Hey all- long time reader, first time poster...
I love my E71. It's beautiful, powerful and intuitive. Nice job Nokia.
There are, however, two things which I cannot do.
1) I have limited coverage from my mobile provider at home. WiFi in the house, however, is great. I'd like the device to fail over from AT&T Internet to my local WiFi connection when the AT&T connection is not sufficient. Other than manually changing this in the MfE settings, is there any way to do this? (I'd also like it to automatically do this for all apps, without prompting, but email is the primary requirement)
2) I'd like the phone to vibrate and ring when a call comes in. But I don't want it to vibrate every time a new email arrives. Does Symbian support this?
Now if only I could charge via MicroUSB...
Thanks to everyone for your help
-m
1) You can download a free app called WeFi, or go for a commercial one like Psiloc Connect, to automatically handle the connection selection.
WeFi introduces a minor delay while it looks for WLANs though, which isn't a big deal but is a little irritating.
2) No. You can have vibration alerts or not, but you can't mix and match
i use psiloc connect and definately recommend it.
You set up which wifi hotspots you want your phone to connect to and it'll prioritize those over your cellular data connection when they're available. Its aim is to save you bandwidth from your carriers data plan.. I'm on an unlimited plan but don't get a 3g signal in my house so faster browsing with wifi than edge 😃
@fone_fanatic
Do you find that there's a delay (1-2 seconds) when you open an app that uses Connect as it's connection?
If I have Web Browser set to use WeFi it triggers every time I open the app, scans for WLANs, connects to my WLAN, then opens the browser.
It's not much, but irritated me.
The Windows Mobile way of doing it is to enable WiFi, which automatically connects to your WLAN if it's available. Then any app that wants a data connection uses that in preference to GPRS/3G.
In Windows Mobile the time from enabling WiFi to having a connection seems greater, but once connected it's used by everything automatically.
It's easier for the user - turn on WiFi if you want to use it - but you can leave it on (draining battery) even when you don't need it. Whereas S60 seems to kill WiFi when nothing is using it.