actions instead of touch gestures, surfing the net on the phone quickly becomes a chore. Even when the website is only moderately zoomed into, you have a scroll a lot both vertically and horizontally. With the phone seriously lacking display real estate and pixel density, websites are completely illegible zoomed out. The dull 2.36” screen doesn't do the browsing experience any favors, either. This behavior was only exacerbated on 3G, where the browser was slower to load pages. Even over WiFi, the browser was quite slow and even no-so-heavy websites caused the browser to hang. Speaking of browsers, the default browser that the E5 comes installed with is one of the outliers to the otherwise snappy response of the phone.

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