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Here's a brief article about the nokia E71 and RIM.
Nokia unveils new business phones - Yahoo! News
The E71 looks nice but BBs rule
06-17-08 10:01 PM - Ok, I honestly have no idea what you're (and the other who have said the same thing) talking about.I totally agree, the E71 does look much better in design but it sure cant be a BlackBerry.
I think that Nokia is one of the ugliest smartphones i've seen this side of 1999. And the UI is worse than WM.
And while the Bold doesn't blow my mind, it does look pretty sleek. Plus the new Blackberry icons/UI is QUITE aesthetically pleasing.
To each his own I suppose.
And as far as which is better? The nokia MAY have a few features over the BB, but when factoring in email handling, browser (I love the current BB browser ,and it's supposed to be improved on the bold), user experience, and a host of other factors (3g?, Bold having one of the best smartphone screens TBGR has ever seen), I think the Bold wins hands down.07-21-08 11:35 PM - I got the E71 at newegg for $389.99 (with free shipping and no tax
). Price just went up to $409.99 though. The great thing is that it worked out of the box with HSPDA without having to call AT&T. I needed to call AT&T to get the tethering to work though. Wound up with a data plan that cost $5 per month less.
It's a nice phone but if the Bold is like my old 8700c at all than I will need to have the Bold. The keyboard is better and things are just laid out better. It's all the little things that you don't think about until you leave the BB nest the will bug that crap out of you with this phone. Obviously a lot of it has to do with the fact that I just got the phone and haven't figured it out yet.
Because my trackwheel was stuck I couldn't save my contacts and stuff to my sim card so I used DM to save everything to Yahoo. When I tried to retrieve everything using PC Suite, Nokia would only retrieve contacts from Lotus Notes, Outlook and something else I can't remember, but not Yahoo. Not sure what to do about that now. There is probably some app I will need to hunt down. Oh, there is no trackwheel ot trackball. There is a scrolling square though but it's not a good replacement. There are just a lot of little quirks that will take time getting used to.
Push email - they have this great beta service to get my yahoo mail pushed. It gets sent in a text message but for some reason I haven't received the text message yet (I did test and texts work so why am I not receiving them from nokia?).
Nokia provides software for tethering. I would have preferred to use AT&T's software but that didn't recognize the device. The Nokia software works but doesn't give me a 3G indicator. And the phone doesn't seem to have a setting to keep the scren lit while powered, which brings up the biggest annoyance.
Plugging the E71 into a USB port doesn't seem to charge the phone.
But it seems to have very good battery life.
Overall it's a nice phone and it's almost too small but I don't see it being better than the Bold. Maybe I'm just used to that big clunker 8700 but it seems the E71 is always trying to slip through my hands. I hope it keeps its good resale value.Last edited by unmasked; 08-25-08 at 03:50 PM.
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