The Nokia E71 thread
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In regards to the reception. been playing around with my E71 all day today and never has the 3G connection failed for me.. then again, I been in Nottingham all day so it might just be that its good cover in the cities..
I read that article and got the impression they are located in the states so it might just be there that the 3G connection was less good.. (if I remember right that was what they said was lacking.. not ordinary reception (or is they the same and I'm just making a fool of myself?
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Thank you, Tunney! One less thing to worry about!
Cheers
Tom
I read that article and got the impression they are located in the states so it might just be there that the 3G connection was less good.. (if I remember right that was what they said was lacking.. not ordinary reception (or is they the same and I'm just making a fool of myself?
))Thank you, Tunney! One less thing to worry about!
Cheers
Tom
Yep mine also came with a 2GB card.
Reception has been great, reports of bad reception has been the US version of the phone.
So did mine.. even if it says in the 3's brochure that its supplied with a 1GB card in the box.. not that I am complaining mind you!
Thats good to hear! Got me to start second guess my choose of phone for a minute there when I was reading the article! lol
Cheers
Tom
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I don't own one, I've got the E51 which has a T9 keypad and lack's GPS, but i think everything else is the same. Including Feature Pack 1 which really does help the phone along! If i needed a qwerty phone (which i really don't right now) i wouldn't without hesitation get the E71
emTube is brilliant mate. Dont know about the other one, haven't used it.
And now - Sorry to Hi-Hi-jack this thread
But i have a little problem - I have just bought this phone, and im having a small problem synching my hotmail through 3g connection. Everything else is fine, i can surf, or download/use emTube with 3g, just not sync my hotmail. Also, everything works fine with Wifi, also.
So, any help/info on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks
And now - Sorry to Hi-Hi-jack this thread
But i have a little problem - I have just bought this phone, and im having a small problem synching my hotmail through 3g connection. Everything else is fine, i can surf, or download/use emTube with 3g, just not sync my hotmail. Also, everything works fine with Wifi, also.
So, any help/info on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks
Great. Thanks.[Cas];12295783 said:
My local 3 stores didn't have any in stock to sell on PAYG today and didn't know when they'd get more in. They'd have happily sold me one on a contract though.
Might have to order one from the net and waste the £10 credit they force you to buy.
Thanks dude, I was going to do that but a different 3 store had some of the black ones in stock today so I picked one up on the way home.
All I can say is wow, probably the nicest phone I've ever used. The keyboard's perfect and I can even use it flawlessly wearing my biking gloves
.thanks mate, that was what I suspected
I'll return it tomorrow, should be a straight swap as I've had it less than a week.2 months in and it's fantastic, one of the best phones I ever had. It's everything you could ask for in a phone. As long as you ask for a excellent camera, but I find the camera quality more than acceptable.
Here, knock yourself out...in-hand and up a tree.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nokiae71/pool/
Whoah. It's like E71 porn.
There is a Divx player application available for it but when i tried to play a 300mb file its struggled, it was at quite a high resolution 624 x 352.
The native video format for the device is Realmedia.
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Thought I would give a proper write-up now I've had mine 10 days.
First impressions.
I wasn't out to buy a phone so it was definately a good first impression in the shop. Good deal as well, involving £100 back for my N95 and a £80 buy-out. Probably could have pushed for more but I am more than happy with the deal, considering the N95 is 14 months old now. It's not a heavy phone by any means, similar to the N95. A little wider but I think it looks wider than it is due to how thin the thing is! Half the thickness of the n95 and with a landscape screen and qwerty keyboard as well as a lot of shortcut keys as well, it looks good imho.
Living with the E71
I was dubious that, after such a good experience with my n95 that i'd be left disappointed with the E71, that it would be clumsy to use and that the keys would be too small for my fat fingers. Not a bit of it. The software is slick and intuative, just like the n95 when fully updated and it is nice and easy to install apps. I would recommend Opera Mini and eBuddy beta as two essentials if you use the internet and MSN. Calls are good quality, no drops as of yet either and texts fly off once you gett used to not having predictive text to deal with. The 'function' key at the bottom left is useful for numerous things, including activating the number pad when typing and the 'ctrl/chr' key lets you bring up symbols easily, with the most used available on the keypad. I am rarely clipping other keys now, 'c' and 'v' are my main problem for some reason.
Battery life was a second worry - I was used to scraping 3 days out of the N95 and feared this would be worse. not a bit of it. 5 full days including regular internet/wireless useage, phone calls, texts, and the general stuff you do when you have a new toy. Light use could see a week I am sure. The battery is a big boy which goes some way to explaining this but I am still stunned. It's used 2/7 bars in 40 hours as I type.
The biggest let down has to be the camera. What are Nokia thinking? It can't be much more expensive to put a 5mp in there, the 3.2mp is adequate but that is all. It's pretty naff using the flash as well but then again, it's not the sort of thing that is esential. No front camera puts video calling out, though I have never video-called anyone since 2004 and those big '3' bricks came out so no loss there. Not tried recording video on it yet.
