Looking for a smartphone that isn’t going to break the bank? Look no further than Dell.com who from now until the end of January is selling the Nokia E5, fully unlocked, for just $150. It usually retails for $240, so this is one heck of a bargain. For that amount of cash you get a 5 megapixel camera, 2.36 inch screen with a 320 x 240 pixel resolution that can do 256,000 colors, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, quadband GSM/EDGE, and triband 10.2 Mbps HSPA. One model will do 900/1900/2100 Mhz, and another variant will do 850/1900/2100 Mhz. Both of those variants sadly don’t support either T-Mobile’s 3G nor AT&T’s high speed network. The whole thing weighs 126 grams, is 115 mm x 58.9 mm x 12.8 mm, and most impressive of all is the amount of battery life Nokia has managed to squeeze out of a 1200 mAh battery. They say this thing will get 29 days of standby time, 18 hours and 30 minutes of talk time on GSM or 5 hours and 30 minutes on 3G.
If you’d rather tie yourself to a 2 year contract then you can get pretty much any high end smartphone you want for less than $200, but the benefits of unlocked devices are that they work on any GSM network, useful if you’re traveling abroad, they don’t have any operator software, which in many cases slows down the device, you’re also going to get software updates faster, instead of waiting for your operator to push it over the air if they even bother to at all, and best of all you can use your device as a modem without having to pay extra for the feature.
So … how do you get this deal? Click this link which leads you to the Nokia E5 on Dell’s site, add it to your shopping cart, and then apply coupon code “K140H5WFQ0GK30”. That’s it. You even get free shipping!
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