Nokia E61 is coming Mid feb (Too bad no FM Radio!)

Nokia E61 is available

PROS: The design of the phone is great! The material used for the body looks and feels great! The keyboard is great, soft keys and typing is extremely easy, unless you really want to make a mistake The screen is pretty good, icons, display design, color scheme of original nokia theme is great! Features are good and quite useful! CONS: Twice in three days my phone was hang, even the power off button did not work, so I had to open the back cover, take the battery out and put it back in. About 5 or 6 times in three days the phone was just hang, thankfully the power button was working so I had to switch it off and back on. About 2 or 3 times the phone was restarted by itself while I was typing email or text msg. The menus design in the phone is a bit confusing but obviously you get used to it after a while. Quite frequently the phones shows an error msg that “it is running out of memory please close other applications”, while no other applications are at all running.

I somehow managed to get my hands on this new Nokia E61 mobile phone and I also extended its memory to 2gb because I loved its design and features. The phone has a number of good things, but bads are heavier then goods, so finally I have decided to send it back to my service provider, as it is still in cooling off period. The Goods: The design of the phone is great! The material used for the body looks and feels great! The keyboard is great, soft keys and typing is extremely easy, unless you really want to make a mistake The screen is pretty good, icons, display design, color scheme of original nokia theme is great! Features are good and quite useful! Now the Bads: Twice in three days my phone was hang, even the power off button did not work, so I had to open the back cover, take the battery out and put it back in. About 5 or 6 times in three days the phone was just hang, thankfully the power button was working so I had to switch it off and back on. About 2 or 3 times the phone was restarted by itself while I was typing email or text msg. The menus design in the phone is a bit confusing but obviously you get used to it after a while. Quite frequently the phones shows an error msg that “it is running out of memory please close other applications”, while no other applications are at all running.

I've been using for more than a week now. The bad thing compared to 9300 is the email client. It does not have the option to set authentication for outgoing mail server. Which means u must change to outgoing mail server according to ur connection, everytime u connect to different ISP, inorder to send mail I wonder if nokia will come out with a firmware update for this. Cos it will be a pain if u travel around often, and business man do travel often. And they still call it a business phone. DUH! If they fix this it will be perfect. Signal strength is not as good as 9300 too. I'm currently using only GSM. I notice phones with 3G, often signal is stronger for 3G and 2G. But I'm very happy with the speed compared to 9300. I can finally open my excel files much more faster.