Anyone here have a Nokia E61 with Chinese firmware?

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Iakovos

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I'm just wondering if there is an E61 with Chinese firmware that supports both Traditional and Simplified Characters? Or it's one or the other? How well is the implementation of the firmware? Thanks!
 
I have the e61 with the Chinese characters on the keypad, and honestly, I was hesitant, but dude, no problem at all. Got Blackberry Connect on it, emailing and all that good stuff with no problem.
 
are you having problems not being able to sort your contacts by first name, last name? I read in an earlier post that the chinese version of the E61 does not allow you to do this.
 
I haven't quite figured out what the 'nationality' of my E61 is (the firmware doesn't match the keyboard), but I can type notes using Traditional Chinese (hong kong method, whatever that means?), Simplified (using pinyin), or english.
 
So you got a English keyboard, but with a Chinese firmware? How do you type using the Hong Kong method? I'm only aware of inputing Chinese characters using pinyin.

Also does it enable you to enter Chinese characters for calendar, contact, and etc.? Or it's restricted to certain applications?
 
I don't quite understand how the hong kong method works - I have always used Pinyin as well.

It's some combination of the asian keypad characters and letters, though:
http://www.pconline.com.cn/mobile/market/hk/0605/pic/d60526njy01.jpg

I haven't tried everything, but chinese seems to work everywhere. There seems to always be a 'Writing language' option in the menu which you use to switch.

Some don't, though, (namely the web browsers) so you're stuck with your last input language. THere shoudl be a shortcut to change on the fly, but I can't find it so far.
 
So for the programs that doesn't support the option to change language, then I'm stuck with either Chinese or English depending on the last language selected to be used?

Does your E61 support Traditional and Simplified Characters or only Traditional Characters?

Does your E61 have the "Car" key or the "Chr" key? Also did you get your E61 from HK? I'm thinking that's probably the only way I can get a E61 with the Chinese language pack installed.
 
A picture is worth a thousand words - This is my E61:


Since the OS is multasking, you can -sort of- work around the option.
Keep a note open in 'edit' mode.

Then assuming you are browsing in language A, you can swap to
the note, change to language B, then swap back to the browser, and type in language B. It might refresh your page, though, so it's not 100% reliable.

I ordered my E61 from plemix. It's probably a mistake that my Finland E61 has a chinese bios.
 
This sounds like a minor screw up that Nokia made. I don't think that not having the ability to chang the language in the web browser is enough to deter me from eventually getting a E61. It's too bad that yours have the "car" key instead of "chr". I know it's minor, but still kinda annoying if you know what I mean. Maybe Nokia will address some of these issues in the future.

Btw, Chinese multimedia files do end up being displayed properly right?
 
Wirelessly posted (nokia 6680 + Dell Axim X50V: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP; PPC; 640x480; PPC; 240x320))

that 5-stroke input is kinda tricky for me
you need to know the order of writing to make input work
ChangJei does not have such problem
 
What's ChangJei? I only know the 5-stroke method.

Oh, and what's that hongkong method? oO

and Fire Dragan, didn't you even learn the strokes of the words in schooL? o.o;
 
Hongkong method is the five stroke method. It's somewhat hard to use since you need too many key presses and you have to look at the screen to pick out the words. ChangJie is the composition method where you break up the character into smaller parts (but not into strokes) and type the parts. It's fast since there's no need to look at the screen but it also needs a full keyboard to use.

Since there no Taiwan E61 yet, I don't think there's ChangJie for E61.
 
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