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Nokia E61i Smartphone - Mocha (Unlocked)
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Manufacturer: Nokia

List Price: $449.99
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Average Customer Rating: -

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Name: trisha
Location:
Date: 2008-10-16
Customer Rating: -

Summary: phone wasn't for me
Comment: I purchased this phone from Amazon recently but ended up returning it. Although it seemed like a cool phone, it did not have some of the features I wanted. The main problems I had with the phone were:

1. Your only options for putting a repeating event in the calendar are daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly and yearly. If you have an event that you do the third saturday of every month or once every 90 days, you have to enter every event by hand.

2. From what I could see, the phone would only allow for .txt documents.

I figured for the amount of money I was spending, I should at least have the option of doing a .doc out of the box and being able to put in a repeat event.

I ended up purchasing the Nokia E71, however, I had the same problem with the calendar. I finally decided on one of the new Palm phones, which has all of the features I want. If you need to have the option to put in an event in the calendar at at times other than those listed above, be prepared to enter them all by hand.


Name: John Oram
Location:
Date: 2007-11-11
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Disappointing Smartphone
Comment: This review is written from the perspective of someone moving from a Blackberry or Treo. If this is your first smartphone, you'll probably like it. If you are switching from another device, you'll probably be disappointed. If you are trying to use this for business, you'll likely be frustrated.

My biggest frustration is with Mail for Exchange (and Mail in general). If you don't need to sync over the air with a corporate Microsoft Exchange Server, this bit isn't for you.

First, some good things.

- MfE syncs quickly, sometimes even before my laptop.
- MfE was easy to install and set up.
- Battery life is great, on par with the Blackberry.
- Very easy to switch between email accounts using the D-pad.

Now the bad/ugly:

- Let's go through the steps it takes me to send a new email:
-- Why is `text message' the top option and "E-mail" the bottom option when I'm *already* in MfE and making a new message?
-- Why do you ask me which account to use when I choose E-mail, especially how quickly I can switch between them? 99.9% of the time I want to write an email in the account that I'm in.
-- Why do you make me jump to *another* dialog box for Corporate Lookup? Why not just give me an option to look up the name I typed in the to or cc line and come back with a list? The lookup itself is also incredibly slow. It probably takes me 30 seconds to get the name in the field. On the blackberry I've already typed and sent the message (and probably sent another 3 emails).

- I can't click on a phone number or link in the email. WTF? The Treo's been able to do this since they were Handspring. Someone sends me a number in an email and I'm supposed to copy/paste? This is not fun for dialing into conference calls.
- No auto-replace, e.g. youre -> you're. Try typing "I'd", I dare you. Annoying as hell. Why is the apostrophe buried under the slash key?
- No ability to turn off notification buzz when in silent mode. This is really annoying.
- Why don't you give me the option of downloading the whole message? Sure would be nice to be able to read the whole message on my flight, not just the first 2K.
- You can't sync notes? Come on.
- Don't get me started on the initial sync wiping all contacts and calendar entries. Here's a radical notion -- make a group called "Exchange" in both my contacts and my calendar. Delete that one all you want, but leave my personal entries *alone*. I know that this is probably a Microsoft ActiveSync issue, but deleting data to avoid dupes is a cop out. You give me separate email accounts, give me separate calendar and contact accounts.
- Existing, repeating calendar entries aren't getting picked up.
- Corporate Lookup doesn't give me a phone number, and isn't available in Contacts. How am I supposed to get phone numbers from the directory?
- Far too often, MfE just stops checking mail. No error. Whether this is a network issue or a MfE issue I don't know, but I just don't trust it.

Phone issues
- Why is the zero off to the right? That's just weird. Put it where the @ is (and share it with the apostrophe key).
- It's way too hard to see the numbers at night (or any blue key, for that matter).
- I have fairly big hands, and the phone is wide. Reeeally wiiiiide. But it is very thin, and sturdy. (But it's wide...)
- The buttons are pretty flat. They're easy to hit, but I found it tiring compared to the Treo or Blackberry.

Then there's the whole network switching issue. Take a lesson from the iPhone -- if my WiFi networks aren't available, use GPRS. Or if I'm not getting mail on WiFi, go to GPRS. Don't make me chose every time. In general, Symbian needs to make the network switching more elegant. The iPhone's *killing* you here. I should NOT have to worry about it. SmartConnect helps, but this should be built into the OS. I have to pay more money to reliably connect to different networks on a mobile device? Often it would just sit there, not checking mail because it shut off the WiFi even though GPRS was obviously available. Not cool.

The whole issue of where settings live (not just networking, but everything) is a whole other issue. Way too many places, not very elegant.

The e61i has potential. MfE has potential. But it's not ready for prime time. Sorry if this comes across as snarky, but this has been an incredibly frustrating experience given the potential of the phone (impressive battery life, great camera, wifi, well integrated VOIP). I'm also worried that Nokia is prioritizing on their N series phones and won't be focused on improving the E series software.

Summary: if you're coming from the Blackberry, you'll be disappointed by the Exchange-based email.


Name: J. Kahlon
Location: Union City, CA United States
Date: 2007-08-12
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Really bad PDA
Comment: I have a Nokia E61i and it is really a very frustrating experience. It is a good phone but a very bad PDA.

Networking is a nightmare with the phone it keeps going to different networks at random. Seems it stores the access point with the bookmark, who does that. Constantly get out of memory cards when there is plenty of mem left and I have also added a @ GB card.

Would not want anyone else to go through what I have gone through after spending good money on this. Not recommended please do not buy.

Also there is a reason why Nokia is moving away from their own s/w and will start using MS s/w for their phones some time in the future.

Really bad the way Nokia is able to pass this on to consumers with deceptive marketing.



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