Comments on: A Buncha E61 Info

By: gbemi

gbemi — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:52:06 +0000

pls hw were can i get free softwares for my new nokia e61. pls if you knw kindly reply my post i will really apreciate it. thanks.

gbemi

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By: Nutz

Nutz — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:42:39 +0000

What about some TCP/IP utilities for the S60 3rd edition? At least I need to be able to ping from this phone, take a look at the IP interfaces, ftp client would be nice, and so on…

By: miker

miker — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:45:48 +0000

Nice, great tip Henrikki! I use calendar very frequently. Unfortuantely on the E61 the shortcut keys now require blue function key + ‘u’ in order to get the *. But still, more convenient than going into the menu sometimes. Hope they do something to address the “shortcuts” needing two hands to activate issue in general.

By: Henrikki

Henrikki — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:25:47 +0000

With the N73 calender you can go trough the different views (month, week,day) and to-do list by pressing the * key after each view.

Congrats for the new E61!

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:54:11 +0000

As of this week the E61’s included on the Nokia Software Updater (check the UK or European region site), so if you’re in the US you could try that.

By: miker

miker — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:24:58 +0000

Hey Paul, how did you get a firmware update done? Take the device into a shop to get it flashed? I’m in the US.. so I’m kinda shit outta luck with respect to getting firmware updated. Unless Nokia Research down in Mountain View is willing to do it for me.

By: Paul Emond

Paul Emond — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:27:48 +0000

To respond to some of the other people who commented :

1- We found the IMAP idle support to be unusable, but after a firmware upgrade it is much more stable.

2- The To Do functionality is now buried within the calendar. It’s not a bad place for it to be. Go into the calendar app and try “New –> ToDo”.

Overall an excellent device. I find that the Access Point Groups don’t work very well. My mail app keeps defaulting back to my GSM access point even though I didn’t change it. Very frustrating and confusing. It works well when you choose one access point or choose it on the fly.

By: Thomas Landspurg

Thomas Landspurg — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:06:09 +0000

I’ve just made some attempt to play with Google “Search” functionalities, with my J2memap program. Not really the finishing touch of GoogleMap, but cool anyway:
http://blog.landspurg.net/navigation-on-mobile-for-free-nearly
and
http://j2memap.landspurg.net

(be sure to download the beta version, v09.06 or higher)

By: miker

miker — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:25:26 +0000

Hey Manny, thanks for the comments. I agree, not perfect, but I’m certainly getting a lot more utility out of this device than I did out of my 6680 or my Treo. I’m kinda curious how a Sidekick 3 would work out. I think it would be great for messaging, but much poorer on the application side. For me the apps are necessary because I live and work online. But for many people I suspect the SK3 would be a good option.