Nokia E63 Budget BlackBerry Beater Unveiled

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 12th Nov 2008
Nokia E63 Budget BlackBerry Beater Unveiled
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Rumours have been building around this handset for sometime so Nokia has finally decided to put us out of our misery...

The Finnish behemoth today formally announced the 'E63' - its latest attempt to deliver a swift titty twister to RIM's impressive BlackBerry range. Targeting what has effectively become the smartphone 'low end' the E63 features an all-too-familiar candybar screen-above-qwerty layout and a couple of nice touches.


Raw specs first and you'll get a reasonably large 2.4in QVGA 16 million colour display, WiFi, a 2MP camera with LED flash, POP3, IMAP and SMTP email support, multimedia playback and very compact 113 x 59 x 13mm dimensions and a pocket friendly weight of just 126g. Perhaps rather noticeably missing is HSDPA connectivity (you'll have to make due with EDGE), GPS and any form of camera autofocus. Memory isn't brilliant either at just 110MB internally though there is a microSD expansion slot.

As for those neat features, well Nokia has at last done the sensible thing and included a native 3.5mm headphone jack plus Bluetooth with A2DP and the choice of a large capacity 1500mAh battery delivers a whopping 18 / 20 days of standby time or up to 11 hours of talk time from a single charge.

Also worth noting is the affordability of the E63 with the sim free price a mere 199 euros (£166) so it is likely to prove a hit with contract-a-phobics, while subsidies should see it costing zip on most tariffs when it lands in the next few weeks.

We had famously high opinions of the E71. Now it's little brother is a virtual stripped down clone, TR expects...

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comment gettinhigh said on 13th November 2008

I just saw some suggested prices for an unlocked version of this, and if they are right,
at launch, this would cost just half of what E71 was. Brilliant.

comment GherkinG said on 13th November 2008

@Gordon - Please mod this if advertising isn't allowed... Found at Three.
Checking now, it looks to be only £20p/m on the 300 minute tariff, £23p/m on the 500 minute ta... more

comment drdark said on 13th November 2008

Just wanted to add something I missed out on when I got my E71 (because it was after work and I was half asleep). The Three website lists the phone as including 50 videocall minute... more

comment Rob Lundie Hill said on 14th November 2008

Wow! They should shift lots of these. The keyboard really does blow any blackberry's out of the water. Hope the blue/redness doesn't look quite so cheap and toyish in rea... more

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