Nokia E61?
 

I've been thinking about a new phone and was wondering what folks thought of the Nokia E61? It seems to have "all the bells and whistles": quad-band + WCDMA + WiFi, Simbian OS PDA, Bluetooth. Any better phones to consider for the money?

I've the E65 which is more or less the same phone but smaller, and without qwerty keyboard of course... They are both nice phones, very competitive, I enjoy the wifi a lot! :)

Ditto. I have an E61 and love it. I also have an HTC TyTN and more often than not I carry the E61. Sign up for Truphone with the phone. You won't be disappointed.

I have an E70, flips open, QWERTY keyboard comes up.
Very easy to work with, more compact than the E61, and better keyboard.

I'm using Truphone and Fring in combination with an all-in Data subscription (1gb/month for €29).
Depending on your call-destination and number of calls, you'll win back your buying price very quick.

I tried both E61 and E70, and I must say I was able to type much faster on the E70 than on the E61.

Don't forget to load the latest firmware (on any of these devices).

Yves

The only reason I didn't mention the E70 is because I know that Don (like me) is a Yank and frequently winds up in North America. I don't think anyone who spends a serious amount of time in the US/Canada wants to chance it without GSM 850mhz. Yes, I know there is North America version, but asking me to give up either 850mhz or 900mhz is asking me whether I'd rather lose an arm or a lung. I would really consider either choice unacceptable.

I don't understand why Nokia doesn't make the entire E and N series quadband, but they don't.

I have Nokia E61 for 9 months now. I like it a lot, especially the size of screen. Just Symbian is a bit slow sometimes for me. But I would like to point out at Samsung SGH i600 and brand new i620. As there is even HSPDA available on this phones. Take a look yourself. Good luck.

Here is the link for SGH i600
http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/m...?page=Features

I've been reading a bit on the E61 and wanted to confirm that the SMTP program supports SMTP Auth? Also, I get the impression from the Nokia website that the major difference between the E61 and the E61i is that the E61i has a camera. Is this correct?

I had an E61 for for about a year until I replaced it with an E61i about a month ago.

I can confirm that both the E61 and the E61i support ESMTP authentication.

As for the E61 to E61i comparison, they're identical in many aspects except the E61i has a camera and <b>far better WiFi</b>.

AFAIK, E61i has also some keyboard improvements.

I have had an E61 now since three weeks, and I have only positive comments on it.

-Screen big and clear
-Battery life of 2-3 days on GSM, even if I have hourly polling for emails activated
-Symbian platform works a charm
-Keyboard easy to get used to, and I believe I master it now after less than a month
-Sound quality for calls and mp3 player excellent

I just received my e61 a couple of days ago and am pretty well pleased but there's just one little ArrrrrghowthebloodyhellcouldNokiahavebeensoflingin gdumb that I've encountered. It seems that we mere mortals are not allowed to configure the phone's VPN. &&^Tg$#!!! You have to have a "VPN-policy server" to set this up for you. All I want to do is VPN back to my Windows XP PC. I'm not running a corporate network here! Arrrrg!!

Otherwise, pretty happy. Have downloaded and installed Truphone, Boingo, Metro, UTM data, smsbug, Google Maps, Gmail, Opera & fring. I have some other's I'm downloading but have not yet installed: ActiveFile, HandiWi & putty. I'm not exactly sure which of those I'll really be using but it's interesting to see that there's so much available.

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No doubt Nokia E61 is good phone but personally I prefer Nokia N series especially Nokia N95 which is much better because it has everything such as a good camera, music player, video player, phone, messaging, video calling, and a lot more. You can check out experienced person’s opinions. http://www.swotti.com/mobilephones/

Well, N series doesn't have the Voice support for reading sms, etc. etc. ... I appreciate it expecially when I'm driving, can't live without a E series :D

For me, one of the selling points of the e61 (not e61i) was that it did not have a camera. (One of the few 3G phones without one.) However, if I use a Mini SD card in my camera I can move pictures onto the e61 and do whatever I like with them.

VPNs are definitely a week point on this phone. I use a commercial VPN service from Birdstep, but apparently they don't sell this to the public anymore. My account is still good, but no new customers.

All I really want is a VPN policy file for the default Windows XP Pro VPN setup. You wouldn't think it would be so difficult.

Google on Nokia, VPN, Linux. There are a ton of articles on how to build a client back to a Linux server. It sounds mildly painful, but possible.

I've been reading a bit on how to build the VPN policy files. It seems a bit more than mildly painful. Something I'll have to look at when I have more time.

I'm posting on an old post here, but I really like my E61i. I've used it in China, Pakistan, UAE, Poland, UK, Mexico, and US, using my AT&T SIM in US and either Celtrek's SIM elsewhere they offer reduced roaming and when the best deal locally, i.e., Du in UAE and Zong in Pakistan. The apps that E61i can leverage are excellent. Check out qik.com, eqo, nimbuzz and shozu for a couple.

I'm sitting in an hotel lounge in Singapore waiting for a flight to Doha. I have an E71 here and love it. I agree that I wish there was an easy way to build a VPN policy for it, but its VOIP is great. In addition to its regular VOIP, Fring makes connections on many systems with worse bandwith and taps the same VOIP account.

Fring works on Du in the UAE, but not Etisilat. Another application that I love on it is Swyx which allows you to make calling card calls as if they were direct dial.

Try talkanaut in UAE, its like fring. Well its not user-friendly as fring.