Some people measure items of attraction in terms of pints. She’s a three-pinter. He’s a six-pinter. And so on. However, possibly because we have far less pub-based interaction with other humans than most, we’ve developed our own system of attraction, based on double-takes. And, rather than actual people, the objects of our attraction are of course phones. Quite often we come across single-double-takers: phones that have one outstanding function, feature or physical attribute, that warrants a second look. The Samsung Omnia 2’s screen, for example, nearly blinded us. Less common are the double-double-takers, those phones that have not one but two things going for them that knock us off our (browsing/typing) stride. Then, rarest of all, are the triple-double-takers: those that have not one, not two, but three things going for them that make us sit up, whistle, and pound our legs against the ground.
The E52, just about, is a triple-double-taker. And why? Well, that’s why we’re here, obviously, to tell you:
1. Its battery life is not just long, it is obscene. With 25 days of standby you might forget you ever even needed to charge it in the first place. Wow.
2. Despite its smartphones-ness, it’s feature-packed-ness, and its obscenity-of-a-battery-ness, the Nokia E52 less than a centimetre thick (9.9mm, in fact). Compare that to, say, the Blackberry curves 15mm, the Iphone 3G S’s 12.3mm, or, well, or just about any other phone in or near its category and you’ve got one slim little thing.
3. It weighs less than a 100 grams too, even with that beastly battery.
There’s a full list of specs, functions, features and other things in this Nokia E52 review, but all you really need to know are these three things. Because if you’re in the phone for a smartphone / businessphone and you haven’t just sat up and listened like we did, then you probably don’t deserve an Nokia E52anyway. Try not to let the terrible video below put you off though (Nokia are to blame, as they so often are with videos this bad).
