Sales package:
Handset
Battery (BL-4U)
Charger (AC-5)
USB data cable (CA-101)
Wired stereo-headset (HS-47)
Wrist strap
Carrying case
User Guide, Software CD
2Gb microSD memory card (size may vary by market)

The E66 measures up at 107.5×49.5×13.6 mm and tips our scales at 121 grams. There are two color options available – black or white, although in either edition you’ll get a light-colored battery compartment cover, but with different patterns.

Boasting the same features as the E71 minus the QWERTY keyboard, Nokia’s E66 is aimed at users who aren’t hell-bent on large amounts of text entry. This stylish E-Series handset has the same internal characteristics as its big brother in a smaller, more pocketable form factor.

Like the E71, the E66 is one of the more stylish smartphones to hit the market. It features the same gloss metal finish as its larger counterpart but does away with the QWERTY keyboard in favour of a regular numerical keypad. Particularly impressive is the chrome rear cover, despite its tendency to attract plenty of fingerprints. Although the E66 oozes style, its build quality is somewhat questionable — the top half of the slider in our review unit didn’t feel as sturdy as we expected.

For those who lament the extra real estate that keyboards occupy, the well-designed keypad of the E66 will certainly be appreciated. Tactile feedback is excellent and the layout is simple yet effective. Unlike the E71 the keys aren’t spongy, generating a firm clicking sound when pressed. The shortcut keys — home, calendar, contacts, mail and delete — are a welcome addition, and the five-way navigational pad, selection buttons and call keys combine to create a pleasant user experience. When in standby mode, all keys except the answer and end call buttons are invisible; they only light up when the screen is active.

The E66 utilizes a 2.36-inch QVGA display (320×240 pixels, 48x36mm), capable of up to 16 million colors. It manages to output a pretty decent picture quality-wise that remains readable in various environments (it doesn’t fade away in the sun at that, all thanks to the mirror underlayer).

On balance, the E66 packs in a likable display and we are pretty much content with it. It can accommodate up to 8 text and 3 service lines (with some modes allowing for up to 14 text lines).

The display is a reasonable size considering the style of the handset, but it’s perhaps a little smaller than the screens of other smartphones. This really isn’t much of an issue as the display is excellent for almost all uses, including displaying videos and photos.

The E66 runs on the popular Symbian S60 platform, so it includes most features synonymous with smartphones. Among these are the ability to read and edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents and access PDF files. One of the best features of this handset is its speed — an impressive attribute that we’ve noticed in many of the latest Symbian devices. Applications open and close in a flash and despite running multiple programs we didn’t experience any lag. The default menu interface isn’t as visually appealing as other handsets, but a wealth of Symbian themes can be downloaded to smarten it up.

Enterprise users will surely appreciate the E66′s Intranet application, which comprises the settings of VPN-client. As far as office tools go, the E66 is no revolution – it has had its mail client improved, the phonebook has been tweaked here and there too, along with some other applications. Microsoft Office documents are still handled by QuickOffice, which is a pity (although many will be content with what it has to offer). Also there is a ZIP archiver and PDF reading tool. The Search 4.0 app can be linked directly on the main screen.

The E66 is the first Eseries-branded device ever to boast the Mode functionality. In a nutshell, it’s a mobile version of the latest PC craze – virtual desktops. That is, you make up a couple of screens, where various themes, pictures, applications, plug-ins and other essentials are housed/used. And then you can swap between them in one touch, so that it’s always easy to jump between your setup for work with mail and notifications brought up on the main screen and the home setup with a different theme applied (without your company’s logo or colors) and player controls lined up on the screen instead of email notifications. It takes the E66 around 6-7 seconds to jump between modes.

The major update to this department is the new version of Nokia Maps. Also, we would like to note that the application has become even speedier, the cold start time makes around 4-5 minutes, and we felt that the gears were spinning faster, so to speak. To my mind, the E66 is a tidy navigation-savvy solution, it does the job hands down. But, unfortunately, as far as battery life goes, the E66 doesn’t improve over the predecessors.

The handset utilizes a 1000 mAh Li-Pol battery (BL-4U), as opposed to the Nokia E71′s 1500 mAh cell. The E66 is rated for 7.5 hours of talk time (GSM) and 264 hours of standby. Music time – up to 14 hours.

The device comes equipped with 128 Mb of RAM, after first launch you will get around 70 Mb of free memory at your disposal, which is enough for running a dozen applications and browsing “heavy” web-pages – the word “slow-down” is definitely not in the E66′s vocabulary.

The user almost has 110 Mb of storage available, where any data can be stored.

The E66 deals with microSD memory cards (hot-swappable), the phone comes packaged with a 2Gb unit.

In terms of features, the E66 should satisfy even the most demanding user. In addition to HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with the A2DP profile are available. The handset works with Microsoft Exchange Server as well as e-mail accounts like Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Setting up an e-mail account is easy; entering your name and password automatically searches for the settings required, and we were up and running in just a couple of minutes. The E66 also includes a GPS receiver along with the Nokia Maps application.

Wi-Fi. This handset comes armed with Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 g) support. All security standar

ds are supported, including WEP , WPA , WPA 2, with other advanced settings available. Unlike the NSeries, the E66 doesn’t support Universal PnP (UPnP). Although, it boasts the WiFi Wizard, which can search and tap into available networks in background mode.

