Someone needs to chaperone me when I leave the house. I left today to do Stupid Saturday Things(tm), one of which was buy a 2gig SD card. I never got the card, but I did come home with a new E60. Not ready to do a mini-review yet, but I'll give the initial thoughts compared to my E50, a great phone.
- landscape mode. OMG. web browsing in landscape mode at the touch of a button is beyond awesome, I sat there in the shop with the phone in offline mode using WiFi, and googled to find the E60 product code. This experience alone pretty much sold me, my heart started fluttering.
- big(ger) readable fonts. I didn't realize how much I was squinting or holding the E50 up to my face, the E60 fonts (in comparison to the screen size and resolution, not comparing them between devices) are larger and easier to read at a further distance. We're not talking 10pt difference, but enough that it looks better.
- the keypad and thumbstick feel a lot better (in my hands, so subjective!) than the E50. It's wider for sure, but this is good. I hadn't realized how hard one-handed SMSing was on the E50 until I messed with this phone, it's great. The thumbstick has a rubbery type edge and moves a little easier (less pressure required), it's very smooth. The location of the menu an C keys is nice, I haven't mis-hit once.
- it's missing 850, not happy about that but I can live. I'm on T-Mo in CA, which is 1900 all the time anyways so it's cool. This phone is really for everyday riding the bus web browsing and texting, so I'll be in 1900 areas all the time.
- no camera, not happy so we'll see how it goes. The E50 camera is not that good really, so I hadn't actually been using it a lot. Still have mixed feelings on this, time will tell.
- it had ALL the right manufacturing for my desires - a true EURO1 product code on the sticker (0519047) with my much missed Spanish. Made in Finland. *#0730# worked perfectly (so no weird lock codes). I'm going to use NSS and make sure the internal product code in NVRAM is correct before I run it through NSS and firmware update (just in case, better safe than sorry). Still charging the battery.
- uses DV RS-MMC, not too happy but whatever. I have one from my 6682 to tide me over until I can buy a big old fatty on eBay, they're cheap these days. The phone is big enough for miniSD or microSD, dunno what Nokia was thinking. Silly engineers.
- uses the old-style larger charger plug, which doesn't bother me; I have tons of those around and am using one of the old ones to charge it right now. No need to even unpack the new one.
The java seems to run about the same speed -- I connected to my WLAN here at home (worked fine) and grabbed the GMail app. It starts about the same speed as the E50, I had been hoping it was a little faster but I guess this makes sense. GMail looks and works the same on both devices, just bigger of course on the E60.
The WLAN seems to have problems remembering to stay connected, and I keep having to cajole it back onto my network -- hopefully there'll be a firmware upgrade when I run NSU that will stabalize this behaviour. I have a spare T-Mo SIM it for right now, so can't test the GPRS/EDGE connection to compare if it's WLAN specific or more general in nature.
OMG. Landscape browsing at the touch of a button. *swoon*
PS: I just sat on the couch, used WiFi and changed the music playing on my stereo (networked laptop with webUI). *swoon*
- landscape mode. OMG. web browsing in landscape mode at the touch of a button is beyond awesome, I sat there in the shop with the phone in offline mode using WiFi, and googled to find the E60 product code. This experience alone pretty much sold me, my heart started fluttering.
- big(ger) readable fonts. I didn't realize how much I was squinting or holding the E50 up to my face, the E60 fonts (in comparison to the screen size and resolution, not comparing them between devices) are larger and easier to read at a further distance. We're not talking 10pt difference, but enough that it looks better.
- the keypad and thumbstick feel a lot better (in my hands, so subjective!) than the E50. It's wider for sure, but this is good. I hadn't realized how hard one-handed SMSing was on the E50 until I messed with this phone, it's great. The thumbstick has a rubbery type edge and moves a little easier (less pressure required), it's very smooth. The location of the menu an C keys is nice, I haven't mis-hit once.
- it's missing 850, not happy about that but I can live. I'm on T-Mo in CA, which is 1900 all the time anyways so it's cool. This phone is really for everyday riding the bus web browsing and texting, so I'll be in 1900 areas all the time.
- no camera, not happy so we'll see how it goes. The E50 camera is not that good really, so I hadn't actually been using it a lot. Still have mixed feelings on this, time will tell.
- it had ALL the right manufacturing for my desires - a true EURO1 product code on the sticker (0519047) with my much missed Spanish. Made in Finland. *#0730# worked perfectly (so no weird lock codes). I'm going to use NSS and make sure the internal product code in NVRAM is correct before I run it through NSS and firmware update (just in case, better safe than sorry). Still charging the battery.
- uses DV RS-MMC, not too happy but whatever. I have one from my 6682 to tide me over until I can buy a big old fatty on eBay, they're cheap these days. The phone is big enough for miniSD or microSD, dunno what Nokia was thinking. Silly engineers.
- uses the old-style larger charger plug, which doesn't bother me; I have tons of those around and am using one of the old ones to charge it right now. No need to even unpack the new one.
The java seems to run about the same speed -- I connected to my WLAN here at home (worked fine) and grabbed the GMail app. It starts about the same speed as the E50, I had been hoping it was a little faster but I guess this makes sense. GMail looks and works the same on both devices, just bigger of course on the E60.
The WLAN seems to have problems remembering to stay connected, and I keep having to cajole it back onto my network -- hopefully there'll be a firmware upgrade when I run NSU that will stabalize this behaviour. I have a spare T-Mo SIM it for right now, so can't test the GPRS/EDGE connection to compare if it's WLAN specific or more general in nature.
OMG. Landscape browsing at the touch of a button. *swoon*
PS: I just sat on the couch, used WiFi and changed the music playing on my stereo (networked laptop with webUI). *swoon*