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:2006-06-09
Aah, I see, that strokes with my understanding. I have been upgrading my phones at the shop were I bought the phone, so I was under the understanding that it was a service available to all Nokia owners.
I have just read that official Nokia stores also would upgrade the firmware if and only if the phone falls under the guarantee.
Anyway, the E61 seems like a nice device voor me, I think I'm getting one 
Member since:2005-07-06
I've done a little research since I posted yesterday and would just like to corroborate Vieyten's post; the E61 like all other Nokia phones will be upgradeable at Nokia service shops.
The S60 v3 Fetaure pack 1 that Nokia will supposedly be releasing soon (not clear if this will apply to the e61 but I can't see why not), will support OTA upgrades.
OTA upgrades are like updates for Mac OSX and Windows XP. I imagine that you would need to downlaod it via WLAN rather than GPRS unless you have a billing death wish.
This is to my lnowledge the first mobile device to offer OS upgrades OTA; Windows Mobile and Palm do not offer this.
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2005-06-28
All Nokia S60 phones can be upgraded, but IF and only IF you have the right tools (2-3 of them) and the right firmware (and it's a complex procedure too). But remember, Nokia does NOT offer these tools to the users. These are simply tools that have being LEAKED by companies/carriers that worked with Nokia in the past. I repeat: Nokia does not offer a firmware upgrade path to consumers. Their philosophy is that if something is wrong, you return the phone to the carrier or shop. And if you can't do that, you buy a new phone.
The fact that 2-3 wacko geeks will take on the job to upgrade manually their phones, doesn't mean that the rest 100,000 costumers have the knowledge or tools to carry out that complex procedure.