I found the E62's backlit QWERTY keyboard, just below the navigation buttons, roomy and comfortable to use compared to other small-device keyboards.

Along the left edge you'll find buttons for volume control and voice recording. Ports for the included power adapter, headset, mini-universal serial bus cable and infrared are located along the bottom edge.

The E62 comes with 80MB of internal memory. That's expandable, but you must inconveniently slide off the battery cover to access the miniSD slot, which accepts cards with capacities up to 2GB. It's odd that they didn't just punch a hole into the side of the cover to make the slot more easily accessible.

The device runs on the Symbian operating system (9.1, Series 60, third edition) and the interface is impressively clean and uncluttered.

Useful applications under the "Office" icon include the document viewer/editors, a calculator, voice recorder, currency converter, Web browser, file and sync managers and the setup for printing files from the device. You can also run slideshows from the E62 on compatible projectors.