Our correspondent gets a feel of the latest BlackBerry challenger in the market
IT MAY be dressed up as a business phone, but the E75 follows in the footsteps of last year’s E71, blurring the lines between business and pleasure in the process. With its arsenal of multimedia features, N Gage games and brilliant Internet connectivity, it can pose a serious challenge to the more stiff-necked BlackBerry brigade.

This straddling of opposites continues with the phone’s design—with a full slide-out QWERTY keypad and a conventional T9 keypad, the E75 has something to offer for everybody, whether you’re a predictive texting nerd or a two-handed QWERTY lover.
This is no X1 Xperia, however, and the dedicated one-touch shortcut keys clustered around the navi-pad are cramped and not so easy to use. We also found the whole T9 keypad a little difficult to use. But there is another input option and the slide-out QWERTY keypad makes up for its smaller sibling. You are on surer ground here and the flat and roomy keypad is a breeze.

The display is also quick to orientate itself to landscape mode when the QWERTY keyboard is in use. At 2.4 inches, the E75’s screen is a bit on the smaller side and we would have liked a bigger screen, especially since the phone has a full keypad.
The one ace up the E75’s sleeve is its BlackBerry rivalling push email setup. Setting up your personal email clients is easy — just enter your address and password and the phone will do the rest. You can add up to 10 accounts. We had our Gmail up and running in no time. Most protocols are supported, including Mail for Exchange, and of course attachments can be viewed on the phone. To add to this is the phones browser, which is literally something to write home about.

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