Review: Nokia E66

Nokia E66 Review

We're not sure if this phone is going to be released in the UK. At present it's only available sim free. Here are the specs, and we'll review it if it does get properly released. In the meantime, please see the user reviews below for more information.

Features of the Nokia E66 include:

• S60 3.1 Edition Eseries SmartPhone, Symbian OS 9.2
• Camera: 3.2 megapixels with autofocus, LED flash and 4x digital zoom
• Video camera: 320 x 240 pixels, 15 fps, 4x digital video zoom plus front camera for video calling
• Display: 16.7 million colours, 320 x 240 pixels (2.4")
• Music player: AAC, AAC+, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB file formats
• FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with Visual Radio support
• Ringtones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (25 built-in tones)
• Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
• Integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
• Messaging: SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, email with attachments (IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP protocols)
• Integrated A-GPS with Nokia Maps application
• Flight mode
• Memory: 110 Mbytes plus microSD card slot (up to 8GB)
• Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, Micro-USB connector, Infrared, 2.5 mm audio jack
• Internet: WAP, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), Web browser, Nokia Mini Map Browser, Flash Lite 3.0
• Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 plus 3G
• Size: 107.5 x 49.5 x 13.6 mm
• Weight: 121g
• Talktime: 3.5 hours (3G) - 7.5 hours (2G)
• Battery standby: : 260 - 330 hours

Nokia E66 Consumer Reviews

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Average rating from 15 reviews:

Reviewed by Dave from Northern Ireland on 5th Dec 2008
This phone is ace, with really nice features. Shane from New Zealand, if your personality is defined by your phone then I'd be worried mate.
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Reviewed by ferr from dublin on 28th Nov 2008
it is rubbish
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Reviewed by Robbo from UK on 26th Nov 2008
Unfortunately I think Nokia missed the boat with this one, whilst the fact that the phone is packed with features and the build quality and screen are excellent, it does not translate into real world usage. In my job i utterly rely on my phone, and i find the E66 wanting. I found that the ability to find and hold a signal poor, several times I was showing no signal yet collegues had signal on their phones.(same provider) The caller volume is quite low so difficult to hear with high ambient background noise. The wifi performance again was poor, and as i use this feature a lot in my job a serious downfall, again others were fine in same location. The battery life is absolutely appalling, unbelievable that Nokia lost the plot so badly. This phone does have a lot of redeeming qualities (looks,build quality,features) but I feel it is not worthy to wear the "E" badge, more of a high end consumer phone than a proper business tool. I just think that they missed their chance with this one. I've gone back to my E51.
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Reviewed by Fizlan from Malaysia on 31st Oct 2008
Just bought it last week (end Oct 08. my comment is WOW. Great feature but my last sonyericsson was more freindly user
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Reviewed by Ken from Australia on 19th Oct 2008
This phone has just been released in Australia ( Oct 2008 ) & sells for around AUD $650 or it can be obtained on a plan. Trouble here is, that all the plans never advertise mins un-like U.K. Briefly, I had a 2G I-Phone, Samsung U 900 & looked closely at the Nokia E 71. The E 66 is a great phone, good looks & feel.
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Reviewed by robin from uk on 18th Oct 2008
Returned the Omnia becaus ei bit of fmore than i could chew. Found everything I wanted in a phone here. Easy to text, easy to browse. Battery life not that important to me as I don't expect to be kidnapped in the near future or replace Mr Sutherland in 24.
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Reviewed by dave from uk on 7th Oct 2008
had this phone for about about a month on vodafone.great build quality,face easy marked tho and batt life not gud .but overall a great phone with loads of features;automatic display rotation ,and voice for reading texs.upgrade from samsung g600 good move!
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Reviewed by Michael from Philippines on 20th Sep 2008
I just got mine yesterday. During the first charge, it hung!!! I had to remove the battery to switch it off and on again. Other than that, it's fine so far, it's pretty fast too as long as you switch off the "effects" function of the built-in themes. I'm giving it 7 days and if it hangs 3 more times, i'm returning it. My E51 is 10 months old and it has NEVER hung. My 6300 is 18 months old and it too has NEVER hung.
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Reviewed by bangssy from australia on 19th Sep 2008
great phone although makes a big buzz when i talk so i need to use headphones cause my ears have been aching. bought online so cant send back. other than that no other problem. great phone with good operating system. another downfall is it has a very poor camera.
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Reviewed by bernardgu from singapore on 18th Sep 2008
just got it for 2days.my ex phone is sonyericsson. the phone 'hang'just now,cant off it cant do any thing with it. took off the battery and fix it back again. now dare not to 'touch' anything . cant set the phone to my convenient. problem... cant pass the subscriber's web page whenever i tap on wifi, so cant use it again headache ,
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Reviewed by Deepak from India on 4th Sep 2008
Very good super phone.....only price is a problem...other all excellent...
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Reviewed by mamac from malaysia on 28th Aug 2008
well, looks good with good applications, slide in nice but camera is very bad! very very poor camera especially in low light environment. almost impossible to take good photo, unfortunately!
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Reviewed by Shane from New Zealand on 27th Aug 2008
How do you spell boring N.O.K.I.A, if a phone is an extension of your personality then you're saying a lot about yourself with an E66. There is nothing that really stands out with this phone. You will whip it out on the train and no one will notice, you will place it on the table at meetings and people with shrug with indifference , you will show your girlfriend and she will soon after takeoff with your best friend- no doubt while you’re engrossed watching the beach Olympic beach volleyball.
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Reviewed by david whidden from uk on 23rd Aug 2008
Had the phone for a week but sadly sent it back,very nice phone but in rural areas had a big problem with signel drop but built up areas no probs,slide action not as good as i am use to,
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Reviewed by Mikewot from UK on 23rd Aug 2008
Very good build quality, much better than N95 particularly the slider which is smooth with absolutely no wobble. Feels very solid in the hand and (to me) really looks the part of being a quality product (albeit half the price of an N95 8Gb). The operating system looks like standard Symbian S60 so transition from any other symbian phone is simple. However it works much faster, navigating around menus and texting is about 3 times faster than N95. GPS lock is fantastic, about 10 seconds and that was indoors near a window. Garmin XT installed no problems, works fine. Tilt works really well and an improvement over moving the slider on the N95. Quite amusing to use the facility to have your extx etc. read to you although the robotic voice ah la Stephen Hawkin isn't the best but does recognise LOL as Laugh Out Loud! Overall I was nervous that I may have made the wrong choice between it and the N95 8Gb but having fondled it for nearly a day I'm really pleased with my choice :-) Next trial will be when I'm back at work to see how it does emails etc. but that'll have to wait.
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