Sound from mp3's is very nice, and with capacity for 16gb of storage card, you can have tons of songs. The headphones are better than most I've had with phones and do their job nicely. Downloading from my PC is slick and fast but that is to be expected, bluetooth is excellent and I love the Nokia transfer thingy that swaps everything over - worked well once again. I have the Vodaphone satnav for free so will hammer that - seems capable enough but I haven't really played with it. The GPS unit is better than in my n95, hooks on to sat's much quicker. Must fiddle with that more.
Internet
One reason to get the E71 has got to be web browsing and email. To this end I must stop being a 'tard and sort my email out. If anyone has set up ymail (yahoo) on theirs, please tell me how. It seems to know what settings to use but cannot log in. Sure it's me being special tbh.
For the web, as mentioned earlier, use Opera. The Voda browser is a total window-licker in my experience. OCUK loads fairly quickly wherever I am, and similar speeds between 3g and wifi. Most sites are fine, only BBC iplayer won't let me watch TV which is a shame. It says I'm not in the UK??? I posted to a thread in Sports all through the Khazakstan game on Saturday and will do the same this evening and whilst it's not as good as my PC or laptop, it's not running on a 23" widescreen so it won't be! Pics and graphics load fine, again not in 'stunning' quality, but good enough and certainly a competant effort for a phone.
Overall
Gotta rate the E71 as 9/10, certainly as an average bloke using his phone to make calls, text, surf the web when bored, listen to some music and being available and have battery when needed. I would defo recommend these to anyone - a good investment in my eyes!
First impressions.
I wasn't out to buy a phone so it was definately a good first impression in the shop. Good deal as well, involving £100 back for my N95 and a £80 buy-out. Probably could have pushed for more but I am more than happy with the deal, considering the N95 is 14 months old now. It's not a heavy phone by any means, similar to the N95. A little wider but I think it looks wider than it is due to how thin the thing is! Half the thickness of the n95 and with a landscape screen and qwerty keyboard as well as a lot of shortcut keys as well, it looks good imho.
Living with the E71
I was dubious that, after such a good experience with my n95 that i'd be left disappointed with the E71, that it would be clumsy to use and that the keys would be too small for my fat fingers. Not a bit of it. The software is slick and intuative, just like the n95 when fully updated and it is nice and easy to install apps. I would recommend Opera Mini and eBuddy beta as two essentials if you use the internet and MSN. Calls are good quality, no drops as of yet either and texts fly off once you gett used to not having predictive text to deal with. The 'function' key at the bottom left is useful for numerous things, including activating the number pad when typing and the 'ctrl/chr' key lets you bring up symbols easily, with the most used available on the keypad. I am rarely clipping other keys now, 'c' and 'v' are my main problem for some reason.
Battery life was a second worry - I was used to scraping 3 days out of the N95 and feared this would be worse. not a bit of it. 5 full days including regular internet/wireless useage, phone calls, texts, and the general stuff you do when you have a new toy. Light use could see a week I am sure. The battery is a big boy which goes some way to explaining this but I am still stunned. It's used 2/7 bars in 40 hours as I type.
The biggest let down has to be the camera. What are Nokia thinking? It can't be much more expensive to put a 5mp in there, the 3.2mp is adequate but that is all. It's pretty naff using the flash as well but then again, it's not the sort of thing that is esential. No front camera puts video calling out, though I have never video-called anyone since 2004 and those big '3' bricks came out so no loss there. Not tried recording video on it yet.
Sound from mp3's is very nice, and with capacity for 16gb of storage card, you can have tons of songs. The headphones are better than most I've had with phones and do their job nicely. Downloading from my PC is slick and fast but that is to be expected, bluetooth is excellent and I love the Nokia transfer thingy that swaps everything over - worked well once again. I have the Vodaphone satnav for free so will hammer that - seems capable enough but I haven't really played with it. The GPS unit is better than in my n95, hooks on to sat's much quicker. Must fiddle with that more.
Internet
One reason to get the E71 has got to be web browsing and email. To this end I must stop being a 'tard and sort my email out. If anyone has set up ymail (yahoo) on theirs, please tell me how. It seems to know what settings to use but cannot log in. Sure it's me being special tbh.
For the web, as mentioned earlier, use Opera. The Voda browser is a total window-licker in my experience. OCUK loads fairly quickly wherever I am, and similar speeds between 3g and wifi. Most sites are fine, only BBC iplayer won't let me watch TV which is a shame. It says I'm not in the UK??? I posted to a thread in Sports all through the Khazakstan game on Saturday and will do the same this evening and whilst it's not as good as my PC or laptop, it's not running on a 23" widescreen so it won't be! Pics and graphics load fine, again not in 'stunning' quality, but good enough and certainly a competant effort for a phone.
Overall
Gotta rate the E71 as 9/10, certainly as an average bloke using his phone to make calls, text, surf the web when bored, listen to some music and being available and have battery when needed. I would defo recommend these to anyone - a good investment in my eyes!
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