Initial impressions of the nokia e71

I just recently switched over to the e71 as the main working phone, and at the same time engineered a coup d'etat on the wifey's phone number.

anyways, after the fubar with singtel and all my subscriptions related to me switching over to the mio plan, i can safely say that i have been using the phone for the past 5 days.

initial impressions? It's a damm good phone. So far the only snafu i've had to deal with is on the email where i've had to reset the phone in order for the email to start syncing again.

the qwerty keyboard is tons better than the e61i i used, even though it's much closer together in order to shrink the form factor. The key improvement is that the keys have a "click" feel as opposed to the flubbish feel the e61i has, so when i'm banging out an email, i know when i've hit the keys. The only downside to the keyboard is that they switched the "?" Keys and some of ! the other keys to another location.

the phone is fast, and even starting up time is loads improved compared to the e61i. And starting up a program is faster compared to my old phone.

the T9 intuitive dictionary needs some getting used to but nothing that cannot be overcomed.

however email is still a problem with no real push capability apart from microsoft exchange. As most watchers have said, the lack of html support for email is also a key weakness. Nokia has come out with a beta for their push mail, but currentl i cannot use my company email (though sitting on a google server) to push my email, now am i able to push from 2 separate emails. I've decided to live with the installed email client until nokia sorts itself out wherfe push email is concerned.

the battery life is fantastic - so far, as i keep it connected to 3G plus download my emails every 15 mins, plus do about 30 minutes of calls per day, and i still get more tha! n 3 bars of battery life left (this is approximately 40% left). And wo rst come to worst, i can still swap my e61i battery for the e71 as backup.

i have not used the on board gps as yet, so more to come.


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