How can something this small turn someone so big? The Nokia E75 is the answer, and you're hearing this from a bigshot who just got hold of the recent update from the renown Nokia Eseries.

Gentlemen, a good day to you, and allow us to introduce to you the new Nokia E75. Let us now begin the discussion.

We were pretty impressed with the Nokia E75, and we talked not just about the design but of the many features from such a small gadget.

The E75 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard but, please take note, a chunk it is not at 111.8 x 50 x 14.4 mm and a volume of only 69 cc. Compact, we believe, is the right word.

Design-wise, the Nokia E75 has a steel slender back that more than made up for the quite unexciting front -- which is forgiveable once you get a feel of the solid-looking, chrome-framed keyboard.

The ambient light sensor and the video-call camera are at the top of the front panel, either side of the earpiece. Below is the 2.4" display, followed by the D-pad. It has a programmable LED in the center that can be set to indicate missed events or simply serve as a standby breathing light.

There are eight system keys, level with the D-pad, including the usual Call and End keys and two soft-keys. The end key doubles as a power switch.

The other four keys around the D-pad are menu, backspace and the typical E-series one-touch keys for calendar and messaging -- the last two can be programmed to serve whatever purpose you like, two commands assignable to each of them.

The back of the handset plays host to the loudspeaker grill and the 3 megapixel camera lens. Next to the lens are the LED flash and a small self-portrait mirror.

Nokia E75 runs on Symbian 9.3 OS with the Series60 3rd Edition user interface. It has Feature Pack 2, is powered by a 369 MHz CPU. In Symbian smartphone, navigating the menus is pretty fast with instant response to key presses and no delays whatsoever.

The E75 comes with the new S60 icons, similar to the one found on the 5th edition and brings some new accelerometer-based functionality. This includes automatic rotation of the display plus silencing calls and snoozing the alarm by flipping your phone over or tapping the display.

By the way, if your Nokia E75 gets stolen or lost, you simply send a coded SMS message to remotely lock the phone. After three unsuccessful attempts of to unlock it, it wipes itself clean of all personal or sensitive info. You might not get your Nokia E75 back, but at least nobody will get your personal data either.

Predictive search, contact database back-up as well as grouping are also available. A nice extra is the setting to search for contacts on a remote server (Mail for Exchange or Intellisync).

Nokia E75 features the really nice Smart dialing feature, which helps you quickly find a contact straight from the standby screen. All you need to do is type a few letters and all contacts with names (first or last) containing them get displayed. Working with both the keypad and the keyboard it is certainly the best way to access your contacts without even opening the phonebook.

The music player of the Nokia E75 is still pretty decent.There is a huge number of audio formats supported including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA. M3U playlists are also managed seamlessly and transferred files are added to the music library trouble-free by choosing the refresh option.

The player comes with five equalizer presets, bass booster and stereo widening effect.

The Nokia E75 also includes support for the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which allows listening to music on a Bluetooth stereo headset.

The Nokia E75 features Real player for playing your video clips. The video player works in portrait or fullscreen landscape mode. The softkey functions are hidden in full screen so they don't get in the way, and they only pop up when a key is pressed.

Oh, look at the time. We still have a lot to say about the Nokia E75, and most of them are good. We may have to set another discussion for this, or better if you just get one.

Highly recommended, we must add.