*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia E71

Most of those phones mentioned above are self-eliminating for me:

1) runs WinMo -- not interested
2) doesn't do DUN or Wifi tethering -- not interested
3) doesn't have a physical qwerty keyboard -- not interested

Rules out the HTC phones, most blackberry's, and the iPhone (2G and 3G).
 
Starving student here - buying the E72 would be living beyond my means ;) I was hoping since the E72 is being released, the price of the E71 will plummet :hehehe:
 
Yeah, I use touch screen devices then set them up so I don`t have to touch the screen, go figure..... :lol: Don't want the finger grease. :lol: Every iphone I've ever seen anybody whip out to show off or whatever had such a messed up finger greased up screen you didn`t wanna even touch it. :hehehe:
 
June 08 is it now? Well that just gives me more time to find more uses for the handsets I already own then!! I'm sure i'll be about 6-8 months purchasing anyway after it's availability. I routinely stagger my purchases to insure quality, functionality, bla bla bla..... Hell, I just bought my E65 a month ago. I was always curious about the appeal of the slider form factor. Well,...I still don't get it but the phone is still nice.
 
Well it looks like today's HTC product announcement was somewhat of a dissappointment for prospective unlocked cell phone buyers. I guess its back to the waiting game on the E71 and other HTC products
 
I did also :D ; cancelled my preorder with Tigerdirect and am now waiting to receive mine from 38mobile on fleabay. According to the tracking info, it left Hong Kong yesterday.

P.s. I am on T-Mobile USA anyway, so I have little incentive to stick with the NAM version...
 
I have looked but I dont think its to be found yet. Has anyone showed a video or walk through of disassembling the e71? My boss dropped his e71 about a week ago and it literally landed right on the power button. Now you barely run your finger over the power button and it brings up the profiles. Unless he locks the phone it will ineveitably turn off in his pocket because the button is so sensitive and no longer has the button feel. Thanks
 
I would re-install it (get it from Nokia's website) and see how that goes. Have you tried pressing the "home" button and see if it would bring the home screen w/o needing to remove battery?
 
I absolutely agree, 110%. I'll wait around to see if the NAM model benefits from the 3G chip in audio enhancement...but if not, and the earpiece is typically Nokia-quiet...then I'll be forced to stick with BlackBerry. For some odd reason, RIM knows how to make a phone loud enough for anybody...and still perform as a smartphone better than most anybody.



Nokia phones, the N-series in particular have always been ultra-quiet in the earpiece volume department, from my experience. Maybe the N95-4 has made some gigantic strides in that department...but the N95-1 & N95-2 I have had in the past both totally sucked in the handset earpiece volume dept. I have some hearing loss...but I'm far from deaf.

The E71 would have to be at least 50-75% louder to get my vote.
 
This is 100% true, you always go after the top dog in the market. In the corporate world, Apple has nothing to lose and can only gain ground. That ground will have to come from RIM/BB. I dont see it happening, at least not with this iteration. The iPhone is good at what it does and for its current target market. I am sure we all have played with them, they look slick, but its just not the device for me. They have sold well, so there must be something to it.

Where Apple may pick up some ground is in the Prosumer market. Companies that have large deployments of BB with one or multiple BES servers are not going to dump the entire infrastructure to deploy iPhones. A corporate BB solution is SO much more than just handing out handsets. While the iPhone MAY support Exchange Active Sync, that would require very security conscience companies to support a hole in their firewall in order to support Exchange Active Sync remotely. Again, I dont think alot of large deployments are going to do this.

Apple needs to have a VPN client on the iPhone (not sure if there is now or not) or needs to develop some sort of BB Connect solution (which probably requires a license from RIM, and since the BB OS is CLOSED, RIM can control how it allows potential competition to access its market base). I think the other solution is for Apple to develop its own, similar to BES corporate solution. I dont see many CEOs out there saying "lets give all our sales guys iphones so they can listen to music and watch video". The BB give them all the business tools they need to do their job outside of an office.
 
I really want a qwerty with my next phone. I've been with nokia since the good ol' days of the 5160, and love the brand. That being said, my patients are really wearing thin. I really want the E71, but I'm looking longingly at the new blackberry 9000, and unless nokia delivers, I may be switching over.
 
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