My new phone: I chosed Nokia E71 over iPhone 3G
Above is a photo of my new Nokia E71, which I bought 10 days ago. It is a excellent phone, the keyboard is great to type on. It has everything you need and it is smaller than iPhone! A full review is available here.
The phone Nokia E71 is declared one of the best mobile phones along with INQ1 and G1 (see more here: http://www.globalmobileawards.com/winners.shtml)
“Email is made easy with the Nokia E71. The world’s thinnest mobile QWERTY device, the Nokia E71 is designed for easy setup and use, offering access to a wide range of personal and professional messaging needs – including Microsoft Exchange, the world’s most widely adopted corporate email solution – as well as thousands of ISPs.
Designed for a busy mobile lifestyle, the Nokia E71 provides one-touch access to email, calendar and contacts. ”
So, why I choosed Nokia E71 and not iPhone 3G?
Here is what I wanted:
- a slim phone
- a ssh client (I am using pine to read my email, and I need remote access to my servers)
- querty keyboard which I consider that is better then on-screen keyboard
- fast internet, 3g
- to use my phone as modem/dongle/wifi-hotspot for my notebook (hotel, train, airport, …)
- proper nav app (with audible announcements) – GPS built in
- not very expensive
- easily unlockable to other networks
- multi email support
- messenger, skype, good music & video capabilities
- radio built in
- Wifi, GPRS, UMTS,
- USB connection and bluetooth
- pdf and word reader (complete office suite)
- task manager and sync with google calendar
- video capture
- real on phone voip (Gizmo)
- The Symbian OS is one amazing piece of software
So, Nokia E71 can offer me everything what I need in the above list.
Just to mention iPhone 3G features over Nokia E71 – (pro and cons):
- large screen
- has arguably the best gui of any phone on the market right now
- two times more expensive then Nokia E71 (considering the same data/internet and voice plan for let’s say 18 months)
- bigger then Nokia E71
- Apple App Store and Applications for iPhone
- doesn’t have a decent bluetooth implementation.
- I can’t send mms.
- I can’t use videophone.
- I can’t use it for connecting my laptop
- I can’t forward a simple message
- Safari on the iPhone is nice
I prefer to have a full featured device then to be cool and trendy
Some applications which I use on my Nokia E71: Putty, Skype, Opera Mini, Messenger, Fring, Nimbuzz, Google Maps, Google Mail, Youtube, JoikuSpot (a cool piece of software which transforms your device in a Wifi hotspot), KeePassMobile, YahooGo. I am still looking for new applications which can be useful.
I am very happy with my choice and I am stil exploring the capabilities of this great phone.
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