In a nutshell:
The Nokia E71 is Nokia's greatest challenge to BlackBerry
yet. With full support for push email, attachment editing and web
browsing, Nokia have definitely parked their tanks on the BlackBerry
lawn. The E71 also features full multimedia capabilities, including
a 3.2 megapixel camera, video calling, and a media player. HSDPA,
WLAN, GPS and big battery power complete the package. It's available
in a choice of Grey Steel or White Steel. Best
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It's the Nokia E71 vs the BlackBerry
Bold for the title of best business phone of 2008! For the past
couple of years, BlackBerry have been carving out a niche as the
brand of choice for corporate users, with their winning combination
of full or near-full QWERTY keypads and push email systems. Nokia
have been steadily improving the user-friendliness and power of
their E series phones too, and now it seems that both BlackBerry
and Nokia have made a further leap forward and both landed up with
highly polished mobile communications devices. Whether you choose
the BlackBerry or the Nokia, you shouldn't go far wrong when it
comes to communicating on the move.
Both the E71 and the Bold offer a full QWERTY keypad,
with numeric keys situated in the centre. The Bold has a more refined
styling, whilst the E71 has more buttons to push and a more techy
look and feel. The E71's extra buttons are dedicated one-touch keys
for Home, calendar, contacts, and email. The E71 uses a Navi™Key
that works rather like the mouse pad on a a laptop and provides
accelerated scrolling for moving about the screen. This is arguably
a better input method than the BlackBerry trackball. The Nokia also
has software aids to text input, including automatic spelling correction,
auto-completion, and word candidate lists. The E71 is quite a bit
narrower than the Bold, making the keys slightly smaller, but has
the advantage of being much thinner. In fact, at just 10mm thickness
it feels almost flat, and makes the Bold (measuring 15mm) look huge
by comparison. Either way, both devices provide excellent support
for text input.
Nokia have equipped the E71 with one of their best
screens. Measuring 2.36 inches across, with a resolution of 240
x 320 pixels, this gives a good space for working on emails and
documents, or viewing web pages, but it doesn't have as high a resolution
as the Bold's screen. Nevertheless it's an excellent display, capable
of displaying 16 million colours and using an active matrix LCD
for good visibility and clarity, even in moderate sunlight.
The E71 can be used handsfree, with either a handsfree
speaker or a Bluetooth wireless headset, combined with both speaker-dependent
and speaker-independent voice dialling. You can set the phone to
answer automatically when using a headset or a car kit.
Messaging is what the E71 is all about, of course,
and it is well equipped for both push email and text messaging.
The device supports IMAP, POP and SMTP email protocols, as well
as Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email. Attachments are supported,
and the Quickoffice application lets you view and edit Word, Excel
and PowerPoint documents. We don't think that Nokia have caught
up with BlackBerry yet, but the email system is certainly usable.
The E71 is fully equipped for security, with
a keypad lock, remote lock and even encryption for data stored in
memory or on the memory card. Full support for Virtual Private Networks
is provided.
The phone is also strong on multimedia. A 3.2 megapixel
camera with autofocus and flash is included, and you can record
video in MPEG4 or 3GP formats at a resolution of 640 x 480 at 22
fps or 320 x 240 (QVGA) at 30 fps. A secondary front-facing camera
is used for video calling. The camera certainly beats the Bold's
camera without a doubt, although you might argue that for a phone
of this type, the camera is rather over-specified. The music player
can handle all common formats, and there's also an FM radio with
Visual Radio support. RealPlayer is used to playback video.
Like many smartphones, the Nokia includes integrated
A-GPS satellite navigation, with the Nokia Maps application pre-installed.
You can also use the phone for web browsing. The
built-in browser can handle XHTML, Javascript, stylesheets and Flash,
so is able to display most websites correctly. You can use the Navi™Key
very effectively to zoom in on web pages, a bit like the iPhone.
The E71 has excellent connectivity with support
for Bluetooth 2.0 (with Enhanced Data Rate), micro USB, WLAN and
even Infrared. The WLAN connection can be used to make VoIP calls.
A 2.5mm Nokia headphone socket is provided, so you can plug in a
compatible headset, but it would have been nice to have a universal
3.5mm jack, like the BlackBerry Bold has. The phone also features
FOTA (firmware updatable over the air.) A comprehensive suite of
personal organiser functions is included.
