Nokia E71 does the Edinburgh Fringe

This month Ewan has been running around the Edinburgh Festival making recordings for his Fringe Podcast. To keep him in communication range (voice and Contacts), organised (Calendar) and on track (Nokia Maps) he's been using a Nokia E71. In this editorial he describes his E71 enabled Fringe experience.

Nokia's latest E-Series device, the E71, is a sleek piece of kit, and certainly ticks a lot of boxes for the Enterprise crowd. As with the E90, many industry watchers are looking at the E71 as 'the' executive phone for the next few years. But once you take it out of a clinical 'let's make sure we review every application and try every function' labs, what is it like in the real world?

I'm currently doing some work at the Edinburgh Fringe (as you may recall), and it's time to take the E71 on a real world test. It might have a bundle of fancy features and gee-whizz for us geeks, but as a tool, how does it work out?

Read on in the full editorial for more.

Published by Rafe Blandford at 8:56 UTC, August 21st

Categories: Hardware, Editorial Thoughts
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

News Discussion

Unregistered

Comment: when i first got the e71 i was underwhelmed by the camera. the images were not as good as those from the e61i. however it was my bad as i hadn't pressed t to tell the phone to adjust it's focus. once i did that the images i was taking were much much better. adds time to the pictures but worth it for static items.

one thing i haven't worked out yet is how to make the default meetings i put into calendar not have an alarm. very annoying having to turn the alarm off for every meeting.

Bassey

Comment: I wasn't aware that the calendar had improved so much in the latest E series devices. It has been the week point of Series 60 for a long time now which is bizare, given that Symbian evolved from EPOC - the king of the PDA.

It might be time to finally take another serious look at Symbian, especially with S60-touch just around the corner.

Tzer2

Comment: It seems the E71 is doing better at the Fringe than the E90... ;-)

ashu

Comment: yes tzer2.

However strange it might sound, but it seems, e71 is doing a better job than e90 for ewan at the fringe!

Atleast, its getting him more admiring glances for his phone!!

Nokia will be very pleased with this feedback.

Unregistered

Comment: So is that to local way to spell it?

Andrew

Tzer2

Comment: Ashu, yes the E71 definitely does look very good. I was unimpressed by the photos, but when you see it in real life it looks very good indeed, like some kind of futuristic ceramic object.

Andrew, sorry about the spelling mistake, it's now been corrected.

GordonH

Comment: Great Review.... You have truly reflected the E71's business power. The E71 is symbian's long overdue decent QWERTY smartphone.
I personally appreciate the E71's battery, calendar, size, email, contacts, keyboard ...wsssh cannot stop praising , need to keep fingers still

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