OK, had an E51 for about a month, here is some basic 'stuff' that doesn't work or could be much better. Much of it is fixable by adding on applications, but why pay another $100 when you can get phones which do all this already. My impression is that Nokia take the attitude 'its on Symbian so we cant be bothered to put basic stuff on the phone as someone can sell you that functionality for $29.95 a pop'

Some of these functions you may find trivial but it was pretty much all built in to my previous basic Sony E K700i

SMS - send a message and then select the person and then select the phone number - on SE you are presented with a list of the last 10 people you texted - very useful as thats who you are texting 90% of the time.
Send a message to someone with several phone numbers in contacts but just one of those a mobile number and it asks if you want to send it to a landline number. Plain dumb.
Start entering text and once you have the first few letters in it offers longer words starting with those - so you don't need to know exactly how you spell accomo ... acomm ... accomad ...accommodation.
Read a text message and want to reply? Why not have one of the two options as 'reply' rather than options and back?

Phone someone and you are asked do you want to make a video call - no i dont - how do you switch that off if you just want to make, errr, phone calls?
Incoming call and a picture stored in contacts - presents a stupid tiny thumbnail picture thats useless. Whats the point of storing pictures in contacts?
Incoming call and entry in contacts twice? Well, it wont pick the first entry or the last one (which probably have the same name) we'll say we dont know who this is !

Contacts app - cant download or upload from spreadsheet - basic functionality that shouldn't be offloaded to an application (Outlook) that not everyone has or wants to use.
It also doesn't seem possible to sync a restricted set of contacts with Outlook. If it is its not easily apparent from the manual.

Web access - go back a page and instead of loading the page from cache it reloads the page again. Why?

All in all, as you can read, I'm not impressed :-)

There is an app out to give you the word list as you type words, maybe you should try searching for it, I think its beta atm.

I don't get the option to video call every time so no idea what your on about there.

There is an app for full screen picture when someone rings, again search for it, thats the idea of a symbian phone.

If you navigate back through pages I actually prefer an up to date copy and not a cached version, so that all depends on how you like it - I suppose they need an option for people who like a cached version of their pages.

For texting the last 10 people, I use the groups functionality. I create a group for the top 5 or so people I text (each group contains the single member with mobile number), and then I use this list when selecting who Im texting, much better than
the last 10 people I texted as they may not be my main text people. So I think the Nokia is actually better on this one.

If you press the green putton over a contact it will just ring the only number, if not ask you which you want, if you have not set any defaults in this.

also i just type the first 2/3 letters of the person i am texting, and when i press green to send it autocompletes the name if there is only one match and sends straight away.
enter "lu" for 'lucy' much faster than selecting a person.

OK, had an E51 for about a month, here is some basic 'stuff' that doesn't work or could be much better. Much of it is fixable by adding on applications, but why pay another $100 when you can get phones which do all this already. My impression is that Nokia take the attitude 'its on Symbian so we cant be bothered to put basic stuff on the phone as someone can sell you that functionality for $29.95 a pop'

Some of these functions you may find trivial but it was pretty much all built in to my previous basic Sony E K700i

SMS - send a message and then select the person and then select the phone number - on SE you are presented with a list of the last 10 people you texted - very useful as thats who you are texting 90% of the time.
Send a message to someone with several phone numbers in contacts but just one of those a mobile number and it asks if you want to send it to a landline number. Plain dumb.
Start entering text and once you have the first few letters in it offers longer words starting with those - so you don't need to know exactly how you spell accomo ... acomm ... accomad ...accommodation.
Read a text message and want to reply? Why not have one of the two options as 'reply' rather than options and back?

Phone someone and you are asked do you want to make a video call - no i dont - how do you switch that off if you just want to make, errr, phone calls?
Incoming call and a picture stored in contacts - presents a stupid tiny thumbnail picture thats useless. Whats the point of storing pictures in contacts?
Incoming call and entry in contacts twice? Well, it wont pick the first entry or the last one (which probably have the same name) we'll say we dont know who this is !

Contacts app - cant download or upload from spreadsheet - basic functionality that shouldn't be offloaded to an application (Outlook) that not everyone has or wants to use.
It also doesn't seem possible to sync a restricted set of contacts with Outlook. If it is its not easily apparent from the manual.

Web access - go back a page and instead of loading the page from cache it reloads the page again. Why?

All in all, as you can read, I'm not impressed :-)

Not so much E51 problems, but common S60 3rd edition problems. I believe the E51 is a powerful device in a robust small package. In fact, the best Eseries phone in the market now IMHO

Not so much E51 problems, but common S60 3rd edition problems. I believe the E51 is a powerful device in a robust small package. In fact, the best Eseries phone in the market now IMHO

I have to agree with your comments. It's a beaut!
Oh, and some land line systems can receive sms!