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Nokia E61 Unlocked Smartphone with 3G, Wi-Fi, MP3/Video Player, MiniSD Slot--U.S. Version with Warranty (Silver)
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Manufacturer: Nokia

List Price: $399.99
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Average Customer Rating: -

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Name: Rob
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-10-20
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Beware the Astroturfer!
Comment: If the "reviewer" Scott Lingren really works for Nokia as a Director of Product Marketing, then I have these comments for him:

1. The astroturf-like "review" (quotes intentional and required) was for the E62, yet it was posted on the E61 product page. Lame on you, Mister Marketing Flack.

2. If you're going to "astroturf" (not exactly the right term, but it's close enough), could you at least make the slightest attempt make your "review" sound like something other than a marketing flack's press release? Lame on you again, Mister Marketing Flack.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reviews. Thanks for reading, fellow Amazonians.

Disclaimer: I have not tested the E61. I rated the E61 4 stars, because I had to leave a rating. Based on my analysis of its current reviews, it probably merits a 4 star rating.


Name: Thomas Corbett
Location:
Date: 2007-02-05
Customer Rating: -

Summary: good, but important flaws
Comment: This is my first smartphone, and my expectations were high, that is why I give it a 3 stars. It does have a good performance, and now that I am used to it I cannot live without it (but I would switch to a phone that would solve the "bugs").
Problems:
1. there is no way to connect to a wifi by itself, and then use all applications as you like (web, e-mail, etc). You have to connect to a wifi using an application.
2. The phone freezes very often, and as there is no ctrl-alt-del and not even the on-off button will work, I have to remove the battery and then restart the phone.
3. Not a lot of software available for Symbian OS.
4. For those that are used to Palm OS, the basic applications are sub-standard

Maybe next version of it will solve some of these problems.


Name: Umesh T
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: 2008-01-08
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Lots of weak spots; come let's take a walk on the "other side" ...
Comment: First off the bat, when it comes to the GSM wireless space, nobody does better than the Nokia cell phones. Voice reception is great and is always the best in class (as all other Nokia phones that I have experienced do!); nothing betters it -- iphone, Motorola, Sony Ericsson etc.

Most would have read all the good things about it in the other reviews and they're not lying. But let's have a closer look at the "darker underbelly" of this monster (so to speak)...

MP3 MEDIA PLAYER:
As we all know, this phone plays MP3s and accepts a miniSD Card. So here I am brandishing my 1GB miniSD card all ready for my first MP3 cell phone dreaming of carrying hundreds of songs in my pocket wherever I go ... Perish the thought! Around the time I upload 80 or more songs, the phone starts going crazy; it freezes when you try to access the media player to play the songs, the music library's playlist keeps having amnesia every now and then that you need to keep telling it to update the playlist. And how do you ask it to scan the storage to update the playlist ... you need to go through FOUR layers of menu to reach "update music library". And every day or two you find that the media player's playlist has gone back to either 0 or 7 songs in its playlist.
At 80 songs, it takes forever (ok, about 20 minutes --- but why in the world would you need 20 minutes to update a playlist???) to update its library. The best I could manage was a 110 tracks playlist that went with me for about a week ... and that too it would "happily" turn up with only about 95 of them. I seriously wonder *WHO* wrote the software ... and this is the latest version of the OS that I downloaded from the Nokia website.
Let's just forget about carrying video around.

PICTURE GALLERY:
Upload any large picture about 150KB in size and you are going to have a major problem if you try to access the "Gallery" the phone freezes for at least 5 minutes and you can even get back to the main screen even after pressing the red "hang-up" button. The solution --- wait out the 5 minutes, or press the "magic button" to shut down the phone and restart ... wait this sounds so familiar (CTRL+ALT+DELETE anyone?) and it's not even MS-Windows!

USER INTERFACE RESPONSIVENESS:
The interface is very sluggish to say the least. Access "Notes" and it takes at least a good 1 sec for it open up the notes application. I know you must be saying "1 sec? What's so bad about that superman?" The point is for such a light weight application (and after using any other phone) you expect these things to be instantaneous --- a newbie may think he/she didn't press the button and might even press it harder a second time (I did it quite a few times) ... but I can live with that ! (Can't we all?)

THE MUCH TOUTED SKYPE SUPPORT:
It's over hyped and nothing like it leads you to believe! You don't save any money anyway as it doesn't support VOIP on skype over Wifi. All it allows is for you to initiate a skype call from your computer to your cell phone if you want to make a long distance call through your cell using skype (most probably international since most cell phones have domestic long distance anyways) --- either ways you don't save any money as you spend airtime on receiving the skype call (if it's out of the weekend/night time-band) and you don't need it if it's weekend/nights as you get the free airtime anyways! Besides, you need to have a "skype-out" account which entails a $30 annual subscription fee.

I haven't tried the other VOIP features as it's a paid subscription service.

1-800-DIAL-A-WORD:
The ugly side of the QWERTY keyboard is that it's hard to dial a number listed as 1-800-ACME-HELP since the letters are all set differently. Ergo, you will always need the numeric version or you'll have to work it out yourself which is not such a great thing if you're in a hurry or have frequent attacks of brain-fade.

WISH:
I wish it had support for stereo Bluetooth headphones.

CONCLUSION:
Why do I stick with it, and why 3 stars? Because it does a very good job as a cell phone, its Wifi support is decent and nothing to complain about, it's got a full browser (with RealPlayer support for limited YouTube usage), has full JavaScript support instead of a wimpy WML browser, and the usual battery recharge is about once every 3 to 4 days unless you're in love or terribly home-sick --- then you might have to recharge every single day but that would be the least of your problem once you get your monthly statement (but I digress!).



Name: IT Developer
Location: Centennial Colorado
Date: 2007-03-17
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Not as good as I hoped
Comment: 1. It never successfully connected to internet or sent email via using the wifi or wlan.
2. It does not have a generic text editor that can be used to open the text file of different file type qualifiers, such as a .cpp or .java file without first needing to rename the program files to a .txt file.
3. The editors in the phone do not have the "Save As" option and are rather primitive.
Maybe Nonia simply does not care what the users need?


Name: Neusa Hirota
Location:
Date: 2006-10-31
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Very Disappointed at Nokia E61
Comment: I am a business executive and heavy user of PDAs. I was very satisfied with the Sony Clies and Palms I have owned along my life. The Symbian system used by several phone manufacturers is EXTREMELY LIMITED in terms of program availability.

Regardless of Nokia's marketing of E61 as the state of the art in telephones, they should be more concerned about the FULL CAPABILITIES they may offer. For a device that claims to be supportive to executives, it lacks programs for productivity and even games (yes, executives like good games too), so common and assorted for Palm OS products.

I am sorry I won't be able to exchange my device at this moment, since I just bought it!What a poor deal.


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