Bluetooth. The phone comes with Bluetooth v2.0, with support for EDR. The following profiles are supported:
A2DP
AVCRP
BIP-ImagePush
DUN-GW
FT-Server
HandsFree-AG (1.0)
Headset-AG
OBEX
OPP-Client
OPP-Server
SIM Access-Server

The ESeries devices have always been worlds apart from other S60-powered devices in the way of software. Some apps and options that were tested on these phones in the first place are now becoming par for the course in the rest of the company’s portfolio, but some still remain the trademark features of the ESeries. A great feature is the ability to switch between business and personal modes. You can edit a number of settings, including enabled applications, notifications and themes. You can then toggle between the two modes — for example you could block access to your work e-mail while using the personal mode.The desktop mode has been revamped a little – now at the bottom there are three icons standing for missed calls, messages and voice mail. If there are no events at hand, the corresponding icon will vanish. Clicking on each thumbnail will make a pop-up with extra information appear on the screen.

Thanks to its, beefed up memory and a faster CPU (ARM11 running at 369 Mhz, against the E61i’s ARM9 and its 220 Mhz), the E66′s performance has almost doubled compared to the E61i. You can literally soar through all applications and menusm also the handset can have more applications running in the background at a time.

The E66 is a fair but not great device for multimedia. It has a 2.5mm headphone jack, but you’ll need to purchase an adapter in order to use a standard pair of headphones.The E66 utilizes a 3.2 Mpix CMOS camera with auto-focus. I shall say that the quality you get with the E66 is what you’d expect from this type of camera- it is fairly decent for a business-minded phone, but can’t stand comparison to today’s imaging-savvy solutions. The 3.2-megapixel camera with flash and autofocus is handy and you can save your photos to the 2GB microSD card included in the sales package.

You can go for one of the following resolutions:
Print 3M – Large
Print 2M – Large
Print/e-mail 1M – Small
Multimedia message 0.3M

The maker doesn’t provide the real image resolutions, so we take this duty in our own hands. The following resolutions are utilized in the abovementioned modes: 2048×1536, 1600×1200, 1024×768, 640×480 pixels. The picture size averages 1 Mb, 600-700 Kb, 250-300 Kb and 75-100 Kb respectively. You can’t adjust the picture quality settings with the E66.

The handset utilizes the digital zoom feature topping out at x20, moreover, there are “normal” and “enhanced” zoom – the latter allows reaching the maximum magnification, yet some artifacts slip into your pictures. When using the standard digital zoom, though, these artifacts are not all that discernible. And since you can perform just the same zoom-in in any graphics editor, using it while shooting is probably not the best idea.

For Web browsing, the Nokia browser conveniently supports flash. Navigation, despite the lack of a touch screen, is excellent. We managed to browse sites like YouTube without any major issues.

Let me tell you one thing no browser comes close to Nokia’s browser due to the various standards it supports, except for may be opera mobile, Iphone safari does’nt support flash and other few standards though the experience is fine.

Some consumers may actually face the dilemma which phone to go for – the Nokia E66 or E71. And this is especially true in view of their identically hefty price tags and same functionality. In my opinion if you aren’t sweet on emails and messaging and generally don’t need a full-featured thumbboard, then the E66 is the way to go – its rotating screen will give you the same level of comfort when viewing photos and videos anyway.

Audio & Speakers
Number of speakers – 1

Data Services – Messaging Capabilities,Email, SMS, MMS

Data Services
GSM, GPRS, WAP, EDGE, 3G, UMTS, HSDPA

Video capture
Yes

Digital Camera Effects – Normal, sepia, black & white, negative
Camera Resolution – 3.2 MP

Other Camera Features
CMOS sensor, autofocus, LED flash, Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction, Flash operating range: 1 m, White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent, Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step, Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video, Scene modes: automatic, user defined, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait, Full-screen viewfinder with grid, Active toolbar, Dedicated camera key, Landscape (horizontal) orientation, Share photos with Share on Ovi

Digital Video
Digital video format – MPEG
Video resolutions – 128×96, 640×480

General
Available Colours – Black, Silver
Length (mm) – 49.5
Width (mm) – 13.6
Height (mm) – 107.5
Weight (g) – 121

Input Devices
Input Devices
5-way Navigation, Buttons

Main Display (Internal)
Display Technology – QVGA
Colour Support – 16.7M Colours
Screen size – 2.4 in
Screen Resolution – 240×320

Multimedia Features – Ringtones Type, Digitised Audio

Inbuilt Camera – Yes

Built-in Microphone ( Mobile ) – Yes

MP3 Player – Yes
Voice Recorder – Yes
Picture Viewer – Yes
Video Player – Yes
Speakerphone – Yes
Keypad lock – Yes
Profiles – Yes
Predictive text input – Yes
GPS – Yes
Handwriting Recognition – No
Modem – Yes
Vibrating Alert – Yes
Java enabled – Yes
Video calling – Yes
Organiser – Yes
Stopwatch – Yes
Alarm clock – Yes
Calculator – Yes
Calendar – Yes
Phonebook – Yes
Games – Yes
Cradle – No
Case – No
Headphones – Yes
FM tuner – Yes
Video Recorder – Yes
Text Viewer – Yes
Mass Storage – Yes
Antenna – Internal
A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) – Yes
Phones
Form Factor – Slide
Talk Time (minutes) – 450
Standby Time (hours) – 264

Power Options
Battery Type
Rechargeable – (Li-Ion)

Software
Operating Systems – Symbian (Series 60)V3
Supported Audio File Formats – AMR NB, AAC+, AMR WB, AAC, MP3
Supported Video File Formats – MPEG-4, 3GP
Supported Picture File Formats – JPEG

Wired Connections – Wired Terminals / Ports
Headphone Jack – Number of Headphone Jack Ports 1 (2.5mm)

Wireless Connections
Wireless technology supported – WLAN 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, HSDPA/UMTS: Tri-band 850, 1900, 2100MHz, Infrared