{"id":9175,"date":"2011-02-03T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=9175"},"modified":"2020-10-06T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T23:58:47","slug":"e7-near-release-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/9175\/","title":{"rendered":"E7 Near Release? New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womworld.com\/nokia\/\">WOMWorld\/Nokia<\/a> just sent me a a previously un-released video of the E7 along with a message that the E7 will be shipping &#8220;very soon&#8221;. The short clip (below) features Nokia designer Shungiro Eguchi speaking about some of the design ideas behind the phone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: the video has been taken down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent some time with the E7 at Tech.Ed Europe in November and was very impressed with the phone, especially the form factor and keyboard. It manages to pack a four inch screen and a very good hardware QWERY keyboard into a sleek all metal body scarcely any larger than that of the N8 or iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>A pocket-able device with both a touch screen and a physical keyboard is my preferred form factor.&nbsp; Touch screen keyboards are OK but I find myself typing much faster and with greater accuracy on a real keyboard. The E7&#8217;s keyboard is one of the best I&#8217;ve used on a phone. There are four rows of large, well spaced keys that have a decent amount of travel and very good tactile feedback.&nbsp; The keyboard also has directional arrow keys,&nbsp;something that I consider essential for text editing and clicking tiny image links in the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOMWorld\/Nokia just sent me a a previously un-released video of the E7 along with a message that the E7 will be shipping &#8220;very soon&#8221;. The short clip (below) features Nokia designer Shungiro Eguchi speaking about some of the design ideas behind the phone. Update: the video has been taken down. I spent some time with the E7 at Tech.Ed Europe in November and was very impressed with the phone, especially the form factor and keyboard. It manages to pack a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/9175\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1125,1440,1100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22629,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions\/22629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}