Nokia E61i
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- Nash
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- 03 Jul 2008
Tarek, 01 Jul 2008fantastic and practical phone
I currently have an HTC 3400 and want to move to a Nokia E61i, what is the battery life on this phone and is it user friendly .
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- jingjinf
- w0Q
- 03 Jul 2008
Fadioz, 30 Jun 2008I have been using this baby for quite some time and I think... morehi, i just wanna know if i can open MS word, excel docs in this fone? and is yahoo messenger supported by this fone?
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- Abed
- nCM
- 03 Jul 2008
I brought this phone on january.. It's great and I didn't face any problems with it except the screen. It's very sensetive!! Now my mobile's screen is broken and I have to pay $70 to fix it!!
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- samad
- vG2
- 02 Jul 2008
i am looking forward to buy this phone...just wan to know that can it handle office applications and other stuff without getting slow or hanging??
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- Archie
- T4n
- 02 Jul 2008
I have been using the E61i for a while;now the other day i did a phone memmory back of all my sms's ,on trying to retrieve them back has all been in vain.Could some one bail me out.
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- A Daw
- mq4
- 02 Jul 2008
This is possibly the worst phone I have ever used. The number of keystrokes needed to get around the menu is ridiculous. After a BlackBerry it is pre-historic and if my IT department had not forced it on me (for cost reasons) it would have been in the bin by now.
Slow, cumbersome, difficult to use - avoid if you can
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- Tarek
- T00
- 01 Jul 2008
fantastic and practical phone
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- Anonymous
- MsN
- 30 Jun 2008
nice phone
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- Fadioz
- 25L
- 30 Jun 2008
I have been using this baby for quite some time and I think its the best phone for you if you want to browse internet or use office applications...so much better than wiindows based sets!
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- gerishi
- LxF
- 26 Jun 2008
just got this phone and so far it's great, and it looks better in real than in the photos. also of note is even though its wide it fits in your pocket since it's slim.
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- winx
- wY5
- 26 Jun 2008
Jimmy, 26 Jun 2008I am planning to buy this phone(Nokia E61i),I am a heavy us... moreif ur a guy who looks for office aps. then this's the phone for you. full qwerty keyboard. no hastle in texting. u can take notes quickly & easly in the note pad. the exel is good, but not all functions from a pc is usable (thats wat the manual says), but the formulas still works. 2003 powerpoint from a pc download will not work. u need to make them directly into ur phone. u can also browse ur pdf files or email them directly to ur phone.
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- Jimmy
- N7D
- 26 Jun 2008
I am planning to buy this phone(Nokia E61i),I am a heavy user of Spreadsheets,Word Processors and Powerpoint,Does this phone support this formats.For example I send my data from a normal computer and get the same without limitations
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- vincent botolo
- fuH
- 22 Jun 2008
Guys let's enjoy our lovely toys, this is a magic phone I call it SUPER PHONE, yes there will always be the downfalls to any phone even the e90 when it arrives, there will still be someone complaining about one thing or another, for me, e61i is still the best so far.
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- edward
- ibe
- 21 Jun 2008
this month payday i sure go into nokia shop to carry this baby home. i compare this with blackberry and consider the pro n con i still go for nokia e61i. although my year end target is the powerful e90 communicator :)
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- DanT
- mYb
- 21 Jun 2008
raul, 07 Jun 2008I am NOT gonna buy the new E71i because its gonna be 400 eu... more@Raul
E71 is far better than E61i (specs i mean). Processor 369 Mhz vs 220 Mhz is 70% more processing speed + double RAM memory. That means A LOT faster. HSDPA 3.6 Mbs vs 3G 384 kbs - A LOT quicker on internet. MicroSDHC Cards of 8 GB or more (not sure if E61i supports more than 2 GB). A-GPS. Camera with autofocus, 3.2 MP and flash vs 2 MP with nothing. Video at 640x480x22 fps vs CIF (176x...). Radio. Even the battery seems to last longer - at least in the specs. A LOT smaller. I think will sell like fresh bread at 350-400 euro. Can't compare with Xperia which will be far more expensive or iPhone 3G which will be even more expensive (dont let yourself be fooled by the $199 price ... that is with a $1500 contract for 2 years, which most of the users dont need). Maybe HTC will be a serious competitor, but HTC is not a visible/trusted enough brand (even if I heard they are good). The only downside seems to be the screen, which is smaller, but the resolution is the same so I have no problem with that considering that the phone shrinked a lot and is not a huge brick any more. If you ask me, E71 is still too big for me and I'll probably go for the E66 as I can get along fine without QWERTY.
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- Sandile
- NaG
- 20 Jun 2008
This is a great phone. You can do any thing with it
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- Schiller
- upe
- 20 Jun 2008
The phone is simply amazing,the only drawback is tht its a bit huge,otherwise everything about this phone is worth mentioning,the battery lasts upto 2 days even after heavy usage,the sound is gud taking into the fact tht its a business phone,the camera is quite decent,the keypad is easy to use and the best part of this phone is its screen,the screen is so damn good that its an amazing xperience using GPRS on this phone.On a scale of 10 i wud rate ths phone an impressive 8.
