Nokia E71 - the Q & A

[slitchfield]

My review of the Nokia E71, after a week with a production device, still left a few questions in the air, apparently. Rounding up everybody's comments so far, I've attempted (below) to try and answer all the questions about the E71, with Rafe (who also has a production device) pitching in to help.

Read on in the full article.

On the audio front, is there any hiss issue? I get too much hiss with my E90 on low volumes.

What is the audio quality be comparable to - which device?

Doing a great job as usual! Many thanks

[kflyer]

Will E75 have FP2?

[bheetebrij]

My main doubt is the browser... I have never tried any S60 3rd edition devices, so I don't know. I know it is quite capable, but the screen size seems to harm its usefulness(?).

How good is the browser on the E71? Does anyone know any links to reviews of the browser with this screen resolution?

FYI, I am not much of a youtube fan, but I do use a lot of other web 2.0 sites and other web services.

Thanks in advance for any help.

with it being USB 1.1,
is that going to limit the speeds using it as a tethered HSDPA modem?

Yeah, the Ui looks like Windows 3.1 from 1994 LOL

after using n95 I really want a qwerty.. but man, all the sample pics taken with this thing, not too impressive. I thought "atleast it records vga video", and now you tell me the specs are wrong :(

Could you do a camera quality comparison with some old phone like s-e w800/k750, I bet those 2 mpix will still kick e71's arse.

[krisse]

Completely disagree. Business users needs more reliability and not less and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 is too new. Business devices will appears with FP2 in time.

This is actually a very good point, many businesses DO tend to go for older versions of OSes and software because they're usually very mature and bug-free.

Bugs are far more damaging than a lack of features, because a bug in a business device can cost the company serious amounts of money.

How good is the browser on the E71? Does anyone know any links to reviews of the browser with this screen resolution?

Almost all of Nokia's current smartphones use this QVGA resolution, so you could look at the browser reviews of any recent Nokia smartphone from 2008 or 2007.

E-series being business centric.... Have they any plans to bring in a camera-free version, like the camera-free E51(not yet available in most places, at least in India, which is a booming IT market that has many organizations restricting the use of camera in their premises) to tackle SE's Lizy??? (Since u guys spoke to the PM, have any one shot such question to him/her?)

A problem I face with the E61 is that the phone sometimes doesn’t scan networks real-time, i.e. says no networks found, even when I'm standing next to the router(Even if I enable wireless scan for every 1 min), but works with WLAN wizard that is not made for the fone... Has this issue been addressed in this phone??

If this phone is not FP2, then I don’t understand what they mean by this at the nokia site..

- S60 3.1 Edition, Eseries
- Symbian Os 9.2

I'm disappointed with nokia for not having included USB 2.0 and an accelerometer in the E71... Very bad decision I would say...

Thanks,
Ajit

Yes, I have a question, what is your take on Nokia's decision on having the Intellisync client built into the handset? Smart move or wishful thinking?

VGA makes a makes a massive difference to me. Don't knock something until you try it.

Ok rather specific question I know. I often drag emails on to tasks or calendars to create new items in Outlook. When this syncs with my E90/E65/E61 the details text of the new item is reformatted into a rather strange view. The text is there but without alot of spaces, breaks etc. It still occurs when I use an alternative Calendar app such as Papyrus. It happens when using MfE (2.5 i think) and BlackBerry Connect 4.0.

Coupled with the lack of category support, this has meant my company primarily uses BlackBerry and Windows devices, where this doesn't occur. I appreciate that it may appear relatively minor but unfortunately it has been deemed to be a significant flaw for us. (Read : It has annoyed enough senior managers to cause a fuss)

I have asked Nokia directly, no joy.

Anyone know if this occurs with the E71 ? Of is it a case of same FP same problem ?

If I switch to E71 from N95 8GB, what would disappoint me most? (i'm not bothered about the camera)

was there any mention of the processor speed somwhere? i surely missed that.
gsmarena aside from mentioning vga @22fps, also mentioned usb 2. is this wrong too?
many thanks.

Hi Steve! Thanks for the great review.
As you have used both E61 and E71, could you give your opinion about the difference in screen size? How does it feel going from 2.8 inches to only 2.36 inches? Is it a big difference when browsing websites?

And what does E71 keyboard feel like as compared to the E61i? As in, is it comfortable? Or do you prefer E61 keyboard?