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Review on E63

E63 is a thicker dimension similar to Blackberry, E71 is much thinner. The casing is soft plastic and is more colorful and more suited for trendy users with a tight budget. The phone headset is a 3.5mm jack, no adapter needed if you are using your own better quality headphones. No GPS chipset, so great to get lost and explore.

Learn more from the youtube video post.

more E75 photos

E71 shortcuts and tips

Mainscreen

• Hold down 0 to enter web browser.
  
• Hold down * to turn on/off Bluetooth.
• Hold down End/Red to disconnect all data connections.
• Hold down Left Soft Key to read out sms.
  

Screensaver

• hold center navigation key to see the time and date.
  

WEB browser

• hold down 1 for bookmarks.
• hold down 2 to find something
  
• hold down 3 to go to previous page.
• hold down 5 to tab between open windows.
• hold down * to zoom in.
• hold down # to zoom out.
• hold down 8 for page overview.
• hold down 9 to go to a another web page.
• hold down 0 to got to the homepage.
• press Backspace to close current window.

Realplayer

• Fn + 2 for full screen.
• Hold navigation Up key for fast forward.
• Hold navigation Down key for rewind.

Low on battery juice on E71?

Recently my E71 had been running flat pretty quick. With normal usage of a few calls and messaging, the phone went from a full charge to flat in a matter of 3 days. Wow!! What happened???! Well..as puzzling as it could be, it was down to my installation of Garmin XT latest version 5. This version activate the cardrunner.dll on your sys\bin folder which runs garmin tsrautostart.exe file to run in the background.

How to get around this problem.

1) Install nokia's energy profiling program.

2) Close all phone programs and run the above program checking your phone running wattage. With the garmin tsrautostart.exe running in the phone's background, your power usage will be around 0.09-0.15w.

3) Plug your phone to your computer and access your memory card sys\bin folder and look for cardrunner.dll file.

4) Edit and rename the file (ex. disable_cardrunner.dll)

5) Now reset your phone and run nokia energy profiler again. You should see that your phone will be running about 0.02-0.14w. Yes..now you are getting the life back on your E71, you will get back the battery juice and the phone will last another 3-4 days more under normal usage.

6) However, do take note. Whenever you run your garmin xt, tsrautostart.exe will be ran and you will start losing battery juice. Reset your phone after you use garmin xt and things will be back to normal.

Hope this post helps.

E63 and E71 comparison

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network UMTS 900 / 2100
UMTS 850 / 1900 - American version
Announced 2008, November
Status Coming soon
Size Dimensions 113 x 59 x 13 mm, 87 cc
Weight 126 g
Display Type TFT, 16M colors
Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.36 inches
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Touch-sensitive Navi wheel
Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3, True Tones
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB, hotswap
- 110 MB internal memory
Data GPRS Class 32, 100 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps
3G Yes, 384 kbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Features OS Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Java downloadable
Colors Ultramarine Blue, Ruby Red
Camera 2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, flash, video (QVGA@15fps)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- 3.5 mm audio output jack
- Office applications
- FM radio
- Push to talk
- Voice command/dial
- PIM including calendar, to-do list and printing
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
Stand-by Up to 432 h
Talk time Up to 11 h












General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 - American version
Announced 2008, June
Status Available. Released 2008, July
Size Dimensions 114 x 57 x 10 mm, 66 cc
Weight 127 g
Display Type TFT, 16M colors
Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.36 inches
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Five-way scroll key
Ringtones Type Polyphonic, Monophonic, MP3, True Tones
Customization Download
Vibration Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Detailed, max 30 days
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB, hotswap, buy memory
- 110 MB internal memory
- 128 MB SDRAM Memory
- ARM 11 369 MHz processor
Data GPRS Class 32, 100 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 32, 296 kbps
3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port Yes
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Features OS Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games Java downloadable, order now
Colors White Steel, Grey Steel
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video(QVGA@15fps), flash; secondary videocall camera
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- Office applications
- FM radio
- Push to talk
- Voice command/dial
- PIM including calendar, to-do list and printing
- Built-in handsfree
Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BP-4L)
Stand-by Up to 410 h
Talk time Up to 10 h 30 min

Strip-down E71, new offering E63

Specification
113 x 59 x 13-mm / 126g form factor, 320 x 240 pixel display, quad-band GSM / EDGE with 660 minute talk / 432 hours standby, microSD memory slot with 110MB internal memory, 2 megapixel camera capable of QVGA video @ 15fps, and of course, Bluetooth. It'll also be released in WCDMA 900/2100, 850/1900, and 850/2100 configurations. Sorry, no HSDPA data or infrared like that found on the E71.

E71 is tops in UK mobile choice consumer awards 2008!

If you are using an Nokia E71, here is great news!! Nokia E71 is the winner for the best phone award and best smartphone for this year's consumer awards in the UK.
This E71 baby is gonna be with me together for a long time.

News link

Nokia E75 photos

Saw some images taken on the web on the upcoming Nokia E75. Seems to be a prototype when this images are taken.

Special editions E71 by Goldstriker UK

If you want to go the extra mile to show how much you valued your E71 and have it show off it's might and glory, Goldstriker E71 18k white gold edition and 24k gold edition are something to savor the best in life. 18k white gold edition will set you back £599 and 24k gold edition £549.95. This is some serious bling bling.

New E72 and E75 coming

Just when I thought probably another Eseries phone will be in the works and will take a couple of months before release since we just got our hands on the E71 and E66, here comes E72 and E75. So far there are hardly any images available yet, but I found this youtube video of the new models. E72 looks exactly the same as the E71, probably with some new added features. I hoped it will not tempt me to upgrade as my E71 is only a month old.

E72 has an all new color selection to choose from and E75 is a side slider with QWERTY keyboard. As I viewed through the youtube video, I noticed that the advertisement is made in Singapore from the scenery backdrop and caller names on the sms message.

Both phones are not officially released yet and there are no promo videos yet, I wonder how the video got leaked and how the guy who posted it got it. Anyway, if you have time to wait for the new Eseries, it should be an exciting new experience on the new phones.

E66 data sheet

To view complete data sheet for E66. Download here.


Preview E66 videos.

E71 data sheet

To view complete data sheet for E71. Download here.


Preview E71 videos.

E51 fact sheet

To view E51 fact sheet. Download here.