Battery life is very good, but the WLAN eats battery
power quite quickly, so you won't want to go without a charger for
too long if you're planning to make much use of this feature. Remember
to turn off WLAN when not in use! And the GPS too! The internal
memory of the phone is 110 Mbytes, plus the option to add up to
8 Gbytes of microSD card memory. Whilst many users may find this
to be sufficient, we'd have preferred to see a lot more internal
memory. The BlackBerry Bold comes with a 1GB or internal memory,
and we feel that the Nokia is under-specified in this department.
So, which to choose: the Nokia E71 or the BlackBerry
Bold? As usual, it's horses for courses. The E71 is significantly
more compact than the BlackBerry, is probably better built, and
has a much better camera. It holds its own when it comes to applications,
connectivity and battery life. But the BlackBerry beats the Nokia
when you consider the size of the display, its vastly superior memory,
its ease-of-use and power when it comes to configuring email, and
probably the keypad too. Don't get us wrong, the E71 is a great
device, and probably Nokia's best mobile office so far, but BlackBerry
still rules in the kingdom of mobile email.
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Features of the Nokia E71 include:
Series 60 3.1, Symbian 9.2 SmartPhone
3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash
and 4x digital zoom
Video camera with digital zoom
Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 240 x 320
pixels (2.36 inches)
Music Player (MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ formats)
FM radio with Visual Radio support
MP3 ringtones / video ringtones
Speakerphone
Voice memo recording
Messaging: SMS, MMS, email
(POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP protocols), Instant messaging with Presence-enhanced
contacts
Attachment viewer for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
and Excel
Symbian and Java™ MIDP 2.0 applications
Internet: xHTML web browser, Flash Lite 3.0,
WAP, GPRS, EDGE,
HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps
Connectivity: WLAN 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
with EDR, micro-USB, Infrared, data modem, 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
Memory: 110 Mbytes plus support for microSD
cards (up to 8 Gbytes)
Vibration alert
Quadband (850/900/1800/1900) plus 3G HSDPA
Size: 114 x 57 x 10 mm
Weight: 127g
Talktime: 4.5 hours (3G) - 10.5 hours (2G)
Battery standby: 400 hours (166 hours using
WLAN)
Nokia E71 Consumer
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Average
rating from 41 reviews:
Reviewed by Jonathan from UK on
19th Nov 2008
I think the comments are a bit on the harsh side. There really isn't
much wrong with the phone. Some say the build quality leaves a lot
to be desired, but it honestly isn't better or worse than your typical
handphone in this price range. The screen is decent and the slide
mechanism is slick and tactile. The Nokia Maps app is OK. GPS takes
a long time to achieve lock even with A-GPS. Google Maps on the
other hand locks on much quicker so I use that instead. The OS is
your typical S60. HSPDA 3G on Vodafone is fairly brisk and the browser
renders most HTML pages properly. Batterly life is decent and will
last a few days with moderate to heavy use. I really don't understand
why people are so disappointed with this phone. Rating:
Reviewed by ft from uk on 8th
Nov 2008
Got this phone today and have to say all round it is a good phone Rating:
Reviewed by Richard from UK on
5th Nov 2008
I rather like this phone. True, it's traditional without fancy touch
sensitive keys, but having used a Samsung U600 for the past year
it's great to no longer be deleting texts halfway through writing
them or accidentally closing applications I've got open. I use a
Samsung Omnia for work, but the Nokia 6210 is so much more intuitive
and user friendly. I really don't agree with the negative comments
about the build quality, but the vibrate option is more of a buzz!
