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Nokia takes on BlackBerry
The E61'S wide, flat body may look BlackBerry-ish, but unlike the original, it's a gorgeous work of art you would be proud to leave lying around on the table inside a trendy bar.
The one advantage of the E61 over the BlackBerry is its wide and crisp colored screen. Ditch the stock 64MB memory card for a bigger one, and you'll have a blast watching dozens of movies on a frame that's way better than your video iPod's.
Now the one glaring deficiency of the E61, on the other hand, is the lack of a camera - an indispensable feature in this day and age of bedroom perverts and hopeless narcissists. And so we don't see this Nokia being a hit among young people who use their phone to document their stabs at porn stardom.
But that's precisely the point. The E61 is for businessmen whose lives do not revolve around picture taking. People who are loaded enough to actually buy a separate, real camera. Those who use their mobile to gain access to their e-mail 24 hours a day wherever they go. In this regard, the E61 is an excellent phone. Take some time to configure it, and you'll have your entire mailbox in your pocket - yes, your actual office mailbox, not just web-based accounts. Web browsing is also fun and relatively fast, thanks to 3G and Wi-Fi.
The E61 is almost perfect, were it not for a glitch that makes simple SMS-sending a frustrating task. Press send and your phone may freeze for more than a minute. We actually timed it and it took the phone exactly 74 seconds to send a text message. In that period, the E61 is in a state of coma, unable to do anything else. But should this unfortunate glitch be fixed, this yuppie phone is all set to take over the corporate world. Vernon B. Sarne
NOKIA E61 | P22,600
www.nokia.com.ph
TECH Quad-band. 3G. 64MB phone memory. 64MB miniSD included. Symbian 9.1, Series 60, 3rd edition. Bluetooth, infrared, data cable and modem. 117mm x 69.7mm x 14mm. 144g.
LOVE Big, bright screen. Right size and weight. QWERTY keyboard. Neat applications. Hassle-free e-mail retrieval. Easy web-browsing.
HATE No camera. The eternity it takes to send a text message. Mediocre reception.
WE SAY If you're the important exec who needs to constantly check his e-mail more than take a photo of his latest flame, your ideal phone has arrived.
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T3 Magazine Philippines - October 2006 Issue
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 NOKIA E61
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