I have purchased three phones this year already a Nokia 5800, an E63 and recently upgraded to an E75. All of them have three different from factors, features but all run symbian s60. O2 my provider had already contacted me to advise me that I could upgrade but as I was in no rush I wanted to wait.
I was toying with the idea of either the E71 or N97 and bought the E63 as a halfway gap to help me decide if I would like the form factor of the E71. When I originally saw the E61 I just laughed at the size of it which was probably hypocritical of me considering I had a Nokia 9500 and E90 before. However I braved my hypocrisy and got the E63.
First impressions where good where I loved the thumboard and found I can use it either one or two handed for typing. The only real let down for me was the Nokia Maps software which didn't make use of the screen real estate. Therefore I was really close on getting an E71. When NokiaExperts on Twitter got hold of an E71x with S60v3.2 So I then wanted to hold off again and get this. However being a NAM only device I didn't know if there would ever be a EURO model.
So the E71 was looking to be my E90 replacement for the next 18 months.
The thing that surprised me about the E63 was it handled everything I threw at it and just worked. Bearing in mind it is a low priced device it performed better than my 5800 which would either run out of memory or slow down.
I was going to wait for the N97 but after listening to a recent All About Symbian podcast it sounded as if the processor speed and memory issues that plagued the 5800 are present in this device. However this will be confirmed over the coming months.
Because I just want something that works I decided to skip this device and settle for an E series phone because of my experience on the E63, the build quality and the longevity of my E90.
So E71 is still looking good until I looked investigated it further. In a nutshell I dropped this device for the E75 due to its weak camera in terms of quality and lack of 30 fps video recording.
I phoned O2 who could only do the E71 and then I received a phonecall from carphonewarehouse who could do the E75. So I bit the bullet and ordered one.
The build quality is excellent but I am still getting used to the keyboard. As an E90 replacement I am not too sure as I do hope Nokia do release a communicator replacement. However I will persevere with the phone blogging and twittering about it.
I have purchased and loaded all of my sms, call filtering, call recording and other apps such as profimail, officesuite, wavelog and gsync. This weekend I will test the gamin sat nav software instead of the nokia maps. So whilst there is still a lot to do I will hang onto the 5800 to see if the touch improves or the E63 if I just want something that is robust.
The phones do get a good workout from me as I twitter, email, blood browse and occasionally call on them instead of using a Pc. Also I have just started to download all of my podcasts direct to the handset where last month I clocked up 1gb of data.
People ask me how many phones do I have and need. My answer is one at a time as I do like to change and the set I have at the moment allow me to do this comfortably.
In conclusion, it will be interesting to see now long the E75 lasts me and if I do change again soon. Should there be another communicator then that is where my money will be.
I was toying with the idea of either the E71 or N97 and bought the E63 as a halfway gap to help me decide if I would like the form factor of the E71. When I originally saw the E61 I just laughed at the size of it which was probably hypocritical of me considering I had a Nokia 9500 and E90 before. However I braved my hypocrisy and got the E63.
First impressions where good where I loved the thumboard and found I can use it either one or two handed for typing. The only real let down for me was the Nokia Maps software which didn't make use of the screen real estate. Therefore I was really close on getting an E71. When NokiaExperts on Twitter got hold of an E71x with S60v3.2 So I then wanted to hold off again and get this. However being a NAM only device I didn't know if there would ever be a EURO model.
So the E71 was looking to be my E90 replacement for the next 18 months.
The thing that surprised me about the E63 was it handled everything I threw at it and just worked. Bearing in mind it is a low priced device it performed better than my 5800 which would either run out of memory or slow down.
I was going to wait for the N97 but after listening to a recent All About Symbian podcast it sounded as if the processor speed and memory issues that plagued the 5800 are present in this device. However this will be confirmed over the coming months.
Because I just want something that works I decided to skip this device and settle for an E series phone because of my experience on the E63, the build quality and the longevity of my E90.
So E71 is still looking good until I looked investigated it further. In a nutshell I dropped this device for the E75 due to its weak camera in terms of quality and lack of 30 fps video recording.
I phoned O2 who could only do the E71 and then I received a phonecall from carphonewarehouse who could do the E75. So I bit the bullet and ordered one.
The build quality is excellent but I am still getting used to the keyboard. As an E90 replacement I am not too sure as I do hope Nokia do release a communicator replacement. However I will persevere with the phone blogging and twittering about it.
I have purchased and loaded all of my sms, call filtering, call recording and other apps such as profimail, officesuite, wavelog and gsync. This weekend I will test the gamin sat nav software instead of the nokia maps. So whilst there is still a lot to do I will hang onto the 5800 to see if the touch improves or the E63 if I just want something that is robust.
The phones do get a good workout from me as I twitter, email, blood browse and occasionally call on them instead of using a Pc. Also I have just started to download all of my podcasts direct to the handset where last month I clocked up 1gb of data.
People ask me how many phones do I have and need. My answer is one at a time as I do like to change and the set I have at the moment allow me to do this comfortably.
In conclusion, it will be interesting to see now long the E75 lasts me and if I do change again soon. Should there be another communicator then that is where my money will be.
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