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Nokia E61i Smartphone - Mocha (Unlocked)
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Manufacturer: Nokia

List Price: $499.99
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Average Customer Rating: -

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Name: Adrian Chirita
Location:
Date: 2007-09-03
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Only one word: Excellent!
Comment: I bought it as an all-in-one solution:
phone/office/email/navigation/pmp and own it for almost two months now.
I don't regret one cent I spent for it.
The DESIGN is one of most simple yet elegant on the market and you have to hold it yourself in your hand to see how it feels as I can't express the feeling ;).

Perhaps one thing I appreciate the most is the BATTERY LIFE. Wifi on for almost the whole week-end and still had enough juice for the next monday.

Allthough the size of the screen is not as big as a PDA screen, it is still big enough for enjoying some movies (divx also) while travelling. I installed TOMTOM on it and it's great for navigation! It's true that it doesn't have gps built-in (I had to use my bluetooth gps receiver for navigation) but it's a fair compromise compared to all the other features it provides.

It connects to almost EVERYTHING. The only problem I had was related to the fact that it doesn't support "IP passthrough" (for sharing internet connection through the data cable provided and the Nokia Network Bridge software). It also doesn't support "PAN bluetooth" for connecting to bluetooth networks, but this will not make me rate it with less than 5 stars.

I will not go through all the features and apps which can be installed on it, as other reviewers already did this. And I cannot agree with the previous 1 star rate, the "symptoms" described lead to lack of knowledge rather than a "bad PDA".

It doesn't have touchscreen, that's true, but I didn't feel the need for such a feature, considering also the size of the screen. And remember, a touchscreen comes with its own disadvantages: the screen loses brightness in sunny environments due to the extra layers it adds. Choice is yours.. ;)

Although it has an average browser, I installed the free Opera Mini which comes as a freeware and is reacher in features.

The Symbian OS platform has been on the market for a loooong looooong time, and there is a diverse choice of apps and games including the ones from the third parties. There are two things to keep in mind when searching the right app for your needs: it has to support the Series 60 (S60) version 3 (or Symbian 9.1a) and it has to fit the 320x240 resolution (as the reversed - 240x320 is usually most popular amongst the nokias).

I owned other smartphones and PDAs, including Palm, Nokia and Blackberry, but I feel that E61i is the ONE for me. I recommend it without any hesitations. Enjoy the elegant and powerful E61i ;)



Name: A. Fabbri
Location: seattle, wa USA
Date: 2008-02-13
Customer Rating: -

Summary: huge improvement from a treo
Comment: I've used my Nokia E61i for about 1/2 a year after having a Treo for the year before that. I use this phone for

- Exchange based Email and Calendaring-- with Good Email Messaging (3rd party sw)
- Web browsing
- Google maps: download the application--it works great and will give you directions and show your location based on the coordinates of the cell tower you are talking to (or you can add on true GPS).
- Voice calls

What I like:

- Overall quality: This phone is one of a few models that survived Cisco's rigorous tesing for a replacement for their corporate smartphones (previously treos). They did a lot of QA on these devices and out of the few that survived (blackjack, moto Q, Nokia e61i), this phone has the best battery life.

- Battery life: wow. Only problem is that I tend to loose my charger now.

- Moving from a treo to this phone took a little adjustment (have to quit trying to tap the screen). This phone is much more solid (treo would crash frequently), faster, and the battery lasts about 3-4x as long as the treo ever did.

- Email w/ Good Mobile Messaging software is very slick. This is what my company uses.

- Dimensions: this phone is very thin and light for how wide it is, and it is much more comfortable in the pocket than a treo.

- Stability. I can run my email and calendaring client (Good), the web browser (excellent by the way), and google maps at the same time without any crashes. More programs than that and you will probably have to close something to get enough memory. Switching between applications is easy, just hold down the app key and then select which app you want to switch to.

- WiFi roaming: I like having wifi available when I have a weak signal. Web browsing is very quick on wifi.

What I don't like:

- You can't always copy and paste text as easily as you could on the Treo. Mostly, the web browser doesn't allow me to copy text off a web page to use in another app. This isn't a huge deal for me, since the click-to-call still works when I'm looking up phone numbers on Google Maps.


Name: R. B. Ramgoolam
Location:
Date: 2008-07-20
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Excellent and versatile phone
Comment: great phone. does everything. internet, chatting on any IM system, office editing etc. battery life is excellent. easy to use as a thetered modem. large screen bright and easy to read. good bang for the buck


Name: P. Panou
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2008-07-28
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Best smart phone I have ever had
Comment: I have worked with a few smartphones before and let me tell you the Nokia E61i is one of the best ones. If this phone had a mini USB port and a 3.5 headphone jack (or at least support bluetooth stereo), I think this would be the best smartphone out there. That said, those are the two major flaws of the phone. The rest of the features are pretty much great. Here are my points:
-- Phone/Voice - The sound quality on a voicecall is good. The external speaker is loud. You can record your phone conversations if you like. No complaints here.
-- Voicemail - There is an issue with my voicemail. I use T-mobile and every time I turn on the phone, the phone tells me that I have a voicemail even though I don't. So, I have to dial my voicemail to clear the voicemail indicator. Thus far I haven't found out whether it's the phone's or carrier's fault.
-- Keyboard - It's spacious and it has 4 extra keys than the typical smartphone keypad. Here's something fantastic. Some of the most used characters when typing a message like the period, comma, "?", "@", and "/", you do not have to press an option key like the Alt to get these characters; you just type away. Unlike the Blackberry you have to press Alt + M to get the period. So, in other words you can type up a message really fast.
-- Wireless - You can group Wifi access appoints with GPRS connections so when checking email the phone automatically switches between the available connections.
-- Battery - Lasts a long time. I have email set up to check every 15 minutes accessing Wifi and GPRS connections and use bluetooth in the car from/to work and I only charge the phone every 3 days.
-- Screen - It's big. It's very pleasant to browse the Internet on this phone.
-- PIM - Contacts, Calendar, notes, tasks are average.
-- Bluetooth - Uses Bluetooth 1.2. There is no support for stereo headsets.
-- Memory - It only has ~60MB available to install apps. However, the phone comes with a 2GB MicroSD card.
-- Media - The digital camera is average. You can play music and videos but you need an adapter if you are going to use headsets.

All in all a great phone!


Name: J.A.
Location: Oregon
Date: 2008-09-16
Customer Rating: -

Summary: really fancy
Comment: I am really impressed with this phone, its so much nicer then the Blackberry pearl. My friend just bought a Pearl and then saw my phone and returned it. It just does not compare, this phone has so many more features, and a drastically nicer screen size.


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