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Nokia E71


I finally got my hands on the highly rated Nokia E71. :) The unit I got is white in color(though I prefer black), but nevertheless, the phone still looks slick and sophisticated.

As the successor of Nokia's qwerty mobile phone E61/E61i, E71 sports a smaller screen 2.36" to compared to previous 2.8" to reduce the overall size of this phone but fortunately, the screen looks bright and sharp. Nokia also increase in the camera's megapixel to 3.2M with LED flash. That means you can now take decent picture with this baby. Of course you can't compare it with 5 megapixels N82 with Carl-Zeiss lens & Xenon flash but if you just want to snap some photos of your work stuff, this should be sufficient. :P


The best feature I'm in love with so far is the built-in GPS. The GPS locking is very fast and the application is very easy to use, especially if you install the Garmin GMobile XT. The map is accurate most of the time, and you are able to search places around you like restaurants, shopping etc. Very helpful stuff if you travel to places that you're not familiar with. The Nokia Maps is good also but the voice navigation is only free for 3 months...and I've compared both Garmin and Nokia maps, I say the Garmin map is more updated than the Nokia's.


There are tons of software and games that you can purchase and download from the Nokia Download apps, similar to iPhone's AppStore, but the user interface is of course no where near the iPhone. However, the good thing about Nokia Symbian phone is that you can multitask several application without any problems whereas if you're using iPhone, you can only open and close one app at a time. Also, symbian apps takes much less space than iPhone and you rarely have to download any app more than 2MB in size. In iPhone however, you could easily hit over 2oMB for one app, especially the games.


One free app that is particularly useful is Advanced Call Manager which you can download from Nokia's website. It allows you to filter calls and sms, divert calls and more.


The Nokia E71 comes with QuickOffice ver 4.1.35 which is really helpful if you want to carry the documents with you. The Nokia PC Suite 7 is now quite convenient to use now and connecting to your E71 via bluetooth is a breeze. One thing that Nokia is good at is the connectivity. The E71 sports almost all technology you can think of, all bundled into the size of iPhone.

Is E71 worth it? You bet. With the price that is much lower than the current iPhone 3G in Malaysia, you can always consider the Nokia E71....or maybe wait for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, right? :)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You haven't tried the iPhone 3G yet. once you've tried the iPhone, Nokia becomes pariah! Muuaahahhaha minime