The sat nav may not be in the Tom Tom league but that's like saying
the camera is not as good as my Canon SLR either! But hey guys,
it's a phone that is easy to use and does everything it needs to
without fuss. It may not have all the fancy bells and whistles,
but it doesn't have any real vices either. Rating:
Reviewed by Andrew from South Africa
on 3rd Nov 2008
I wrote a review about this phone when I got my first one, almost
two months ago. That turned out to be a 'Monday', phone and had
to be sent back to Nokia who replaced it with another E71. I've
now had this phone for a month and a half and have grown to love
it.It does everything I want it to do and more besides! I find the
GPS navigation to be a bit slow, it can take some time to lock onto
a position fix but other times it finds it quickly, so it may be
more of a satellite problem. I find the sound quality to be excellent
and compared to my previous two Samsung phones, (a D500 & D900i),
it's streets ahead! As this is my first smart phone, it took a few
days to get used to the software but now it's become very easy to
use. The only downside - and it's not the phone's fault, is that
I'd prefer a better carry case, as the Nokia case that comes with
the phone is a pain to use, especially if the phone rings whilst
it's in the case! I see that other cases are becoming available
oversea's, so hopefully they will begin arriving in SA soon. Apart
from that I would recommend this phone to anyone who is looking
for a business type of mobile. Rating:
Reviewed by Olivier from UK on
2nd Nov 2008
Excellent phone but no blackberry. The standard email client is
fine. Shame it doesn't offer the option to load more than the header
(can't read new email on the tube). It comes with push email but
only with exchange. Blackberry style push email is a beta download,
although it works pretty well. There is no support for html email.
The phone is great, sounds good, and easy and efficient to use.
Keyboard is really nice. Camera is ok for such a phone and outside
shots look good. No miracle in low light with just a single LED
flash. Browser is nice and has some support for flash, but the processor
lacks speed to really make it work. Good rendering of non flash
pages though, but why does it reload pages from the network rather
than from cache when pressing the back button ?But Opera makes up
for that. PIM apps are good and you can sync calendar, contacts
and todos over the air with OVI. Music sounds ok with the provided
headphones and should be good with good quality replacement. Buy
an adapter from 2.5mm to 3.5 mm or an a2dp bluetooth streamer. Best
phone I've had so far but I probably will go for a BB storm next
year, for the bigger screen, BB email and otherwise similar functionalities.
Rating:
Reviewed by george from uk on
1st Nov 2008
i've just read all the reviews below and to amend what hasn't been
mentioned, and what impressed me: it has even an eglish dictationary
built in - all international users, or non native english speakers
watch out! From '3' it comes with skype and virtually unlimited
usage of it. (good bye 100's of £ on bills for private overseas
calls.. )New version of this skype also enables text chat. It is
the FASTEST symbian phone i tried, they used to say that about n95
8GB, my current phone, but e71 is faster. Camera??yepp, it's not
an N series, a questionable downside though since this is a business
phone, my previous e61 didn't have any :) And saying it is a business
phone, it is surprisingly user friendly one, i got it for myself,
had to give it up to my girlfriend who fell in love with it and
who is anything but a business user, more of a skype chatter and
caller, plus some web. for those who only have seen this device
only on pictures.. you just HAVE TO TAKE IT IN YOUR HANDS! it's
so slim it'll amaze you and everything about it says plain: 'modern,
state of the art' and one last thing, in these days, phone must
be used with internet connection to have it's potential utilized.
web, skype, emails, downloads, ..i have to praise '3' here.. check
them out best regards Rating:
Reviewed by Kevin Okell from uk on
1st Nov 2008
Nokia E71: +ve: brilliant keyboard, stable OS (contrast with WM),
slim and light. -ve Outlook sync v poor with all day events - alarms
at midnight! volume keys only work in call, no threading of texts,
limited configuration of home screen, connectivity arduous - needs
some auto options, poor signal strength. Rating:
Reviewed by gerald gambatesa from wales
on 24th Oct 2008
just had upgrade to the navigator,and to be truthful did not like
it, heavy,awkward to use keypad whilst in motion,and found battery
cover had to take off.so decided to change it and try sony Rating:
Reviewed by dharmendra pewa from India
on 23rd Oct 2008
great phone I loved it a lot.... Rating:
Reviewed by Justin from Malta on
16th Oct 2008
Best nokia I've had - ever! Easy to use and there's a lot to use.
If you're after a business phone, there's no better alternative. Rating:
Reviewed by ryan from n.ireland on
15th Oct 2008
Was really lookin forward to this new handset, only to be let down.
