Great review, Steve.
Can you tell me what the USB transfer speed is like?
Steve Reviews the Newly Announced Nokia E71
Did I read the specifications correctly that said the E71 had, of all archaic things, *Dynamic RAM*???
If this is so, if the battery goes belly-up, so does your data. Can anyone say Palm Tungsten T through T3?
Non-Volatile Memory, folks! Non-Volatile Memory!
--Firefishe
Can now finally search contacts by the Company field? A big dealbreaker, as I don't always remember the name...
Does smart search also include company names?
Is there threaded sms?
Excellent detailed review! And that is also within hours of the phone's release! Great job. But I am sad the phone is not that great. The multimedea side is inferior to the expectation. And whatever nokia officials might say about its earlier making time, the FP1 at this mid 2008 in a business phone is unpardonable! Thinking of waiting for the next upgraded version beloved E51!
Prosenjitz wrote:Excellent detailed review! And that is also within hours of the phone's release! Great job.
Eh? Hours? I had it up one MINUTE after the official announcement. 8-)
BTW, everybody, Rafe and I are working on Q & A article to address all the questions in this thread. Watch the front page mid morning Tuesday
Steve
This was my dream device until...
Nokia deliberately crippled the video capture, camera and video playback. It has a powerful ARM-11 369Mhz CPU but can't playback video smoothly! Same goes for flash 3!
I wish Nokia would stop this nonsense! It’s so obvious what they’re doing. You can either have the N-series or E-series! Business users want some media rich features too!
Nokia my loyalty is wavering.
Hi!
Please, I'd like to know if there's a radio into the E71.
And, also, I've a N70: is a picture taken with E71 comparable with a picture of N70? Worse? Better? Thanks...
I've been using Sony P1i for about 7 mnths now. Having gotten used to the toggle keyboard, it's pretty good predictive text mssging, powerful txt mssging options, snappy applns response after the 3rd or so firmware updates, and unflinching stability regardless of many simult. open apps, I get the feeling S60 is jst catching up with UIQ. Yet, the e71i is such a beaut and P1i an ugly duckling right next to it. I can't help but stare at the e71i for a very long time. I'm tempted to dump my P1i for the pleasure of having a nicer-looking smartphone. It's my eyes doing the talking, and I'm afraid those eyes will prevail over common (or money) sense.
Has an accelerometer like N95 ??
I am going to buy a new device in July 2008...and have narrowed it down to the BlackBerry 9000 Bold, the Apple 3G iPhone...and the Nokia E71. All three will serve my purposes as a personal/business data device...and your review has given me some much needed information...except for the absolute dealbreaker...
[FONT="Arial Black"]How LOUD is the earpiece speaker volume on the E71?[/FONT]
I have had several Nokia E-series and N-series phones in the past, and one of my pet gripes is the too-low earpiece volume compared to most other devices on the market...namely BlackBerry.
So...how LOUD is it, compared to say the N95?
E71 is good.... but it would be nice to have a N Series phone that has all features in N82 with E61i SIZE and SHAPE with a full QWERTY keyboard and a good battery
Screen of E71 is SMALL.... Keyboard layout (both in E61i and E71) is not good ... the keys QAZ are straight below each other, a slightly indented and a Shift key before Z key would have been nice.
With 2.8 screen size, I would be looking at 640 x 480 screen. A VGA secondary camera or 1.3 MP secondary camera would be a desirable plus.... as against the existing QCIF secondary camera.
Here are my QWERTY N-Series Specifications
1) Size & Shape - E61i -- Keyboard, laid in natural keyboard format (as against the existing QAZ keys in line left aligned)
2) Battery - E61i (1500 mAH of pure power) A batter battery would be even nicer...
3) 2.8 or 3 inch 640 x 480 VGA Screen with 16 M Colors.
4) A Scroll Wheel (mouse like) (similar to BB 8310)
5) 64/32 GB internal memory with 2 additional MicroSD card slots (watchful iPhone 2)
6) existing camera of N82 with flash is SUPERB, but 7 or 8 MP with optical zoom will be a dream.
7) This is basically over and above what all is offered by N82 .. so what ever N82 has... is already included in.
One Phone for ALL... sure.. it's Possible
Volume on the speaker? About 2/3rds that of the N95, I'd say. But hard to measure.
Hi Steve and a very nice detailed write up.
I live in France, and I think that when the phone will be available here, it would have an AZERTY keyboard (like the E61s). Since I prefer QWERTY keyboards disposition, I think I would purchase an E71 in the UK on a future trip. My question is: can the UK unit deal with accented characters (read messages with accented characters without replacing those by squares and bizard characters and type characters with accents)
Thanks a lot
MM
regardless of what Nokia has under the sleeve for new generation phones, people like you are never happy and seem to pretend that's difficult to undertsand that the ESeries are meant to be different from the NSeries. Business wise, camera and media comes in second. A good contact list support, e-mail, network connection options and web-browsing is what it takes to make it topgun. And it does, thank you.
Stop the criticism. If it's bigger - it's bulky, if it's smaller - it's too small and difficult to hold. If it's shiny - fingerprints. If it's all black - cheap plastic.
Be happy!!! Nokia rules!
Does anyone know if the E71 will work with GoodLink like the E61 and 61i did? There's no mention of it anywhere in Nokia's specs.
@Steve,
Does it charge over USB?
xerxes wrote:@Steve,Does it charge over USB?
No afraid not.
