*OFFICIAL THREAD: Nokia E71

Your notion of a user is based on yourself -someone who is both technology and IT savvy. For Symbian OS, the assumption is that the user may not have any previous computer experience. It's designed to support the technology savvy, but users as well for whom the phone is their first and perhaps only way of accessing the internet. Further, when things go wrong for that type of user, in incurrs support costs for the mobile operator. I've worked with operators who were limited by their service desk technology and simply couldn't expand their call centres further (they've since upgraded technology). The point being, that cost of smartphone support is actually the largest inhibitor to market growth.... and the growth of that market interests all commercial developers.

Manufacturer policy dictates whether an unsigned app. may be installed at all. Manufactuers may "lock down" phones to only signed apps. if they wish.

The reason for the differences between manufacturer and enterprise trusted access is that manufacturer access permits things like updating trusted root certificates (for app. signing), as well as OTA patching. These features, if abused, could compromise platform security for the device.

You're absolutely right that security need to be balanced with ease of use for the end-user... but you're misunderstanding who the "lowest common denominator" end user is from Symbian's perspective, and what that means to some of the security design imperitives for the platform.

You should also understand the high-wire act of balancing the interests of the operator (who's interest is revenue generation and minimizing cost of support) and the manufacturer, with those of the developer/enterprise/end-user. Symbian understands these issues better than any other platform provider.

Could the PKI and signing model have been better designed? Absolutely. I've never met anyone who has designed a PKI trust model who was totally happy with the result - and they're not easy to change!

If you're enrolled in the Symbian Preferred Partner, Nokia, or SE developer programmes, there are mechanisms for getting approvals for other signatures.

BTW, it really was envisioned that Enterprises would develop in Java. That any Enterprise has standardized on Symbian OS would come as a pleasant surprise to Symbian.
 
Im not impatient, I have decided (as of today) to just pass on the E71. I do have an E51 when I want to play with S60.

I was trying to explain why i think it would be a bad idea to "wait" until the iPhone comes out.
 
Wow, I've had this bad boy for three days and I am absolutely in love with it. I'm just now charging it for the first time. And I don't understand all the bad rap about the camera, it takes good (not great) photos.
 
You might want to give X-Plore a try. The S60 file manager won't remember the last used directory. X-Plore will and even has a built-in music player.

I personally would suggest that you run your library through MediaMonkey with the auto-tag-from-filename filter on. It will IDv3 tag your junk based on your own naming scheme and you can then use the almost any music player for S60. I used to use the method you do because it was easier to navigate through folders. Once I spent a couple hours on the weekend to tag my files, I got used to it and wouldn't go back now.
 
So I noticed that there is a v210 firmware for an E71-2 variant. It's for Movistar Argentina. I went ahead and changed my product code and updated to see if it would fix the purple tint. No dice. :(

Downgrading back to my correct firmware was one of the more exciting things I've done lately, given the big warnings in the software saying that if you downgrade you will most certainly brick your phone. :D

v210: v200:

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@johnkzin..Thanks for sharing your feelings about the e71. Besides the small screen I'm sure I'd hafta get used to that small kb a bit also. I had a t-mo dash once for awhile and it had a small kb. I hit wrong keys frequently and I have small fingers. Also , having an n95-4 already I think I'd have a bit of trouble maybe justifying the cost of the device compared to what I'd be getting. I'm lovin' hearing everybody's impressions tho. :)
 
If any of you use the Google Search program on your phone it doesnt work on my E71. I loaded it fine but when I go to launch it my phone does what appears to be a soft reboot. I uninstalled it.
 
WOah!

Nicety's from the BGR Review .....



Nokia had BETTER keep this for production unit!

* anyone else notice the MicroUSB port? Will it finally CHARGE via this as well?!?!



Hmmm, Bold has stereo speakers - or will. I always liked how S60 phones had loud and bassy speakers, this one is "tiny" something I already suffer on my K850i.



I laughed when I first read this part and thought is dude crazy?? Then I LOOKED at the keypad then looked at my friends Curve (I used to only use the Pearl), and I'm like whats with the 4 special keys on the bottom 2 rows on the right? (Special "N", "C", ",", and "." keys) WHY not SIMPLY have a symbol key?! With the pop-up showing the first row displaying THE MOST commonly used punctuations in a sentence, then the second row showing specialized symbols/characters, or use the ALT key+Letter to get a quick list of the specialized character used in other languages?!!

Also that predictive text pop-up SHOULD be UNDER the word typed, not above. Many times business users proof read the sentence/paragraph while typing mid-way. The predictive text pop-up ABOVE the current typed word prevents them from doing this. BELOW the predictive word is more efficient, regardless of what field below is its not important nor in focus when typing a memo/email/sms/mms/calendar entry/phonebook entry. Most of whats below is common sense in any of these apps, and users don't need to see whats below if their focus is on task at hand.
 
I went thru the specs, and it can only record VGA @ 22fps. Also, I didnt see anything abt TV-Out, nor was it mentioned by any of the PM's. The biggest issue I have with the E71 is the camera. I mean, WHY couldnt they make a seperate button for it. Using 'T' to AF and then D-pad to take a pic is jst cumbersome. E66 has not only the accelerometer, but also the separate camera button. After 6 months of wait, it's still not upto the standards that were expected. Looks like I'm already *****ing :lol:
 
I agree for sure, the voip capabilites and quality in the S60 is what brought me over initially when I decided to get the N95. It doesn't look like too many people are using the feature though. A rough estimate for my use, probably anywhere over 70% of my calls are using voip over wifi with the phone, since I do tons of overseas calling, but it also helps avoid LD charges in Canada and to the US.

Obviously I could still use it by entering manually the phone number, but that is rather inconvenient :) And I don't want to remove the formatting in my contacts, numbers become much less recognizable.
 
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