Buid quailty is poor, cheapy cover and buttons, along with the never
ending freezing problems! Battery life very poor. After using nokia's
for 8years i think i have had enuf. Sony Ericsson seem to be the
new daddys!!! Rating:
Reviewed by nick sanchez from uk on
10th Oct 2008
I have had this phone for about 6 weeks now.... im really enjoying
it, i find it very easy to use, the keyboard, i thought would be
a problem but its turned out NOT to be the case. Push email is great,
tx messagin is great infact any messaging is a good experiance.
internet is cool and with its fairly big screen its easy to use.The
Sat Nav is the only let down, signal is really hard to come by,
but the maps are useful in anycase, camera is fine... i have read
people going on about how it never compares to a digital. A CAMARA
PHONE will NEVER COMPARE to a digital camara so please get over
it! the features that stand out is the VoIP, calling over the internet
is a fantastic feature to have on any mobile phone! the change of
modes is also a good idea, and the notification light gives it a
touch of class, the Battery life is fantastic, i did not expect
it from a nokia, especailly after using the N95. It lasts for about
3 days with constant use of features and the multi tasking feature
is also a good touch...i can go on, in general this phone can only
make nokia stronger. get it. Rating:
Reviewed by faisal albuainain from qatar
on 8th Oct 2008
its a really good mobile the battery is good it really helped me
to save my documents and its really better than my old sony ericsson
k850i and its outsanding go ahead and buy it worth it go nokia go
that is the phone i was wating for Rating:
Reviewed by George from England on
7th Oct 2008
I think you need a week to get used to this phone. I wasn't too
sure about in the first few days. Battery life wasn't great, now
it is much better lasting 3 days or so. The sat nav is good for
a mobile phone. Music player is easy to use and speaker is the loudest
I have owned. The camera is good once you get used to it..not as
fast as a digital camera but does the job.... I think if you are
after the best phone on the market, you need to look elsewhere...
but as a good all rounder this fits the bill just fine.. Just hope
it lasts until I can upgrade it in 19 months! Rating:
Reviewed by Buffalo Widow from England
on 5th Oct 2008
I cant fault this phone had it over a week and looooooooooooove
it, if anything changes i will report back Rating:
Reviewed by alann from spain on
4th Oct 2008
the sex in a phone ;) Rating:
Reviewed by Southgate from UK on
1st Oct 2008
very quick A-GPS system. The metal cover makes phone very posh.
Key is very smart, but may small for big men. Rating:
Reviewed by Jim from UK on 30th
Sep 2008
The phone does a soft reset when it receives some types of text
messages – a very annoying waste of time. I have not established
all the types that cause the reset; payment acknowledgements are
a certain cause, the nonsense is that these are often multiple messages
so the phone will soft reset four, or five times, if for example
you buy a travel guide. After an initial period when the phone would
switch itself off and on again for no apparent reason, it is now
after 6 weeks use, more stable. Internet access is not fast, even
where 3.5G shows on the screen. Many Internet features are pointless
with this screen size, navigating a page is a painful experience
in any of the many page shape, or size modes. Using Vodafone live!
as a web browser is a dreadful experience, the worst Internet surfing
software I have used on any device. Opera Mini, is a useful additional
free download, overcoming much of the Vodafone live! muddle. Mobile
gmail is tolerable for receiving and reading e-mail on the phone.
The keypad on this phone is too fiddly for composing any thing other
than a yes no reply. Mobile TV is too small to watch in any comfort
on the screen - you would have to be desperate to persist with the
many 3G drop outs you will miss whatever action there might have
been on the jerky pixelated images. The camera is much the same
as most phone cameras – not to be taken too seriously, only
useful if there is no other option. The most annoying feature of
the camera is that there is no way to turn off the inane simulated
shutter release noise, perhaps a measure of the ‘toy’,
culture that produced this phone. The camera produces acceptable
photographs in bright sunlight; tints need adjusting in photoshop
as there is otherwise too much magenta. In poor light the camera
is not good, producing very noisy images. The flash is too small
and weak to be of any real use. Movies are OK for capturing simple
action. The camera in Panorama mode gives fun results, after exposure
tweaks. Very slow to save images so don’t be in a rush if
you use this mode. Produces a 4.5cm wide photograph strip on A4
paper - a one shot wonder. Navigation gives some odd results, on
a trip, London - Glasgow - Edinburgh – London the directions
insisted on the most bizarre detours th rough the cities. I used
a Tom Tom 520T to compare results and always chose the more obviously
correct routes indicated by the TomTom – both devices have
traffic avoidance switched on so no excuses about by-passing jams,
there were none to avoid. Use of the navigator on foot is a cumbersome,
slow; fiddly operation the tiny keypad makes this near impossible
on the move. A fully charged battery might last an hour or two if
you leave navigation on, so don’t rely on this to guide you
home on foot. Overall a nice idea, poorly executed, too much going
on in a small fiddly space. Rating:
Reviewed by Colin A from United Kingdom
on 21st Sep 2008
I can't make my mind up about this phone... On the one hand we have
excellent build quality, and a very user friendly phone... Great
battery life..., very easy setup... On the other side..., as a web
browser, it's screen is too small and hard to find what you are
hunting for... The web mail also seems to work well, but again it's
fiddly.., and is just awkward.. The camera is also a bit average...
