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First Impressions: Day One With Nokia E71




Nokia E71 mobile phone

Yeas:

  • Keyboard better than expected
  • Thin
  • Has a hole for wrist strap (finally!)
  • E-mail setup was fairly easy
  • WiFi
  • GPS (yay!)
  • Great default settings for profiles, home screen application shortcuts
  • Overall excellent use of the home screen (idle)
  • Very nice mechanism for releasing the back battery cover (squeeze and lift)
  • 3.2 MP camera
  • Pre-loaded bar-code reader, which looks cool, but I can’t figure out how it works.

Nays:

  • Keyboard arrangement a bit odd
  • I know it’s really small for a QWERTY keyboard (that’s why I got it), but the E65 was a more comfortable size
  • Slow, slow download of e-mail (even just the headers)
  • Not yet synced with my Mac PowerBook G4 (which might be a problem with my iSync)
  • GPS use costs extra monthly to activate (oh, well…)
  • A bit slippery, despite the dot design on the back
  • My outgoing test e-mail hasn’t gone out, even though mail is getting in
  • The system doesn’t remember the WAP access key for my home wireless network (as was true with my E65), which means I have to manually enter it every time I take the phone online. This is a royal pain in the neck.
  • Shiny metal back is not lovely, and attracts fingerprints
  • S60 not always behaving as expected, including some quirky softkey labels in the web browser (Messaging?!)
  • I haven’t found out how to turn off the feature that automatically locks the keypad after a few minutes of non-use. It’s OK, but I’d like to have control over that.

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