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E or N-Series; what's the diffrence?

widianuser | 16 November, 2006 21:37

Some days ago Gabor Torok wrote in his blog about his intentions to buy an E-series terminal but buying an N-series device instead. After reading about his experiences I began to wonder what are the "hidden" differences between E and N series devices. So I took E60 and N93 and started to compare those with intention to find out the differences that are not mentioned at the Forum Nokia device specs.

The result was that although there are some differences "Enterprise terminal" and "Multimedia computer" are not very far from each other - which is of course not a big surprise because both are running the same platform.

Here are the differences I found:

E60 has reply-to setting for IMAP accounts
E60 can display email headers on active idle screen
Message item listing for E60 can be displayed either 1 or 2 rows high
E60 has IP-passthrough option for USB-connection
N93 has image printing and media player options for USB-connection
N93 can synchronize bookmarks with SyncML
Application installer for E60 will reject unsigned applications by default
E60 has VPN, Internet telephony and instant messaging applications
E60 has Navigation and Landmark applications
E60 has Voice aid application
E60 has Screen export application to send screen contents to data projector whereas N93 has TV-out
E60 has printing application with support for network printers
Terminals have different applications installable from Catalogs application. For example: E60 has complimentary subscription to WorldMate

Finally a note about SyncML client in both devices: it will not accept an encrypted connection to server if server's root certificate is not installed to terminal. Instead of seeing the familiar "This site has sent an untrusted certificate..." the application just displays "Server not responding" and cancels the synchronization. Thanks to common platform this "undocumented feature" appears in both devices.

Have you noticed some other (non-obvious) differences between these devices?