E61/65 Blog

November 8, 2006

Nokia E61: so close to perfection, so disappointing its shortcomings.

Filed under: Articles — stmcgill @ 9:08 pm

Nokia E61: so close to perfection, so disappointing in its shortcomings is an excellent article by Patrick- well worth a read whether you agree or not.

“It’s been 6 months since I purchased my E61, and although it’s a marvelous piece of hardware, I’ve tried to objectively enumerates the pros and cons of this smartphone in particular, and Symbian S60 OS in general.

After many years spent using various PalmOS devices, switching to another OS was a tough decision to take, but the PalmOS hardware was becoming increasingly technically outclassed (i.e. dull and boring) when compared to the competiton. I had been using WiFi at home for a while, and despite the relative rarity of free WiFi hotspots in Europe or France, I couldn’t picture myself using a non-WiFi enabled device, so I sold my Treo 600, and a couple of devices and almost two years later, here I am with my E61, happy to use WiFi yet overall frustrated by this Symbian experience…” The full article is here.

TomeRaider 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Filed under: Software — stmcgill @ 8:19 pm

From tomeraider.com- “This is the very first Beta version of TomeRaider3 S60. It is free to download and test. Send us a mail at support@yadabyte.com for a free unlock code.

Please send us your feedbacks and bug reports so that we may improve TomeRaider 3 S60.”

I tried to install it but got a certificate error so have contacted them but as they have a picture of the E61 next to the download link it looks like we will have one of the bestever mobile apps on our E61’s very soon. It is a stunning piece of software…

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