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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Member since:2005-07-06
You may be right, I am actually in the market for such a device and am considering either a BLackberry 8700g with T-Mobile or this E61. I have made up my mind and will go with Nokia for the following reasons:-
- You cannot install many third party applicaitons on a Blackberry (video player, GPS etc.)
- No memory card extension on the Blackberry (so even if you did have a mp4 player you couldn't fit a movie on it).
- Reviews say that the sound quality is below par on the Blackberries, reviews for the E61 praise the voice clarity.
- the Nokia is smaller
- The e61 has WIFI
- The E61 has SIP (although apprently not top noch).
- Nokia supports Linux (770 tablet) !
- I can sync the Nokia with my mac
All in all, I want my phone to be extendible beyond what comes in the box so no matter how good the Blackberry can be for emails, the Nokia wins overall.
Hope Nokia will do something for the early adopters with regards to updates. It can hardly believe that this ding still doesn't do OTA firmware updates!
Member since:
2005-11-11
My impression is that the E-series put way too much in a small device, while BlackBerry keeps it simple.
OMG! The old bloat talk!