I guess you really need to sit down and work out what you consider
acceptable... I need a web browser, email and a good camera...,
and I need to easily use them... This and an iPhone are chalk and
cheese, no idea why they are compared… Close but no cigar!.. Rating:
Reviewed by Karta from Australia on
16th Sep 2008
I'm always a fan of QWERTY phones, especially Blackberry. But I
reckon this phone is better than Blackberry. I love it!!! Solid
frame, big nice screen, easy navigation, great feel, slim but still
easy to hold while you're talking. Unfortunately, this phone isn't
perfect. The camera is rubbish ... although it's 3.2 MegaPixel (supposedly
better than iPhone and Blackberry), but the quality of the photos
are just plain silly. I love camera phones, but I stopped my habit
of taking pictures with my phone after I got the E71, because..
again.. it's rubbish. Also, I have experienced a few times when
the phone would hung and the screen would be greyish (although you
can still see the home screen and no button can solve this (not
even the Power button). The only remedy is to detach the battery
and reattach it. I would give it a 4.9/5 if I can ... Rating:
Reviewed by Asim from Kuwait on
14th Sep 2008
Nice phone, would rate it as a good business phone, but the downloads
are not easy to get. The GPS initially works well, but doesnt connect
all the time. Rating:
Reviewed by Yohan from Indonesia on
12th Sep 2008
I had this phone just for a week ago. I was considering to buy the
most complete feature of mobile phone. I've changed mobile phone
many times, but I've never bought Nokia for couple years since I
felt music sounds of Nokia is not good as Sony Ericsson. But after
few days thinking, I ended up with Nokia E71 which I feel now very
useful for my business activity. All features are great, just the
weak point is the camera result, is not good as another mobile phone,
like Sony Ericsson. I almost want to rate 5 stars, but since the
camera is not so good, then I give 4 stars. But overall, I'm satisfied
with this phone. Rating:
Reviewed by Andrew from South Africa
on 11th Sep 2008
I've had this phone 4 days now and although it looks very nice and
promises lots mine has been unreliable and full of problems. The
bluetooth took ages to sort out when connecting to a PC, the PC
Suite software said it had copied files to the phone but the phone
couldn't find them. Then the memory card data was corupted and now
the GPS appears to have packed in! The map function worked initially
but after 3 days goes to 30% when loading and then cuts out back
to the home screen. The dealer that I got it from says it will have
to go back to Nokia to be checked. I'm not very impressed as I always
thought Nokia was the best make of phone available. Rating:
Reviewed by mark from uk on 11th
Sep 2008
simpley rubbish! Rating:
Reviewed by richard from uk on
11th Sep 2008
i ahve now had the 6210 for three days, and i hate it. the battery
power is rubbish... if you do get the GPS to work then it will drain
the power in about 18mins. the whole phone feels cheep. and all
the buttons feel like they will easley fall apart.... what is the
point in have a navigator phone that wont navigate over all very
very poor phone Rating:
Reviewed by Simon from China on
11th Sep 2008
This is a one of the better looking Business Phone around. I am
impressed how easy to set up my Gmail account. This baby comes with
16M colors TFT display, latest Symbian OS 9.2 (Series 60 v3.1),
powerful 1500 mAh Li-Po battery, full QWERTY keyboard, memory expansion
up to 8GB using microSD card etc. Almost give 5 stars rating expects
some connection issue with PC suite using the USB wire (maybe the
firmware needs an upgrade). Well, life is not perfect, it does not
have the latest 10MP camera, touch screen feature, video editing
software and so on. But I am a still proud and happy owner of my
E71. Rating:
Reviewed by mathan from india on
10th Sep 2008
one of the best e71 mobile Rating:
Reviewed by Darren from UK on
2nd Sep 2008
Had this phone 2 weeks after having a problem-free N80, and it's
growing on me. The GPS is great and is accessed using a dedicated
button on the front of the phone. I bought an 8GB SD card and downloaded
the whole of UK, EU and USA for free, so will use this as I travel
for work. I use Garmin GPS in the car, which is better, but not
so good for when walking - the Garmin is too big to want to carry
around all the time whereas the 6210 drops into your pocket. It
has a compass as well, so once you do this 'wrist-dance' as explained
in the manual, the maps always orient around as you turn around.
