Comments on: E61 modifications

By: e61 critics

e61 critics — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:11:42 +0000

Hi all, I’m using the e61 for 2 years already with mixed feelings. It works and it is more or less solid. However, unvergiveable I find the following stupidities:
- Nokia should allow for spaces and brackets in phone numbers. Just skip them when dialing and all would be fine. I’m using the Exchange client and outlook does f. up numbers with brackets. So be it and instead of wasting time on changing Microsoft (and I haven’t found a solution till now, outlook will add brackets to numbers always). If we assume that MS against our will sets the way phone numbers are entered and stored, then why can’t Nokia take a few simple precausions to solve the problem,
- Yeah, opening contacts is extremely slow. I have 1500 contacts and its anoying. Nokia know this issue and you just wonder how such problems are not noticed during testing.
- Certain information from contacts is not synchronised with outlook. That is very irritating, because you think all telephone numbers entered in the E61 ara copied to outlook so you have a backup. And they are not. And you can’t see it when entering numbers, you have to know which numbers are NOT copied so you don’t use them. Nokia could have greyed out those fields or what so ever. Not copied from e61 to outlook are (sorry, in german): mobieltelefon (privat), mobieltelefon (dienstlich), Fax(privat), Internettel.(priv), Internettel.(dienstlich) and SIP.
Not copied from outlook to e61 are: Internettel.(priv), Internettel.(dienstlich)Callback, Car Phone, Company Main Phone, Home Phone, Other Phone, Primary Phone, TTY/TDD Phone. Again, you think you have the all contact numbers with you, and then you don’t.
- Tasks are always show in the calendar. If you use tasks in Outlook, then its anoying because it can fill up you calender view
- The menu structure lack sometimes simple logic. I do admit, that is a typical sobjective viewpoint, but especially settings are scattered all over the place, almost like a windows PC. Where the old nokia phones had very simple and intuitive menu structures, in symbian you often don’t know where a certain setting is to be changed.

My conclusion with this thing is, that Nokia is not taking MS as a kind of market standard for simple things but wants to create its own world. Its irritating for all those he bough this phone thinking with mail for exchange you have it under control like a Windows Mobile phone (which of course has its own problems). You have no warning but through trial and error you learn that mail for exchange is a kind of quick and dirty fix to enter the world of business phones where Outlook and Exchange are more or less the standard. It is only the weakness of Windows Mobile that I stick to my nokia. Assuming that Windows Mobile will get better battery life, more stability and get red if their rediculous start button menu which is nice for PCs but not for phones, I probably will leave one day the symbian platform. Or ever better, android will hit the market with good HW and I’m the first one to switch over.
I was just disappointed that Nokia could not get such basic things right in an OS that already exist for over 20 years (incl. psion life time). Something went just very wrong at nokia and they still haven’t improved much. The new symbian phones have very similar flaws.

By: friedbrains

friedbrains — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:03:36 +0000

Puneet,

that’s because outlook is not a software for cellphone and it does not abide international convention for dialling… i suggest edit outlook… if the data can be exported to an excel or word file and be imported back to outlook, you can then just use search and replace, to edit it easier in excel or word… i am really not sure if that can be done, i just dont use outlook…

and guys, there is already a freebee called “Autolock” for E61 and all other S60 3rd ed. do a search…

By: Puneet

Puneet — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:10:14 +0000

if you choose that autolock feature though, does that mean it won’t just be a keylock- it will ask for the unlock code each time you need to use the phone?

By: karpalo

karpalo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:59:58 +0000

I own it since a week ago; here is an answer about the “missing autolock” feature:

1. Go to Tools
2. Go to Security Settings
3. Under “Autolock period” choose user defined
4. Enter as current code 12345 (the default lock code, as reported in the user manual)
5. Change the period to suit your needs.

You can change the lock code in the same location.

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So far the font readibility with the default theme is from my point of view notable.

By: dcroennau

dcroennau — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:57:18 +0000

Hi could you please publish a download link of the freeware white screen theme with black text. I was looking for a theme like this and couldn’t find one… Thanks

By: Puneet

Puneet — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:57:40 +0000

Friedbrains,

here is the issue with spaces: outlook stores numbers with brackets and spaces, the sync transfers the numbers in the same format, As a results i can’t really dial any numbers from contacts!
Does anyone know how to resolve this? short of manually changing every number…

By: jay_cee

jay_cee — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:45:19 +0000

Josh - WPA works fine on my E70.

By: friedbrains

friedbrains — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:32:41 +0000

contacts can be faster if you dont close the application…

contacts only accepts numbers??? but of course, those numbers the phone has to call and it will only require the standard characters for phone numbers, what will it do with a space??? it will take (+) plus sign, and (p) for pause and (w) for WTF is this!

By: drqandil

drqandil — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:27:27 +0000

Do you know of any software that can be used to obtain “timed profiles” in E61. Thanx

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:19:11 +0000

Has anyone been able to get the WIFI to work with WPA encryption? So far (i’ve only had the phone a few days) I have been unable to connect to any encrpyted network. If I turn it off it connects fine.
Other similar devices connect with the encrpytion enabled just fine.
Thoughts?

By: wouterk

wouterk — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:33:36 +0000

Some more about the not able to scroll in the musicplayer:
Number 4 and 6 can be hold and will scroll in the song!
Wouter

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:01:33 +0000

E. I think you can press and hold the “|>” or “

By: peter

peter — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:37:59 +0000

Love the E61 … but agree with C3.2 … does anyone have a clue if the ultra slow contact opening is a known bug??

-p

By: Shaastra

Shaastra — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:12:23 +0000

removed

By: jay_cee

jay_cee — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:11:48 +0000

I agree with #5, this is the best voice dial that I have encountered. Are you unclear how to use it? Press and hold the voice recorder button until you hear a “beep” and then speak the name. I think you may be right about only one voice tag per contact though. Nothing’s perfect.