Nokia E61
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- Pankaj
- RK2
- 25 Aug 2006
I have recently bought a Nokia E61 and am using it with Blackberry Connect available on my service provider.In one word: outstanding.The complete business mobile without it being bulky or cluttering your pockets.All the standard features and more. And it is so reasonably priced!
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- Afro
- BuL
- 25 Aug 2006
@machani: and they've done right!!!
camera & Touchscreen would only push the price. especially the camera makes no sense for most user needing a business phone.
Hey, dudes out there, don't behave like this is the only phone by nokia with business capabilities. this is just the one for guys who don't need a camera...
this "camera-discussion" is part of this forum since the first comment appears... i'm sooo tired of that :-)
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- Adam
- yZx
- 25 Aug 2006
Yeah my name is Adam I'm in a band called Promise Ruin. OMG this fone is so Kool!!!!!111!!!
Does n e 1 no if dis fone got Infrared?
OMG I LUV IT!
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- Machani
- jek
- 24 Aug 2006
Dude, it's not the engineers who forgot to add the camera and touchscreen, it's the marketing guys and designers who decided not to have those features. If you want those features, look at Nokia e70.
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- Anonymous
- wu4
- 24 Aug 2006
no sorry...everyone made mistake.
nokia engineers just forgot the camera & touchscreen.
just imagine what next mistake they will have.
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- Anonymous
- NP@
- 24 Aug 2006
FYI: To be clear the E-62 is not an update of the E-61. The E-62 lacks WiFi and 3G support.
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- Anonymous
- PxX
- 24 Aug 2006
By far one of the best business solution mobiles available today. Is not too bulky at all and very very user friendly.Is compatible with almost every email application available. Very Good!!!!
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- stylinexpat
- PA9
- 24 Aug 2006
I have the Nokia E60 and it has the same bug or problem in its contacts as well. Once you synchronize your contacts with the Microsoft Outlook the device becomes extremely slow and it takes forever to open up any contact that you may have listed in your contacts. This device is extremely slow. The other Problem that I noticed which exists is that the WLAN is always on and can not be switched on and off like in my PDA II Device. Now the thing is looking for wireless Lan all day long using up and eating up all the battery. This Wireless feature can not be turned off or on but is constantly on so it drains the battery and is at high risk of pciking up bugs and viruses. My phone keeps asking me to send out sms messages all day long now. It askes " Allow sim card to send SMS Message?" I close the application by typing no. Last month I had over 80 SMS messages that were sent out of my phone without my approval or knowledge while I was overseas. As much as I like this phone these bugs in this new E60 phone are quite irritating! The E61 should be the same since they are running similiar software I assume.. I would wait on buying any of these devices until a firmware is available with an update to address these two issues for te contacts and WLAN.
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- Anonymous
- wYG
- 24 Aug 2006
There is an update of this phone called E-62
http://www.mobile-review.com/news.php?language=en#news10267
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- Machani
- jek
- 24 Aug 2006
Phil and waters, the answer is yes and yes!
Do yourself a favor and book mark these sites:
http://www.e-series.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E61
Don't make us hold your hand!
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- phil
- nEm
- 23 Aug 2006
i've been happy with blackberry for 3 years but thinking of switching to the e61? does it pick up email in the same way and just as easily?
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- waters
- TS{
- 22 Aug 2006
Anyone know if the E61 supports MS Outlook email syncing using PC Suite? As far as I know only the 9xxx series can do that.
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- Trat
- SkW
- 21 Aug 2006
PT1r: 3776 contacts, wow! Are you in fact Puff Daddy, or a other popstar? I guess you must be calling and emailing the whole night and day! LOL!
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- Anonymous
- PT1
- 21 Aug 2006
Firstly I would like to start by saying I thought this would be a great device - memory, 3G, Wifi, SIP, Keyboard!!!
Unfortunately, it's turned into a nightmare of bad software.
I have been a WindowsMobile user for 4.5 years - having held onto my O2 xdaIImini for 18 months. It's been great.
1st impressions with the E61 were great - nice keyboard, Wifi worked immediately.
However, all great impressions died when I was unable to use my contacts.
Let's face it, we buy a brick like this (according to my kids it's a brick!) with no camera because we want to use it for real business work, contacts, calendar, email[s], web.
I have 3776 contacts in my Outlook contacts database.
They all loaded fine in all that memory!