This makes it so easy to see where you are and what streets are
around you. This feature impressed my friends the most, even my
mate with an iPhone. It also has that thing where if you turn the
phone on it's side, the screen adjusts to display things the correct
way around. This gives you more viewable area for watching movies.
It's a lot less of a brick than the N80, which is good for weight
and size, but the N80 was metal, like my wife's 6300, and this 6210
Navigator is plastic. For this reason I don't expect it to last
2.5 years like my last phone. My only complaint is that it has a
'new and unique to Nokia' USB connector, so my old mini-USB cables
don't fit it. This is VERY BAD NOKIA, although they do give you
one cable that fits. I need more than one cable though, so will
have to buy one from Nokia. The screen is brighter and sharper than
my old N80 and the wifes 6300 - it's very clear indeed, and with
a newly d/loaded black 'theme' it looks very classy. Buttons are
big enough for my banana fingers to txt ok, but not so big you'd
stock it in the section for the disabled. The 3.2mp autofocus camera
is sharp as well - again an improvement to what I'm used to. Bluetooth
seems to have a slightly better range than before, and the signal
strength seems a little better too. In fact apart from built-in
WiFi, I'd say this phone has improved on everything compared to
my N80 except build quality - there's nothing quite like a solid
piece of metal in your hand. The battery lasts 1 week for me. I
don't have many phone calls but when I do they are always >1 hr.
I have maybe three or four of these each week, so I guess the battery
lasts for 3 - 4 hours call time. Oh, I do turn it off overnight
though (ie from 2:00am to 8:00am). However long it lasts it's much
better than the N80 could ever manage. The blue glow around the
navi button is nice, and blinks more often if you've missed a call
or SMS, and an SMS reader application will read the text back to
you if you are a recent UK university graduate and can't read yet.
Just take a look at the photo above and think "would I want that
in my pocket / on my desk?" My answer was 'Yes please' and the more
I think about it, the more I like it. Within just one button press
on the first screen I can access Messaging, Message Reader, Contacts,
Phone logs, GPS, Calendar, International time Zones, Media Files,
Camera, Full Menu, one other application, and voice commands. All
without anything more than a SINGLE KEY PRESS on the closed phone.
This instant access to everything I use is great - no fiddling around,
just straight down to business. Was going to give it a 4*, but have
talked myself into a 5* instead - I can't think what I'd realistically
change for business purposes. Read other reviews for opinions on
music quality etc, as I use a separate and small MP3 player for
my music, not a phone. Rating:
Reviewed by GafZz from england on
28th Aug 2008
i just a hold of this phone and i think it is the best phone i've
ever had i change my phone erey 3 week but i am reconsiderind after
using this Rating:
Reviewed by Z.Mar from UK on
28th Aug 2008
It looks very smart. As Nokia other products, reliable and easy
users. Sometime GSM signal is not strong as others Nokia phones.
