E61 Owners Can you convince me?

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aclark1994

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Hi i just bought a treo 680 phone but i m really disappointed with it and was looing around and came across nokia e61 and want to know everything about the phone good and bad from the owners who are using this phone

can you tell me why you love this phone ? or why you hate this phone ?


please give me honest suggestions
 
Read some more in this forum and all of the other excellent, dedicated E61 sites, then start shopping.
I came over from Windows Mobile and thought it was the best thing in phones and PDA's until I took the plunge...
 
The 2 operating systems are just different. I have used used windows mobile and symbian for a number of years. Personally, I don't have strong feelings for either. I just prefer symbian for phone and Palm, yeah you read right, for PDA because of the sheer simplicity of both. No complicated memory management, no speed issues and best of all, no registry to deal with.

Windows mobile is just too complicated for really productive everyday use. For me at least.

The E61 is simply amazing and I can easily say its the best phone I have ever used. i find myself using my Palm less and less everyday.
 
just search this forum as their is already a ton of information with comparisons to many handsets. i had the e61 and i loved it!
 
I had a treo 650 for 4 months and i hated it. The symbian os with nokias technology combine to be the phone maker on earth. Exchange that crappy ... OLD palm OS and get with the best. I'll post again with my pros and cons
 
yeah i know about the both operating systems coz i have been using the symbian and palm both but i wanted to know if people who own nokia e61 are happy with as phone/pda
 
the thing is that its a phone 1st then PDA 1St.......it has both top notch voice quality and pda functions with out touch screen and with an easier learning curve. Symbian has full sync abilities to apple OS X and windowsXP. Even the symbian web browser is better than the windows browser....... I've did the past 12 post from my phone
 
so you think i should go ahead and sell my treo 680 and get myself a nokia e61 and i think e61 is wi fi too so that means i can use skype on it too or not as yet ?
 
If u just got the treo 680 and are with in the 30 day trial period just simply take the phone back and get a e62 even swap.... The e62 doesnt have wifi.
 
IMHO if you NEED a pda then get a windows mobile phone. there are thousands of windows mobile apps out there. i love my phone for email,texting, surfing the net and daily reminders but if you need a pda advise go with windows mobile. the e61 is a easy hassle free phone but if you need more functionality then go with windows mobile. i will probably switch back to a windows mobile phone just for work and keep my e61 for when i go out at night. this phone is not a PDA so you really cant even compare.
 
Nokia E61 - advertised as everything but a camera, which is true. It has got superb qwerty keypad, and amazing wifi browser. The screen can get damaged easily, just like any phone, so buy a screen protect, you can pick them up for a few dollars. Also buy a memory card for the phone, you will need it
 
are you joking? well the first thing that comes to mind is microsft project. if anyone out there uses it for scheduling there is a ppc app that can sync with it. here is a link http://www.twiddlebit.com/.. the e61 cant handle apps like that. another example... the only reminder app that i have used on my e61 is handy clock. its no where near handy. if i happen to be away from my phone for an extended perriod of time, the reminder alarm will expire and i will forget about the reminder alltogether. this is not the case with the many ppc reminder apps that keep on reminding you until you shut it off. uh lets see... the many estimating apps there are to choose from. the many different calendar apps that are way better than papyrus. the simple fact that agile messenger works right on my ppc. lets not forget how easy it is to connect my ppc to my desktop at home or work when im out of town. the list goes on and that is without me even thinking about how much more practical a ppc is for business. juat think about what you would like to be able to do and most likely find a ppc app that can do it. and the fact that my ppc has evdo through verizon.. i can actually use slingbox, stream music without any buffering, and use it as a high speed modem. last but not least you can hack the hell out of a ppc and get it to do more than you could imagine. there is no such thing as a crippled device as long as you know what you are doing or know someone who does. all this said i love my e61 as long as it doesnt start acting crazy on me again.
 
Coming from an 8125, I love my e61 because of 2 main reasons:
1) I can make and receive phone calls. (If you're not in some sort of "signal stronghold" like NYC, don't take this part for granted on an HTC/WinMo device)
2) It works like I expect it to. No strange things (reboots, loss of GPRS, just flat out turns off) happening.

If you want a little computer in your pocket that acts up like computers do (or at least used to), then get a WinMo device. If you want a mobile phone plus a lot more without a lot of worry or attention, get a Nokia. If your signal strength gets to 1 or 2 bars regularly, get a Nokia....You'll have less dropped calls. Don't even consider a PPC.


...just my $.02
 
see i have a n73 and i love the phone but the problem is that in that phone i cant type a email or a message and tats why i got myself a palm treo but when i got the phone the battery life on it sucks and i m really disappointed it is like i have walk with a charger

so thats why i wanted to move to nokia e61 i know i will miss the camera but i think its better that i have a phone that i can use then to have a camera which have no use
 
The Symbian operating system evolved from EPOC. EPOC was the operating system on the Psion PDAs that were quite popular in Europe but never seemed to catch on in North America. At the time PalmOS was really the PDA platform for North America. Symbian has done a nice job of integrating with phone functionality. Nokia seems to be able to make a good phone and integrate it with a reasonably good PDA.

I had a Treo 700p for a while. Before that a few other palm devices, and one of the old Treo 180s. The Treos just aren't that great as phones. Partly poor RF performance and poor audio quality really ruined otherwise nice devices.

RIM is another serious contender. Their operating system and Java based applications actually can do quite a bit more than many would expect from a few years back. The operating system is fairly stable and can multitask. Obviously it is oriented towards messaging, but the selection of applications is actually quite impressive. The UI design on the RIM devices is simply fantastic - the things are quick and easy to use. There is a reason these things are so popular.

and, of course, there is Windows Mobile. There's a lot of complexity there. I'm not a fan, but some people like it.

My advice, if you want a good phone with PDA functionality, Symbian is probably a good fit. If your focus is on messaging applications and you also need a device that functions well as a phone, then look at RIM.
 
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