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- Anonymous
- R1v
- 20 Jun 2008
I still think the E61i is the best choice if you want a QWERTY smartphone. I wrote a review last year and it still applies today:
http://mobilitynow.org/2007/05/06/nokia-e61i-review/
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- Rajan
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- 20 Jun 2008
I am so happy using Nokia E61i. This is a wonderful set with LOT of options!! Its internet browsing experience exceeds expectation. I love Nokia. But I think their after sales service is very poor in Bangladesh.
rajan962@yahoo.com
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- Hans D
- wr1
- 19 Jun 2008
Dear All,
I owned this device for 1 year already and also my brother in law, we're using the same device with different colors only. This device is really good anyway. Such as good and positive at:
1) Battery life (for standing by you can get minimum 3 days). For heavy user, me myself I usually get 2 days, 3 the maximum and recharge it to make sure the battery still available anywhere I go. For the battery price itself of course it is more expensive than the regular phone (non business type). This phone use the BP-4L type, similar to the one in E-90 communicator. So if you're trying to find a replacement dont expect a down to earth price.
2) The memory is definitely hot sway and from my personal experience is the largest transflash I ever used is the 2 GB capacity and yes everything works well except if the memory card's too full then sometimes you have to wait a bit for each and every application you're trying to open. But I think majorly for every phone this is still the same problem. It's just like unwritten rules that for the memory card itself you better not use it overloaded, which means if you want to have longer life and reasonable speed its better for you to spend around 20% of the capacity to make it work well, so if you use 256 MB disc size you can spend 200 MB of them and leave some space for a longer life for your memory card.
3) 3G, I think what's missing is second front camera which is really helpful if you're a heavy user on video call with other because you have to turn back your phone to the other side in order to see your opponent but this way you cannot see your opponent and when you want to see your opponent, they have to see blank display or whatever else around you by that time.
4) SMS are responsive in a normal way with your adequate provider and also its better if you download files (supportive one) from Nokia website such as SMS_Accelerator (yes, this is helpful and handy), and as my experience with this device is Nokia also providing you with the latest firmware they possibly have, like mine one, last week on June 2008 I upgraded my firmware with data-cable and now from the 2nd version now it become the 3.0633.69.00 and I've dont this upgrading formware twice myself with the same device, there's no problem, everything just run smooth (I am using cable speed). It might take 30-40 minutes and just follow the instructions in Nokia's website.
5) Charging, battery charging for this phone is normal (3-4 hours), normal remembering that this phone battery life also long last but yes I admit the charger with the small connector plug (to your phone) is trouble. Again, I am buying the official phone from Nokia Center and the charger broke down in the 8th month, yet I bought another same charger and everything fixed already. My community also facing this same problem with this charger type, with me myself we I've heard 4 case of this Nokia charger type alredy.
6) Handsfree and bluetooth, when I bought this device I do get handsfree cable within the package, they were fine, for my driving day I also paired this device with a COREGA brand bluetooth and everything works just fine, I also ever try to paired it with QOOL brand and also Logitech, just run smooth, nothing to worry about it.
7) Yes, it is slim, yes it is un-heavy but yes for those whose interested to change their phone housing/body casing you'll be bored since Nokia provide only 2 colors of the housing: mocca and black with also expensive price, you can check at your local dealer, for the non-original version one, you can find them but yet it's not east at all for this Nokia type.
8) Media, for the media player, the sound is you can say if the grading works from 1-10 my personal opinion would grade them 7-8.5. I cannot say that it's prefect but yes it's quite good really, it can read MP3,AAC,WAV and you have 5 options on equalizer: bass booster, classical, jazz, pop and rock. It's really enough anyway this is a business phone, not an I-Phone or Walkman series. The RealPlayer works really fine also. What I think is missing is the radio (we cannot listen to a radio through this device because it has none). The photo is 2 Mpix and the quality is around 8. This phone camera's still not a pro one (what I meant is we cannot take un-still photos or moving objects) and the object will surely move.
10) Connectivity is fine, I use to paired this with a bluetooth, nor in laptop or handsfree or other phone cell, Infrared works well, I only use to pair with laptop and PC, Wireless Fidelity works also well but really depends on your available channel and this really matter.
Overall, I am happy with more than 1 year of this phone, for information I am a cell phone heavy user for sms and also calls. Before this E61i my previous phone was SE P990, SE P910i, SE P900i, O2 X Phone 2, Sewon, and lots of other brand. My last P990 was sold because after almost used for 1 year I find problem with it, really slow, the camera often freeze and it says you can put up to 4 GB of memory stick duo but in fact I have to let go my 1 GB memory stick and use the 256 MB from San Disk in order to help that device works faster with my phone memory condition were still free more 60 MB and the used memory was around 30 MB (on phone). Before I sell that phone I already try to improve the performance first by upgrading my firmware but doesnt help. The battery life was good, the design was good also, but I experienced also the phone won't charge several times I have to plug and un-plug the charger but there's no problem at all for the charger and data-cable. For the support on the web they're almost the same, they have certain software updates and also guidance on how to this and that.
Hope this independent review helps all user.