I guess the GSM antenna in the phone bottom. Rating:
Reviewed by Marcelo from Albania on
28th Aug 2008
I like this phone Rating:
Reviewed by gsc from UK on 26th
Aug 2008
Good points: - S60 interface is very quick and easy to use - very
configurable - Navigator software works really well - however the
licence for 'sat-nav' like directions is only for 6 months. Bad
points - Battery life is poor when 3G is on - 2 days maximum, even
with minimal use. Switch to GSM only to double the battery life
- doesn't use the standard mini-USB connector (like the blackberry
or motorola phones) on the phone which means more cables.... - the
keypad for numbers 1-3 is very close to the edge of the slider and
makes it difficult to dial/type using these keys - Navigator direction
software licence only for 6 months Rating:
Reviewed by biy from u.k on 25th
Aug 2008
this phone is good like me navigation sorry about englkish Rating:
Reviewed by Shahab from Kuwait on
25th Aug 2008
people looking for Better Mobile phone its its E71 Styleish slim
and with all new Features. Rating:
Reviewed by suzan from england on
22nd Aug 2008
absolutly love this mobile. have had many other phones before this,
but this one is the best by far. i would say the best offer would
be the one with 3. Rating:
Reviewed by Sen from UK on 21st
Aug 2008
This phone is one of the best phones launched by nokia. Texting
is quite good. Only thing is that you have to look at the key pad
when you type as due to the size of the key's typos can occur. The
keys in the center are much smaller than the sides. And since these
keys are used to dial, it can be quite tricky to dial in a hurry.
The installation file in the main menu some times may get stuck,
but then again that depends on the softwares installed. Once you
receive a mail/sms, u need to scroll down/up to either the message
option on the stand by menu or the message symbol at the bottom.
Its not just a one click read as many other phones are The phone
design is quite sturdy, and feels comfortable in any pocket, even
with the pouch. If your going for a qwerty, I would recommend you
to seriously consider this phone. P.s I think JR ewing below has
go the phone mixed up with some other model. Rating:
Reviewed by Tez from Uk on 21st
Aug 2008
Have had the phone for a few weeks now. Liking the phone as a phone
and a camera. I dont like the sat nav bit, it's to difficult to
work, costs money after 3 months, and found it very lacking in detail.
My house dont exist when I try to put it in as home favourite. The
camera is brilliant, cant fault it's picture quality. The music
player and radio are very good, only problem with radio is it will
put the station name over the saved number. The auto voice dial
button wont work as its set to be the link for Vodafone Live. Keys
a bit clicky, and sometimes had problems texting, But still not
that bad. This is deffo one phone you need to read the manual, it
has more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. One other
set back is the battery, I get two days out of it at most. Hoping
it will improve a little over time. Rating:
Reviewed by Andy from UK on 20th
Aug 2008
THis is one of the best phoens I've used- works brilliantly, battery
life is great, keyboard is excelelnt and it fits neatly into my
pockets. The only thing I'd really like would be a bigger screen
(not sure how that would be possible, I want a keybaord. Also (ok
2 things) tghe ability to book mark audio. Rating:
Reviewed by Mac from Scotland on
20th Aug 2008
Reply to JR Ewing below: What phone are you talking about as the
E71 has no slide that I'm aware of? Rating:
Reviewed by Tez from Uk on 19th
Aug 2008
Have had the phone about 2 weeks now,The good points. The camera
is excellent, the pano setting is brilliant. The texting is easy
the screen is wonderfull. The setbacks. The navigation software
is horrible to use. The battery life can be a little short at times,
The text to speech and voice recognition is very poor. The manual
says you can use the top right active key to activate the voice
commands, this dont work as it logs onto the net instead. The net
surfing is excellent. This is one phone where you really do need
to read the manual. I would give it 4 star as a mobile, but 3 because
its supposed to be sat nav, which is as i said to difficult to use,
Also you have to pay a subscription for the use of the sat nav software. Rating:
Reviewed by JR Ewing from Scotland on
19th Aug 2008
Well I "upgraded" to this from my trusted 6110 Navigator - the biggest
mistake of my phone owning life ! Within one week went through 3
chronically built handsets - creaky and uneven keypads, one very
dodgy slide and all 3 prone to cutting out at completely random
intervals. Difficult to know where to start with my loathing of
this phone... However, here goes. 1) Sat Nav is terrible and not
as good as the original 6110. For example a 12 mile journey for
me from my work to my home came up (Despite trying all settings)
as sening me on a 54 mile detour !! Absolutely crazy. Remember too
that voice navigation is only free for the 1st 6 months. A total
con. Camera is OK at best and has no lens cover on the back (unlike
the old phone) so loses marks for that. I could go on all day but
wont bother. Suffice to say my contract was ripped up and I'm back
using my beloved 6110 Navigator which in almost every way is a superior
phone to this. Rating:
