Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Jun 2006 16:32 UTC
It's no secret: Nokia is after Blackberry's thunder in the enterprise with their latest E series, and especially via the E61 model. Hi-Mobile sent us in an E61 unit for the purposes of this review. Dig in for information, a video and lots of screenshots from the latest 'S60 3rd Edition' Symbian v9.1 OS.
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2005-06-28
> With very modest usage I had to recharge it every second day.
The E61 has a bigger battery than your E60. Also, if you don't live in Europe (I know you do though), you must disable UMTS so you save on battery.
> I hoped MacOSX would recognize it as flash memory, so >I would be able to push some files on the MMC
THIS WORKS. I just tried my 12" Powerbook G4 with my E61. It worked! It mounted the miniSD card and I could drop files in it.
> Connection breaks down very often, so complex sites
>do not load completely. I had a feeling like browsing
>with 28k modem and not with 6Mbit DSL.
I had a few WiFi drops too. It seems that the WiFi stack crashes all too often, and then they have a daemon that relaunches it every minute or so. However, the "slowness" of the rendering is not due to the WiFi, but due to limiting CPU power (and it's the same for most phones too). For example, CNN.com is 450 KBs of data, and it takes 12 MBs to render on the S60 browser. As you can understand, running at around 250 Mhz, it will take a while to calculate its complex code, and that won't be WiFi's fault, even if "visually" seems like it is.
>Usually the access point (Netgear) automaticly detects the MAC adress of the devices
I use a NetGear WiFi router and my E61 worked out of the box just fine.
I agree with you about VoIP and RealPlayer.
I suggest you sell your E60, and either buy the E70 when it's out soon, or get the E60 again or the E61 in 2-3 months when they are shipped by default with a newer firmware.
Edited 2006-06-08 21:52