However, there is a HUGE bug in the Symbian contacts application that means that if you have more than a certain number of contacts with the same initial letter (let's say "a" - 122 lastnames beginning with “a” and 295 last names beginning with “a” - Total: 417 names beginning with “a” for Symbian Contacts to search thru & display.
Well, you guessed it, it can't handle it - Contacts crashes with a "not enough memory" - even though there is over 60M onboard RAM free!
Now, Contacts crashes for "a", "c", "l", "m", "p", "s" and "t". It's a showstopper.
Understand this - you cannot make calls from the contacts application to any of these people - the only way to dial them is to know the phone number for them. It's like their not in your contacts database - because contacts crashes as soon as you type any of those letters as the first entry.
Worse, your caller ID for those names does not work - so no longer does XXX XXX XXX translate to Fred Flintstone - nope, you just get the number - so you cannot tell if friend or foe is calling.
But worse, you cannot email these people either!!! Fantastic.
It's clear to me that the Symbian engineers must have a small circle of friends!
Now I would not have emailed this site if someone from Nokia support had been helpful.
my network provider pushed me directly to Nokia support (fair enough) and after discussing, clarifying, re-clarifying and [hopefully] getting them to understand the issue - no mean feat with their call center let me tell you - they promised to come back to me within 2 working days to let me know what they had found out "is it a bug, will there be a resolution date within 4 weeks".
I told them that if they could tell me that the problem was real and could be fixed within 4 weeks, then I would keep the phone, else, this is a pure showstopper and I would have to ask for a refund.
THings then got interesting. Nokia policy is not to refund, it is to replace. Hmmm I asked, then what will you replace it with...another E61 with the same problem? [you guessed it, the Call Center did not getit!]
Anyhow, no response from Nokia support. Not a dickybird.
I am asked by everyone I meet why I have a brand new Nokia E61 and an O2xdaIImini and I say "because one works and the other receives calls".
Yes, the WindowsMobile phone can handle that number of contacts and has done since day one 4.5 years ago when I switched from Treo to WindowsMobile.
Further, the Symbian Contacts application does not accept all of the notes information aassociated with a specific contact. So, if you have a lot of notes in a contact, WindowsMobile copes with it fine - but Symbian (version on the E61 anyway) does not have a large enough text field to accept the data.
The hardware and packaging are beautiful in this phone.
It is light, great keyboard, slim and rugged enough - but let down by an operating system that clearly was not designed for business - which is a real shame because that's originally where the Psion team were headed.
I'd love to have Nokia sort this phone out - but have received no assistance so far - it's like they don't care...and I want to shake them and say "guys, this device could set you apart and bring the blackberry and windowsmobile folks over" - but the devil is in the details - and Nokia - a great design company are let down by the software.
That's my 2 cents. If they come back to me tomorrow with acknowledgement of the bug and a time to resolve, I will (a) stick with the device and (b) post to let you all know.
if not, and you are a business user/road warrior who really uses your contacts and your mobile phone as your primary business tool - you decide.
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- Alex D
- jEh
- 20 Aug 2006
I'm writing this from my e61. This pda is really amazing! First of all having WLAN and being able to access the internet anywhere without using my cellphone network connection is incredible. This phone is perfect for the small business owner. It's exploding with features. My life is so much more organized now. Top rating.
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- Anonymous
- 2WH
- 20 Aug 2006
how is the browser in this mobile is it close it to one windows
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- rx
- F4p
- 18 Aug 2006
just knew www.nokme.com from E61 wikipedia website yesterday. and today the owner Pasha posted here :)
i'm not sure if E61 beats P990. but i'm very pleased with E61 features and price. i bought E61 on 1 aug and never regret.
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- Pasha
- mib
- 18 Aug 2006
E61 is the best smartphone I was using, even SonyEricsson P990 is not so useful for me as E61, I've even created blog dedicated to E61 You may even use Skype and SIP on this phone.
Pasha - NokMe.com
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- Afro
- BuL
- 18 Aug 2006
i have a problem like the one of wYGs, but in different direction: i do not want to see the attachments of HTML-emails with the wap browser but with the full html-browser. is there any option in SyOS, like in windows, to assign a document type to an application?
many thanks in advance
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- Anonymous
- wYG
- 18 Aug 2006
I just wanna ask on how i can configure my Nokia E61 cellphone that whenever i log or browse the internet i can view it as if in a WAP style. The screen is too small compared to desktop that's why im having a hard time browsing the internet or connecting to my account in Yahoo and Google. Hoping you may help me concerning this matter. Thank you