Unregistered wrote:Hi Steve and a very nice detailed write up.I live in France, and I think that when the phone will be available here, it would have an AZERTY keyboard (like the E61s). Since I prefer QWERTY keyboards disposition, I think I would purchase an E71 in the UK on a future trip. My question is: can the UK unit deal with accented characters (read messages with accented characters without replacing those by squares and bizard characters and type characters with accents)
Thanks a lot
MM
Yes it can. You can also type such characters using Chr+letter. Se Chr+e cycles through the four accented e characters.
Unregistered wrote:Does anyone know if the E71 will work with GoodLink like the E61 and 61i did? There's no mention of it anywhere in Nokia's specs.
Probably not, but Goodlink could provide a software update.
Seems great! Only down side is that camera, but it's the iriating way of Nokia to separate N series from E series(E66 vs E78 for example). Probally going to get E66.
Will this supplant my Treo 650?
Unregistered wrote:Seems great! Only down side is that camera, but it's the iriating way of Nokia to separate N series from E series(E66 vs E78 for example). Probally going to get E66.
I know what you mean, but the camera limitation is really down to the thickness of the device (that tends to be the limitation on thickness in both N and the new Eseries devices. Personally I'd choose a thinner phone in this form factor.
The E/Nseries differentiation is now much more about which bits gets compromised in the hardware design... i.e. do you put business or multimedia / personl stuff first. This applies to hardware functions / build quality / materials used etc etc. The trouble of course is that not everyone personal compomise decisions fit with a Nokia device.
Unregistered wrote:Will this supplant my Treo 650?
I honestly think it has a good chance given the extra functionality. Bear in mind StyleTap are due to bring out their emulator soon so you should be able to run legacy Palm OS applications soon.
The caveat is, of course, that you will lose some things. The questions is whether it will be an acceptable trade for you.
Hi,
Thanks for that very good review.
I would like to know if the E71 you have has multiple language interface, meaning:
One can change the phone interface language as well as the writing language (as for other "regular phones"😉 or are these country specific and one has to download language modules according to his need.
Many thanks in advance
Thanks so much for this indepth review. I've been frothing for an e71 ever since the leaked shots back in January. I've had the gamet of nokia devices, including over the last few years an e61, e65, 9500, 7280 and currently an e90 and a n82 for when the e90 is just too freaking big. So, obviously... I am stupid and spend a lot on phones 😉 With that being said, I was so excited for the e71. It seemed like the perfect blend of e-series features in a smaller e61 style form-factor. I'm a little disappointed, now though... While I still believe the e61 is my favorite Nokia device to date... and the removial of the pop-port and inclusion of GPS are two huge improvements I've really wanted in that device... the drastically smaller screen (I didn't know it was that much smaller) and more nimble keyboard has me cautious, even not mentioning the poor media capabilities of the device (which, to be fair, are on par with the e61... but under the e90?). I think your review has helped me patiently take a seat on the fence for a bit on this device.
Oh... one more thing. You say the D-Pad is great. Really great. How would you compare it to other Nokia devices. For example, the e90 has amazing buttons and a great D-Pad on the front (even if it is a bit stiff at times), but the n82 is a piece of junk with a fimbly and weak d-pad that squeaks when pressed. I swear I thought I was going to break it more than a few times just playing Snake. Are all of the buttons solid and of quality like an e90/e65 or sort of cheap and plasticky like an n82?
Great review Steve !
Is it possible to see screenshots of the weekview and dayview of the revamped calender application?
I'm really looking foreward to the E66, but I guess that the new calender is the same, on the two devices, besides the orientation.
Thanks.
check out http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/E71 which shows that the front camera (meant for video calls i guess) only does 15fps, but the main camera does VGA @ 22fps
the E90 has a lower resolution video camera, but can do VGA @ 30fps (at least according to the specs at Forum.nokia http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/E90_Communicator.
Also, looking at these, you can see how *REALLY* close the E71 is in terms of hardware capabilities to the E90 (and if i had not grown to love the giant internal screen, and spent my own money on the device, i would be in line to buy an E71 right now!)
Great review. Could you elaborate on the following part of the review?
The Messaging application itself is largely unchanged from earlier devices which is something of a dissapointment given that this is a key area of the E71, especially in the light of tweaks to the Contacts and Calendar applications. While the breadth of support for different push external email solutions (Nokia Intellisync, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Visto Mobile, and Seven Always on Mail) and its plug-in architecture is a definite plus, this will not be a factor in day to day usage. Instead the fiddly set-up, limited folder handling, and relatively poor support for sorting, search, attachment handling and multiple email accounts may disappoint users switching from other systems.
In particular your concerns about multiple email accounts and attachment handling. I've been told that S60 can handle multiple email accounts and attachments...what aspect were you concerned about?
Thanks.
Great review. Could you elaborate on the following part of the review?
The Messaging application itself is largely unchanged from earlier devices which is something of a dissapointment given that this is a key area of the E71, especially in the light of tweaks to the Contacts and Calendar applications. While the breadth of support for different push external email solutions (Nokia Intellisync, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Visto Mobile, and Seven Always on Mail) and its plug-in architecture is a definite plus, this will not be a factor in day to day usage. Instead the fiddly set-up, limited folder handling, and relatively poor support for sorting, search, attachment handling and multiple email accounts may disappoint users switching from other systems.
In particular your concerns about multiple email accounts and attachment handling. I've been told that S60 can handle multiple email accounts and attachments...what aspect were you concerned about?
Thanks.
...cut the data connection when a voice call comes through? IMAP support (with IMAP-idle) was all well and good with my E62, but who cares if it keeps loosing the connection when someone calls me?
Stupid me, found my answer: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/TSS000758_-_List_of_S60_devices_supporting_GRPS_Class_A_(Dual_Transfer_Mode) + http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/E71 means joy!